Recent content by GAK

I have have the desktop for about eight years now, and unfortunately I do not have the specs on hand at the present time (aside from the original PCSpecialist 'Welcome' box). I doubt, in fact, if PCSpecialist produce my model of desktop any longer. All I can say for certain that it is a basic...

This issue concerns a puzzling fault I have with my PCSpecialist desktop. Used primarily as a dedicated standalone word processor, it has given flawless service for several years now. It's the most reliable PC I've ever owned in fact. Now, however, it has given up the ghost, albeit not without...

Just to sum up for those who may be having similar audio problems, after more listening I can report that both sets of PC speakers functioned perfectly well when they were hooked up to the second laptop. So the problem lies squarely with my Asus laptop - no auguments. As a sidenote: having...

The speakers are plugged into the laptop's audio input - which is the laptop's only such input. There are no HDMI connections or leads present in this setup. A search by MS File Explorer has drawn a blank about Realtek. On the other hand I do have a venerable semi-redundant HP laptop, which I...

Yes, I have resolved the problem. . . and now facing an altogether different issue :( In audio terms I now have a constant 'rumbling' or 'booming' sound in the background whenever I'm using the laptop's sound system. Also all voices and music now sound muddy and ill-defined. Weirdly this...

I took the plunge and the link did work, after all. The reason for my hesitancy was due to having lost a valued (work-based) Hotmail account years ago as a result of not knowing what I was doing. That caused no end of grief, so this time round it was a case of once bitten twice shy. Thanks for...

I have two Chrome accounts, one my 'Home' (or default) account, the second one I use for various online services. . . eBay etc. Due to some remedial work done on my browser, I can no longer open this second account. So to solve this problem I've been advised to follow the route flagged up as...

I'll do a scan as advised. Thanks for suggesting it to me. Would I lose my favorites if I changed Chrome's theme?

I am currently using Chrome's basic "pro grey" theme, which has worked well until now. One of the many problems I have is that everything - google's search pages, my google inbox, even the BBC website, has become visually bare looking and monochromatic, which means it's also become operationally...

Hi Many thanks for the helpful advice. It's certainly given me food for thought. With reference to your warning about the tendency of DVDs/Blu rays to become damaged over time, I tend to store backups, certainly when I'm burning rare or hard to obtain audio discs. That aside, I will now either...

Hi This isn't strictly a specialist PC question, but here goes anyway: I would very much like to know whether it is possible to record/store/preserve HD TV programmes, using a PC, or failing that, an external hard-drive. I ask this because I recently lost some 50 hours of treasured TV...