Recent content by Mystere

Memory usage is probably one of the most misunderstood things about Windows. It's, of course, not helped by the fact that there are so many different kinds of memory reports, and these reports are often deceptive if you don't understand how they are calculated or what they mean. First, Windows...

UEFI is a replacement for the old BIOS. The old BIOS was extremely limited, and was stuck in a tiny amount of memory, and a text-only display with standard dos-like interrupts. It could only use MBR partitions, with a maximum of 4 partitions and 2TB of maximum addressability of 2TB. UEFI is...

Sorry to raise this from the dead, but... It turns out we were all wrong. Windows *intentionally* defrags SSD's once per month in order to improve performance, because there are several key data structures that, even on an SSD can get fragmented and cause issues. There's more about this...

Works 6 is pretty darn old.. What you describe sounds like the app just crashing. Chances are, it has a bug in it that isn't compatible with Windows 8.x. Try right clicking on the Works application icon, then going to Properties. Then switch to the compatibility tab. Click the Run...

Have you tried disabling all your startup items, then re-measuring startup? Then adding items back one at a time to find out what is slow?

I'm sorry, I don't understand.... I told you how to do what you want... You won't get into that tree if you do what I suggest in the first place. Don't double click on the item, right click and choose the folder location right away. If you do double click, just click the back button and go...

Well, as I said in an earlier post, most used != most popular, otherwise McDonalds would be the most popular food in the world... it's just the most eaten. Popularity implies that you actually prefer it to everything else.

Wow, you sure have a penchant for exaggeration. "Worlds most popular OS", "No need for Windows", "App for most all things you could want"... All of those things are simply false... at least for most people. You might get better reactions if you didn't try to blow smoke up our rear ends all...

F4 does not normally close windows, ALT-F4 does. Are you sure your ALT key isn't sticking? I would be surprised if the default Application function keys was also F4 to close... On my keyboard it's F6, and I have to have the function lock off for that to happen.

It depends. I usually take a look at the updated drivers. Sometimes they claim improvements in things like battery life, or reducing fan noise, or increasing performance. I tend to install new NVidia drivers because of this, and I check for new BIOS's every few months. However, I typically...

When you restore (un-maximize it) don't click on anything else, but press alt-space on the keyboard. You should see a menu. Use your arrow keys and click Move, then press one of the arrow keys and the window should now be slaved to your mouse. Another possibility is that the window has been...

It's funny how everyone seems to think that the way THEY use their computer is the way EVERYONE uses their computer. The fact is, most people who buy a computer get one with Windows 8 because that's what's in the stores. Most people don't know that there are start menu replacements. Most...

In windows 8, Defrag detects your SSD and will not run a defrag, but it will execute a TRIM command, which optimizes your SSD's garbage collection (SSD's don't fully delete things until a TRIM operation occurs). However, apparently there is a bug that can cause Windows to try to defrag as...

I wouldn't call Android "The world's most popular OS". That's like calling McDonald's "The world's most popular food". Just because it's the most used doesn't make it the most popular. Popularity implies that you prefer the OS over all others, and not just use it because it's the cheapest and...

I don't mean to be rude, but since this is a very technical operation I would suggest that if you don't understand the material enough to accomplish it... then you probably shouldn't be doing it.. since you won't know how to deal with any problems that can arise from moving the folder to a...