Recent content by JoesSoftware

cant really say to be honest, im with nowtv - no issue with operavpn, but some torrent sites are blocked due to uk court order. Are you sure ISP is blocking VPNs or if google is blocking it? My expeirence is google gets a tonne of traffic from opera vpn and throws up a captcha challenge. You...

Have you tried ebay? iPad screen and digitizer replacements are pretty common. I worked in an computer shop and we replaced them all the time. A lot of the times we bought screens from ebay, which was often cheaper and quicker than wholesalers who have MOQs and expensive. Are you sure yours is...

keep your app count down. Only install stuff you need. If you find you're not using an app after a long time, delete it. I do this often and amazed how much junk I collect on tablets. I have a 64gb phone and data gets full fast.

Thanks for the tips guys. RAM is a lot more expensive here for me in the UK. I mentioned price is USD as that's the primary demograpgic on this site. But here in the UK the ram is a bit more expensive. The price I quoted was for crucial.com I already have an SSD and it's pretty fast in that...

Have a look at an old windows 10 system that have been running for 3/4 years. The windows folder grows to 80GB, the appdata folder is also 80GB or so. The apps themselves are small, but the files, templates, cache, settings they produce and place on the appdata roaming folders are massive. I...

PC crashing while opening games and after fitting lights seems to be a telltale sign of power issues, perhaps the PSU is not well specced enough for your rig which is causing it the macine to draw more power than the psu can supply. hence the crash. Do turn all the lights off and see if the...

I tend to play open world and strategy games, the nature of the games means that there's so many ways to play so I end up playing the games over and over again. Command & conquer red alert 2 / yuris revenge - this was my go-to game and I exhaused it but lately it has issues where if I alt-tab...

If you are his sysadmin, I would suggest the best protection you could provide for him would be to remove admin privelages and create a login as a basic user for him. This will eliminate most threats of malware and software trying to install themselves. I did this for my old lady (she is OK...

I'd second that

forums and news sites, refreshing emails. I'm sad. When through a rust addition phase though. That's one addictive game.

Even USB-C would be too slow for SSD as well as being a bloody nuisance. Having an SSD on a USB lead will also be a nuisance to carry around, have you considered a chromebook on a USB stick. You can put chomium OS onto those low profile USB sticks that only stick out 6-8mm. The only drawback...

when computers shut down like this, it;s ususally an overheating issue, I had this happen twice over the course of 10 years, both on desktop computers when the CPU fan went bad. On the first time, it was aircool cooler so it was easier to see the fault. But second time round it was harder as...

I just had another look at the HP link and did a quick google, some mobo are btx (not completely proprietry, just a different standard). The picture of the mobo does make it look like a standard mini atx to me. I'm not sure I'd want to put a powerful card in a small case, it would shorten the...

Interesting, they don't use standard ATX format motherboards? I would have thought that would be the industry standard and would be more expensive to make their own boards to fit their cases. I any case I think fitting a power hungry gfc into the case will make the thing heat up like mad. I...

On my dell e6230, i7-3520m cpu laptop. I have 8GB ram on it, I am wondering whether to upgrade to 16GB. I use outlook browsing the web, youtube, and office work. I do have copious amounts of tabs open at times. So was wondering whether it would be worthwhile dropping $130 on ram. The laptop is...