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Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum September 26th 19, 07:24 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 2
Views: 133
Posted By lonelydad
What is a USB dongle in re hot spotting?

I was having some problems with my internet modem/router, so I tried using
my phone as a hot spot. When I selected that option, I was to choose
between Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or USB dongle as the...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum September 4th 19, 10:14 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 7
Views: 105
Posted By lonelydad
What is USB doing?

VanguardLH wrote in :

lonelydad wrote:

I'm still running on 1809 because I can't get the 1903 upgrade to
work. I'm...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum September 4th 19, 01:05 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 7
Views: 105
Posted By lonelydad
What is USB doing?

lonelydad wrote in
:

I'm still running on 1809 because I can't get the 1903 upgrade to
work. I'm about to go with a...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum September 4th 19, 12:16 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 7
Views: 105
Posted By lonelydad
What is USB doing?

I'm still running on 1809 because I can't get the 1903 upgrade to work. I'm
about to go with a clean install. But that's not the issue.

All of a sudden, when I put a USB Thumb drive in my PC [Drive...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 16th 19, 05:16 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 12
Views: 237
Posted By lonelydad
Interesting discrepencies

Paul wrote in :

lonelydad wrote:
Andy Burns wrote in
:

lonelydad...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 15th 19, 04:49 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 26
Views: 353
Posted By lonelydad
Where's "Safely remove"?

Zaghadka wrote in
:


It's still needed for hard disks if write caching is turned on. When I
eject my hard disk, it goes...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 15th 19, 04:44 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 12
Views: 237
Posted By lonelydad
Interesting discrepencies

Andy Burns wrote in
:

lonelydad wrote:

I have one directory where if I right-click and do 'Properties' it
says the direcctory...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 15th 19, 12:26 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 12
Views: 237
Posted By lonelydad
Interesting discrepencies

First off: Win 10 1809 fully updated

I found some good deals on UDB thumb drives, so I thought I would do some
archival backups of some things that are not vital, but are essentially...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 14th 19, 04:34 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 26
Views: 353
Posted By lonelydad
Where's "Safely remove"?

Peter Johnson wrote in
:

On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 21:12:43 -0400, Jason wrote:

The icon no longer...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 9th 19, 12:00 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 162
Views: 583
Posted By lonelydad
I need a usb3 to rs232 adapter that WORKS RIGHT

Frank Slootweg wrote in news:qii5pp.344.1@ID-
201911.user.individual.net:

T wrote:
Hi All,

I have a customer with a Mac and a w10 laptop and...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 3rd 19, 04:03 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 3
Views: 385
Posted By lonelydad
1903 upgrade is being weird

lonelydad wrote in
:

My system is currently on 1809. Today Microsoft finally deigned to
allow me to upgrade to 1903....
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum August 3rd 19, 03:05 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 3
Views: 385
Posted By lonelydad
1903 upgrade is being weird

My system is currently on 1809. Today Microsoft finally deigned to allow me
to upgrade to 1903. After the download completed, I rebooted my system and
went off to do other things. When I returned I...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 27th 19, 05:01 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 47
Views: 666
Posted By lonelydad
CPU generation question

T wrote in :


As far a generation of processors goes, the higher the generation,
the better the power consumption. I haven't seen more than...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 17th 19, 10:03 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 5
Views: 182
Posted By lonelydad
Strange 'Sleep' behavior

=?UTF-8?B?8J+YiSBHb29kIEd1eSDwn5iJ?= wrote in
:

On 16/07/2019 22:15, lonelydad wrote:
So, is it really powered down, or is the sytem...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 16th 19, 10:15 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 5
Views: 182
Posted By lonelydad
Strange 'Sleep' behavior

My system is usually on 24/7, mainly because when I was doing video
transcoding using the built-in GPU it took hours to complete. Now that I
have my GTX 1050 to do that work, there is no need for...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 13th 19, 03:48 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 8
Views: 488
Posted By lonelydad
Dumb (?) USB Flash drive question

VanguardLH wrote in :


As an aside (me interjecting an inquiry):

Since I'm considering the similar action (manual install of 1903), does
...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 12th 19, 11:16 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 8
Views: 488
Posted By lonelydad
Dumb (?) USB Flash drive question

I'll admit I didn't phrase things very well, but there are two distinct
actions going on here.

1. Since Microsoft has seen fit to not yet offer to upgrade my system to
1903, for no reason that I...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 10th 19, 09:37 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 19
Views: 441
Posted By lonelydad
Can this Acer Laptop Run Win 10?

Paul wrote in :

The Man in the High Castle wrote:
ray carter wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 12:46:20 +0200, Jack of Diamonds...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 7th 19, 01:00 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 43
Views: 544
Posted By lonelydad
1903 finally

Frank Slootweg wrote in
:

lonelydad wrote:
(Ant) wrote in
...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 6th 19, 07:25 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 43
Views: 544
Posted By lonelydad
1903 finally

(Ant) wrote in
:

???? Good Guy ???? wrote:
[-- text/plain, encoding 7bit, charset: utf-8, 19...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 6th 19, 11:10 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 4
Views: 114
Posted By lonelydad
Blinking screens

VanguardLH wrote in :

lonelydad wrote:

I am currently on Win 1809. I have two monitors, and use the system
tool to change the color temp of...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 6th 19, 03:11 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 4
Views: 114
Posted By lonelydad
Blinking screens

I am currently on Win 1809. I have two monitors, and use the system tool to
change the color temp of the screens at night. Lately I have notices that
when the system is doing the change, my screens...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 6th 19, 03:06 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 15
Views: 200
Posted By lonelydad
Taskkill question

T wrote in :

Does Taskkill do a graceful shutdown or brute force?

I am assuming you are refering to the task kill that is part of Task
Manager....
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 5th 19, 01:29 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 43
Views: 544
Posted By lonelydad
1903 finally

Paul wrote in :

Dan wrote:


I understand, as I have downloaded 1903 iso. I thought it would be
available as part of Windows...
Forum: Windows 10 Help Forum July 5th 19, 01:25 AM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Replies: 43
Views: 544
Posted By lonelydad
1903 finally

Paul wrote in :

lonelydad wrote:
Dan wrote in
news:675rhet874uhpburgvknco6qjnvt04qe94@ 4ax.com:


I tried...
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