Recent content by aPanzerIV

Hello all, Corona virus has suspended my road warrior habits and inspired boredom, but thankfully I got a poor sod to leave the safety of their house for $10 in exchange for an incredibly terrible computer to tinker with. It's an ASUS X551M with a 1.86Ghz Intel Celeron N2815, 4gb of DDR3, and a...

I set it up a few years back in highschool. They had all of these pitiful boxes with 128-256mb ram that couldn't handle XP. One day I was rummaging through stuff that got donated and I found a motherboard with dual Opterons (unsure of the specs). Ended up setting it up on a cardboard box in our...

Hello all, I was helping out my school the other day with their improvised thin client setup, and I managed to snap this gem: Over eight and a half years of uptime, and no re-allocated sectors so I doubt its stopping anytime soon. Whats the highest amount of hours CF has seen on a drive?

Hello all, About a year and a half ago, I made this thread: http://www.computerforums.org/forums/cyber-safety-computer-security/antivirus-necessary-me-226788.html I started to question the necessity of antivirus for an average user, as even Avast! was getting quite bloated and somewhat...

I bought my second car back in November. It has 180k+ miles on it. Original owners never did a tune up, or anything other than oil changes. $500 and two weekends and she's all good now.

I have never heard or used WoT, but I'm pretty good at determining if a domain is iffy or not, or which download button is real (adblock + noscript helps!) Avast! had its own website trust bar thing in its browser toolbar or something. I never really paid attention to it. Got pissed and ended...

That would appear to be another issue. Avast! is the only AV I have ever used because every time I do research for something better, Avast! comes up as the most effective and lightest solution available. I have heard that Nod32 is lighter and still very effective, but appears to be paid only...

Make sure when you're buying your used vehicle that not only are you going to keep it well maintained, but that the previous owners also did so. Ask them for maintenance records if they took it to a dealership or if they wrote down when they did it themselves. A few things you can do yourself...

Ever since I have started working on computers, I have used Avast! Free Antivirus, and while my loadout of programs has changed over the years, my choice in antivirus has not. On my older systems, I've been searching for lighter versions of programs to run, as newer ones continue to bloat and...

I have gotten a ups from someone who said that it was making noise. It came with a new battery, but no data cable(so i cannot test this by hooking it to a pc). Upon plugging it in, a beep tone comes from the unit. After dissassembling it(way out of warranty), i found it has a buzzer inside, and...

Firefox 23 update has fixed this, its no longer acting clunky.

Tried that with windows firewall, did not work. I didn't have much other than the server on it, so I reinstalled. Had to call Microsoft because the wonderful 1 use product key, but its fixed and running now.

I've been using this pos toshiba laptop for a while now, looking at fixing a few plastics and keeping it, but I've found a problem when I play some games. The gpu core clock, which is 650 by default and goes to 1100mhz at turbo, stays at default, and thus, most of my games run like crap. Can I...

I'm not having a problem with that. This windows java application can't talk to the internet because I accidentally blocked it.

Getting real tired of this where no one replies for a week.