Recent content by Inquisitive Builder

A friend found this deal on a laptop intended for classrooms, what do you guys think of it...

Hey guys, My 3 year old, $1000 desktop bluescreened yesterday and I have an intense 8 week online course starting June 15th, so I thought it may be smart to get a "backup" computer for word documents, lectures, and online tests should my main computer suddenly need repairs at the worst possible...

I'm considering buying this backup power unit to power my desktop PC and monitor, maybe my ps3 as well, long enough to shut them down if there is a blackout of the AC blows the power fuse during a hot day. I also heard it helps the health of the PC in general. Would this...

Title says it all, and I don't know if I put this in the right category, but this is the smartest forum I know ;) I'm just wanting to make sure I can run my new air conditioner safely in the same room as my gaming rig without blowing a fuse, and therefor also possibly killing my hard drive with...

But to be more concise, if I download it, get what I want from it, and uninstall it, there should be no lasting, residual harm to my computer, right? I've heard some software like Mcafee can never quite be scrubbed from your system unless you reformat the whole drive, and am wanting to make sure...

Hey guys, I'm wanting to download a few videos off iTunes, as that seems to be the only place I can get them, but when I googled iTunes this came up: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/8912714/Apple-iTunes-flaw-allowed-government-spying-for-3-years.html It's technically from 2011...

oh wow, surprised to see NO replies here :P Do you guys need more information, or is this section of the forums just dead?

Title says it all. My Mom's looking to buy a new pc, but there are so many out there that I was hoping you guys could help me thin the herd. Here are my thoughts: 1. Cheaper is better, of course. 2. I think she would like the easy access and tech support of a prebuilt computer rather than...

Thanks for the advice man :) I wound up getting one here: http://download.cnet.com/Free-Countdown-Timer/3001-2350_4-75330413.html?spi=b1c7015f6794002f1d9dad639d54660f&idl=n And it seems to be working great :D

Ok, I'll check those out :) BTW, you guys are reasonably sure these are all safe right? Don't know why, but downloading rograms from otherwise unrelated websites always give me the creeps :P

Hey guys, I've got some deadlines coming up, and I thought it may be helpful to be able to add a big days-hours-minutes-seconds countdown timer to my desktop to help me visualize how much time is left. I googled it and there seems to be several, but I've heard too many horror stories about...

I'm using internet explorer 10 as well, but for some reason it just now let me log on! :S But anyway, this is actually my first post on my new rig :D Thanks God some problems jut solve themselves :P

Hey guys, First off, I wanted to thank all of you for the help you gave me when building my first rig, you all made it much less scary. However, now my new rig can't log into Tom's Hardware! It does email and everything else just fine, but for some reason after I type in my username and...