SATA III SSD downward compatible?
I have two questions: I have an old motherboard with SATA I slots. Could I mount and SSD SATA III? Is the hard drive downward compatible with SATA I slot? I wouldn't buy an SSD just to find out the answer is "no"... If I will co ect an SSD SATA II or III (via an adapter) to the IDE slot, is there a ...
Windows 10 Virtual Machine (VirtualBox) On Windows Vista
Currently, I have an iso file for Windows 10 Pro Core 64-bit and 32-bit. I am trying to set up a Windows 10 VM on a Windows Vista host (don't ask why, long story). However, I keep getting a hardware acceleration error message about Vt-x not available on the machine. I clicked continue, and the bootu...
Update notifications for opensource software?
I'm using Ubuntu as my main desktop OS at the moment.Unfortunately I sometimes need newer version of libraries or applications than available in the repositories via apt-get.Therefor I compile them myself e.g. from their Github repositories.The problem is that sometimes I want to keep these librarie...
Excel formula, If/and/or
It is not clear what you exactly want, as there is a whole cross product of possibilities: C6 could be <8, or <=16 or (between 16 and 17 or) >17, and C7 could be <6, or <=12 or (between 12 and 13 or) >13. Each of the four options of for C6 can be combined with each of the four options of C7, resulti...
Adding path delimiter on autocomplete in Windows cmd
In the Terminal on OSX, when you press Tab to autocomplete a directory name, a / delimiter gets added for you, so you can immediately type your next entry. Is there a way to have the same behavior with in the Windows default command prompt? Autocomplete is there by default, but I need to manually ty...
Running out of space installing .Net Framwork on a thin client
In my case I was upgrading a HP T5740e 2G/2G from 4.0 to 4.6.1 so some of my steps are particular to the thin client environment. This method moves the installer files to one thumb drive and verifies them to another so you are not using up the severely limited space on your DOM while trying to insta...
Laptop screen turned mostly pink
My Samsung laptop NP300E5A was just sitting on my desk when the screen suddenly tu ed to this: I hooked up a projector to the VGA port and everything looked fine on the projector - it's just messed up on my screen. I've also tried shutting down and letting everything cool before restarting to no ava...
Trouble connecting Dell E6420 to 27" Korean Monitor
First time posting so please forgive my ignorance on this hardware issue. TL;DR I can't figure out if the issue is due to graphics card incompatibility or because of choice of co ecting cables. I have recently received a beautiful 27" Crossover 27Q display from Korea and was having some issues co ec...
McAfee Virusscan 8.8 - Access Protection component test
I'm working in an enterprise where we have to actively roll back McAfee Endpoint Security 10.1 to Virusscan 8.8 and related components. This question is about the Access Protection component that goes with Virusscan 8.8. There is apparently no way, by command, to disable Access Protection if managed...
Black screen right before the login screen in Windows 7
right when I resumes my computer from hibe ation, it decides to install updates. I let it do that. So when it restarts by itself, the computer does the Windows 7 Starting Windows screen then transitions to a black screen with a cursor. Normally it stays like that for 0.3 seconds then moves on to the...
windows 8.1 - two minute without network after boot
I have noticed (without being able to determine when it started) that on a Windows 8.1 Pro with default, unmodified system settings, the system does not have network configured when the system reaches logon screen. This takes exactly two minutes after each boot, then on the right side I can view the...