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You ask “Can Adobe get any more annoying?”. The answer is a resounding YES.

When I installed Lightroom, Photoshop and Creative Cloud on my MacBook Pro the CPU utilitzation jumped. So much so that my battery was draining in 5 hours or less. It turns out that some application that was running constantly and consuming all the CPU cycles it could find.

I traced down the offending application. The application was installed by Adobe. I removed the application from the system. No more problems with battery draining or CPU maxed out. Does Adobe even test their own crap? Yeh, I know, silly question.

Adobe installs tends to take over a system and consider itself the only application the user should be running. Adobe is at times like a cancer. It spreads fast. It can be cured but takes significant effort. Adobe will continue this pattern and will find ways to make it worse.

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IT Manager Geek, Myst, bwsantana, rc primak, DLivesInTexas, analytic

Greg wrote:

no command line nor GUI steps necessary

The control panel is the GUI.

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rc primak

CraigSH wrote:

They are running windows 3.0 and windows 95

I read that Southwest Airlines was running Windows for Workgroups 3.1. Windows 95 and Windows 3.0 did not have networking unless significant add-ons were installed.

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rc primak

Alex5723 wrote:

I will agree. A house hold may have 2-3 PCs, 2-3 smartphones, tablets, streaming devices/smart Tvs.. Internet speed matters.

OK. I have four PCs, three internet connected printers, three smart TVs, two smart phones, three tablets, 12 smart plugs and switches, six security cameras, two Apple TVs, and two smart watches. Half a dozen people in the house at one time including guests with devices of their own. No one complained or noticed any speed problems.

When monitoring the speed on my mesh router network the downstream traffic rarely hits about 30 Mbps. Upstream is even less. Downloads are restricted to the offering server and their load, not my internet speed.

Rather than having high download speed I would rather have symmetrical speed as I upload a lot of images to a private website.

In my opinion fast internet speeds are only marketing gimmicks and if the truth were really known, 200 Mbps is more than enough for all but a few households.

Dropping my speed from 800 Mbps to 150 Mbps saves me $40.00 a month, $480.00 a year (plus tax). That is substantial savings for no real noticeable degradation in performance.

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ibe98765, rc primak

In the article you state “Get the fastest Internet connection you can afford.” I will disagree. Get the fastest internet you need, not afford.

I dropped my internet speed from 800 Mbps to 150 Mbps. I have noticed no difference in anything that I do. A full 4K stream can be done at 25 Mbps, well within the 150 Mbps, which support four streams easily.

Most downloads and web pages are restricted by the server, not the recipient’s bandwidth. For a household to require 800 Mbps is generally unreasonable.

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ibe98765, rc primak, windbg

The download linked to in the email, at Oldergeeks.com, will fail. It is necessary to go to Hirens site directly to get the correct file.

The program has some serious shortcomings. What can one expect for free? Just don’t tout this program as the wonder of wonders that you claim.

Example: The program does not properly identify the socket in my system stating just “CPUSocket”. Well, duh.

Example: One of the disk drives shows a queue depth of 31 when the drive is not even being accessed.

Example: Only one of my monitors is displayed, the secondary monitor. The primary does not exist according to the program.

Example: Up time shows 3 days and 10+ hours when the machine was booted this morning about 12 hours ago.

Example: Closing the program produces a run time error 216 at 001286D2

The program is not ready for prime time. Pick something else, something that works, to be your spotlight program

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Cybertooth, Andy M

Oh, they can still fine you. The question becomes will you pay? By linking only to a credit card, no bank account, you can dispute the transaction with the credit card company. Otherwise, don’t link any account to PayPal. You can never be forced to pay the fine as PayPal is not an entity that can impose legal fines. Only courts can assess fines. Tell PayPal to put any “fines” where the sun never shines.

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rc primak, Interstate90

In your article you state “a new option called “Install System and Data Files”. No, the option is “Security Responses and System Files”.

The option is found at “Settings | General | Software Update | Automatic Updates”.

You failed to provide the complete path to the setting.

Your statement:

If, say, you change from Comcast to Verizon, you’ll lose the comcast.net address. The switch will be costly for you and confusing for your customers.

Is not true. Even after leaving Comcast (Xfinity) the use of the email is still allowed. Comcast does not deny access to the email address.

The other side of the coin? How long will Comcast be generous before they discontinue the use of the email address? No one knows, not even Comcast.

Popular services include G Suite (Google),

Is now called Google Workspace, not G Suite.

Good information on setting up a web presence. Thanks for the information.

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Will Fastie

I would not use a mixture of fans (in and out) as you may be wasting fans if the in and out don’t have the same total capacity. I would use out only fans and let the case vents do the rest.

I am not concerned. There is more than enough airflow through the case. Having all the fans blowing out and pulling air through the case vents is really no difference than having some blow out and a few blow inward. The fans blowing inward are only assisting what would be coming in from the case vents.

I want the water cooler radiator fans blowing out to avoid putting warm air into the case. Others have claimed those fans should blow into the case to get cooler air in the radiator. Others have said all fans should blow into the case to force hot air out.

There is no waste of fans as three fans came with the case. Power supply has it’s own fan, the AIO radiator has it’s own fans. There are two fans on the video card. The fans on the case and radiator are 140 mm fans that move a lot of air at lower speed.

As configured the airflow is through the case, front to back. Keeps all the passive coolers cool. None are even warm to the touch.

With an air cooled CPU that hot CPU heat stays in the case and needs to be exhausted. With water cooling that CPU heat is immediately removed and is never introduced into case. That alone makes case airflow less of an issue.

To each their own, find what works.

Call me crazy – I just have this thing about liquids inside my PC

OK, you’re crazy, well not really. An opening has to be taken.

I was hesitant about water, or liquid, inside a computer case. Fittings and connections that can leak, etc. But after getting an AIO cooler for my latest build I am converted. My old system had a larger Cooler Master air cooler, big sucker, took up a lot of room, difficult to work around.

The AIO cooler is small, takes up little room and easy to work around. The radiator can mount on the top, back or front of the case as the case is designed for water cooling. Many new cases have that option. Two hoses with factory installed and sealed connections. I expect the connections to outlast me.

I was significantly impressed by the quiet, complete lack of noise. The radiator fans are designed to be quiet, and they are. One connection to the MB for the pump and both fans. My case also has two fans blowing in, one fan blowing out, radiator fans blowing out, PS fan blowing out. All those fans are designed to be very quiet, and they are.

Once a person has water cooled it is tough to go back to fan cooling. Your current fan sits on top of the RAM, my cooler does even come close to the RAM. You can move the one fan up by moving to different spots on the thermal pipe heat sinks. That reduces the effectiveness as some of the airflow is bypassed over the top of the cooler.

The biggest downside to water cooling is cost. It is more expensive as there are more parts involved.

To each their own. Build what you like the way you like. My advice ain’t worth what you paid for it, nothing.

Yes, I really was operating that steam locomotive in my avatar. Awesome experience.

I remember back in the days of DOS. To use a CD drive it was necessary to use drivers located on, you guessed it, the CD. Work arounds involved using floppies. That such problems still exist is a slap to the industry.

First thing I do when building a system is to get the network working. In today’s environment that generally involves using USB. I do not concern myself with any other driver issues. Once the network is working I then update the rest of the drivers. Generally seems to work.

I built one system that the USB did not work at all without drivers. I had to get the USB drivers from the vendor site using another computer, burn to a CD, temporarily install a SATA DVD drive. Unacceptable in today’s environment.

I also read your information on building a new system. I question the use of air cooling rather than water cooling. The water cooler block is much smaller and easier to install on the CPU with no clearance issues. Water cooling is very quiet. In my system I cannot hear any sounds. Even maxing out my I9 11900 at 100% for over 30 minutes the fans (two fan radiator) were still inaudible, and the CPU temperature never exceeded 85C. Water cooling, in my opinion, is the way to go for quiet operation.

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Will Fastie

Makes sense on the digital license, which mine is. I installed with an actual key for WIN10 and apparently MS converted that to a digital license.

However the article states:

Win10 offers a built-in method to reveal any PC’s license key — no third-party software needed!

Which is not entirely true (emphasis mine). The author should have been more specific in the statement. Stating that key retrieval only works for non-digital license PCs.

[RayT]

I really have to wonder what is so important on a drive used in a personal computer that simply drilling through the platter(s) would not be sufficient. No one is going to spend thousands of dollars and multiple hours trying to recover data from a platter with hole to recover a Facebook password. Difficult to recover data from a platter that will not spin due to the imbalance. Doing the same destruction a SSD is the same logic. Although SSDs are easy to crumble.

Critical places, such as healthcare have regulations requiring more thorough destruction. Even then I wonder why anyone would expend any effort to gain access to an MRI of someone they do not even know.

Government agencies, as in any 3 letter combination would require complete destruction, as in tiny pieces. Many contractors working on government contracts would also have complete destruction requirements.

For the home user, a simple hole, then out with the garbage is sufficient.

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