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I have a reasonably-decent old 20-pin PSU which I want to use on a newer 24-pin ATX motherboard. I see that the ATX page on wikipediamentions that 24-pin ATX is backward-compatible, and … Power supply – Is it possible (and safe/reliable/non-damaging) to use a 20-pin ATX PSU with a 24-pin ATX motherboard?Read more

When your laptop’s battery is 100% charged, should you leave it plugged in so any battery power doesn’t get used, or will that cause overcharging, overheating, etc.? Should the laptop be unplugged … Power supply – Should laptops remain plugged in when their battery is 100% charged?Read more

I was reading Is surge protection actually needed? and well I’d like to know why brownouts are so harmful. The explanation gave there is “the capacitors get above their rated voltage” But … Power supply – Why are brownouts so harmful?Read more

Given that I am building a home computer from scratch and I have several components (MB, CPU, HDD, Video, Sound, etc) which have specific power requirements, is there a formula for me … Power Supply Capacity FormulaRead more

I’m trying to get a list of all the XSL and XSLT files in a directory. dir -recurse -filter *.xsl,*.xslt -name But the following error:   Get-ChildItem : Cannot convert ‘System.Object[]’ to … Powershell – How do I get get-childitem to filter on multiple file types?Read more

On my computer (Win10 Enterprise x64, 1709) running Update-Help returns two errors:   update-help : Failed to update Help for the module(s) ‘AutoSequencer, HostNetworkingService, WindowsUpdateProvider’ with UI culture(s) {en-US} : Unable to … Powershell – Update-help fails to update two modulesRead more

It seems that the recent Synaptics driver update for Synaptics SMBus TouchPad on Windows 10 (build 100049) somehow doesn’t see my middle-button. Uninstalling, and installing an older driver for Windows 8.1 from … Prevent Windows 10 from installing/updating a specific driver?Read more

My laptop (a Lenovo Flex 2 15) came preinstalled with Windows 8 Standard (with the serial key preinstalled into the BIOS), and I’ve since installed an SSD (a Samsung Evo 840 120GB) … Prevent Windows 10 installer from using the preinstalled serial key without disabling UEFIRead more

I am running Windows 7 home premium. Up until yesterday, everything was going just beautifully, until I received a “critical update”. As soon as the critical update was installed, the system became … Prevent Windows 7 from installing a “critical” updates that crashes the systemRead more

When creating PDF documents a friend of mine told me that doing a “Save As” is generally a better way to create a PDF doc, the way that I generally created them … Print to pdf – Creating PDF DocumentsRead more