Recent content by ZippyPeanut

It's a great question, for which I don't have an answer. However, I read an article in Maximum PC about DACs replacing sound cards. And I found something here (http://www.audioholics.com/frequent-questions/dac-do-you-need-an-external-digital-to-analog-converter) that might be relevant to your...

I had this problem forever. I searched the web and found all kinds of tricks, most of them complicated. Here is what I did, which may or may not solve your problem: I downloaded Display Driver Uninstaller," (https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/display-driver-uninstaller/) and ran it. It...

Last night while my PC was sitting idle, one monitor stopped displaying and the resolution of my primary monitor dropped: small desktop icons became large. Device Manager showed that the GPUs didn't have installed drivers. So, I tried to open Nvidia Control Panel, but it would not open...

The Nvidia Control Panel makes this task easy. The control panel usually runs in the background, and you can most easily find it by showing hidden icons in the lower right-hand side of the monitor.

Yeah, as kanewolf says, you probably can't. But consider trying Kaspersky's decryption tools at https://noransom.kaspersky.com/. The one that looks like it might possibly work is the RakhniDecryptor tool. CryptoLocker is bad news. In the future, be sure to have a weekly/monthly backup system...

With Windows 10 and DirectX 12, it is possible, but presently there is virtually no developer support. So even though it is possible, doing it results in almost no utility. See...

Will 4k content play directly from your hard drive or SSD?

This really, really sounds like malware. Run the free version of Malwarebytes. After that run Ccleaner. Then reboot.

Finally, AMD is going to crush Intel on with Zen: leaked specs show desktop models with 8 physical cores and 8 virtual cores running at 8.3 GHz with a turbo boost to 9.1 GHz! Zen's integrated graphics are predicted to outperform the RX 480, and its firmware controller automatically crossfires it...

Have you compared this to the functionality of other browsers? Edge? Opera? Firefox? Try opening multiple tabs in another browser and playing a YouTube video. If another browser crashes under the same circumstances, then perhaps the problem is something associated with your Internet connection.