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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 when the battery level is 100%? I’m asking because my laptop’s screen tends to get dim when unplugged, so I don’t like to […]

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 that makes no sense if the power coming into the PSU is less than the usual voltage. What happens to a PSU in

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 to calculate the size/capacity of the Power Supply I will need? I want to be able to expand the setup later on also…

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 the type ‘System.String’ required by parameter ‘Filter’. Specified method is not supported.   dir -recurse -filter *.xsl -filter *.xslt -name But got this

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 retrieve the HelpInfo XML file for UI culture en-US. Make sure the HelpInfoUri property in the module manifest is valid or check your

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 the HP site (my machine is HP EliteBook 8570w) restores the middle button functionality. Few days later, the driver updates itself again, and

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) & upgraded to Windows 10. When the laptop still had its hard drive, I upgraded it to Professional so I could use the

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 extremely unstable and froze up every few minutes requiring me to restart the system several times, with the same results. I used system

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 was through the “Print to PDF” option in most software. Aren’t both ways to creating PDF documents generally the same? Solution: Yes and

When I print a web page from my browser, I expect to get on paper exactly the content I’m seeing in the browser.To be precise: I expect the browser to render the same page contents the same way, except on a canvas with infinite height, and then decide in a printing-specific way how to distribute