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Resetting the phone did not return me to Marshmallow, it did however erase off all my personalizations/contacts etc. But nevertheless, the FB issue I was facing was instantly resolved by the factory reset. Play store automatically offered the option to upgrade FB and FB messenger, I tapped yes...

Okay I got this phone just yesterday, it's the HTC One A9. It came with marshmallow, and right after setup, it offered an update to Nougat. I went ahead and installed Nougat, everything seems to be working fine except for these two apps. FB and FB messenger came pre-installed on the phone and I...

I'm typing this on a 6th gen i7 6870HQ laptop, 16 GB ram, 4GB GTX 950M, 1TB HDD, and 250GB SSD. It's running Windows 10 (home, not Pro). The minimum system requirements for Windows Server 2016 is exceeded by this computer, but I have a couple of questions:- 1> Where will I get the drivers from...

I want more control over how text is displayed on the console. Google search recommends using the <windows.h> header in MS Windows platform, and avoiding system() calls. But MSDN help is brutal. I have no idea what they're talking about! Here's an example: What does this even mean? What is...

Please don't suggest Windows Firewall. While this might work for the majority of users, it doesn't work for me. The reason is simple, it's tedious to configure. It will either ALLOW outgoing connections by default, or BLOCK outgoing connections by default. If I select ALLOW, almost everything is...

There are things in my laptop which I never use. Optical drive Fingerprint scanner SD card port Ethernet port HDMI port The HDMI cannot be disabled in the BIOS, but the rest can be turned off. Question, if I turn these off from the BIOS, will it reduce power consumption? Or will this just be...

Seatools will "pass" the drive if the normalized value of reallocated sectors is larger than the threshold defined by Seagate. This doesn't necessarily indicate the HDD is performing optimally, neither does it indicate the disk is reliable enough for everyday usage- all it indicates is Seagate...

I once had a laptop (HP/core i3) doing exactly this. Arbitrary 100% disk usage and the whole system would momentarily stall. The hard drive (Toshiba) had 49 reallocated sectors. Replacing HDD instantly resolved the problem (didn't even have to re-install Windows, just "cloned" the failing drive...

About a year back, I purchased this 5.1 channel speaker system from Panasonic. The label on the box, and the manuals, and the Panasonic store, said power output: 7000 Watts. It got kinda dusty, so I removed the access panel on the back of the sub-woofer unit to clean it up. There's a huge...

This is the first time I typed a program on my laptop, and it's not working as expected. Here's what it looks like: And here's a trial run: What exactly am I doing wrong? Thanks for your help.. Okay, the source code is too minuscule to read, here's a copy/paste of the source code...