Recent content by devavictrix

I stopped using my smartphone a long time ago but I recently had to fire it up again to be able to install Authy and Google Authenticator so I could get to my Bitcoins. I obviously had to login to Google to access the play store. Since then I've removed my sim card and disabled wifi so it's not...

It's a chinese balance board controller. Google all day long and you probably won't won't find the schematic. But try...

I bought a new mouse about a year ago... nothing speacial - Corsair Katar. I use a 24" HD monitor. It's got adjustable DPI, up to 8000. The pre-loaded DPIs are 400,800,2000,4000 and 6000 with 800 being the default. 800 works well for the only game I play (World of Tanks) but is a tad sluggish...

Turns out lots of entries in the registry have been changed. Real-time protection included. Looks like im spending the rest of the weekend reinstalling Windows! Or maybe its time to say goodbye to MS Office and World of Tanks and install Linux... if its safer!? How can this happen? How can you...

Today I just happened to notice that Windows defender was turned off. I couldn't turn it back on. Even after logging in as an administrator I couldn't get defender to open or turn on. In the end I had to make changes to the registry to get it to turn on again. Could this be caused by any...

I gave it a second attempt - reinstalled Windows (exactly the way I did last time) and everything now installs and works well. I installed everything from the user account. I have no idea why my first install was so problematic. Still can't get MSI Live Update to work but sod it! MS Office...

Sorry, I'm getting confused with the names. I never use the MS account from Windows... only with opera to read my emails. I'm always "local". From a standard account ive found MSI live update won't work, AMD driver package won't install and when I downloaded Keepass from Sourceforge Windows...

So when you install Windows how do you go about installing programs etc? Personal stuff like games, web browsers, office etc are pretty straight forward. Drivers often ask for the admin password so I guess the effects span all accounts?, but not drivers do. And some things don't work at all...

* local, not standard!

For the past 20 years or so I've used the admin account as my primary Windows user. I'm at a point when I want to reinstall Windows and I'd like to use a standard account for day to day use and admin only when necessary. I'm having difficulty in understanding how to install and use programs...

Thank you for your reply. I had a couple of 120mm fans from a gigabyte case and found a 80mm one in a bag of computer junk and have been playing all day! I was surprised to find that the 80mm fan at 2800rpm was much louder than two 120mm fans going at 1000rpm. It created quite a draft too. If...

I recently upgraded my GTX950 to an R9 380 and it generates a lot more heat. Given my only chassis cooling is a generic 80mm exhaust that came with the £20 case I thought id swap that for a 92mm fan and maybe put a couple of 120mm intakes on the side panel. But when I started looking at...

I've had this happen to me on both my computers in the last few days. Both perfectly working computers but then I opened Radeon settings on my second computer and got a black screen that wouldn't go away. I had to hold the power button to turn it off. Rebooted and it did it again. Eventually it...

Gotta agree with the first answer... post it! Downloading 180GB is a bit of a nightmare, uploading it... :-) If you must use the internet then maybe use FTP or Bittorrent.

I rarely use SD cards to transfer data but I do have a small wallet of micro sd cards storing data. I have one that I use as an encryption keys for Bitlocker and Keypass, another to store my Keypass data file, one for Windows 10 installation files, a bootable DOS/Linux etc. Then all of a sudden...