[There's this teeny thing called a hurricane]

 

(That info box in the lower left is talking about tomorrows' later predicted location & wind strength.)

 

 

(Above is an hourly forecast for southeastern CT were I live. Notice the wind strengths each hour (in mph). Not too rough, but enough to make a mess of things.)

 

Stormpulse A great site for more accurate tracking.

 

Keep in mind this system though weakened after travel, will affect Iceland, Scotland and England.

[Kill your online accounts]

Thanks, I bookmarked that.

[Forums roll-back?]

True, dat!

[How do you do this?]

Kroozer, I got the ram stick today, put it in the 4th slot and it works great. 8 gigs (7.75 gigs available). Gives me a nice edge on fractal generators. Thanks for telling me about PNY.

 

Here's the Speccy on that PNY DIMM...

 

RAM

Memory slots

Total memory slots 4

Used memory slots 4

Free memory slots 0

Memory

Type DDR3

Size 8192 MBytes

Channels # Dual

DRAM Frequency 666.7 MHz

CAS# Latency (CL) 9 clocks

RAS# to CAS# Delay (tRCD) 9 clocks

RAS# Precharge (tRP) 9 clocks

Cycle Time (tRAS) 24 clocks

Bank Cycle Time (tRC) 33 clocks

Command Rate (CR) 2T

Physical Memory

Memory Usage 28 %

Total Physical 7.75 GB

Available Physical 1.53 GB

Total Virtual 8.00 TB

Available Virtual 3.86 GB

SPD

Number Of SPD Modules 4

Slot #1

Type DDR3

Size 2048 MBytes

Manufacturer PNY Electronics

Max Bandwidth PC3-10700 (667 MHz)

Part Number 6AB0HHHJ-HS

Week/year 25 / 11

SPD Ext. EPP

JEDEC #6

Frequency 761.9 MHz

CAS# Latency 10.0

RAS# To CAS# 10

RAS# Precharge 10

tRAS 28

tRC 38

Voltage 1.500 V

JEDEC #5

Frequency 685.7 MHz

CAS# Latency 9.0

RAS# To CAS# 9

RAS# Precharge 9

tRAS 25

tRC 34

Voltage 1.500 V

JEDEC #4

Frequency 609.5 MHz

CAS# Latency 8.0

RAS# To CAS# 8

RAS# Precharge 8

tRAS 22

tRC 30

Voltage 1.500 V

JEDEC #3

Frequency 533.3 MHz

CAS# Latency 7.0

RAS# To CAS# 7

RAS# Precharge 7

tRAS 20

tRC 27

Voltage 1.500 V

JEDEC #2

Frequency 457.1 MHz

CAS# Latency 6.0

RAS# To CAS# 6

RAS# Precharge 6

tRAS 17

tRC 23

Voltage 1.500 V

JEDEC #1

Frequency 381.0 MHz

CAS# Latency 5.0

RAS# To CAS# 5

RAS# Precharge 5

tRAS 14

tRC 19

Voltage 1.500 V

Slot #2

Slot #3

Slot #4

 

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Strange, the PNY DIMM has 6 JEDEC things. My other 3 sticks only have 4 each. Either way, it's working beautifully. It's so nice not to be using ancient RAMBUS anymore.

[August Desktops]

Here's a little blurb I made in Apophysis today.

 

[cats]

Cats, because they're more feral in nature. I like gaining the trust of feral animals. It's a self-learned disciplined challenge that I thoroughly enjoy.

If I can gain the trust of a bird, squirrel, skunk, chipmunk or even a field mouse, it brings me more joy than the dotings of a loving dog, although I also love that too for it's own reasons. But gaining the trust of a wild animal is an altogether different experience. (No, I'm not gonna go hug a polar bear.)

[Dennis]

Hey Dennis! Good to see you back!

[How do i know if my computer has Viruses?]

Ooooh, visuals. Thanks Hazelnut!

[How do you do this?]

Well it seems I have DDR3, and that's what I ordered. So I think I'm okay there.

[MSE Update]

It was successful this morning.

[Crystal.exe]

Get anything you can from filehippo.com . They're a Piriform approved site. I've used it for many years. Clean stuff. But the best bet is to see what the folks at Piriform say about all apps available there. For example, I don't install Java anymore. I thought it was as necessary as Flash. Not so much, apparently. Adobe bloat uses Java. And I hate bloatware. Nothing sinks faster in water than a bloat.

[How do i know if my computer has Viruses?]

^^^ Would you believe I googled "sandboxie for dummies" and got this?

 

Yes........yes I would. I know I know I know, I could've searched for it on Google or Bing, but I also know that you guys would direct me to to bestest fastest solution to this than Google or Bing ever could. You're just so much more on top of things than (cough/spit) Google, etc.

 

And that's a definite compliment. I bookmarked that site and will check it out soon.

[How do you do this?]

Good point. I'll have a look inside tomorrow and see how many slots I have. (Should be 4, but still I'll investigate.)

Here's what Speccy says...

 

RAM

Memory slots

Total memory slots 4

Used memory slots 3

Free memory slots 1

Memory

Type DDR3

Size 6144 MBytes

Channels # Dual

DRAM Frequency 666.7 MHz

CAS# Latency (CL) 9 clocks

RAS# to CAS# Delay (tRCD) 9 clocks

RAS# Precharge (tRP) 9 clocks

Cycle Time (tRAS) 24 clocks

Bank Cycle Time (tRC) 33 clocks

Command Rate (CR) 1T

Physical Memory

Memory Usage 34 %

Total Physical 5.75 GB

Available Physical 3.77 GB

Total Virtual 8.00 TB

Available Virtual 8.00 TB

SPD

Number Of SPD Modules 3

Slot #1

Slot #2

Slot #3

[Crystal.exe]

I would guess that means nVidea Wizard (like in a migration wizard.)

[MSE Update]

I won't try to update it. I'll let it do it itself and see what happened tomorrow morning. Could be a glitch.

[How do you do this?]

16 gigs ram? Whoa. Speccy tells me I have DDR3 ram, 3 of 4 slots taken. $15? Sounds good to me. I'll check that out. Thanks!

 

When you say, "Will it fit your system", do you mean does it have the correct bottom slot locations? (I have a recent HP Pavilion desktop.) Haven't they gone universal in that regard so "1 fits all"?

[How do i know if my computer has Viruses?]

I tried Sandboxie a few years ago and I couldn't make heads or tails between the dual 'Explorer trees'. I couldn't even tell which was which. I looked in the Tutorial/Help section and it was like trying to learn Flash or html or something. Obviously not very GUI intuitive. (Come back, MetaCreations!) Seemed more like an old 1995 FTP app. I'd really, truly like to take advantage of this app but not at the cost of tearing my hair out. Any advice on getting Sandboxie For Dummies material?

[How do you do this?]

I remember reading several times that newer desktops can hold up to 8 gigs of ram but unless you have "x" it will only recognize 6 gigs ram. And I believe "x" was "a 64 bit system", which I have. I currently have 6 gigs of ram but my system only recognizes 5.75 ram. Would it be worth it to get 2 more gigs of ram, being how cheap it is these days?

[Cnet/Download.com]

I've been using only filehippo since I joined here. I never trusted Cnet.

[How do you do this?]

How powerful a processor do you need for it to recognize anything larger than 6 gigs of installed ram? (I used to know but I forgot.)

[Mysterious Windows Beep]

If you uncheck then it is disabled from starting again until you tick the box.../...If all else fails then ERUNT restore will make everything good.

 

So if I uncheck it, it's the same as disabling a Service and can easily be turned on again by ticking it again. Good to know.

 

I love ERUNT but I haven't needed it since I went from XP to Win7 64. Last time I looked I wasn't sure ERUNT was even compatible with Win7 64, or even Vista. The orange 1998 webpage sort of enforces that assumption all by itself.

[Adobe Reader]

I wish I could help you with that "Administrators" thing but I'm as clueless about it as most people are. Well, except for the gang that runs this place, like Hazelnut and all.

I had an old beast of a desktop since 1999 that came with WinME, changed to XP, and used that till October last year when it finally died. 80 gigabytes. Now I got Win 7 desktop with a terabyte drive, tons of ram. Big difference.

 

"It's a blessing.....but it's a curse." Heh.

[Adobe Reader]

No insult meant toward you Shane. I have a twisted sense of humor, and for some reason the show "Monk" popped into my mind.

By "more generous" I meant C drives (not the actual OS's) have been getting bigger & bigger over the years so the worry over gaining more drive space by eliminating non-essential files has dropped quite a lot, for me anyway.

[Mysterious Windows Beep]

If I get an entry like this in Autoruns, is it safe to uncheck it?

 

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\Wds\rdpwd\StartupPrograms

 

rdpclip - File not found: rdpclip

 

And which categories should be deemed untouchable even if other "not found" entries appear in them? I always was fascinated by Autoruns but, like the hive, I dared not fiddle with it.

[Adobe Reader]

This obsession to remove 2k of a file...where does it come from? I could understand if you were running Win95 or Win93. XP is a bit more generous. Vista way more so. Win 7 way way more so. So, is this like a Monk thing? Step on a crack break your mothers' back?