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This is going to be controversial and I know that some will not agree with me, but the logic behind what I've done makes sense and there are no negative impacts...... We all know that the paging file is part of virtual memory, RAM being the other part. Windows uses the paging file to store...

I'm going to 'fess up to having been really stupid, in the hope that it may serve as a warning to others. I have a lot of fonts installed, including all those that came from Windows, plus others I've added since. I had a good reason the other day to delete a font family that I had installed and...

20 Unspoken Rules for Gentlemen: 1. Never shake a hand sitting down. Standing up shows respect and engagement. It signifies that you value the person you are meeting and are fully present in the interaction. 2. Protect who is behind you, and respect who is beside you. This emphasizes loyalty...

As a colon cancer survivor (I had surgery in 2009) I've just had my regular colonoscopy. Because I'm at risk (and because the Greek health care system actually works) I have one every two years. Colon cancer (like all cancers) is a killer if not detected early enough. It can affect anyone (my...

How would Nelson and the country have fared if he had been subject to modern political correctness and health and safety regulations? We would all be speaking French now!! You are now on the deck of the recently renamed 'HMS Appeasement!' Nelson - Give the order to hoist my signal Hardy...

I'm posting this a topic at a time to tray and pacify the forums software. The Mods may want to move this to the Knowledge Base perhaps? What Is The Sandbox? The Windows sandbox is a temporary virtual machine, created automatically, with a single virtual disk (the C: drive of course) and a...

It's only May for Heaven's,sake!

On Wednesday 22nd May I will be having cataract surgery on my right eye. When I had my left eye done a couple of years ago I was not allowed to use computers or phones for a couple of weeks after the surgery. I anticipate a similar 'ban' from Wednesday. I will be back online as soon as my...

I'm a fairly regular user of the Windows sandbox, it's extremely useful for those of us who often install and evaluate potentially suspect tools and utilities etc., especially when not 100% certain whether the download contains malware or not. It's useful for testing any software install before...

You might know that the Olympic Flame, which was lit in Olympia earlier this week, does a tour of Greece before it heads off to the host country. Today it came to Agios Nikolaos on Crete, where I live, on its tour of Greece before heading off to France.... That last torch bearer is my...

The word 'revolve' implies that the Earth is a spheroid, so this will also upset the flat Earthers. And that's a good thing! :ROFLMAO:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/12/just-about-every-windows-and-linux-device-vulnerable-to-new-logofail-firmware-attack/ This is concerning, but it seems that not all BIOSes/devices are vulnerable. Do PCS have any plans to advise their customers whether their build is vulnerable and, if...

We read the local paper (in Greek) via Google Translate. Sometimes the translations are amusing, but i particularly like this one... I'm considering applying.....

We've just had local election here and somebody posted this little story... A politician visits a rural area to gain appeal for the upcoming elections He schedules a meeting with the local leaders to discuss problems the town has been experiencing so that he could provide help and solutions...

Steam, it seems, stays running even after you close a game (and the Steam window). There is a Steam icon in the system tray for example. It would appear that Steam running in this way is stopping my monitor from tuning off due to inactivity. If I manually exit Steam from the system try icon...

I hope this doesn't get deleted because I don't want to get into the details of whose fault this ATC foul-up was, but I am interested in a particular technical detail, and I would like to keep this thread focussed ONLY on this one technical detail please. There is one aspect that keeps being...

Well, after decades of thinking that gamers should get out more, I've become a gamer myself. I've just bought the F1 Manager 2023 game, which means I've had to learn the vagaries of Steam too. Is there a secret handshake I should know? How about a hat or tee-shirt I should get? A badge perhaps...

Samsung Gakxy S21 and above do use AI to detect a zoomed photo of the Moon, but they use this to enhance the picture being taken. They DO NOT substitute a stock photo of the Moon. Briefly, the camera lowers the brightness, captures multiple frames (to produce a bright, low-noise picture) and...

Living in Greece, but not bring fully proficient in the language, we use Google Translate a lot for reading online news and such. Sometimes the translations it comes up with are priceless. Greece is about to be hit by a heat dome, they're forecasting 40C plus for us for the next few days...