The title is a bit misleading, but I cannot think of a better one. See the following example to explain what I want: Under Windows 7, the current User I am using is a "Computer Administrator" account. After updating to Windows 10, the account type of my current User is still "Administrator". Let's s...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] I have piriform speccy and cpu-z and they both show i have 800 mhz ram but win task manager shows 1600 mhz speed...you might think it is supported speed but nop, its just speed.why is that?

4 days ago I brought a new Toshiba 1 TB HDD. I have installed windows 7 on this with a 100 GB partition on it. I also created 3 more partition on it which are 200 GB, 100 GB, 100 GB respectively. I keep remaining space unallocated. Yesterday I was wondering to create 2 more partition. So I open Ease...

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I'd like to use Keepass 2 to store my Microsoft account's password, however as the Windows sign in password is tied to the Microsoft account it would be impossible to sign in to my computer. One possible alte ative is to setup a pin, picture or other means to sign in but if I reinstall my Windows I ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] I am using iTerm2 and attach to a ssh TMUX session as "ssh -YCt ssh_server tmux a". Now how could I select and copy the content in the terminal? I can't select with mouse.

I am using Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500 GB. Instead of installing a fresh copy of Windows 10 on it, an old image of the OS created from an old HHD was used I am worried this may affect the performance/age of the SSD. Which I understood is made to run on 4k bytes per sector. screenshots are on my laptop n...

I want to use distributed computing in the cloud to deal with big data for data science competitions (Kaggle). What are my options for distributed computing software? So far I know of Apache Spark, Hadoop, and MATLAB. Are there any others I'm not aware of? As a side question, which one is most likel...

I'm coming from using plain old RSA with OpenSSL for all my asymmetric encryption needs, which I lea ed fairly well, but I'm having a bit of a hard time wrapping my head around the OpenPGP protocol. Therefor, this is going to be a few questions. In my Debian box, using GPG, upon creation of a master...

Since the Windows 10 Anniversary update my WIFI keeps going into limited connectivity and loosing all networks at the same time. Disabling/enabling the card from device manager allows me to use it 5-20 minutes after rebooting. Every time I reboot it takes quite a long time before I get a BSOD with t...

I got a wifi extender, prolink at the start of this month. The speeds were much better on the extender, while I only got 2 bars from my router which is downstairs and constant connection drops and slow speeds. But now however my extenders speed is just slow, I get full bars however the speed is abou...

In my free time I like to program small to medium programs in C++. I am using an Ubuntu VM and QtCreator as IDE. Until yesterday I only programmed on my local home-PC. Now, I bought myself a laptop. I am looking for a way to synchronize the source code between my Home-PC and my laptop. That means th...

My title needs some elaboration. I don't want the "single webpage" option, as that creates an mht file In Microsoft Word, and while Chrome can open it, I see the Firefox has issues Here's the file as a docx https://we.tl/XN4V8w6flT or from ge.tt http://ge.tt/8r0iFNd2 though that can easily be create...

So as the title says, I bricked my laptop. I'm not that good at explaining but let me try. I reformatted my laptop and installed the drivers given by the acer support, driver and manual site. and noticed my speakers aren't working. I opened my laptop to check if the speakers are still okay or the pi...

I'm toying with the idea of creating a blog, registering for Google AdSense and put this on the blog. I may also create some additional blogs or websites later, and would like to add the same account's AdSense to those too. As it looks now, It's likely that the blog (and perhaps other blogs) will be...

I have the Windows 10 Anniversary update running on a domain managed network (Windows Server 2012 R2) which uses Folder Redirection and Roaming Profiles. When logged in and connected to the domain, several applications including the Store, Groove Music, Feedback hub will not sign into my Microsoft a...

Recently, I installed YouCompleteMe and I'm new user in it. I read installation instructions from this link: http://valloric.github.io/YouCompleteMe. Now, I can use it for python and etc, but I can't use it for C. I don't understand what's the meaning of this sentence from the link: "forget that if ...

I am writing to seek advice whether we can map a network drive without previously establishing a network among computers running Windows XP and 7. The network here refers to the local area network (LAN) or wireless local area network (WLAN) linked through a router. For these LAN and WLAN to be estab...

Yes, proof UPS,FEX ED, and etc all use them. QRcode are simple patte of binary values either a 1(black) or 0(white) and that is it. The squares can be bigger or smaller, but you still have a 2 digit alphabet. There are no different fonts,styles, or anything. Also because they are so uniform sizes ca...

I am trying to install a digital menu for a pizza restaurant for someone I know. But I have never done this before. I don't know how to do it right. I have made the necessary menus in Photoshop using a template of sorts. But I don't know how I should display them on the tv. Please suggest me either ...