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(Answer requested by Victor Zamagni) You can use vodka. You can use almost any liquid you want — hamster pee, chicken soup, gasoline, melted ice cream, ketchup, unicorn tears, pickle juice, whatever — as long as you accept the attendant extra risks, costs, and engineering involved. Most PC cooling systems use plain air or distilled/stabilized…
Are your “experts” selling antivirus software, perhaps? The fact is: The price of a thing does not necessarily correspond to its overall quality or true value. For antivirus apps (free or paid), check the tests results posted by independent agencies such as AV-Test.org. You’ll see that several free apps are among the top-ranked tools. (Of…
The newest AskWoody Plus newsletter has been emailed to members, and is now posted on the AskWoody site, where members can read it anytime, for free. In this issue (an extra, 5th issue for this month): PATCH WATCH: Here’s why we’re not patching Internet Explorer BEST OF THE LOUNGE: Stumped by erratic download speed BEST UTILITIES: Freeware Spotlight — Win7…
A rocket ship built outdoors in the rain, of welded steel, in a rural field, fuelled by poopy methane, and energized by car batteries…. Freakin’ incredible. Permalink
(Answer requested by Jane Clark) The range is so wide there’s no useful “average” to quote. For example, the https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/ site lists current real-world SSD write times from 26MB/sec to 3366MB/sec — more than a two orders of magnitude difference! But by checking out that site, and others such as PassMark.com SSD ratings, you can…
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…
No drive — SSD, HDD, magnetic tape, wire spool, paper tape, whatever — no drive can make that guarantee! But the data on any kind of drive should survive the drive’s careful removal, proper storage, and re-installation. Mostly, it depends on how you handle the drive. SSDs should be handled the same as an HDD…
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…
The newest AskWoody Plus* newsletter — including a new LangaList item — is now posted on the AskWoody site. AskWoody Plus* members can read it here. WOODY’S WINDOWS WATCH: Has MS cleaned up its Win10-update mess? (Spoiler: No!) BEST OF THE LOUNGE: Bitten by the Defender bug? LANGALIST: How to stop two Windows Defender annoyances PRODUCTIVITY: How to fill out a…
(Answer requested by Jack Swenson) Probably not. The 7200 RPM drive is designed for 7200 RPM. The 5400 RPM drive is designed for 5400 RPM. Both should deliver their statistically-normal full service life at their rated speeds. Now, if you somehow took a 5400 RPM drive up to 7200 RPM, and if it didn’t die…