Recent content by Hugh_Mungus

This may be beyond the normal scope of question asked here so if there's a better place to ask it, please tell me and I'll go there. --- I'm facing a challenge involving computer bandwidth and I'm hoping someone can suggest a good direction to resolve my problem. I'm a senior member of a book...

I'm trying to determine the amount and format of memory that my friend's desktop computer can hold. She currently has 2GB of memory and is running Windows 7 Home SP1 (64-bit) but the computer is horribly slow. I want to see if the computer will hold more memory and what format it would have to...

One of my friends has a MacBook laptop and has set up an external hard drive that holds files he's archived. Would it be possible for me to connect my Windows 10 PC to that hard drive and copy some of the files on it to my internal hard drive? Would I need any special software (or hardware) to...

Thanks to you both for your very helpful answers!

I need to replace the AC adapter on my Dell computer; the existing one, which is an official Dell adapter, works only very sporadically now. I think the connection in the adapter is intermittent now due to being pulled or bumped repeatedly. (I've tried to be careful but haven't been fully...

I have an ADATA HV620 portable external drive. Unfortunately, it's fallen onto the floor from a table two or three times since I last accessed the data and I can't access the data any more. When I connect it to my Windows 10 laptop, it sees it as the E: local drive but when Windows tries to get...

My friend's brother has fallen victim to a scam and the computer is now locked with a password that he doesn't know. The scammers have said they'll unlock it if he buys them $3000 worth of iTunes gift cards but he's not foolish enough to do that. I was wondering if there is anything I can do to...

Microsoft recently forced my mother to update her Windows 8.1 to WIndows 10. In less than 2 days, her Start button stopped working and she can't launch her apps, aside from the ones that are on her desktop. I want to revert her system to Windows 8.1. I've found some instructions for that; which...

I now consider this question answered. I don't actually know what the red LED means yet but I now have the adapter working and understand how it needs to be connected to a 3.5 inch IDE drive, which was my key difficulty. I suppose I essentially figured it out for myself but I can't select any...