Recent content by Kzoom

I come for reliable reviews, as well as occasional h/w help. Was going to buy the recommended Sabrent externally-powered 10-port until I saw the description on Amazon. A light on every port? Really? The room already looks like outer space when the overhead lights are off. Aren't there enough...

My friends live on a distant northern European coast. Their inet sucks. 26M down, 1M up, on an ADSL(?!) line, not coax, not fiber. Not the problem, it's a steady connection. Problem is the 80cm external stone walls, and the 60+cm internal ones. I can jog past the quarry they were pulled from...

Thanks for the help. Solution turned out to be just as annoying: 'Run As Administrator'. Why this has to be explicitly set at run time of an individual program, rather than being, hey, a checkbox next to every app listed under CtrlPanel | Programs and Features, is just annoying. So I'd been...

Win 7 Pro, svpk 1, on a Thinkpad. This is weird. Finally filled up my iPhone with pictures, and went to start removing them (yes, they're all already backed up, RAID'd, water- and fire-proofed, and catalogued on a personal cloud. Whee...) When I click any JPG on my Thinkpad, Picasa's Photo...

A little help, please. How do I edit a file I created and saved, without having to rename it every time I save it? Further, how do I actually changed the Read-Only property on folders. I, and only I, have an account on this PC I bought directly from the vendor. Win 7 64bit. My account is of...