Recent content by sedrosken

A Windows 7 machine likely isn't worth a whole lot of extra consideration as one has to wonder just how much of a lifespan it has left regardless. That said, I've had good results with Teamgroup drives -- they're nothing special, but the pricing is good and they're fast enough. Remember that...

I've got a similar situation where I've got an older gentleman in his eighties who was pretty high up in his industry and has a lot of old data tied behind a 365 business sub he's still paying for, but that he can't get into -- we know his password, but he lost his 2FA stuff, and we can't seem...

The 1TB NVME drive I had my eye on at the start of the year spiked from 55 dollars up to 70 recently. Guess I'm waiting a bit longer, even if this laptop desperately cries out for more than 512GB -- games are very rough on storage these days, and I've got a few big-ticket items installed.

Starting to think they're deliberately trying to go after stuff like Open-Shell and StartAllBack, which literally just serves to give people back the Windows 7 era or XP era start menu if they want it. Can't wait for the seventeen million step registry hack that fixes that. In other annoying...

Using a cast-off Pavilion laptop for the summer to keep my electric bill from getting too crazy, it's got a R5-4500U in it with I think Vega 8? I'm pretty suitably impressed. Build quality is typical HP consumer-grade slop but the cooler is adequate for it and it had a single 16GB stick that...

Having an extra key to rebind for my own nefarious uses is always nice. But then, most keyboards will likely have it replacing the Menu key, having the Menu function as a Fn layer, I suppose.

If it works? Sure. I'm used to being my own support anyway. Now, would I implement this for a client? Hell no. You stick to by the books for liability reasons there.

Tell that 16GB limitation to ASRock because they claim their N100M supports up to 32GB. I suppose it's unofficial and the lack of dual channel deals me 3d6 psychic damage every turn but supposedly it works.

For what it's worth, my A770LE is great. If you play a lot of DX11/9 games it can still be a little iffy (but it has come a very very very long way from launch), and for compute if you're not buying nVidia you're just not getting the job done because you don't have CUDA, but for DX12 and...

Yeah, like I said, the US doesn't get cool stuff anymore, and that includes competent mid-rangers. You can get an A5x on a carrier, I'm sure, but if you want to buy unlocked, it's pretty much only high end stuff available. There's an argument to be made that an older flagship is a better buy...

It's not something you have to continually apply, Lunar, it's a checkbox you tick and let it run initial setup and then it's protected thereafter transparently to the user. And like I said you'd be shocked what ends up in your temp files. Lots of settings and software installers unpack there, to...

Yeah, no, I've dealt with the default behavior of Bitlocker. It's not encrypting thumb drives that's for sure. And normal users definitely aren't pulling their OS drive and trying it in another computer. That said, you'd be surprised what your C: partition contains just in your temp folders...

Meanwhile, my 5700X looking at the calendar and shrugging. I'll get whatever's reasonably powerful and on sale in 3 or so years.

Thanks for the tip on removing it there -- I used to remove it, but gave up when it showed back up after every feature update back in the Win10 days.

Use Rufus to make fresh install media that's set up to give you a local account instead, if you're not already too entrenched. It makes sure you only have the crapware Microsoft themselves approved of, and makes for a much more manageable base system than the factory image. If you are already...