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The mobo us Asus ROG STRIX. I rebuilt almost the entire PC but kept my boot drive which runs fine after re-registering my system with MS. My old Giga mobo used F11 to select the boot device. Suprised AMD don't seem to offer similar. Searching online fails to find an answer just the boilerplate...

I've just installed Asustek B550 motherboard after always using Intel mobos. The M4 boards do not appear to support a hot key to bring up the Boot Device Menu and instead I have to go into the bios each time. Is there a function key option I'm missing please? I occassionally boot from a usb...

I like the appearance of File Explorer to be just right. I like a Last Modified heading rather than Date for example. Also for Explorer to open on This PC rather than something else, I've removed the dreaded Quick Access and History etc and so on. This is fine when using my desktop but some...

Thanks. I already had winaero tweaker set up but just added the other app to preload and so that helps.

I am experiencing difficulties with the latest version of Windows 11, which includes several large folders containing a significant number of image files. To make it easier to view the files, I set the explorer to display large thumbnails sorted by added order. However, whenever I open a folder...

Thank you, will have a go!

screenshot Once a week, my inbox is flooded with dozens of spam emails called "John Blue. I recorded you". The sender emails each come from a different address as seen in the screenshot. i.e something like "John Blue @1234.com" As this address changes for every email, I can't see how to block...

All browsers exhibit this. I have disabled an iPV6 setting for the ethernet adapter in control panel and will experiment. Thanks.

Not sure where to post this. It seems to be an internet problem, as numerous websites with embedded video struggle to load them. My speed test is great with A+ scores all round. It applies to three browsers I tried. I removed my Bitdefender suite with no improvement. Video on many sites seems...

How can I turn off my USB mic when it is not needed by software ? Currently, it is live all the time.

My Win 11 system has several SATA hard drives and I get very confused over the recycle bins when I accidentally delete a file. I can not see the file I just deleted. I seem to remember there is a recycle bin for each drive but file explorer only show one. I use winaero Tweaker to configure...

My mobo can take 6 SATA drives but my PSU (non-modular) only has 4 SATA power leads. How can I add two more SATA drives please? Two of the 4 existing drives are SSD. Is there a splitter cable available to power the extra two mechanical drives?

Ha! Yes it just feels like a year! I got Win 11 from the official MS site before it was released to the public. Not as an Insider since I was not allowed due to the TPM issue. I fiddled the registry during installation to trick Win 11 into installing. It is only a technicality AFAIK that my CPU...

This is task manager at the moment I sent a file for edit from Lightroom to Photoshop. I don't understand "power" in this context. Is this electric power drainage? Surely not? In any event it doesn't look good so as this also happens editing in Topaz plugins, it looks like my 16Gb RAM is...

Looking at Task Manager when calling Topaz from Lightroom, I noted the Status reported 'suspended' for much of the time. No excessive RAM or disk usage noted. As for why I forced Win 11 on an unsupported CPU, well, I am an early adopter. The CPU is pretty much the best that this mobo can...