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...and it's forecast to be warmer tomorrow.....

First off, here's my (pretty old now) spec... Case COOLERMASTER CM690 III ADVANCED CASE (GREEN) Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700 (3.4GHz) 8MB Cache Motherboard ASUS® Z170-E: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs Memory (RAM) 16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB Kit)...

Rudy (our basset hound) wanted to walk round the (seawater) lake here in town. What does your morning dog walk look like?

....is having to fix a friend's low-end laptop. :censored: A very good friend has an oldish HP laptop that's running (if you can call it that) Windows 10. She brought it round yesterday complaining that her 'Windows has reached end of service' and can't be upgraded. Be kind, she really doesn't...

Download it from https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10

Sky News online this morning carried a report about crimes that are committed at weddings. As one might expect, many of these are the result of arguments and fights but there was one particularly heinous crime that caught my attention... What a sad example of the current obsession with social...

The replacement new HDD for the one that I was having SMART issues with in this thread https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/curious-s-m-a-r-t-issue.81326/ has arrived and been installed and tested. The old HDD has sensitive data on it and so before disposing of it in the bin I decided...

I keep a fairly regular check on the SMART data on my drives to try and predict failures ahead of time. A couple of days ago I came across something unusual which I thought might be worth sharing to see whether any SMART people (see what I did there?) might know more than I about what might be...

I use iCUE (currently 3.38.61) to control the RGB on my K70 Mk II keyboard (and nothing else). The iCUE app says there are no updates available but the Corsair site says that my K70 Mk II is compatible with iCUE 4 (latest version 4.10.273). What do the experts think, should I install 4.10.273...

As part of an audit I did recently on my PC to ensure that I wasn't sending any telemetry data to Microsoft that I wasn't comfortable with (and that's easy to do in Windows by the way, it doesn't require a third party tool) I came across Windows Push Notifications, they're part of the Windows...

One of the things I see a lot in the builds that people spec up on here is a tendency to over-specify RAM. Now don't get me wrong, that's a good thing. RAM is a resource that you absolutely have to have enough of, running short of RAM is a total performance disaster. Ensuring that you specify...

It's been decades since I completed my OU degree coursework and got my BSc but I started back in the early 1980's with the Science Foundation course. For me it was a kind of sampler to enable me to see whether the OU and its teaching methods suited me. I chose the Science Foundation course...

Exactly 200 years ago today (March 25th 1821) the uprising took place that would become the Greek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire. March 25th has been the Greek National Day ever since. Today of course is the bicentennial of the start of the war and had it not been for COVID there...

I've come across the Intel System Support Utility (SSU), a tool which I'd not seen before. As the name implies it's designed primarily for submitting data to Intel when you're having problems, it basically collects all the data about your system (much like msinfo32 does) but you don't have to...

The flight sim fans on here might find this interesting?

It is not the case on these forums that only the moderators are the 'technical experts', there are many other members who are very knowledgeable and experienced and who make a valuable contribution. It can be difficult, for new members in particular, to identify who these trustworthy members...

It is not the case on these forums that only the moderators are the 'technical experts', there are many other members who are very knowledgeable and experienced and who make a valuable contribution. It can be difficult, for new members in particular, to identify who these trustworthy members...

It is not the case on these forums that only the moderators are the 'technical experts', there are many other members who are very knowledgeable and experienced and who make a valuable contribution. It can be difficult, for new members in particular, to identify who these trustworthy members...