What Have You Done Today - (Computer Version)
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No it's an old fat one, I only found 1 guide out of about 10 that had the same model as it's quite a bit different to standard. In the end I just did it all my self and took pictures as I went.
Well it was that or a really cheap one in the shop, I would have got Arctic 5 online but I didn't feel like having my PS3 in bits all over the living room for a week waiting for delivery
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It's 8am and so far I've switched on my PC uninstalled flash, reinstalled flash, uninstalled a ff HD plug in and listened to music. Should be (crosses fingers) playing Soldat LAN in college today. Their computer lab is like a candy shop boxes of cpus and mainboards all over the place.
. (infotainment system). WINDOWS CE FTW!!!!!!!!!
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Opened up my dad Vaio laptop inorder to replace a screen, I gave up trying to keep any kind of order over the screws. Also considering putting Ubuntu on it as Win7 really slows it down. Need to replace a hinge on an old IBM Thinkpad and then give it to someone, compared to the Sony it runs so nice. XP boots in a few seconds and in use it just feels better, of course it lags but not the constant choppy lag the Sony has more of a small delay during initial loading.
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My brother got the replacement USB reciever for his Logitech VX Revolution from Logitech and I did the business of pairing the mouse with the new USB receiver yesterday. As always Logitech's support is above par for the great service and fast shipping for any type of replacements.
Several days ago I've finally been able to play Warcraft 3 on my computer. Game was complaining that it could not find DirectX 8.1 or higher on my system so I've set the game to start with OpenGL as a temp fix. I've tried installing older directx, updating to the latest directx 11(HD 6770 card), and then downloading a hotfix for the DirectX Dianostic tool(fixing the error where it displays DirectX 10.1 instead of 11). For now the game is running fine but if possible I'd like to know if anyone has run into this problem and what they tried to fix it.
Several days ago I've finally been able to play Warcraft 3 on my computer. Game was complaining that it could not find DirectX 8.1 or higher on my system so I've set the game to start with OpenGL as a temp fix. I've tried installing older directx, updating to the latest directx 11(HD 6770 card), and then downloading a hotfix for the DirectX Dianostic tool(fixing the error where it displays DirectX 10.1 instead of 11). For now the game is running fine but if possible I'd like to know if anyone has run into this problem and what they tried to fix it.
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Decided I need a CD/DVD burner and a new monitor, and a keyboard.
Noticed that Skype seemed to be taking up to 60-70% of my processor time/capability.
Is that even normal?!
But there doesn't seem to be anything actually running (no video call, no audio, no chats) and its just sitting on the desktop, showing me that there is only one contact online. I suspect it is running an update, but doesn't show me that it is running an update. So.... its either that it is running an update and its designed to never tell you that it is running one, or that there is something malicious/sneaky/odd just going on.
Additionally, the internet drops out whenever someone rings the landline. I do know that BT has upgraded the line in November and was hoping it would sort itself out, but it hasn't..... Anyone know anything that I can do myself, before having to resort to phoning a BT line that is invariably in India? (I cannot take calls originating from India or strong accents, as I don't hear very well on the phone itself, so if I can avoid this, it would be ideal).
Currently just killed the Skype.exe process for now...
Is that even normal?!
But there doesn't seem to be anything actually running (no video call, no audio, no chats) and its just sitting on the desktop, showing me that there is only one contact online. I suspect it is running an update, but doesn't show me that it is running an update. So.... its either that it is running an update and its designed to never tell you that it is running one, or that there is something malicious/sneaky/odd just going on.
Additionally, the internet drops out whenever someone rings the landline. I do know that BT has upgraded the line in November and was hoping it would sort itself out, but it hasn't..... Anyone know anything that I can do myself, before having to resort to phoning a BT line that is invariably in India? (I cannot take calls originating from India or strong accents, as I don't hear very well on the phone itself, so if I can avoid this, it would be ideal).
Currently just killed the Skype.exe process for now...
Cheers bergauk, turns out that Skype was just acting up for that time. Quite odd really.
Anyway, last night my sister comes to me and says that she got a pop-up anti-virus program thing from her web browser. As soon as she said that, I was intrigued. And then when I saw it, I was horrified.
Horrified at the implict tone of the pop up trying to be a proper, legal anti-virus (horror horror!) and also a sneaking admiration for those rather devious fellows to present something that actually looked like a legit anti-virus scanner. It was called "Win 7 2011 Anti-virus (something-something)". Oh my, it was a difficult program to kick off the laptop... This was at midnight, just before I decided to go to bed. Ended up being awake till 3am (told sister to go to bed after 1am, as it was a slow process getting rid of it!).... God.
The program basically (somehow) inflitrates the web browser and then keeps popping up with scareware pop up designed to make you think you had 50 odd viruses running amok in the laptop/computer. After about five minutes of it actually being shown, the program somehow deactivated all installation and exe files. Only for anti-viruses and updated programs. I also deleted something that was a script that was written by the program to stop the pop ups, which stopped pretty much any exe being run. Ooops.
Long story short, Malwarebyte was downloaded onto a networked computer, laptop was in safe mode with networking, navigated to the correct folder for malwarebyte exe and ran it with admin rights (user rights was still blocked off) and ran a full scan. Found 3 malicious files. Nuked it.
And so far, the laptop seems to be ok. Also updated Firefox to 9.0 and updated Win 7 (which was last Tuesday's updates, I believe).
Anyway, last night my sister comes to me and says that she got a pop-up anti-virus program thing from her web browser. As soon as she said that, I was intrigued. And then when I saw it, I was horrified.
Horrified at the implict tone of the pop up trying to be a proper, legal anti-virus (horror horror!) and also a sneaking admiration for those rather devious fellows to present something that actually looked like a legit anti-virus scanner. It was called "Win 7 2011 Anti-virus (something-something)". Oh my, it was a difficult program to kick off the laptop... This was at midnight, just before I decided to go to bed. Ended up being awake till 3am (told sister to go to bed after 1am, as it was a slow process getting rid of it!).... God.
The program basically (somehow) inflitrates the web browser and then keeps popping up with scareware pop up designed to make you think you had 50 odd viruses running amok in the laptop/computer. After about five minutes of it actually being shown, the program somehow deactivated all installation and exe files. Only for anti-viruses and updated programs. I also deleted something that was a script that was written by the program to stop the pop ups, which stopped pretty much any exe being run. Ooops.
Long story short, Malwarebyte was downloaded onto a networked computer, laptop was in safe mode with networking, navigated to the correct folder for malwarebyte exe and ran it with admin rights (user rights was still blocked off) and ran a full scan. Found 3 malicious files. Nuked it.
And so far, the laptop seems to be ok. Also updated Firefox to 9.0 and updated Win 7 (which was last Tuesday's updates, I believe).
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She has an Antivirus on it, right? If not, might want to give her something like MSE: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/products/security-essentials
Its when someone's ringing the house phone, not when someone in the house is making an outbound phone call from the line.
And this only started to happen when BT made an (supposed) upgrade to the line somewhere at the exchange about 2 miles away. Before that, no problems whatsoever and nothing to complain about. Now, someone rings the house, internet stops and restarts itself. So, it can't possibly have been the filter issue if it was working fine before the upgrade (to be about 0.5mbps faster).
Yes, my sister had the anti-virus on it, but the anti-virus was reactive, not proactive.
And this only started to happen when BT made an (supposed) upgrade to the line somewhere at the exchange about 2 miles away. Before that, no problems whatsoever and nothing to complain about. Now, someone rings the house, internet stops and restarts itself. So, it can't possibly have been the filter issue if it was working fine before the upgrade (to be about 0.5mbps faster).
Yes, my sister had the anti-virus on it, but the anti-virus was reactive, not proactive.
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Changed from IDE to AHCI.
