is the "it won't be supported" chrome or windows vista?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 1 February 2016 21:23 (eight years ago) link
http://www.computerworld.com/article/3004014/web-browsers/google-cuts-off-chrome-updates-on-windows-xp-and-vista.html
upgrade operating system to windows 10? if possible (some hardware won't handle it)
my laptop, this one, is in the same boat, vista, 2009 vintage. but then i use linux...
― koogs, Monday, 1 February 2016 21:30 (eight years ago) link
firefox is snappier than it used to be
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 1 February 2016 21:32 (eight years ago) link
yeah i use Firefox sometimes but never really warmed up to it.
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 February 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
i'm guessing i can't get Windows 10 to run on a 7-year-old laptop, tho?
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 February 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link
as long as you have 2GB RAM it should run I'd think
― rip van wanko, Monday, 1 February 2016 22:08 (eight years ago) link
so, re the above, do i have to de-install Windows Vista? and buy Windows 10 in, like, a STORE?
see, i know NOTHING
(LIKE, how do i quickly find out how much ram i gots)
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 24 February 2016 23:09 (eight years ago) link
Start -> Right Click on Computer -> Properties. Windows 10 is free upgrade I believe
― dynamicinterface, Thursday, 25 February 2016 00:35 (eight years ago) link
Only Windows 7 and later have the free-upgrade option. (there do seem to be a few workarounds for XP or Vista users who don't want to pay for Windows 10, google "upgrade windows vista to windows 10"), as well as finding someone with a legit copy of Windows 7 or 8 they're not using to do and intermediary upgrade before upgrading again to 10.
Windows 10 can run on most computers that can run Windows 7. Microsoft has a free utility for checking in you can run Windows 7 on your Vista PC.
Right-clicking on the desktop Computer icon and selecting Properties will show how much RAM you have and other basic info.
― Lee626, Thursday, 25 February 2016 01:14 (eight years ago) link
ok thx
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 26 February 2016 03:06 (eight years ago) link
i upgraded to windows 10 on my laptop about a month ago. everything worked fine, my old laptop felt quicker, i was quite happy with it. yesterday, it restarted after installing a new update. it took a while, with a few screens with one sentence messages that i couldn't skip and finally it started. but something's happened: it went back to what it was like a month ago. i still have windows 10 installed but when i launched chrome it launched the tabs that were open about a month ago, when i launch utorrent it doesn't show anything i've downloaded in the past month and only has the torrents from a month ago, my main desktop screen is the same as a month back, same background image and files and it looks like anything that's happened in the month since has disappeared. i had a cracked copy of office that didn't work after i installed windows 10, but now it does. i have absolutely no clue what the hell happened and it's impossible to google for help since all i can find are tutorials on how to go back to windows 7/8 if you're unhappy about windows 10.
so uh what the hell happened? any clue on sorting it out?
― Jibe, Monday, 25 April 2016 07:44 (eight years ago) link
The only thing I can think of is that an old restore point was restored. It shouldn't just do that by itself though.
― silverfish, Monday, 25 April 2016 14:13 (eight years ago) link
is there a way i can disable the "upgrade to windows 10" thing that wants to schedule an appointment for an upgrade?
― sarahell, Monday, 25 April 2016 16:48 (eight years ago) link
Upgraded my laptop to Windows 10 last month but since then my wifi keeps disconnecting. Anyone else had this problem?
― Chris, Monday, 25 April 2016 18:41 (eight years ago) link
Similar thing definitely happened to the family PC. Windows 10 put itself on, seemed fine for a while, got much slower within a few months.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 08:21 (eight years ago) link
Yeah seems like that's what happened. I'm looking to restore to a previous point to see if it works. Thanks silverfish
― Jibe, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 10:21 (eight years ago) link
i see at least 3 people at week who have upgraded to windows 10 and cannot stay connected to wifi. sometimes there's a driver update for the wireless adapter which tends to help.
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:50 (eight years ago) link
I've tried Windows 10 on a couple of machines and there are no bloody drivers for anything so I just had to downgrade again. But it still bugs me to upgrade back again constantly. Grumble.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 26 April 2016 14:53 (eight years ago) link
http://www.myce.com/news/how-to-uninstall-kb3035583-the-windows-10-downloader-for-windows-7-and-8-1-75681/
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
I've not once been hassled to update to Win10 on my 8.1 machine. I can only assume this is due to my strict rule of completely disabling auto updates and reminders when I get a new PC.
― Interesting. No, wait, the other thing: tedious. (Trayce), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 04:02 (eight years ago) link
Can you use curl or python to retrieve emails?
― youn, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 21:34 (eight years ago) link
from where/what?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 21:48 (eight years ago) link
retrieve body of email from email account (such as a mailman account) set up to receive the emails
― youn, Wednesday, 29 June 2016 22:03 (eight years ago) link
there are imap and pop libraries for python if you can access the server like that.
offlineimap is an example. it's python2 only fwiw.
curl is for http requests which is not email (unless you are a sadomasochist and want to scrap gmail or whatever)
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 29 June 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
soooo what is the deal with power cords? i inherited an old desktop from work but it's just a tower (everything inside but HD) so i need a replacement cord. can i just get any old cheapo cord from amazon or does it have to align with the PSU/wattage? will it blow up? i can't even figure out what the PSU is but i'm pretty sure it's dell brand.
can i just get this? https://www.amazon.com/Power-Cable-Desktop-Computer-Warranty/dp/B004RIL2WQ
― qualx, Friday, 15 July 2016 06:14 (eight years ago) link
does work not have a spare power cord? if it's anything like here there's a rack of the things just lying there getting tangled up.
but, yes, tower pc cords are much of a muchness, they are all the same.
― koogs, Friday, 15 July 2016 08:36 (eight years ago) link
we have so many dozens and dozens extra lying around. your work might have spares! But yes, any old one will do; the only difference will be in the materials and the build quality.
― sexy dander (Stevie D(eux)), Friday, 15 July 2016 13:06 (eight years ago) link
thx i will ask at work !
― qualx, Saturday, 16 July 2016 07:28 (eight years ago) link
Hello. I've had so many computer issues in the last year. I'm determined to try everything before shelling out on a new laptop.
It's a K53e Asus, not the newest machine but up until last year it ran pretty well. I moved house and shortly afterwards the HDD failed and it wouldn't boot up. I managed to transfer everything to a new SSD, expecting everything to be a lot better. There was no got the computer working again, but no noticeable difference in speed despite the better hard drive. In fact I noticed it operated a little slower.
Since then it's got worse and worse Memory/RAM was maxed out, as was CPU so I upgraded to 8GB RAM. Still just as slow. Still got noticeable audio dropouts when playing music and browsing through Google Chrome etc. Propellerhead Reason (a music package I use) was rendered basically useless and unable to handle much more than a couple of tracks before conking out. Memory is down, but CPU is still maxed simply using Chrome. Otherwise there are peaks that occur frequently but in no pattern.
I cleaned the fan (had to take the whole laptop to pieces cos the fan is located right inside the thing) last night, but no difference.
Thinking I'm gonna try reinstalling Windows once again. My only guess is that this is a virus and it's eating up my CPU. If that doesn't work, I don't know what will. Any suggestions?
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 11:41 (seven years ago) link
What cpu
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 11:52 (seven years ago) link
as in what spec? I'm not technical enough to know. it's an i5 processor. https://www.asus.com/Notebooks/K53E/specifications/
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 12:07 (seven years ago) link
What's using all the CPU? What does task manager say?
― koogs, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 13:10 (seven years ago) link
SVCHost and Google Chrome (when I boot it up)
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 13:20 (seven years ago) link
you can try ProcessExplorer to figure out what is actually using all the CPU (SVCHost is basically just what is used to run windows services, a bunch of which are running that you probably don't need). I found what looks like a pretty good guide to tracking down what is causing SVCHost high CPU usage here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-performance/abnormally-high-cpu-usage-from-svchostexe-solved/eb38d25d-6bb2-47cd-80f2-5389c62337be?auth=1
As for chrome, there is a chrome task manager (just hit shift + escape, when in Chrome) that should tell is actually using all the CPU. It could be just some random extension that you installed, which is slowing everything down.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 20 September 2016 15:57 (seven years ago) link
thanks silverfish
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link
Does restoring my hard drive from my Time Machine drive in Disk Utility work the same as doing it from Recovery Mode?
― WmC, Monday, 5 December 2016 22:20 (seven years ago) link
Or am I just making an unbootable clone of my Time Machine disc?
― WmC, Monday, 5 December 2016 22:23 (seven years ago) link
Been tearing my hair out with a computer problem. It's a long shot, but I've looked everywhere and I wonder if ILX can help?Basically I reloaded Windows 7 a few weeks back and I can't install updates. Windows Defender just starts and hangs and takes forever. Same as Windows Update, just keeps going and never gets anywhere. If I try to manually install an update, guess what? Windows Update Standalone Installer just goes round and round and round.
It's driving me nuts. Any clues? I've looked everywhere but nothing I read seems straightforward or knowledgeable of this particular issue.
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 00:37 (seven years ago) link
Not a regular poster here but I've seen something like this before - sometimes that issue can happen if your hard drive is over 700gb. If that is the case then try updating the 'Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver', reboot and see if the problem persists. Not a guaranteed fix but worth a punt.
― challop, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 09:58 (seven years ago) link
also possibly worth clearing out the update cache and trying again?
http://ccm.net/faq/2471-how-to-purge-the-windows-update-cache
― Fluffy Saint-Bernard (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 14:39 (seven years ago) link
WmC from what I know of Disk Utility Restore, it just creates a duplicate of the source drive -- so yeah, I'd think you'd end up with an unbootable clone. Is there some reason you can't do it from Recovery Mode?
― early rejecter, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:54 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I got it so bollixed up that in Recovery Mode it wouldn't even recognize a hard disk. Took it in to the shop, they performed their magic and installed Sierra, then I restored from Time Machine.
― aaaaaaaauuuuuuuuu (melting robot) (WilliamC), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 17:48 (seven years ago) link
I have a newish Dell laptop, good specs, running Windows 10, that has become, for all intents and purposed, unusable. Writing that sentence took 3 minutes and involved opening a different browser just to get it done. I run panda scans, malwarebytes scanse, and spybot scans, and nothing comes up. I check Task Manager and nothing suspicious, just says Firefox is consuming tons of resources as usual.
I am embarrissingly bad with computers, and simply do not know what to do. I guess I'd System Restore but have not consciously ever set a restore point, so I don't know if that's an option. I've disabled everything I can in the startup menu. Run Decrapifyers and Reg cleaners. Nothing works.
One thing I haven't done is quit Firefox and moved to Chrome, because I can't get my bookmark situation the way I want it in Chrome. Also, I suspect this would not be the cure anyway.
Can you reach a point where all is lost and it's time to buy a new machine, or reinstall your O/S (something I don't know how to do even though I did create the suggested backup something-or-other onto a 16GB thumb drive when I got the laptop).
I am amazed computers aren't any better at diagnosing and fixing themseleves, unless this is planned obsolescence staring me in the face.
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 05:26 (seven years ago) link
try https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/refresh-firefox-reset-add-ons-and-settings
― just another (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 07:06 (seven years ago) link
I am speechless. I refreshed per your link and I'm running smooth as silk. I can't believe it! I was shopping new computers. Well... thank you diamonddave85!
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 08:06 (seven years ago) link
awesome!
― just another (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 18 January 2017 15:12 (seven years ago) link
Thread delivers.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 January 2017 16:03 (seven years ago) link
What is the presumed subject and appropriate conjugation of a verb in a github commit message?
― youn, Tuesday, 1 August 2017 23:46 (seven years ago) link
a commit should finish the sentence "if applied this commit will..."
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
tpope otm http://tbaggery.com/2008/04/19/a-note-about-git-commit-messages.html