Recent content by rocks911

I just built a new W10 PC and have been looking at browsers. I initially used the Epic browser and remarkably my various scanners didnt pick up a single tracking cookie. I couldnt believe it, for a week after heavy use of the internet there wasnt a single tracker found. Incredible. However Plex...

A combination of the Norton uninstaller, deleting C: users/public/public downloads/Norton, running CCleaner all while booted into Safe Mode seems to have done the trick. Thanks for the replies.

I am resurrecting my daughters PC. I updated to Windows 10 and everything is great except for eliminating Norton. Im afraid my daugter had succumbed to Symantec's ransom and purchased their product because the nag sreen wore her down. Im now trying, without success, to rid this PC of Norton. I...

Thanks for the opinions. I signed up with Nord.

I have had for a number of years a VPN service that I trusted and which provided good service. They have become flaky. Im looking for a reliable trustworthy VPN. I dont mind paying for a good one. I need one with a kill switch (my old reliable VPN has let me down and left me exposed as the...

I am about to retire soon and will be on the road traveling quite a bit. I will have a need to access my W10 64bit PC while on the road. At least to wake it for PLEX access, but Ill need access for any number of reasons other than PLEX/waking the PC. Im not sure that the app/program needs to be...

I have a fairly large collection of both digital pics and video. I have 2 grand kids now and have taken a thousand pics and videos, however a lot of them have an incorrect date associated, which I guess has something to do with setting the date on the camera, anways when I right click and go to...

Thanks for the reply. Actually it works quite well, and for $9. I'll just continue to power it on and off manually.

This may be a crazy question but is there an app that would let me control the power to a USB port? I have a simple USB fan that I bought from target that fits inside my PC case that really helps in cooling my PC but I would like to be able to get it to power up or down in some way that I could...

I recommended the WD TV Live HD to a friend to play his digital content directly from an external HDD. He purchased the unit, updated the firmware, plugged in his 1Tb external HDD and started watching. Unfortunately the video would freeze and the only way to get it started again was to shut the...