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I was long time wondering, why almost all smartphones subforum talking are about samsung vs iphone flagmans and maybe just a few more brands. Kind of borring and not much info you can get if you want to look for some alternatives besides these two brands. What's all about that hate on chinese...

Simple. Windows 10 is not made only for 2014 or later machines. Windows 10 is made to be upgradable on older hardware including those with 4GB or less RAM. Hope that answers your question. But I see your point.

Irfanview, super fast, best integrated full screen image navigator (including video clips) I know of (simply press Enter for full screen mode, use arrow keys or mouse wheel for next/previous image - no crapy buttons or navigation panel, just image and some text info, if you wish) crop, resize...

What do you mean by that? After upgrade from 7 to 10 I was asked for my old password to login into my account. The old password worked. If leaving empty field and pressing Enter doesn't help, maybe he was asked to create a password for his account, not to use non existing old one?

hmm, im not so sure about the xp updates 'without' that POSReady registry hack. Last time (few years ago) on my PC the last xp update came with EOL screen and redirect to win7 or something like that... has something changed now? Do you really can still receive software updates, including...

There are still coming out critical 2003/XP OS updates, including IE8 patches, that can be used for XP, google for "XP POSReady", originally for windows 2003 but works on XP too with a simple registry hack. Last update was coming out just recently in June... don't ask me how I know :)

For a casual internet browsing, youtube watching, movies, ebooks, emails, not hardware demanding games maybe, etc. I have currently found two ultrabooks I can buy today where are I live for about the same price 200$, which one should be your choose? The first one is newer with USB3 ports...

In SpeedFan you can enable graph history window for cpu, gpu or hdd's temps, not exactly overlay ingame but close enough.

What is on your desktop? Maybe some particulal shortcut or link on the deskop is messing up with explorer or you have too much stuff going on the desktop. I believe ccleaner can clean iconcache.db file, but you can find and delete it yourself, if you want, it is not locked file so you can do it...

Today, after 7 days running, dsl line went down (including phone) for about 5 minutes, after coming back, upload bandwifth was reduced from 5.076Mbit to 4.890Mbit Maybe it was seven days learning period or what, I dont know, but I am happy about the fact, that it can automatically adjust...

That might be it, thanks. SNR is running stable at 6.3-6.4dB for the upload side no matter it is evening with heavy traffic going or in the early morning. Are you are saying SN Margin for the US is at least decent and will not cause internet problems, higher response times for browsing etc. and...

Interesting, since I got higher speeds from 16Mbit/2Mbit to 20Mbit/5Mbit, my CRC errors have dropped from arround 40-60 to zerro after 2 days usage now. I don't understand, why? Is it because: 1) higher sync rate with higher frequences has some effect on my line? 2) after speed change from ISP...

Yesterday my ISP upgraded my profile to 20Mbit/5Mbit internet plan, I have to wait now and see how stable it will be over time and will I get any disconnects and speed problems. As expected, SN Margin went down, at least on the upload side to little worrying 6.4dB, but as long as...

Here is dsl connection stats from other guy who have the same ISP and he says his internet connection is stable with both IPTV's on that consume about 10Mbit and web browsing. If you don't mind, I will post a link to the picture because he have about the same line attenuation. Interesting his...

I read every word carefully and with interest. Thank you! As for 16Mbit thing, they call it emergency profile (16Mbit/2Mbit) for vdsl2 in places where first real profile 20Mbit/5Mbit (or 10Mbit/2Mbit as minimum) is not available, then next profile is 40Mbit (or 20Mbit/5Mbit as minimum) and...

So I probably won't get much more upload than that, well that's ok, I am still quite happy what I have now, considering that just one month ago I had only 760Kbit/s upload at best and 9.6Mbit/s down before this upgrade to vdsl. On a bright side, my CRC Errors (Up?Down) have dropped greatly...

Yes,it is something about sync rate, I am not technician, but as I understand it, at a higher rate they could not guarantee 24/7 internet stability and so that the customers didn't call and put blame on them for unstable internet from time to time, they put sync rate in safe margins. I am only...

Today I replaced the old cables and here is modem DSL Connection data Before: After: Noticable change is that Output Down Power dropped from 7.2 to 4.9, is that good or bad? My bandwidth is limited from their side. What can you tell me from the images above? Is a cable change...

I guess that I don't have those POTS, just a regular single phone with a caller id function and yes, you are correct, only two - blue and white-blue wires are going from the outside cable to the cat3 quad cable up to the modem, other incoming wires are unconnected. Perhaps it adds some aditional...

That "I would suggest you move your modem as close to your NID as possible with a short phone cord, and use longer cat 5 cables to connect your devices." is a good advice, thanks. I will look at the modem's GUI but I am afraid my ISP has cut any end user unnecessary futures in the modem...

Thank you for the answer. I am not sure what is NID, but some time ago we had problems with internet stability (one and only time) and they tested at the incoming outlet and at the modem and they said that at the NID (point where outside cable connects to the home inside wiring?) signal is good...

Hi, My question is, how much internet speed and connection quality can affect cable lenght and type installed at home? We have adsl internet since 2003 so inside house from street there goes phone cable with slighty thicker wires, then about 25 meter long telephone 4 wire cable, from which...

Did you visual check capacitors on motherboard? For old systems this is one of the first things to check out on weird system boot freezes and onboard components not working corectly. But if motherboard is only 3 years old it will have all solid caps and it definitely cannot be considered 'old' -...

Yet you were blaming 'evil xp' for black screen and no bios post. I am sure you do know that hdd (and in that matter anything on it) is accessed after some bios posts (or manufacturer logo) are displayed on screen and any hdd boot data (including possible viruses) are accessed after complete...

Update: looks like it was temporary server problems from M$ because today site is working again :) but is was NOT working a few weeks. Wish only they included IE9+ in their updates (not gonna happen)...

For those who continue running their systems with XP for whatever reasons and wanted to receive future updates by adding a key to the registry: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\WPA\PosReady] "Installed"=dword:00000001 A few days ago Microsoft Update stopped working with an error message: "The...

I use WinRAR, it unpacks every archive you give to it (even new .zipx format that is superior for compressing jpeg's) and context meny is great, love the GUI and light weight... It looks like you forget to add file type associations in WinRAR settings...

That's a valid argument. If the hdd space is already marked as previously deleted than it can be true if OS seeks and writes to older deleted files first but if hdd space is not marked, then OS will never touch the end of the hdd until it's full. So to avoid this, will it be enough to create an...

Before anything, to be clear, I am writing about a simple PC with Windows installed, NTFS file system, a few hdd's and no complicated [hdd]hardware configurations involved, so please, argue inside these specs or not at all... :) Way too much technical terms and theory, but what about real...

But controller follows some logic, it does not write data haotically? And if it is true, can we assume it writes data to every free sector starting from the begining of the hdd platters and if hdd never goes full, it never reaches the other end of the platters (I'm not speaking about...

Hi! Recently I came across between two laptop deals with similar price and I have to choose between them. Main usage will be internet, emails, some movies etc. not for hard gaming. First one is Asus X54L Sx033V - Celeron B800 1.5Ghz Dual Core cpu, 2GB DDR3, 320GB hdd, 15" screen, used battery...

I was using crt until springtime this year. My first monitor was Samsung 757NF and then same series 959NF monitor and I was very happy using them. Not as pro as those big monsters, but enough good for me. Reason for upgrade to Dell U2412M was for going too weak brightness at direct sunlight...

Maybe it has something to do from where you download utorrent and also what download options you choose, some websites are putting its own crap inside installation packages or offering toolbar instalation before downloading. I am also using older version, no need for shiny upgraded 3.xx...

What you just did is you copied "file2.txt" file and renamed it to the folderondesktop file (without extension) to the root of your current drive :) Why, I hope you have already figured out. Correct command is "copy file2.txt desktopfolder" assuming you have already created new folder on the...

Hi! Recently I got 4-free six years old 160GB 3.5" internal SATA hdd. The person who gave it to me said it worked fine on his computer just a few days ago. But when I connect it to my computer, it will not power up. If I power up the computer first and then connect a power cable, it will shut...

If you don't have hardware calibrator avaible you can try tftcentral Dell U2412M color profiles using DisplayProfile to switch quickly between them to find what profile works best for your monitor, also try changing color settings -> gamma from PC to MAC mode, it makes some huge difference in...