One of my computers keeps getting the Adobe Flash PPAPI client reinstalled the day after I uninstall it. It "seems" to be Chrome doing it but I only suspect that because I have to close Chrome to uninstall it. Ive gone as far as nuking the directories as specified in the uninstall instructions...
I have finished both of the recent Wolfenstein games and was wondering what other recent games are in that same vein? Does Fallout 4 of a similar enough game style?
I have Plexpass's dvr setup to record tv for me but dont want to use the built-in commercial detection because it doesnt allow me to validate the commercials before cutting. So I am trying to use comskip to run commercial detection for me but I keep running into “Could not open video codec”...
I also had this problem under windows 7 on the same machine and it persisted through an upgrade to Win10. The monitor is set to turn off in 10 minutes, although the time doesnt matter, and sleep is set to never yet the monitor never turns off. I have tried powercfg /requests which comes up...
Im finally trying to upgrade a Windows 7 Ultimate desktop to Windows 10 and find that it keeps getting stuck at various percentages. Is there any way to figure out WHY its getting stuck so that I can fix it? I will leave it on 7 if I cant upgrade it because there is so much stuff already...
Im in the process of building a gaming computer for my son and the onboard graphics get corrupted. I have tried the cpu on two different motherboards, both with the latest bios' and they both showed the same corruption. It has to be the CPU at this point right?
Symptoms:
Memtest screen ends...
Does anybody know whether cards that are not on the https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/Z270M-MORTAR.html#support-hdd shown on the MSI website will work on this motherboard? Im trying to find a pcie m.2 for my sons computer and am having problems tracking one shown on the list down for a...
Ive started playing Deus Ex Mankind Divided and have found that my old 660 just cant keep up. Thus I have started looking into replacements for it but dont really want to be spending over $200. I can get an Asus 4GB 480X OC for $146 from jet.com or a 3GB 1060 for approx $50 more with one of my...
I have an old LG that can stream from network shares but its getting long in the tooth so I am looking at replacing it. I bought a PS4 but that sucks for streaming and is probably going back to wallymart. I am looking for a blu-ray player that can stream from network shares without using DLNA...
My work laptop had windows 7 installed with both MSCV 2005 & 2008 installed which worked fine under Win7 but after upgrading to Windows 10 the laptop "hangs" when I try to debug in either 2005 or 2008. I can still move some windows but ALT-Tabbing, CTRL-ALT-DEL, trying to bring up the task bar...
I need to replace my Inspiron 9400 that just died and might as well refresh up to something a bit more recent. I need the laptop to be able to play Guild Wars 2 and League of Legends at a decent framerate. Im only looking to spend around $500-650.
I have been looking at replacing my aging Synology NAS with a home built one but I dont have $600 to spend on this project. Are there any good free NAS os's that dont require ECC ram and server grade hardware? Can I use something like nas4free with an onboard RAID controller for two 2TB disks?
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$200 250GB PS3 SuperSlim with games and controllers - Sold locally
Sold 2x2GB Corsair XMD2 6400
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Games - $2.00 shipping for however many you want
MDK Jewel Case and book $5
Heretic II Jewel Case with strategy guide $6
Civilization II Gold Edition (CivII, Conflicts in Civ and Civ II Fantastic Options) CD's and...
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Retail pack Q6600 G0 stepping which runs stable on air at 3Ghz with 1.3volts. $75 shipped
WD 1.5TB Green WD15EADS drive 32MB cache. Warranty expires 10/2012. $80 shipped
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BeyondTV keeps having issues with my QAM tuners so I was wondering whether WMC had any capability to remotely schedule recordings. Has anybody played with WMC as a PVR?
I am looking for an android based mp3 player for my son who doesn't (and isnt going to have a cell phone anytime soon). So far I have found:
Archos tablet
Creative Zen II
Samsung Galaxy 50
but they all seem to have major flaws. Has anybody found a decent android based mp3 player that...
My desktop at home is connected to an APC SUA1000 UPS which shows up in device manager yet windows won't show the battery icon in the tray and the option is grayed out in the "Turn system icons on or off" dialog. So far I hvae tried:
1) Local Gropu Policy Editor shows the option as "Not...
I did a fresh install of Windows 7 professional on a new XPS 630i and I have one item listed in Device Manager as "PowerPC Processor" under Other Devices that I can't find a driver for. Does anybody have any ideas on how to identify this?
This is on the card in my sig. I am finding that pretty often when I go to start a game it starts launching then kicks me to the desktop with the game icon on the task bar. If I click the icon it switches back to the game for a second then back to the desktop. The only way to fix it is to...
My home network is all CAT-5e wiring with a NAS hooked up to a gigabyte switch in the basement and my Sony BDP-S470 hooked up into the same switch. I have no problems streaming SD video from the NAS and the bluray has no problems streaming HD video from netflix yet when I tried to stream HD...
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Combo Pack:
Gigabyte EP45-UD3P motherboard, rev 1.1
Retail pack Q6600 which runs stable at 3Ghz with 1.3volts
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
$175 shipped for all 3
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MDK...
Does anybody have any idea why some of the mpeg's which are in a directory on my pc can be seen by my Sony player yet others, in the same directory, aren't seen. I already found that WMP thinks that some videos are 0 seconds long so won't pass it along to DLNA clients (I fixed this by deleting...
Does anybody know if the Sony BDP-S470 should be able to stream DVR-MS files stored on a server? Mine keeps showing "no known file types" and I was wondering if there was a way to enable this.
I need to setup a Redhat linux box which has 2 NIC's each of which is attached to a single Cisco 5505 firewall which are setup in failover mode. Thus only one firewall will ever be active at a time. How do I properly setup the NIC's since I only have one IP address that I can use for the...
Etronics has the Yamaha YHT-791BL HTIB which retails for $850 for $529 - 5% Bing cashBack = $502 with free shipping. Specs on the YHT-791BL
This comes with:
HTR-6250 Receiver
YST-SW216 Subwoofer
Plus 7 NS-AP6500 speakers