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Incidentally, the header on the motherboard itself will just be the actual switch wire for one wire, and a ground for the other wire. Momentarily shorting the two wires (or the one to some ground) triggers motherboard power. If you are careful and do not short the wrong pins, then you can see...

I haven't had time to work on this more, but will soon. So far as previous use goes I've done this on home machines for about the last 20 years. No active server or domain. The "hosts" file, if you look at it, is nothing more than a substitution macro. For example, if you "ping nas", then you...

This is what the hosts file is for. Local aliases without the overhead of a custom DNS setup. There is no need for local DNS if I can give an alias to dotted=decimal addresses. It is the very purpose of the hosts file.

It isn't that I can't ping or reach the NAS. I can do with the dotted decimal address. Also the printer and three other computers on the network via dotted decimal. Google, a lot of others by name work perfectly.

DNS works fine. Just a custom alias for the nas and printer I'm trying to create fails. Everything else works.

I tend to not trust third party apps. Even so, I really want to know what is wrong with this hosts file rather than finding a workaround. I've never had a hosts file do this before and I've been using that for a very very long time.

No, the path is correct. Also, I didn't manually type it in to edit the file, that's just how it shows up. "C:\" is the "C" drive; the root of the path starts with "\", and naming the drive plus the start of an absolute path is "C:\\". Browsers substitute a forward slash, but put this in your...

No, it is definitely at the full path listed, not SystemWOW64. I was not even aware of SystemWOW64. Is there some secondary location the file needs to be other than: C:\\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts

I have a new installation of a Windows 10 Pro installed, fully updated (given to me by a friend who is closing down some of his shop inventory he doesn't use). It works quite well, except I am trying to add some aliases for local network devices. The file in the title is not corrupt, and it has...

A BIOS battery acts as AVR for the BIOS. If the battery starts failing, but is not completely dead, then the ability to protect a BIOS from low voltage starts going away. Settings will be outright lost if power goes off and the battery is simultaneously completely dead, which does happen...

Some trivia related to this: An UPS for maintaining power to a PC when the wall power fails can be in two varieties. One variety does not help if there is an undervoltage (the cheaper UPS), and another variety will help even if wall power has undervoltage instead of outright power failure. The...

Just a side note: When a program is running it lives in RAM (except possibly if swap/virtual memory is used). Even if the disk were to die the program actually in RAM will usually work just fine until disk access is needed. Having the calculator fail could be a disk failure. Not finding the o/s...

Most modems have something like a pinhole that you can use to reset the device from locally (and then assign a new password). Wi-Fi is terribly insecure even in its most secure setup, so what you are saying is plausible. There are a lot of other reasons such traffic might show up which is...

I use the actual "dd" when recovering data. Never used "ddrescue". There are other tools, but mostly what I do is create an image from "dd", and the use the other tools on the loopback mounted image.

Others have already commented appropriately, but I'm going to provide some observations (which might or might not be useful to you). You have a standard old tech platter hard drive (this is what "sdd" implies, although it might be something else; comment if this is incorrect), and so "dd" is...