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I've had my sig system for about a year now. When I first got it, the CPU (6600K) could reliably reach 4.4GHz without a significant amount of Vcore (It might have gone higher if I'd pushed, but it was 'good enough' and didn't run too hot. The XMP profile (3200 16-18-18-38) on my DIMMS (Corsair...

Obviously it's still serious even if it were just one hospital affected, but given the scale of the NHS it seems like it's a relatively small number of machines infected. That said it's still impacting the whole service because clean systems have been locked down until they can be sure they are...

I think at this point it's safer to say that the total number of compromised yahoo accounts is 'all of them'. My ISP uses Yahoo to run the backend on their mail system and have advised me to change passwords on my main and sub-accounts. Annoyingly the sub accounts each need their own, non-isp...

If China is so opposed to foreign things entering the country, perhaps they should build a wall... And make the Mongolians pay for it!

Yeah, I used to have a BT Yahoo! account (technicaly I still do but I don't use it), but my current ISP, Sky, uses Yahoo for their mail system too. Gonna have to ask them about this.

So I guess this is for those times you have a PEBKAC error and you need to turn it off and on again?

Like I said, I've only ever seen minimal benefit from tweaking, If I can maintain 'fresh' performance, that's enough for me. I'm not knocking you for wanting to wring every last bit of performance out - this is [H] afterall - its just that in the past, there were lots of little tweaks that...

But doesn't that still trigger UAC prompts? It's possible it needs admin for something else, like storing variables in the registry, but if all it wants is to write to program files, then having the installation folder at full permissions for a standard user would mean you could run it as such...

I don't know about the webcam, but the accounting package may just want to be able to edit files in its installation directory, try installing it somewhere other than "C:\program files (x86)" or editing the permissions for just that programs folder to give your user account full control of it.

I'd add - if it becomes too slow Re-install it and repeat step 2, if that doesn't work then buy new hardware... I always used to try and tweak each new Windows Install to perfection, but over time it felt like I was just making it take longer to set up without much benefit (and actualy...

I'm shocked... SHOCKED! Apple doesn't have a binding arbitration clause to avoid class actions? On the actual topic, the whole program doesn't seem like good value for money, but I guess it depends on how much you value your time, and the convenience of not having to sell your old device...

Just open a window, it'll be fiiiine...

If there's space to pre-fab components there are ways of quickly replacing a structure without compromising quality. For example here we replaced a railway embankment under a major line with a bridge, with just 48 hours of disruption, not as impressive as 24hrs, but it has a standard 120 year...

I know, but I still can't help be curious.

He could change the name to Mcrappy, everyone wins. It's different enough to avoid the lawsuits and customers know what they're getting.

Wonder if they would make a good physx card next to a 1070

Oh, I wasn't suggesting it was necessarily hardware. More that it's the software environment on the machine as a whole. My personal experience is that windows in and of itself doesn't need reinstalls all that often since 7, it depends on what you're using with it. Seven years of web browsing and...

Perhaps in your particular usage case, but the install my old Nehalem system lasted from the windows 7 release in 2009 through 8, 8.1 and 10 in place upgrades until I eventually replaced it with a whole new rig (i always meant to do a wipe and reinstall, just never got round to it). This is with...

If you buy from the MS Store it might be worth setting up a Microsoft account in the name of the business, and used for no other purpose and then giving the owner the credentials when you've done. It shouldn't be necessary to have an online user account to use the computers in that case...

He's from the Steve Jobs school of licence plate display I see. Well... Yeah, but not because of his eccentric behaviour (which has made him quite wealthy of course), but because if you buy something, you can (with a few exceptions) do whatever you want to it (provided it's still also street...

Yeah, I don't think encryption is the problem here, surely the drive would still show up, it would just appear as 'unformatted'? You could boot to a linux cd/usb unlock (a quick google for 'veracrypt unbuntu' suggests it can) and image the drive, then format and instantly restore it without the...

Even if you manage to slip past security you'll never make it past the second floor...

Alternatively Dad could threaten to use Grindr at the table and summon a second dad to keep the kids in line if they don't put down their smartphones until after mealtime.

I was thinking of doing the same thing. I'm just wondering if GOTY editions will still be a thing in these days of Season Passes (aka pre-orders for DLC)

Just to forewarn you, If you do go for an M.2 drive you'll probably have to find a driver to let the windows 7 setup see the drive for installation. I don't know if SATA M.2's are different but when I was having issues partitioning mine for Windows 10 using a USB stick, I tried my Windows 7...

I played and enjoyed the first one on PC. It looked beautiful, and the first few levels were impressive but it got very repetitive with way too much backtracking and copy/paste corridors. Still, I did want to play Halo 2, but that was DX10 only making it Vista exclusive at a time I (and many...

Mang! They have M26 drives! That's, like... thirteen times the number of M's my 950 M2 has! And I only just bought this thing! I need to upgrade pronto!

Until recently I was running a 120gb SATA SSD (which is pretty small by any metric nowadays) with a 1.5TB HDD. Even with Libraries set to the HDD and most programs and games moved there the SSD filled up over time and managing the space became tedious. I'm sure I could have clawed some back...

Most SSD's hardware encrypt the data written to the NAND by default, but the keys are stored in the controller in such a way that it's transparent to the rest of the computer. eDrive has Bittlocker manage the key and store it in the TPM rather than encrypting/decrypting the data in software. The...

I'd like to know when the firmware update to allow e-drive will be coming to the rest of the range (if it ever will)

I'm in the UK and travelled to Cornwall (lands end at the south west tip of the country specifically) for the 1999 total eclipse there. Day before - blazing sun and clear skies Day after - blazing sun and clear skies Day of the eclipse - overcast. It was a surreal sight watching the moon's...

Haha, I guess its a firmware bug in the pattern matching of the v1.0 human brain. It loves to transpose characters, then refuse to see the error by auto-correcting what the eyes tell it they see with what it was expecting to see! Glad you got it resolved.

How does Microsoft roll out stuff like the Anniversary update? Is it like Google and Android updates, where 5% get it the first day, then 10% etc with 100% of clients being offered the update after a couple of weeks? I ask because I have 3 windows 10 computers in the house, 2 desktops on Pro...

They aren't cracking your wifi, hacking your firewall, or detecting anything. It's not 'government overreach' or 'fascism' because they aren't actually doing anything. Even if it were physically possible (which I dispute), we're talking about the kind of tech that MI5 or MI6 would deploy, its...

As I understand it, If you upgraded from 7/8 at the end of the offer, and have had the Anniversary update installed since, if you choose to rollback, you'll get last weeks version of Windows 10, not 7/8, so it might not matter either way :eek:

Are you absolutely certain you are entering the licence key correctly? When I was entering the Windows 8 key to establish the entitlement on this one it refused to work. I double checked and it was right, I even tried skipping activation in setup and copy/pasting from the document I keep all my...

Under advanced settings in windows update there is an option to 'choose how updates are delivered' which lets you turn on a P2P option (its on by default) including PC's on the same network which should reduce the amount of data downloaded, athough unless all the computers are on the whole time...

Haha, This has been a long time coming: http://i.imgur.com/r0EldCk.jpg (Linked because its a little bit NSFW) Viz warned us about this almost ten years ago!

You say it's a fresh install, did you install all the drivers for things like chipset and usb controllers? Or are you using the ones windows provided by default?

Hmm, yeah I see it now thanks. If it lets you fix a heatsink to an m.2 ssd, (rather than potentially warranty-voiding self-adhesive sinks directly to the chips) that could be pretty useful - if you care about such things anyway.