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I did a little more digging and found several reports of feature updates not appearing. There's plenty of speculation but nobody seems to have a clear understanding of why this happens. I guess I'll just update manually.

I check for updates rather frequently so I doubt I've missed any kind of window. I've wondered if it's a compatibility thing that Lenovo quietly reported to Microsoft behind the scenes, which makes me hesitant to use the WUA. I'm not as adventurous as I once was. The thought of crippling Windows...

This is an edited cross-post from a thread I started on the Lenovo forums (to no avail, yet): Windows Update on my P50 has detected no new feature updates since 1803. Not 1809, not 1903. Security and other updates appear regularly. I realize I can manually update but I'd like to know why the...

When the WMCT creates an ISO does it take into account and incorporate the drivers I already have installed or is it a one-size-fits-all, generic image?

Do you mean that I should download the files using the WMCT or separately, from some other place?

Gotcha.

Okay, I just re-discovered the Windows Media Creation Tool. Maybe this is my answer.

I think I read somewhere that once you upgrade to Windows 10 the BIOS will somehow remember this and allow future installations but I don't really know if that's true or not.

Hey, Fam. I have a 2016 ThinkPad P50 which shipped with a Windows 7 Professional license. Still under warranty. At some point in the last 2 years I lost the you-get-only-one USB flash backup I made and had to order (Windows 7) recovery DVDs (there's no DVD drive on the P50). Now I want to...

Hey, SR, it's been a spell. A friend of mine just sent me screenshots of Chrome running on her MacBook. You can see the notifications on the side. They just keep coming. It seems as though she's picked up something nasty. You see the notification at the top, which reads "remistrainew.club"...

Hey, Fam, On my Lenovo P50 running Windows 10, Internet Explorer 11 has been mysteriously launching and running quietly in the background while guzzling 10-11% CPU. It uses this much when I launch it manully as well. How can I figure out the cause of this behavior short of poring over Process...

***Yaaaaawwwwwrrrnnn*** Cloud? WTH is a cloud? Woah, how long have I been asleep?

By the way, thanks, Will. Piyono

Same. I'm one of the last remaining few amongst my friends without a Facebook account. I avoided social networks until Google+ came along. I figure that Google is such an integral part of my day what with email, contacts, docs, photos, search, shopping and so forth, that opting into another of...

Anyone got a Google+ invitation for a brother? Yeah yeah, chutzpah, I know. First post in over a year and I waltz in looking for handouts. Look, at least you know I've not been cheating on SR with some floozy forums, right? I'd have a Google+ invitation by now... How y'all doin? :)

Good points, Blakey. My eyes have had some time to shrink down to a size more in line with my budget, which is good, because my budget is much more comfortable with RAID 1 than RAID 5 at the moment.

Specifically because a) they're really expensive and b) are geared towards file storage as opposed to workstation usage.

The Synology stuff looks nice but doesn't quite meet my needs.

It looks nice but it uses an external power supply (strike 1) with a DIN(ky) connector (strike 2). Double no-no in my book. Also, there is no mention of which RAID controller is used (strike 3a), and no performance data is provided (strike 3b). Furthermore, I've been up-close and personal with...

Good question, Handy. Answers: 1.) DAS. eSata, primarily, although FW400 and USB2 would be nice as secondary options. 2.) All I want, really, is to have my ass covered in case a drive decides to go south mid-session (which happened last week). I've never had bottleneck issues with a lone...

Been doing more reading and I'm discovering a whole subset of problems relating to drive/controller compatibility. Some reports say that certain drives don't work with certain controllers. It's a whole can of worms that I didn't want to get into, but there it is. Also, what of RAID-specific...

The machines at Dolby Labs, were they DAWs? What kind of track counts were they subjected to? Were they using hardware RAID? FakeRAID? Software RAID? What do you mean by "jittery", and how is RAID-1 less "jittery" than a single drive? It's just mirroring, after all.

I'm now running a commercial recording studio and I've been looking into incorporating a RAID into my DAW. I'm leaning towards an external 4-bay enclosure for running RAID-5 with a hot spare; I like the idea of being able to toss the array into a safe at the end of a workday, or to be able to...

On a whim I ran Memtest86+ from the Ubuntu 9.1 CD and lo! Errors aplenty right off the bat. I was rather surprised because my last Memtest scan lasted through the night and found nothing. Anyway, the errors were exclusive to one 1GB DIMM which I isolated and removed, leaving a second 1GB DIMM to...

If I find myself with a spare PSU I will, of course, swap it for his. Until then I'm wondering how many more times I'm willing to run this course.

Fugs, that page and I have become well acquainted over the years. The problem is that the registry keeps becoming corrupt.

I, too, suspected the power at the wall so I hooked my Fluke 179 into the outlet feeding the computer and let it sit there in min/max hold mode for about an hour. No serious spikes or dips occured during this time.

A friend of mine brought me his computer a few months ago for repair, complaining that it was crashing every time he used firefox. I gave it the usual once-over and ran my usual suite of utilities but found nothing suspicious. Then he booted it up and got the dreaded Windows XP could not start...

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I've used badcaps.net in the past. Good site.

Oh, just for the record, this is a Gigabyte model with solid caps. They don't leak, do they? Piyono

In a bout of mild desperation I took my computer apart, removed all the cards and cables from the motherboard, including the RAM, used compressed air to get dust out of all the nooks and crannies, used an eraser to clean the connector edges of cards and DIMMs and then put it all back together...

I did a quick scan of the caps. All seems well. My power supply is a PCP&C model. They tend to outlive the rest of the components in my machines so I'm leaning towards RAM and mobo as the likely culprits.

A few days ago my main machine started playing a new game: After a cold start the boot process moves at about half-speed. The welcome beep, the different POST screens, everything occurs slower. The Windows XP splash logo fade-in is choppy, and as a grand finale, just as the outline of the login...

I just went through the rest of the recovered data and what's interesting is that primarily the CR2 files were corrupted. Most other files are intact. Weird.

It sort of *was* the backup. Like I said, none of the data was mine, really. Some 60 or 70 GB was consumed by my Dad's photos of which he has a copy in Toronto (he says, he's missing some but I think he could be mistaken). Another big chunk was a system and data drive I backed up for a friend...

Yep. I just tried again with Recuva and I'm getting the same thing: all the files appear to the software to be undeleted and intact but the vast majority are corrupt. איזה בסה!!!!! לעזאזל!!! גם זו לטובה.

The good news: The drive letter swap worked. The bad news: I destroyed my data on that drive. Narrative short version: Don't perform life-or-death procedures when you're groggy from lack of sleep and nodding off at the keyboard. Narrative long version: You'll notice that in my original post I...

The VM drive letter swap seems to have worked. When I removed the letter from drive D Windows warned me that it wouldn't be available until after a reboot because the drive was still in use. Naturally, when I rebooted, Windows couldn't find the Docs n' Settings folder because there wasn't a D...

I'll try that. I just happen to be playing with a VM in which I've set up the virtual drive configuration much like my real drive configuration. Will report back.

It occurs to me that Windows XP will probably not automatically try to reassign D: any more than it would try to reassign the drive letter of any other drive I might pull. Say I disconnected my E:|F: drive. XP wouldn't care. The only noticeable difference would be the addition of E and F to the...

I just deleted everything under "Universal Serial Bus Controllers" in Device Manager (by opening each item and selecting "Uninstall" from the Driver tab) and restarted the computer. I'll start mucking about with drives and see if it's made any difference.

I looked at another of my computers' Device Manager and it uses ICH10, but all USB controllers are listed as "USB", not "USB2".

The only devices I keep plugged in all the time are my mouse and webcam, and sometimes not even the webcam. There's also a Samsung all-in-one printscancopier that I sometimes forget to unplug from USB but which I always remember to power down. My Keyboard is PS/2. Given those conditions I...

OK, Lessee... I don't have a USB hub. The only devices connected to my computer at all times are: mouse, webcam and a couple of extra cables which I swap between hard drives on my desktop. External hard drives are on only when required, and it's hardly ever more than two at a time. Keyboard is...

I should mention that this behaviour is intermittent. Sometimes I turn a drive on and it just works like it should. Sometimes it works but Windows detects it anew, as though it had never been plugged in before. These symptoms are exhibited regardless of which port I use. I think.

I'm getting "This USB device can perform faster if you connect it to a Hi-Speed USB 2.0 port" message when I plug my USB 2.0 drive enclosure into a USB 2.0 port. I've tried deleting all USB hubs and devices (including hidden devices) from device manager and letting Windows reinstall them to no...

I give all my clients a copy of JKDefrag.

I looked into mountvol and from what I understand it works a lot like a command line version of the Disk Management console. No?