Recent content by Tom

So along the same line of questions.. I have a nice older pc with a Q6600, I'm looking for a good used gpu to put in it for around $50. The 1050, even used, seems a bit more than that so what lesser cards should I be looking at ?

on my laptop it took about 10 hours.

take it to a shop ? How quaint. the people who MAKE Windows 10 don't understand it, what kind of shop would ?

most of my phones have built in options for do not disturb or quiet modes that make it very easy to only let contacts or favorites ring the phone as well as handling other calls in a better manner than just ignoring them. Sometimes Grandma might call from a pay phone..

I've seen the LG G5 for less than $200 on occasion. Great cameras and it has 2 main cameras, normal and wide angle. Or an iphone SE which is less than $200 as low as $130. Apple devices always have nice cameras. And Google software for the Pixel is supposed to be great and I believe you can...

Trump doesn't want to be President. Too much like a real job. At the convention he'll throw his delegates to Kasick or Colin Powell or someone and he'll be THE kingmaker. The greatest in history. Better legacy than being a failed President.

I'm gonna jump in here and I know it might be off-topic.. I'm a moderate to liberal Democrat. I'd love for Bernie to win if he could actually turn even part of his agenda into law. But he can't. And I'll vote for Hillary because she's actually a great candidate who will get some things done...

Thanks for the info.

Myself I don't care about the telemetry. What I care about is keeping my oldish Windows 7 laptop working reliably. I do not need "updates" that are screwing with my resources, hard drive, cpu processing, internet speed, just to "get ready" for a Windows 10 update I may never install. If I do...

This is on my oldish Dell laptop that still is running Windows 7. It's never had 10 installed unless some part of a Windows 10 install ran on it's own. edit-- I came across this post in the link you provided. "One thing I have not seen heavily advertised (it does seem important though) about...

Anyone know if it's ok to delete the 6gb of stuff in folder "$Windows.~WS" ?

According to Dell my laptop can't run Windows 10, however at some point 6 gbs of files are in a folder on my C drive, apparently Windows 10 files ready to be installed. Looking around the web this apparently happens with Windows 7 if auto updates is on, however I don't have auto updates on and...

What about a new hard drive ?

I guess you could stop it from running by never connecting to the internet too. I was inexact in my language, it's possible to stop it but it's no longer designed to make it the user's choice when and how to update. I don't really care much but I see this as potentially a big problem as...

I guess you don't know what a Trojan Horse is. It means consenting to something that then does something you didn't expect or agree to. For example, if I have a computer running 7, that can't run 10, or I never plan to upgrade to 10, I didn't need KB 3035583. Or the other "updates" that...