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Short question, HOW?!?!? Long question, I need a Windows 10 PC to auto login while signed in with a Microsoft account, WITH a work account attached since all the usual methods don't appear to work. Currently what happens is: a) If I set AutoAdminLogon + user/password in the registry, all those...

Bought WP16 to do this on a new machine and assumed I could use the standalone converter, couldn't find it, googled a bit more and found that it's been deprecated. What I'm trying to do is to migrate some regular ol' W10 Hyper-V VM's into Workstation 16 Pro on another machine. The exported...

Question: Does it need the wifi aerial to work? I have an old PC with this mobo that I'd like to connect a wireless keyboard to. I've got the wifi antenna detached because it broke and I don't use wifi on the PC - and while the "Bluetooth USB Module" and "Bluetooth Device" is detected in W10...

I need to VPN into a work network. Problem: They have the exact same internal network as I do. I figured "hey no problemo, I'll set up a VLAN with a totally different network on my switch / router so I can put a work laptop / desktop on it." Thing is, while I'm aware of the concept of a VLAN...

Now that I'm getting into video a bit, I'm mulling over rebuilding or rebuying my main media editing system sometime this year or maybe early next year. I'm looking to do editing on the unit with a sizeable portion of the still/moving library actually shadowed on the PC, so will be looking at...

So I came across something that appears to be well documented on this mobo - the 4 Asmedia USB3.0 ports on the motherboard failing. The Z87 as configured (with the Define XL case) has a total of 6 (2 intel, 4 Asmedia failed) USB3.0 ports at the rear and 2 (Intel) on the case front. The mobo...

i.e. one that puts the SATA ports at the same location as the HDD SAS connectors. Buying in UK. I have a few of the Icy Dock EZConvert MB882SP-1S-2B but it seems to me that the circuit board that's in there is not fully "transparent" - i.e. I get some odd results sometimes even if the drive is...

Recommendations please for a machine which hits all the following points: - A reasonable CPU (upper-mid HQ) - 8Gb RAM, upgradable to 16 at least - NVMe PCIe upgradable - whatever it ships with - DVD+-RW drive, Blu-ray not important - Gigabit Ethernet - AC wireless - 5.5lbs/2.5kgs or lighter -...

There's a Poweredge T410 that's sitting in one of our offices. It does exactly what we need out of it - but the access time could definitely be faster as there are a lot of different things going on with it. Currently it's running 4x 300Gb 15K SAS drives through a PERC H700A. It's running...

I'm wondering if all SATA SSD's can translate their performance backwards - i.e. if a 300MB/sec or 600MB/sec write SSD can run at 150MB/sec on a SATA1 interface, or if there are some performance penalties with backwards compatibility with some controllers that can make some run slower than the...

I hadn't used this PC a lot until recently and I've noticed a really annoying behaviour - the USB ports will disconnect and then reconnect. e.g. if I'm copying a large file like a VM image, it'll suddenly disconnect and then reconnect during the transfer, nixing it. Or I'm doing a large number...

I need to transfer important data from a couple of ancient servers (dual-Xeons circa 2006) which are in the process of being virtualised for the migration process, because the servers have already been unracked and we can't run them where they are during the migration - which due to the software...

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How do I control what apps appear where in a snap situation, especially when I snap the desktop as well? I'm really liking how I can pin Modern apps and Desktop on a multiscreen setup (and increasingly how Modern apps respond dynamically to how big the pins are), but practically speaking it's...

Wondering if there's any good way to do this, and also to have quicker-acting shortcuts for SMB shares in OS X in general. Suggestions?

Just bought a Raidsonic enclosure with a single 80mm fan. It's not that bad but the fan makes this sort of rattling 'punka-punka-grrrrrr' noise as it spins and I'd like to have a go at replacing it with something a) more balanced and b) quiet. The system does have variable fan speed adjustable...

In 27C ambient: What should it be in a properly (all air) cooled PC?

Question as title. I'd like to populate a 4-bay RAID DAS (USB3 / SATAIII) but since it's a desktop unit I'd like it to be quiet as well have plausibly reasonable performance. Suggestions please.

I've had a small number of failed PM830's from Dell systems (amazing how fast consumer SSD's degrade when you start thrashing them really hard) and while the problem was resolved fine each time through a drive exchange, I have a problem for what to do with the failing drives (all of which I can...

- Light office use in temperate environments. - AIO or desktop, but in case of latter please specify matching screen + peripherals - Available in EU - Must run Windows natively without any surreptitious cripplage (i.e. no Macs) Thanks.

I couldn't get the profile tuning to load on the site, gave up - perhaps it's a proxy issue (I use a hosted security service) but wouldn't work for me. If it works though it could be the answer to my prayers - a software-layer HRTF gaming solution that would mean I could use any of my...

So I've started getting a lot of freezes on the WHS I use most heavily - an HP X510 runing WHS V1. Yesterday, it froze again so I switched it off and turned it back on - and it will now freeze about 10 mins after startup. I get no disk-related errors, in fact no alerts before it stops responding...

I don't need a headset at home anymore as I've finally got around to treating my home office a little for undesirable acoustics, and also installing a broadcast-grade mic. So I'm looking to re-do what I used to do with the Elite Pro and the Fireface 800 in order to have a headphone / monitor...

For not-frequent portage of data between two places. Ultimate protection or vibration reduction through steel plate mounts, etc not a priority. Ideally an all-plastic case. USB2 interface. eSATA a bonus, but not necessary. Would be nice if PSU was also compact wallwart. Any ideas? Thanks.

If I specified a 512Gb SSD on the 17" Pros now what do I get? SATAII SSDs?

A G35 I use is toast - I dropped then ran over it with a chair. I'm looking for a replacement. Another one would be the easy answer but I thought heck, why not try something else released in the meanwhile. Things I like about the Logitech: - closed - provides meaningful isolation, unlike e.g...

What I'm looking for is something really simple, but maybe too niche to exist. Dedicated volume and mute buttons or knob (and ideally, a mic mute), ideally something that *isn't* multipurpose, i.e. has clearly labelled audio controls. Any suggestions? Just to clarify, I'm NOT looking for an...

Question as title. I'm looking for something ideally >400Gb but I see conflicting info in terms of what I can use.

Thanks to those who commented in the other thread. I've also spent a lot of time holding up existing mice to profile pics of other mice onscreen and I think I've arrived at a shortlist of two, but I'd like more options if they are available. So first of all, use - general purpose with quite a...

I realised the fatal mistake of sticking this in Genmay - among the self-described wits. So it's now here. I'm wondering what nits you might be picking with yours. I have this problem and I'm not 100% sure if it's a design, manufacturing or faulty issue - although you could put it down to...

I'm on the lookout for smaller high-performance mice and I'm wondering if there is a list out there of the major popular gaming mice with size listings.

I just spotted these recently. Seems similar in terms of market to the Filco's - but some sort of contactless key action?

Even the previous one, so I can gauge how much I can eke out of it. All too often on boards you see the fanboi runtimes (and this happens only with Apple, I notice) like "I get 8 hours out of my Air easy!". Most Apple-addled objectively-challenged reviewers also seem to measure by configuring...

... there's a way to get it with browns, is there? Or asking the question another way, is there a brown with backlight from anyone?

Hopefully brief Q. I'm helping out a business which has recently come out of 'hibernation'. Their Dell/HP IT gear is pre-crisis. My guys have tossed out all the pre-Core 2 Duo's, but it's still mainly 2007 stuff. It's all in pretty good shape though and after testing with a couple of X25-M's...

So I'm a little stuck for options now that HP seems to have bowed out of the WHS space. I have a few X510's (the SME equivalent of the EX495. Basically a fixed - highest for the 495 - spec instead of the EX495's variable) dotted around the place at the moment and since I'm looking to make the...

The Apple wireless keyboard has a) in line with the rest of their laptops, a godawful keyboard action and b) it's very clattery in use. However, I'm looking for something of a similar size with Bluetooth. I'm looking at the Microsoft Arc right now but I'm not entirely sure about that angle...

Hi I need a build recommendation on a general purpose PC, which can work for some element of my work needs and also for entertainment stuff - basically a main PC for home office use. I'm currently running an HP Z400 at home but I've quickly figured out that given what I'm looking now to stuff...

I've finally got a truly fat pipe between myself and my Exchange servers (located in a colo) and I'm wondering, given the giant mailboxes that I have, whether going for a RAID SSD setup isn't a better idea in terms of speed. However I have for example come across the garbage problems in...

I've run into a problem with restoring a Boot Camped machine. I have: - A Time Machine Backup. - A Winclone backup. - A WHS backup. I can restore the Time Machine backup. But when I try and restore the Winclone backup on top of that, it ends with errors in the logs - bad sectors...