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  1. ubuysa

    PCSPECIALIST Does this happen in the UK?!!!

    Seems a bit extreme to me... :eek: Source: https://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2021/09/20/gamers-pc-screens-tif-thessaloniki-smash/
  2. ubuysa

    PCSPECIALIST To save the planet don't buy a new phone

    Source: https://www.themarketmakernews.com/2021/09/18/want-to-save-the-earth-then-dont-buy-that-shiny-new-iphone-john-naughton/
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    PCSPECIALIST Bitcoin is a scam

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    PCSPECIALIST Backing Up - A Sample Strategy

    I have edited this post to reflect a change in the backup software I use. Pretty much everyone knows that they should be backing up their data. But why do we do it? No, it's a serious question. The backup strategy that you select depends entirely on what you're backing up and what you want to...
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    PCSPECIALIST Windows Store Missing OFFICIAL PCS FIX

    I've been asked by the PCS Customer Care team to post the following fix (from the PCS Support Team) on the forums. I realise that @Rakk has already posted it elsewhere but I've been asked to post it as well, so here it is. :) PS. It's a Word .docx file
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    PCSPECIALIST Windows Store Missing OFFICIAL PCS FIX

    I've been asked by the PCS Customer Care team to post the following fix (from the PCS Support Team) on the forums. I realise that @Rakk has already posted it elsewhere but I've been asked to post it as well, so here it is. :) PS. It's a Word .docx file.
  7. ubuysa

    PCSPECIALIST It's quiet here.....

    ...is there something important going on? ⚽
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    PCSPECIALIST It's a bit warm here today...

    ...and it's forecast to be warmer tomorrow.....
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    PCSPECIALIST Graphics advice needed (I think)

    First off, here's my (pretty old now) spec... Case COOLERMASTER CM690 III ADVANCED CASE (GREEN) Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i7 Quad Core Processor i7-6700 (3.4GHz) 8MB Cache Motherboard ASUS® Z170-E: ATX, LG1151, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs Memory (RAM) 16GB HyperX FURY DDR4 2666MHz (2 x 8GB Kit)...
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    PCSPECIALIST My morning walk with the dog...

    Rudy (our basset hound) wanted to walk round the (seawater) lake here in town. What does your morning dog walk look like?
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    PCSPECIALIST The worst part of owning a high-end PC....

    ....is having to fix a friend's low-end laptop. :censored: A very good friend has an oldish HP laptop that's running (if you can call it that) Windows 10. She brought it round yesterday complaining that her 'Windows has reached end of service' and can't be upgraded. Be kind, she really doesn't...
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    PCSPECIALIST Windows 21H1 is now available

    Download it from https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
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    PCSPECIALIST A most heinous crime - not!

    Sky News online this morning carried a report about crimes that are committed at weddings. As one might expect, many of these are the result of arguments and fights but there was one particularly heinous crime that caught my attention... What a sad example of the current obsession with social...
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    PCSPECIALIST How to securely erase a scrap HDD

    The replacement new HDD for the one that I was having SMART issues with in this thread https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/curious-s-m-a-r-t-issue.81326/ has arrived and been installed and tested. The old HDD has sensitive data on it and so before disposing of it in the bin I decided...
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    PCSPECIALIST Can you see me waving?

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    PCSPECIALIST Curious S.M.A.R.T. issue

    I keep a fairly regular check on the SMART data on my drives to try and predict failures ahead of time. A couple of days ago I came across something unusual which I thought might be worth sharing to see whether any SMART people (see what I did there?) might know more than I about what might be...
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    PCSPECIALIST iCUE version 4

    I use iCUE (currently 3.38.61) to control the RGB on my K70 Mk II keyboard (and nothing else). The iCUE app says there are no updates available but the Corsair site says that my K70 Mk II is compatible with iCUE 4 (latest version 4.10.273). What do the experts think, should I install 4.10.273...
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    PCSPECIALIST Windows Push Notifications

    As part of an audit I did recently on my PC to ensure that I wasn't sending any telemetry data to Microsoft that I wasn't comfortable with (and that's easy to do in Windows by the way, it doesn't require a third party tool) I came across Windows Push Notifications, they're part of the Windows...
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    PCSPECIALIST The advantages of a RAMdisk

    One of the things I see a lot in the builds that people spec up on here is a tendency to over-specify RAM. Now don't get me wrong, that's a good thing. RAM is a resource that you absolutely have to have enough of, running short of RAM is a total performance disaster. Ensuring that you specify...
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    PCSPECIALIST In praise of the Open University

    It's been decades since I completed my OU degree coursework and got my BSc but I started back in the early 1980's with the Science Foundation course. For me it was a kind of sampler to enable me to see whether the OU and its teaching methods suited me. I chose the Science Foundation course...
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