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I've got a 1.5tb drive that I want to erase. I know it has some bad sectors. I just want to write zeros to it once. I don't need DoD wipe methods. :) What's the fastest way to do this? What utility or command etc? TIA

I am looking to get a 2TB and a 1TB SATA ssd drives but I'm having trouble finding any. Do they only come in the 2.5 form factor and I need to use a drive cage? Also which brands do you recommend?

There is some back story but I'll skip that for now. I thought my hd was failing so I cloned (clonezilla) the old drive (mechanical) to a new SSD. I had various issues but I finally got it to boot Windows. I had resized the C: drive with Gparted, but when I booted into windows it still showed...

1. What is the most common type of hard drive found in laptops over the past let's say 5 years? I don't think it is a 2.5" sata drive anymore. 2. Can someone recommend a universal drive adapter that will work with the hard drive above? Something similar to this...

I prefer a HP Probook with Intel cpu in good condition. It should have a number pad , be able to run virtual machines, and be able to take a 2.5" SATA hard drive. Let me know what you got.

I'm sure there are projects based on linux similar to pfsense. What is the best/most popular one?

What can be done to ground ethernet cables from lightening/power surges so that equipment doesn't get fried?

I would like to find MS-Dos 6.22 and Windows 3.1 to install in a virtual machine for some testing. Does anybody know if there are any isos for these that will make it easy (possible :)) to install in a VM?

I have a Cyberpower CP1500PFCLCD ups. On a couple of different occasions I've had the ups seem to lock up and the devices connected to it powered off. The display showed that the battery was full. Nothing looked odd. However, I couldn't seem to turn it off by holding the power button. The way I...

I have to open several workbooks at once (like maybe 20). When I do the list of files are listed vertical when I hover over the 'excel' icon on the taskbar. I'll make a change to a workbook and then close it. When I get down to about 10 workbooks, the listing changes from vertical to...

The board is a P8BWS. It rarely happens but occasionally it happens when it goes to sleep. When it does it prevents me from booting up from WOL because it tries to boot from the DVD drive instead of the HD and there is no boot disk in it. I already checked the CMOS battery and it is reading...

I know that is a weird thread title but for example I am using an old HP Envy laptop where the case has broken on one of the hinge areas. I'm wanting to buy a newer used laptop and I am wonder if there is a brand that tends to be better built? I like HP's but this issue is bothersome. I'm not...

I've got a situation where I might have to get another laptop and I want to take the hd I have and put it in a new laptop. How can I do this?

I'm running Win 10 enterprise 20H2. Twice the update has tried to install but it keeps saying it failed (error 0x800f0922) and it undoes any changes. This is the first time I have ever had an update fail to install. Any ideas?

How can I uninstall Edge from Win 10? I'm not talking about the new chromium based Edge, I'm talking about the old Edge. I know Microsoft doesn't want you to but surely there is a way.

Running Win Ent. 10 version 2004 (previously 1909) Ok about 10 days ago I had an explorer crash and this is when I started having problems. The wifi light on my keyboard would change to orange (normally white) to indirect that wireless was off. However when I would click on the wireless icon...

Laptop HP Envy running Win 10 Ent I tried to join a Zoom meeting and the mic doesn't seem to be working. 1. When I joined the meeting, I couldn't unmute my mic. Only the host could unmute it (well a box would pop up requesting that I unmute it). 2. Even after the mic is unmuted nobody can...

The cable from the power brick to the laptop jack is too short. I'm wondering if someone makes an extension? If so, can anyone provide some links? Thanks!

Ok IS upgraded my work computer from Windows 7 and Office 2010 to Win 10 and Office 2016. They somehow backed up my settings and files and restored them to the new machine. The problem is when I copy and paste in Excel, I get this error message "We couldn't free up space on the Clipboard...

My job upgraded my computer to Win10. I can't seem to have my username be the default user when I boot. It always comes up 'other user'. How can I make it be my username?

I won't go into detail of how I know but at this point I'm pretty sure. First question, I've got a separate partition that I have files on, if I delete the windows partition and reinstall windows and scan the 'data' partition should I be safe? Or do I need to reformat everything? Second...

I am running VMware Workstation 12 on Win 10 Pro. I also have Win 10 Pro in a vm. Inside this vm if I set the screen resolution to 1920x1080 (right-click on windows desktop and choose 'display settings'), when the vm reboots VM tools keeps setting it back to 1024x768. How can I get this to...

I am connecting to a Win 10 machine (actually it's a VM) with tightvnc. I am trying to get the desktop to perfectly fill the vnc app screen without having scroll bars. 1920x1080 comes the closest but it's just a little too tall. I need something like 1920x1000 or 1920x900. Is there a free...

I need a cheap but descent monitor/video card setup for a computer I want to use to work from home. I'm sure anything made within the last 5/6 years would be more than enough. I have dual monitors at work but I'm not sure if I have space for dual monitors at home. What would you guys...

What's the least painful (and free) way to do this?

I've got a dvd that I want to create like a .mp4 file of. What software can I use to do this? Preferably free. This is just a one time thing or at least very, very rarely will be done.

I have the firewall for my private network disabled. How do I turn off the notifications for it? When I right click the notification, the option to turn off the notification is grayed out. Running Win10 enterprise.

I am running 1903 Enterprise edition. It will sleep after a fixed amount of time with the lid open, but won't sleep when I close the lid. In trying to fix this problem I tried reinstalling the graphics driver. I am getting this message. "The driver being installed is not validated for this...

Title says it all.

Yeah, I know it's old but I want one. :) Let me know what you got.

What say the hive?

Looking for a gray one in good condition. LMK what you got.

I have some spreadsheets that have an add-in that pulls data in. These were all fine before yesterday. Now for any change (I think sometimes with no change) the spreadsheet will show pulling in data and of course recalculating formulas. I have tried to mitigate this by changing the formulas...

Will also consider Kaspersky Anti-Virus 3-PC.

I am wanting to change my SATA settings to AHCI but the drive is not SSD. Is that ok? Also, what is the best technique for doing this in Windows 10?

Occasionally (I don't know once a week maybe) my windows 10 laptop will just shut down on its own. It just did it a few minutes ago. Any ideas? Running 1803 Enterprise btw.

At one time I had a tool where you could put Microsoft keys in to see if they are retail, OEM, ect. I think it was an actual Microsoft utility. Does anyone have a link or know what it is called?

If so, what is the technique?

Does anybody remember a video where some guy had installed like 18 or 20 OS's on one computer? I have searched but I can't find it.

Not looking to spend a lot on this. Looking for a black case preferably with a window. LMK what you got.