Recent content by Imbrium

I'm in shock. It actually worked. Updates installed/configured without a hitch this time and I've got windows 8.1 downloading! I'm so used to getting screwed by windows that I figured it wasn't done for the day yet, lol. I would still like to know how to restore from a backup image, though...

System restore thought I didn't have any restore points, heh. I supposedly managed to get windows to reset to factory/default or whatever the option was; I say "supposedly" because it warned me that all the data on my PC would be erased. I assumed "PC" meant "the drive that Windows is on,"...

When I first got my computer, I added a SSD and discovered EaseUS Todo Backup (free edition) while looking into how to get my OS onto the SSD. I liked the program - it was easy to use and it worked like a charm - so I decided to hang onto it for back-up purposes. After all of maybe a month...

Code, thanks for sharing your experiences - I was leaning towards running longer ethernet cables, but I wasn't sure... I know coax is shielded/ethernet is not and shielded sounded better in theory but I also read about the evolution of cable types and remembered seeing that coax cable was...

I'm trying to figure out how to set up the modem/computers in our apartment. Trouble is, the cheap jerks only bothered putting one cable jack per apartment - it's on the far side of the living room, about as far as it can get from the bedroom where our computers are. The modem/router our new...

Despite making some BIG mistakes when buying my last computer (ie buying from Dell and thinking that a "gaming laptop" in lieu of a desktop wasn't a ridiculously stupid idea - at the time, I really needed something that I could take on an airplane and didn't want to buy two computers... plus I...

I guess I replace mine every couple years, but the decision to do so is a no-brainer for me - whenever I start having my internet go out randomly on a semi-regular basis only to be promptly restored by rebooting the modem, I haul it over to Time Warner and swap it for a new one. For all the...