Recent content by ms.misar

The effect you describe was common long ago with terminals (or terminal emulators) connected to a computer. Early systems did not automatically echo characters to a screen so the terminal had an option to provide "local echo" which you could turn on or off at the terminal (or emulator). If you...

Depends what you mean by "extremely slow". Also depends on what a new install of Windows is doing. If you copied loads of files over it might be busy indexing etc. Google the exact model number and see what you can find out about its relative speed from reviews before you spend time and money...

There is a third way - use UAC Pass. This is a tiny portable program that lets you create a UAC promptless shortcut for any application you use regularly. That way you avoid the constant annoyance of UAC prompts but still retain it as part of your defence against malaware (or you clicking a...

Changing my password is no problem (3 times) but every login attempt using either my user ID or my email results in "We're sorry, something went wrong ..." I have posted this by using Login with Google which does work.