Recent content by joeldf

It's been a few days, but which kind of discs are you trying to read? Audio CDs? DVDs? Data CDs? Any kind of disc? Or just certain types? Either way, it could just be a bad drive. A failure of the laser pickup. The drive board electronics may be fine which is why the PC can see it. But a...

What "lower values" are you talking about? I only see on/off options. Besides, those settings are for sound processing handled by the sound card, or on-board sound chip and is independent of the CPU. So, no "slow down".

A heatsink that comes with a motherboard can be removed. It has to be removed to install the SSD in the first place. If the drive you're sticking on the board already has it's own heatsink, then just put the board provided heatsink in the box the MB came in. Along with all the other extra...

I use a local account for the PC itself, but still have the MS account signed in for the MS Store, Office apps and my email. Those apps can have the MS account signed in individually without the PC itself being "signed in". It's not a big deal. But, you have to be careful, because the first...

Well, if you get one of those Dell Inspirons with 256 GB SSD primary drives, it can get full real fast. My own PC I built has a 500 GB SSD as my primary C: drive and a 2TB secondary hard disk D: data drive that I mapped all the Docs, Downloads, Music, Pics, and Video folders to. I run AudoCAD...

Win 11 is no slower than Win 10 on my machine. Not sure what is supposed to be "slower" about it.

That's not an accurate statement. It had nothing to do with the "tier" of a family (i5 or i3). It was the age, or "generation" of the entire line released in any given year. In other words, from the 8th generation to newer, all i3s and i5s are supported regardless of "tier". All i7s and i9s...

I waited about 6 months before updating my personally built PC that was only just over a year old by then. I had Win 10 Pro, so now I have Win 11 Pro. One thing you didn't mention was the need for an MS account to load Win 11. However, I don't know if that requirement extended to upgrades...

I waited several months before jumping in on Win 11. I have no problems with it. I got the Pro version, and since it was an update from Win 10 with a local account, it never asked to make an MS account - which I do have, BTW, having an outlook email address. I also have the MS Office 365...

This is how I am with multiple drives. I have an SSD for the OS and apps that default to that OS drive (like MS Office) without any other option provided. I set all my user files to save to a secondary HDD. I actually have 2 HDDs for data storage - one is my personal storage, and another for...

I have a Gigabyte MB too (a B460 Intel board), and yes, the recent BIOS updates to pretty much all of their boards enabled the software TPM by default. Previously it was disabled by default. I manually turned mine on last October (before the BIOS update was even issued) so I would be able to...

I know Start is supposed to change with the next big update, but I really wish they would offer the option to just get rid of the the "Recommended" section completely. I mean, I know what's on my PC, and I know what programs I want to use at any given time. Why do I need to have anything...

Except that I have swapped at least one of those secondary drives out without issue. I had to as that one did start to fail on me. On my current build from just a year ago, the C drive is the SSD shown as Drive 2, and two other HDDs are slotted in the Disk Manager as Drive 0 and 1, yet the SSD...

Guess I've lucked out. But then, I've only built 3 systems like that (with at least 2 drives already plugged in) over the last 18 years, and did a clean reinstall on 2 existing systems with multiple drives still in place. So, that's not a lot of opportunities to see that happen.

What do you mean "install on multiple drives"? Windows will only install on one drive. But it will ask which one if more than one is on the system. I've had new systems with 2 drives on it before and Windows asked which one to install on at the time. It didn't touch the other drive. But...