Recent content by bill77

I'm currentlystaying in a sketchy area so we put up cams a few months ago. Within a month it picked up all sorts of intrusive stuff, including one repeat offender telling us "good luck with the cams"! and laughing. Aware of the vulnerabilities of wireless cams, I've been monitoring my network...

I noticed this after finishing up a Netflix session. Half of the icons are still there, but 6 shortcuts and the recycle bin are gone from the bottom row (and part of the right side, but not all. the icon in the top right corner is still there). Everything on the top, left, and left bottom...

Thanks for the feedback. As for Bluestacks, I installed it around a year and a half ago. The last time I messed with it was probably July or August. Guess I could uninstall it, but for now I have just been operating for a different machine with a fresh install and took everything else down...

Nope, not from anything I can see. It has a guest mode that's disabled.

I was using the net like normal last night when I suddenly had connectivity issues, and my browser was redirected to a page warning me that a "Router Behind Router" was detected; a third-party router was suddenly detected. No one in the house made any hardware changes or added any new devices...

You're right, and I just remembered I'd never be able to find the dongle and cables I used to lug around for that thing. I should've thought this through, but I get bright ideas late at night sometimes.

After digging around online expecting to find decent, dirt cheap TV tuner/capture cards for under 20 bucks, and being put off by reviews, I wondered if it would be worth the effort to ressurect an old machine and put Win 98SE on there so I could use my ancient ATi All in Wonder Rage 128 PCI card...

I have this PSU sitting around without a home, and I recently bought my Dad the mobo + CPU listed below. If anyone has any opinions, I'd be happy to hear 'em. I realize that old PSUs require a couple BIOS changes to play nice with Haswell, but I was looking for opinions if I should bother in...

Thanks guys, I'll try it out.

I installed a clean W7 Pro on a Samsgun 840 Pro SSD almost a year ago, and I never got around to putting Magician on there (or Intel's Rapid Storage). Will I run into problems running their software this far from the fresh install? Should I bother? I set the ACHI mode in Bios and all of...

Probably even with forensic grade tools or services, right? Ahh well, didn't figure there would be, but thought I'd ask once before I forgot it for good. Thanks for the replies..

About 14-15 years ago I had a single large proprietary database file overwritten by a hasty re-installation of a program. I was unable to recover via undelete methods at the time of course, but always kept the old Connor hard drive around "just in case" I ever came across a way to do it. Back...

I am staying at a very old house (early 1900s - early 1940s?) in the eastern US that has a fully finished attic added on in the 1980s. I have inconsistent results with my wireless (G band) USB adapter, so I thought I'd try these Slinglink adapters since Dish Network gave us one that we don't...

Thanks for the advice, everyone. Luckily, the SS isn't dead after all, so my "monster gpu" potential is still there. :D I still have a lot of love for that old Enermax and will make sure it goes back to work on an older build but it served me well for troubleshooting as well.

I'm having a problem with my new build, as it will not start up (no lights, fans, etc) and I'm trying to figure out if it's my Seasonic x750 PSU. Before I go shoving any paper clips in there, would there be any harm in testing my old Enermax Noisetaker II 485w on this build with only the CPU...