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Once upon a time, I used eTrade to manage my stocks, that program has since been deleted. Now with Chromium adblock support leaving, I have switched to Firefox. Firefox's keyboard shortcut is ctrl+shift+p for private mode. However when I use that keystroke, I am having Internet Explorer popup with the etrade website. I have looked at how to get rid of this and I am kind of at a loss. Can anyone help me out? Thanks

Budget (including currency): cost of a hard drive Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Home server, basic file sharing Other details I already own the PC that I plan on using. It will be an older i5 (2500 or 3570 or so, not exactly sure what is in it), I hear these run on Raspberri Pis so I'm assuming it will be ok?? Basically I am wanting to turn an old PC into a home server. This is basically just file sharing and something that I can offload my torrents to and not worry about running them on my main machine. I am thinking this computer needs to be Linux, I was planning on a normal Linux Mint install. I want the computer to sit on its own with no monitor, so I want to be able to hit power and have it start up and be running. However to control it, I want to use my main PC (Windows) and I don't want to mess with the terminal and command prompt more than I have to. I believe I can RDP into it. Would this be the best way to do it? I also have seen some videos on YouTube of these types of servers with using torrents on a web browser, but I do not know what that is or how to set it up. Would that be the best way to control my torrents? Or just RDP into the machine and do it that way? I am not much into using Plex or Jellyfin or anything like that. On my main machine I just share a folder with my Nvidia shield that I access through VLC or MX player, and honestly I am just fine to continue that setup, it works fine for what I do. My big reason of the server build is to do this but just be able to shut my main machine off and be able to download large torrents overnight (I turn my main machine off at night, I sleep in the same room and the lights are a no go for sleep). So what is it that I am looking for? Am I on the right track? Is there anything that I should have thought about that has slipped my mind? Thanks for the help.

I am not sure if that is the case or not. On my old motherboard, I had no problem getting a splash screen from either DP monitor. I also took my PC to a friend's house who has a similar setup (3 monitors, 2 DP and 1 HDMI), but all of his monitors are nicer than mine, and it was the same problems there too. I also cannot get into the BIOS by repeatedly hitting delete unless it is the HDMI monitor only.

I just bought a new Asus B660 motherboard to pair with a 12400F. I run a computer with 3 monitors, 2 on DisplayPort (including my main), and the other on HDMI (soon to be on DP). When I installed the motherboard and CPU, I was worried that something had gone wrong, I had screwed my GPU up or RAM was bad or something. Turns out that I had to plug in ONLY the HDMI monitor to get a post. Now, when I got to Windows, I started plugging in my 2 DP monitors in, eventually I have everything working fine. Now when I reboot, I get no ASUS splash screen and can't enter the BIOS. I have tried hitting delete and F2 on bootup, never got anything. First thing I get is the Windows log in screen. Now when I go and unplug my DP monitors and only use the HDMI one, I get the splash screen and can easily enter the BIOS. I have looked online and tried have tried to fine a setting in my BIOS to disable the iGPU and go to the GPU, but it is not there. I just got off of the phone with Asus and was told to disable fast boot and that would fix the problem. It did not. Does anyone have a clue what I need to do to get this working normally? I don't want to have to be unplugging monitors in everytime I need to go to the BIOS or potentially boot a USB drive. Thanks for the help.

Thanks for all of the help guys. Right now, the plan is to start off with LTSC and apply some additional steps if need be. I am a few minutes away from starting the LTSC install. Hopefully everything works as intended.

I am setting up a computer that I will need running 24/7, this means absolutely no Windows updates in the middle of the night. My initial idea was to run the application on my Arch machine, but this is a .net program that will not install with Wine, so Windows it is. I know in Windows 10, even when you tell the machine to stop updates, they eventually turn themselves back on somehow. Is there a way to completely turn them off? I am also open to the idea of running an old version of the OS, such as Windows 7 that has support removed and will not receive updates. I am even also willing to look into some server solution if that is necessary. Or if someone else has a better idea than those, please let me know. I am open to ideas and brainstorming. Thanks for all of the help.

Thanks for this. I ended up just going nuclear and reinstalling Windows... Thanks Microsoft. Luckily I have a Linux machine that I keep around to tinker with to save me with. I am definitely saving this if something ever happens again.

I'm on Win 10 1909. I was having problems with games crashing, thought it was likely a driver issue. DDU wanted me to go to safe mode, since MS decided to be jerks about how to get there, I had to look it up like I do every time after win 7. I did the method to go to msconfig and check the box for safe mode. Well now I have always logged in with a PIN, but safe mode wants a password... I've tried everything possible. All reboots go to safe mode. Any ideas?

I want to build an emulation machine, I am just going to install Batocera (I have heard this is the best OS for this, better than Recalbox and Lakka, please let me know if I am correct in this assessment). I have access to some old Dell PCs. The best CPUs I have access to are i5 3470 and i3 6100. I am not sure which one to go with. The i3 would have better single core performance and better iGPU, but the i5 obviously has more threads and that could help with some newer systems. Also for RAM, I can put in as much as needed, but I was thinking 4GB would be plenty? What do you guys think? Thanks for the help.

I just got an idea and ran a system restore from last night and that seems to have fixed the problem. But if anyone knows what may have happened, please let me know. I'd like to be able to fix that if I come up to it. I am definitely not hooking those earbuds up to my PC again.

Everything was working fine with my PC, but I have a set of bluetooth earbuds that I use on my phone. I decided to try them with a game on my PC just for kicks. I didn't like it so I decided to unpair it. Now, the sound from my speakers is not working. I have my speakers set as the default device, but nothing. Also, for some reason, the PC doesn't want to stream a video or play a file so I can test the audio. Any one have a clue what is going on? This is very strange.. Everything was fine until I tried the bluetooth earbuds. Also, sometimes in the taskbar, the audio has a red x on it, with "The Audio Service is Not Running" when I hover the mouse over it. I have tried the troubleshooter, and nothing.

For a couple of years, I have been running an i5-4690k at 4.5Ghz and have had no problems with it. Usually the most taxing thing I do with my PC is game, I have a GTX 1080 and a 1440p 95hz monitor. I was able to get my hands on a free 4790s. I thought it was going to be a 4790, and I was going to make the switch as I found that it is slightly better than my i5, not by much that I'd ever notice or anything in the real world. I found that the 4790s has the same turbo boost of the 4790 at 4.0Ghz, but base clock is 200Mhz slower, which I have heard doesn't matter. If base clock doesn't matter, then what is even the point of having the 4790 when the 4790s uses less power? What should I do, or am I just thinking too much about this. Also, do not take cost/selling price into consideration as both CPUs are going to be used, it is just if I want to change the CPU in my main rig. Thanks

Thanks, for some reason I didn't realize that the firmware had been updated so much. My build was from 3/25/13, and I just checked and there is one from 9/7/17. Sorry for not checking that before coming here. I am going to flash that and then change some cables out and see if that fixes the problem. Thanks

I recently got a free upgrade from 60mbps to 100mbps from my ISP. I use a wired connection on a Netgear WNR3500v2 running DD-WRT, which is supposed to be a gigbit wired connection. I have had it for a couple of years and really don't have any problems out of it and rarely have to reset it. I wired my PC directly to the modem and got 110mbps, however through the router it is 60mbps (I guess that was convenient when I had 60mbps internet), so it is obviously something with the router. It has been a while since I have done much configuration with the router, and other than a securing the wifi, it is pretty standard. Any ideas on where I should start looking? Thanks

Thanks for the reply. However, I unplugged the hard drive. Nothing on screen, only a blue light. Put the hard drive back in and had the same result. In a few days, I am going to do a PSU swap with a friend's PS4 to see if that may be the problem. Any other ideas? Thanks