Not buying these things again. You must use the OEM’s Windows 8.1 build or you get shit breaking and all that. Not fun at all. YouTube video with my Australian voice below.
Atom-powered knock off Intel PC Sticks. Avoid.
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Compaq Presario 4220 – Booting at the speed of 166Mhz per hour
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Almost fully recovered from a very nasty cold that hit me like a truck and was feeling a little retro, so enjoy a video of my Compaq Presario 4220 booting up. It’s been 6 months since I last uploaded anything to YouTube?! Wow.
Adware in Software Installers – Quick Thoughts
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Adware. Software designed to try to pop up and mess with your normal computer activity, and/or inject advertisements at random intervals, or when told to do so by a master server. Some applications I use like the cleaning software from Wise and ImgBurn now come with annoying “offers” that the author is trying to make some…
Windows To Go: Actually, it’s not too bad
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Just thought I’d throw it out there and comment on my experiences of running Windows 8.1 from a USB Hard Disk. The USB Hard Disk is a WD Elements Basic that supports USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed). Using GImageX, I deployed a vanilla copy of Windows 8.1 Professional – which was actually a hackish way of doing…
Howto: Rescue Windows 10 from a Hibernation Loop in 7 Steps
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I had to rescue a Windows 10 laptop that somehow got stuck into a hibernation loop, where it would hibernate and instead of it resuming normally from disk, it would resume and then go back into hibernation mode. Windows 7 or 8.1 doesn’t suffer from this, so it’s a Windows 10 quirk. The Windows 10…