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To speed up YouTube, it would be handy to redirect the /watch?v= url over to /embed/ with 2 menu items to access both when you need to browse or comment and see a single link. The opening time is reduced dramatically and there is less contunuous CPU usage. It seems ot also not show as many advertisements. With normal video codecs, most of the CPU is spent drawing the page in New Moon.

You can't put the switch as the first device because you only get one IP address, and the router's job is to unify the computers behind it through it. The switch could act as a repeater between the modem and the router, but you can't plug anything into its other ports. You could extend the network cable and place the router elsewhere in the house or get another router to serve as an access point (the softwre configuration is a bit complicated with this).

The program "ForceTrim" creates a file across the free space (as known by the operating system) and then deletes it. It expects Windows 7 to then send a trim for all sectors belonging to this file. This works if Windows 7 normally does it for your drive (with a different driver than you have now in XP). You could run it after a significant number of files have been changed, once a month or so. I've tested it by writing some data onto an empty sector with WinHex, and it disappeared after a few seconds.

Can a program stop Windows from writing to the disk while it is working? What if it finds free space, then the system puts some files there, and a moment later a trim is sent to delete the new files. Usually various low level disk utilities require the disk to be unmounted to work. On Win7 when trim is working, deleted files immediately appear as 00 00 and cannot be recovered. Maybe you could install NT6 in dual boot, and occcasionally run ForceTrim from there.

People seem to vote for controversial claims, sometimes very expressively laid out with ranting, to which they agree. On modern forums where the thread itself gets voted for, I feel discourage to make a post because the opinion of the crowd is difficult to predict. It is a social suicide to make an unpopular claim, even if it is articulated calmly. I usually don't bother to open a heavy website to press the like button. Sometimes I do it to acknowledge that I've read what the other person had to say, but don't have anything further to add.

Access the the USB disk with a hex editor like WinHex and see if you can interpret its contents. If so, then you can image it and recover the files.

GTX 750 Ti is a decent entry level video adapter for a general purpose PC when you're looking for playing "legacy" games only or watching videos in h.264 format. It is quiet with very low idle power consumption, which is important these days, and requires at most one 6-pin 12V plug. It does not have a h.265 decoder, for which you'd need Maxwell 2, but those are much more power hungry. One more thing to keep in mind that 9xx were the last cards with a VGA port. Anything described as a "gaming" computer usually requires the latest stuff of the day. I think you will able to run basic 6-8 year old games with zero anti-aliasing in HD with a GTX 750.

Many Internet forums now operate the extremely heavy, new generation "Discourse" engine. Old browsers including New Moon receive a read-only compatibility version, which is completely unusable. It may be "clean and modern" and completely crippled. The page extends below the screen, and there is no apparent way to scroll it at all. Disabling JavaScript doesn't do it. I just found out that appending ?_escaped_fragment_ (or &_escaped_fragment_ ) to the URL makes the page scrollable normally. It's perplexing why Discourse doesn't work like this by default. For example, https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-are-people-feeling-about-discourse/926428?_escaped_fragment_

It was simpler than I expected. There is a 32-bit identifier at 01B8h in sector 0. After the new disk was mounted by Windows for creating the third partition, a new ID was generated for it. The solution was to write the old ID there and reboot without making more changes to the disk. To make the edit to the boot sector persist, I used Bootice. I was also mistaken about BCD editing not working outside Windows 7. I confused it with UEFI. It does work, but was not needed. All drive letters remain the same.

I cloned with WinHex by selecting sectors from 0 to the end of the second partition. But it's a simple direct copy, so other tools could do the same. Having the OS partitions of minimal size makes this part easy. I want to replace a 128GB SSD with 512GB to have more space for programs and games, but now got demotivated.

I've cloned my system disk to a larger drive. The new drive won't boot. Apparently I need to convince the OS that the drive partitions are the same. The cloned volumes are exact same size with same serial numbers. I recall I need to go into the registry and edit DosDevices. What complicates the setup is that I have Windows 2008 R2 with its new complicated BCD bootloader. I'm posting here because the problem is mainly with NT6 that I know little about. I can only edit the BCD while having booted into Windows 7 (not from a boot CD) with BOOTICE, and it refers to different drive letters of the current system. I do not want to edit the present system with Microsoft tools, but the cloned one. The new disk is currently connected to a secondary SATA controller. I don't know if it matters to how the BCD sees it. • Partition 0 4GB: BCD boot loader, Windows 2003 SP2; C: for NT5, B: for NT6 • Partition 1 24GB: Windows 2008 R2; C: for NT6, B: for NT5 Neither of these would boot with a message from the BCD boot loader. The NT5 is never loaded. What steps do I need to perform to complete the clone?

Yes, I can boot off the older Data Traveller 2GB.

I found a Kingston Data Traveller 2.0 2GB. It works and shows up in the list of connected hard disks. I doubt that the size is the key issue here because I previously used a hard disk in an enclosure to boot Windows and special programs with this computer at work. I suspect the difference might be that the new USB stick is USB 3.0 (which it doesn't need to be) and the old is not. I did update the BIOS before I changed the CPU. Booting previously worked with stock BIOS. Those numbers 6.00PG don't change with updating. Pentium 4 computers always have 6.00 and Pentium II have 4.50 or 4.51.

The motherboard is GA-965G-DS3. In the F12 boot menu it shows the same categories that can be selected in setup: Floppy, Hard Disk, USB-HDD, CDROM. It does not list specific disks. Choosing USB-HDD from the boot menu still doesn't work. The USB stick is 16GB. I will have to find another that is smaller later. The BIOS looks like this, except missing are the USB-HDD0:... entries in that menu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29qV5xXh09A Normally I don't mind waiting extra 20s on boot, but when troubleshooting I need to go through the Intel AHCI screen again and again. Disks also lose staggered spinup, because they get powered on immeidately on the Energy Star screen.

What do I need to do to boot from a USB drive on Award BIOS v6.00PG? The computer is from around 2007. I've little experience with booting from USB. In boot device options I have USB-ZIP, USB-FDD, USB-HDD. Tried Legacy USB Storage Detect: Enabled; tried disabling AHCI and Native mode. The USB stick does not appear in the list of Hard Disk Boot Priority, as I've seen on other instructions. Only SCSI HDD are there and an item called Bootable Add-in Cards (tried that). I made the Kingston Data Traveller 111 with Universal USB Installer and SARDU. It contains one FAT32 partition, syslinux and GRLDR. Perhaps this is too complex, but ultimately I need this to be useful instead of something like a DOS diskette. The system didn't show any signs of reading from the USB. PS. The Intel AHCI BIOS has an annoying massive delay while it waits for hard disks to become ready.

I see it in View->Settings. By default they are sized to logarithmic scale. The partition is completely invisible to the Disk Manager. I feel like it's a waste. It would be cool if that space could be loaded with DOS utilities, which can't access any other NTFS disk, but it seems to serve no purpose at all. Is 4TB "small" already?

I had two ST 250 GB PATA drives fail after a few years, with either weak heads or debris inside. They are only slightly older model than the 320 G. Clearly anecdotal experience with one doesn't apply to the other. New drives since 2012 or so have a built in function to park their heads after a short period of idle time. This normally only happens when power is removed. The drive might accumulate tens of thosuands of head parking cycles during normal use (S.m.a.r.t C1). This could be disabled by changing the advanced power management (APM) value using a procedure that applies a DCO and inadvertently also saves the APM value. On the most recent models this doesn't work. One must use Seagate OpenSeaChest utility (requires NT 6.1 or making Linux boot disk). I am still puzzled by he hours counter. Would be good to hear if anyone has it at greater than 66,000.

Some of the GT 710 and GT 730 are Kepler cores. These are the ones people had troubles with in old computers. You can see they have a greater number of cuda units than the older GF. https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-710.c3027 https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gt-730.c1988 I initially wanted the cheapest upgrade but later changed my mind, and maybe side-stepped the problem by selecting Maxwell. I've changed the title.

This program worked. I enjoyed reading the extensive knowledge base on rodsbooks.com. In one section it mentioned not partitioning a disk as an option for large disks. Is it possible to have a filesystem on a disk in Windows without a partition table?

I have a 4TB disk and want to create one partition spanning the whole disk. If I go to Disk Management and do Initialize Disk, Convert to GUID Partition Table, Format, it also creates a hidden Microsoft Reserved Partition of 128 MB. I tried formatting the disk with BOOTICE. While the partition mounts and is visible in explorer intially, it is invisible to Disk Management, and doesn't work after a reboot. The disk is shown as uninitialized again. Is it possible to format this disk without the hidden partition? I previously formatted with BOOTICE just fine, but it is the first time I need to use the GUID format because the disk is too big. Server 2003.

Maybe because the disks have been running continuously with few power cycles.

What could have caused the power-on hours on both my ST2000VX000 and ST2000VN000 to either reset or roll over? They now show 1855 and 322 hours respectively. Since the values are not equal, it seems that the counters have overflowed. Could they really be limited to 16 bits? The worst percentage of the life reads 11, and current as 98/100, meaning the disks are almost new. I haven't made any low level tweaks to any HDD in the system. I don't think erasing SMART is even possible with normal software. 09 _98 _11 __0 00000000073F Power-On Hours 09 100 _11 __0 000000000142 Power-On Hours In the mean time, ST3320620AS have worked for 129,102 and 127,032 hours.

How is this version of Remote Desktop better compard to what Server 2003 already has?

I think that a FTP file server is the most universal tool compared to specialized cables or wireless transmitters. All devices today have a network interface. You can connect computers of vastly different generations. The application and driver talking over a USB cable or BlueTooth would require OS version from around when it was written, and you might end up with a situation where one is too old or the other is too young. As the server, I like to use FileZilla Server. For WinXP you need an old version around 0.9.23. Even older exists for Win98. The author seems obsessed with the latest technology and only supports new Windows with SSL encryption now. In germany everyone has a computer from space. You should avoid copying many small files with FTP.

The multi-processor mode should be added to about:preferences with a checkbox or slider for the number of processes. When I install the browser onto another computer, I would like to enable it without searching the Web for the variable names. Currently, configuring the browser is a very involved process. After some time, you forget the tweaks you're relying upon. Update to the latest Serpent in-place gone well, all settings retained. I've heard the opposite: that you needed a good computer to use multi-process, but it is actually very helpful with a "slow" CPU. I'll be damned top of the line Core Duo is now "slow". The case where multi-process can't help is when I want to click on a control on a page. For example, I want to stop a video playing, to load the rest of the page, and not rob resources from the process. The settings should have a human-readable checkbox for "automatically play media".