I have a bunch of movies and comedy series on the hard drive that i watch on one of the televisions... :)

Many, many thanks for all of your help, you have saved me from making a pretty costly...

Many thanks!

Two remaining questions:


What the heck are you doing up at this hour (local)?
I also use the computer as a media server at home. Does this make any difference?

To be sure i don't do something stoooooopid, if i read you - i would be better off going with i5 and 32GB RAM than i7 and the 16 i a contemplating, right? And is there a feel for intel vs. AMD vs....

Thank you!!!

Glad to hear; i am willing to spend a little more to achieve overkill just to cushion me for any more intense uses in the future as i expect to use the new box for five to ten years...

Before 2000 i could afford to replace my computer every 6 months or so and kept very knowledgeable of the technologies.

Since 2000 i have been standing at the train station with the train (aka,...

In thinking back, i do believe you are correct for i can recall a couple financial sites (my bank and a site i run credit reports on) that have done this. Since i have not done a cookie cleanup...

Over the last two weeks to perhaps a month i have been getting a lot of security challenges and two factor protocol demands all claiming that this device, my tower computer, is not recognized. If i...

Apparently some time ago (for it has been a while) you were the last person i thanked, so it isn't allowing me to thank you again!

Much appreciated your help. I really thought this would be an...

Hello, and thank you for considering my issue!

I had previously changed the location of my picture default location from "C:\Users\<me>\Pictures" to "D:\<me>\Pictures" (note: in the D:...

I guess next Winter i'll put the dang thing outside!!!

Well, i have to take some (substantial) blame here...

After doing the repair install, things were running noticeably better (though still a little buggy) so i ran sfc, which surprised me when it...

So far with the repair install i do notice definite improvements.

@ Megahertz: Will do as instructed as i am regularly concerned over disk health, have had two bad crashes in my lifetime without...

The two or three updates that were performed in the time period are the sort that won't allow me to try to remove (would have been nice to test), so i will go along the path of the in-place repair...

This is a mini tower. A few years ago i installed a Samsung SSD 860 EVO 500GB, which almost everything runs from except when i use the Media Server for our TV's, when it uses an old Toshiba HDWD110 -...

I question my mental stability more and more as i get older, even though reflecting on my youth, it would have been a good idea then also.

I let my computer, a rather old piece of hardware...

When i search from a browser, Firefox.

For clarity (as i am often less-than-clear) that which i wish to address is when one highlights a word or phrase in Outlook, right clicks the highlighted...

Outlook that i am running is part of Office 365 and is set for automatic updates.

Is there a way to change the search it launches from Bing to Google?

Thank you!!!

Edition Windows 10 Pro...

Just read reviews, i feel like an idiot. I almost always will check them first, but i guess i just didn't think.

Thank you both for your responses and education!

MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW...

I run an older computer, PC compatible, roughly from 9 or 10 years ago, running W10 (Pro, i think) with all updates. Lately i have consecutively gotten several (three of them) 1TB USB "thumb" drives....

Many Thanks, that is an excellent solution!!!

My reason for a VPN? I am ashamed to admit it - paranoia.

Over the years i have been bombarded with so much material saying that i should get a VPN for such a wide range of privacy issues that it...

For better or for worse, i jumped in and went with the NordVPN service.

I suspect that some websites seem to not like my using a VPN - for instance, i was at one of my daughters' college websites...

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Many thanks for coming to my aid!

I hate to ask what i feel is going to be an unanswerable (dumb) question, but how would i notice the difference between 85Mbps (SurfShark) and 95Mbps (NordVPN)? ...

Completely new to VPN...

After reading a couple articles from TechRadar i am interested in trying out a VPN.

NordVPN looks most impressive in their balance of speed and cost, while SurfShark...