Recent content by derail43

Just call it curiosity because the answer does NOT exist on the internet. What voltage does the ipad Air 1 run on?

The speakers are not inside the monitor. They are small, separate speakers. The label on the back of each speaker says "HP LCD speakers". At this point I am assuming that it just means that they are made to be used with a LCD monitor or LCD TV.

Thanks for your thoughts guys. I suspect that all of you are right. What started me on the question was that I put a new graphics board in my PC, and it causes a high pitched squeal in my Peavey amp/speakers. I haven't found any way to fix that, so I decided to try the tiny "LCD" speakers that...

I understand what LCD means, Liquid Crystal Display, it's been around for a long time. But, I don't know what an LCD speaker is, and can't find anything, zip, zilch, nothing about it on the web. Someone please explain.

I did defrag the HD and it has plenty of free space. In nine years taking care of PC's and networks at an industrial plant here I don't remember ever having a HD cause slowdowns for any other reason. You are right, that is something to check and I appreciate your mentioning it. Do you know of...

Thanks smeezekitty - Neither could I. I did it the hard way, by counting the checked boxes under the "Everything" tab. It really didn't take too long. Also, sorry it took me awhile to get back. I ran a full system Avast scan and it didn't find any problems. Derail

Thanks ssddx. I'll scan sometime today and re-post. All - I'd still like to know if 293 start up items is unusual?

Thanks, guys. No, I don't have an SSD I use Avast antivirus and keep it up to date. It's been some time since I did a scan. I don't have any programs set to start at startup. Some of the items are exe's but they seem to be support for other things such as antivirus, printer, etc.

Recently I was seeing my PC getting slower, so I started using autoruns to see how many things were automatically starting up when I turned it on. I was surprised to see that according to autoruns there were 293 things starting up. That's under the "Everything" tab so it includes everything...