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(Answer requested by Dinju Sebastian) No. Amps are amps; volts are volts; watts are watts. Doesn’t matter where they come from. Your phone treats your PC-provided power as just another recharge source. There are no unusual effects on the phone’s battery from PC-delivered power, as compared to power delivered by a wall-adaptor (or any other…
That could be problematic — how will you control the PC if none of the keys work? A better option is a software-moderated kiosk mode, which severely restricts what users can do with the PC while not preventing the PC from acting normally, outside of kiosk mode. Operating systems and browsers usually each support their…
(Answer requested by Andrea Hemphill) Laptops usually get resold when something’s broken or becoming obsolete. Laptops can be hard to work on. Even routine upgrades — simply adding RAM or installing a faster hard drive — sometimes require special tools or knowledge, and may be actively prohibited by the manufacturer’s warranty. It’s even worse for…
(Answer requested by Byron Inductivo) I currently have over 700 passwords in use, but I only have to remember one. I use a password manager on all my devices: I only have to remember the password-manager’s own master password. Once I enter that, the software takes over. When I encounter a website or app login…
Keyboards are mechanically complex, with *lots* of little parts —- usually its own multi-layer circuit board containing its own logic chips and firmware, plus wiring and connectors and over 100 separate electromechanical switches, each one itself a little multi-part precision subassembly with a spring, plunger, contact points, a base, stabilizers, a keycap…. (info). Laptop keyboards…
Sounds like driver trouble. Something in your regular Win7 drivers isn’t working with the new update; but when your PC falls back to generic drivers (as in Safe Mode), things apparently work OK again. Option 1) Go to your laptop maker’s support site; download (but don’t yet install) the correct Win7 drivers for your exact…
(Answer requested by Miguel Camino) Laptop hardware and usage varies hugely, and viruses (which don’t usually damage hardware) have little to do with it. At one end, you might have a cheapo laptop that bangs around in a student’s backpack and lives in a dorm; and at the other, a high-end, graphic-artist’s laptop, professionally maintained…
It depends what you want to use as the HD source. If the source is another PC or similar device (smartphone, tablet, laptop…), you can likely use any remote desktop, screen sharing, Twitch-type screen-streaming, or any similar type of app (that both devices support) to display whatever’s on the source screen on your Win8.1 PC’s…
If the product is well-designed, it will be built to withstand normal shipping temperatures while off: Think of a cargo container full of PCs baking for days in the sun on the deck of a ship transiting the tropics; or deep-chilling for hours in an airliner’s cargo hold; etc. That doesn’t meant your laptop is…
(Answer requested by Dawn Hassell) For most PCs, it doesn’t matter. Most external drives for PCs use standard USB connections, and will work with any PC that also uses standard USB connections. USB cables are inexpensive: a 3′ cable typically costs under $10. If the PC uses proprietary connectors — I’m looking at you, Apple…