Recent content by gaius_iulius

@kc8ler The negativity comes from experience with Google's translator as well as their search engine, maps etc. You may be a Google fanboy, but not everybody is happy with being spied upon, be it through software or through their hardware devices. In addition, the title of the thread is highly...

lol, Google hardly "invented" that ... instant translation software reacting to audio input has been on the market for years, various companies offer it. Translation quality is substandard, however ... and that won't change until somebody figures out how to stop the software from translating...

Have a look at your UEFI/BIOS: - you have to boot with UEFI, not with BIOS (Legacy); - your SATA devices have to be set to AHCI; - Fast Boot, Fast Startup and Secure Boot must all be disabled.

The Catia website has some pages dedicated to minimum system requirements, you should check them out. While I haven't found any reference to minimum memory requirements (I didn't look very closely, but you should), I wouldn't attempt to run any CAD software on a system with less than 16GB and...

Easiest way to reprogram any key of any keyboard under Windows: Download SharpKeys 3.5 (free software, requires .NET Framework 4.0, which you should already have, it comes with Windows) 1) Download the .zip version (no need to install anything on your machine that way) and unzip it to...

Without knowing which motherboard you have I can't tell you which RAM it supports. However if you get the same type of RAM at the same frequency that is already used by your laptop, it should work. As to the difference between 1x8GB and 2x4GB ... that depends on whether your mobo uses Dual...

Oh well, if you've voided the warranty already, you might as well go ahead, hehe. So HP apparently only put that sentence regarding inaccessible RAM in their manual to keep people from doing exactly what you've done, lol. I thought they had somehow disabled the opening of RAM slots for real...

Before you worry about getting DDR3 or DDR4 memory, or about the manufacturer of that memory, you should probably take a minute to consider the meaning of "non-customer-accessible / non-upgradable memory module slots" in the imgur screenshot you linked. To me that sounds like you (the...

If you have created a System Restore point prior to re-installing Windows, or if you have made a recovery USB flash drive, you can restore from there. If not, the system has probably created a restore point automatically ... check the list of available restore points in your Control Panel >...

If you still have the valid License Key, you can download Genuine MS Office 2013 from the Microsoft website. Before installation, you will need to log into your MS/Live account (or create a new account, if you don't yet have one), then enter your valid license key, and the installation will...

It's a feature many newer UEFI settings have introduced ... I guess to avoid less seasoned users to inadvertently mess up their systems by hiding sensitive options.

Some manufacturers only permit certain advanced settings in the UEFI if an Administrator Password has been set for the UEFI. For example, many ASUS UEFIs will only display the option to disable Secure Boot and Fast Boot (which you need to manipulate in order to be able to boot into non-Windows...

The i7 model doesn't only have a slightly better graphics chip (not unimportant for somebody who wants to use CAD applications), but the smaller i5 only offers 8GB of RAM, no matter which model you choose. While that might be sufficient to run a CAD program, I wouldn't feel very comfortable...

Hi Ed, storage size has nothing to do with your CPU and the size of physical memory. :) You can replace your 500GB HDD with any size of drive you wish. If your budget permits it, consider a Solid State Drive (SSD). That will improve performance significantly, much more so than an additional...