PC Tech Thread

Thanks for that.

Ive downloaded the sdk manager from here
https://developer.android.com/studio

However when i unzip the file there is no exe file i can see to run the program as per the instructions.

What am i doing wrong?
Ta

So I do this:

After downloading the ISO file, you'll need to use Boot Camp Assistant to move it to a bootable USB drive.
Insert a USB flash drive to your Mac. ...
Open Boot Camp Assistant. ...
Check the box for "Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk" and deselect "Install Windows 7 or later version."
Click Continue to proceed.

After a bit I get not enough memory. Any ideas please?

Completely basic question, can anyone recommend a decent Bluetooth mouse, preferably rechargeable? I have started using Maya that requires the middle mouse button... so my Apple mouse isn’t good enough. Got a couple of wireless mice but the receivers are gone so Bluetooth is quite important... ideally less than £20...

And my cat had also adapted an actual mouse! Yay!

If you can get it at a low price, this is a great mouse.
https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/Logitech-Rechargeable-Multi-Device-Programmable-Productivity/product/B0761YL588?context=tracker

I got one of these for £20 or so on Amazon.

https://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/m590-silent-wireless-mouse

Not rechargeable but the battery lasts ages.

Bloody right handed thumb buttons..

A bit of a weird one, but does anyone want to buy a Fusion-io 825gb PCI-E card?

I'd imagine it would make a fantastic scratch disk.

Logitech mice, they are good! Thanks for the recommendations!

@SPOTTER I might be interested in the Fusion card. I'll PM to discuss.

Running an optimisation scan with BullGuard it says I need to close chrome.exe and try again. As far as I can tell I don't have a malicious .exe running so what does this mean? Anyone? Thanks.

ctrl + alt + delete -> task manager -> close any Chrome tasks

Thanks Sumo.

My (Win 10) laptop is running really hot at the moment (early generation i7 so has always run a bit hot).

I'm planning to open it up and give it a spray with compressed air as I suspect it may be a bit clogged up with dust.

I also suspect that there are a few things chugging away in the background causing an issue too. I can't find anything in task manager and I've run ccleaner, malwarebytes, etc to check there's no malware or anything causing the issues.

Is there anything else I can do short of a clean install? I can't really be bothered reinstalling everything (in particular I've got a load of symlinks that I can't remember where they're pointing from/to that I don't want to have to set up again).

Open msconfig and turn off all the extras running on startup?

Any processes causing it to run hot should be very obvious in task manager, I'd be surprised if malware was responsible for something like that. Only exception would be a dodgy GPU-mining thing.

Also, shortcut to bring up task manager directly is ctrl+shift+esc.

When I try to watch videos on Tiz cycling, which have always worked before, I get a plain red screen. I had some problems in the past with videos going green and the PC restarting (though it hasn't happened in a while, I think it was a driver issue). I'm not having any issues on any other site. Any thoughts? Win 10, PC is few months old.

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Are you running an ad-blocker or something similar?

Disabling it for that site may help you watch it, but there could be consequences.

Cheers. Startup is already pretty pared down.

My main thought is some system process is causing it but I can't see anything obvious.

D'oh. Thanks Brun, it was indeed the adblocker.

Dust quite likely.

Might be worth giving it a small undervolt to take around 5degrees off the temp.

Cheers. I assume an undervolt would also impact performance which I'd prefer to avoid.

Not from the reading I've done. I'm running -110 on my i7 laptop happily with no performance impact. Stress testing I did suggested it would happily run at -130 and I walked it back just to ensure it wasn't hindering the processor (which apparently it doesn't do anyway). I got a 10 degree heat difference which has really improved things which is important because this one really likes to thermal throttle.

Cheers, I may look into this then.

Is it through Windows based software or the BIOS or something else?

I use Throttlestop. The options on it are a bit baffling but there are loads of undervolt guides which show the elements of the program to use. If you want it to run at startup/login it has to be done through task scheduler but that is easy to do.

This GUIDE seems pretty comprehensive

Also try services.msc, and disable as much as you dare