I'm planning to put together a 4k pc gaming rig, in research stage. I'm really confused with the graphic cards. I was thinking of getting Asus GTX 980ti oc. Then I started researching Asus GTX 1070 oc. I'm confused because the 1070 in Canada is over $200 cheaper. I would have thought since the 980ti...

I have a pair of earbuds with a microphone that I would like to record with instead of the terrible inbuilt one. Unfortunately, when I plug it in it still uses the inbuilt one. The icon next to the jack indicates that it is speaker and microphone, and the end of my audio jack does have four rings. T...

I have a print server hosted on a separate domain and I need to give access to users from a different domain to the shared folder without asking them to authenticate. I tried enabling the Guest account and didn't work. I enabled a GPO to deploy the printer but for some reason it's not working. I'd l...

I've got an old laptop (Thinkpad T60, 32 bit, 7 years old) running Linux Mint, on which I'd like to install Windows as well. However, I can't get it to boot from the flash drive containing the Windows installation image: After writing the Windows installation image to the flash drive (dd if=win.iso ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] I guess i worded my first question on my profile wrong or was unclear about it, but I recently edited it and added comments to verify. Still on hold, can anyone inform me please.

Can someone please help me generate a list of people that hit their targets for different days, when they hit both of their targets a '2' will show in either the Y column or Z respective if they are early or late shift. i would like everyone that gets a 2 on their shift to be listed. Here is the Dat...

The startup priority in Windows is as follows, listed from first to start to last to start: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRunonce HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionPoliciesExplorerRun HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun HKEY_CUR...

I've been researching into Windows 10 recently. On the .ISO download page, one of the choices to make is which language you want Windows to be in. There are two English choices: English and English Inte ational. I have tried to find information on the difference between these, but to no avail. What ...

I've installed debian 7.1 to my USB stick. For some reasons, installer didn't ask me about grub location, and just installed it. Now, when I start laptop without usb I see grub resque mode ("Error: no such device: .... ") , when I start it with USB things go as supposed - I see menu and can boot to ...

After installing the Windows 10 anniversary update, my computer boots very slow. The first part of booting (bios, loading Windows) is as fast as it used to be, but after logging in I'm stuck on a black screen with just my cursor for over a minute before it seems to continue with the login. I made a ...

Few weeks back I tried tu ing on my old PC as I wanted to use it as a spare Television. After tu ing it on, I realized it was having blue screen problem, so I tried re-installing windows XP but installing in previous windows XP drive(C) failed as a result I installed windows in F drive. After succes...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] I can push and pull to repositories I've made from github, but how can I create a new repository from the PS cmd line?

I am running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and am using Vagrant to run a Ubuntu 14.04 Server with a LAMP stack setup. I am working on a Laravel 5.2 project, but constantly have issues with the permissions in the storage folder/sub-folders. Currently, the folders are owned by my user/group. Anytime some file need...

I just got a new laptop which is just 2 months old running Windows 10. Today when I checked the battery life the battery has wo down 9% which is like 4.5% per month, in this rate my battery would only last close to two years or less. What's the average wear rate of the laptop battery? I use the lapt...

I recently opened ~70+ Excel files all at one time (it was a massive data dump from a database which I was going to be locked out of in about 30 minutes, so I wanted to grab everything I could conceivably need). Unsurprisingly, my Excel crashed from the load. Upon restarting Excel, the Document Reco...

I'm getting the following error message: Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/mapper/veracrypt8': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibe ation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read...

I have a Dell Inspiron 15 laptop with factory-installed Windows 8, upgraded to Windows 8.1, and later to Windows 10. Since I have purchased a new computer, I decided to perform a factory reset on the laptop (using the Remove files and clean the drive option) in order to repurpose it. It reset flawle...

I'm signing up for a service that needs to verify my IP. I'm using an azure remote server and I'd like to keep using the service long-term. The problem is that if I want to make changes on the server and later need to reboot or re-size the vm I will lose my IP and get a new one. Is there away around...

I've been following this article (http://www.silentpcreview.com/article1498-page1.html). I'm new to most of it. I assume it is not an issue because Scythe Mugen is highly rated...I'm wondering how a heat-sink that weighs 650 grams attached to the motherboard will effect the board on the long run? Sp...

I have: A laptop with one USB3 port and a few USB2 ports A USB3 hub Two identical USB3 hard drives To transfer data between the two USB3 hard drives, what is the optimum arrangement? For example, I could connect both drives to the USB3 hub and transfer data, or I could plug one into the laptop's USB...