Recent content by snowctrl

Hi all, value your help as I think this must be a setting, but I really can't find it...? One of our PCs (running Windows 10 Enterprise) has taken to only showing a subset of the its user accounts at login. Making a new user account doesn't help - the new account is also hidden. How can I...

I am trying to fix a friends laptop, a HP 15-ac020na She reports her dog sat on it and now it doesn't work. On connecting the power lead, the power/charge light next to the power socket on the laptop lights up, so it is getting power. I then press the power button, and the power light comes...

Not from hovering over it, no - you're fine

This laptop only has the original SATA, not SATA II, so I would not bother putting an SSD in it, unless you have one spare to try, since it will not give you much of a speed increase - the SATA port will limit severly the SSD. Upgrading to 8GB RAM may give you a small speed boost in more...

Are you sure it isn't that you have a drive that isn't working properly? That is a typical reason of Windows Explorer freezing / crashing What drives are you running? How old are they? Have you checked them? And I presume you've run full antivirus /antispyware scans with reliable stuff such...

I'd expect you'll be fine with the Surface Pro (and a decent set of headphones) for audio stuff. For rendering the Surface will do it, but it will get hot, and so the processor / GPU will throttle so as to cool off, and so rendering will be slower than on an equivalent desktop system. My...

Define 'video rendering' Using Premiere etc? It will do it, but a desktop will be a better bet - and it will be upgradable

You haven't mentioned storage... if you haven't already, switching your OS drive for an SSD will give you a far bigger speed increase than a CPU upgrade for using Photoshop etc....

It sounds like your battery needs replacing...?

If you haven't yet upgraded your OS drive to an SSD, that is the one single upgrade that will massively improve everything!! Including your internet experience since hard drive speeds and anti-virus software won't be slowing you down in the same way as they likely are at present. Check the...

BitDefender free edition has got to be who considering...

If you put an SSD in a laptop you would do far better to replace the system drive with the SSD - this is a standard easy-to-achieve laptop upgrade, that will give you the maximum benefit from the SSD. You can then use the HD either as a secondary internal storage drive if there is room in the...