Long gone, but now back… sort of. :)
(Answer requested by Aditya Verma) If you really mean “authenticity,” that’s a programmatic question, and I can’t help you: You’ll need to hire someone (or learn yourself) to compare whatever password you’re trying to authenticate to whatever database or algorithm or other authentication-source you specify. But if you mean you want to check how good,…
(Answer requested by Lorenzo Gramigni) Sure. The system doesn’t care how you provide cooling, as long as you keep the CPU safely within its designed temperature rage. Most PCs use air as the working fluid for heat removal. You can prepare many PC’s for modest overclocking simply by adding a larger heatsink and higher-capacity fans….
It’s odd: Questions about the physical weight of data get asked fairly often — I don’t know what’s prompting it. Perhaps the move to SSDs? The most recent iteration phrased it this way: “Does data have physical weight? If something is 10 gigabytes, does it actually weigh whatever system you have it installed on down?”…
The general rule is: Put the operating system, and your other most-frequently-accessed files, on the fastest drive. NVMe drives can be faster than classic SATA drives; but the fastest SATA SSDs are faster than some run-of-the-mill NVMe SSDs. Plus, some of the spec-sheet advantages of NVMe may not matter all that much under real-world conditions….
What a strange and dangerous way to hide a file! Because it was hidden, there’s no good way to track what happened. But you might — might — be able to recover the file. I assume you searched the entire disk for the file, including the Recycle Bin. You might also try searching for both…
Yup. It’s not a widespread practice, but floppies crop up in places you might not expect. One spectacular example: The U.S. is still using floppy disks to run its nuclear program ( https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/us/pentagon-floppy-disks-nuclear/index.html ) US nuclear force still uses floppy disks ( https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36385839 ) The Pentagon’s Huge Atomic Floppies ( https://time.com/4348494/pentagon-nuclear-floppy-disks/ ) Yes, The Pentagon…
Probably not. The Windows license process generates a unique numeric ID or “score” for your PC’s specific hardware configuration and copy of Windows. Microsoft knows that PCs get upgraded, so the system is flexible enough to allow the score to change, some, without triggering a need to re-license. For example, you usually can upgrade your…
LangaList readers are sending in questions about some of the details in the recent three-part series on spec’ing, buying, and setting up a new Optane-equipped PC. Quick recap: In Part One, Taking the plunge with a new PC (AskWoody Plus newsletter 2019-06-03), you saw how I used Windows’ built-in performance tools to identify system bottlenecks,…
Sure! It usually only takes a few clicks. That “TV tuner” app is usually leftover bit of a previous Win7 or 8 setup that was running the old Media Center add-on. Win10 doesn’t have (or need) a separate Media Center; those old software components do little now except cause upgrade problems. (Geeky aside: That “digital…
The full question, submitted anonymously, was: “How do I write a harmless computer virus that, when run, restarts the computer and keeps opening a terminal instead of windows until the user say yes or some specific command then everything goes normal again?” That’s not a virus — it’s just a script or small program —…