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    Flashie got a reaction from dalekphalm in "Reconnect your drive. Your File History Drive was disconnected."   
    Lets start off with what File History is: File history is a Windows 8.1 and selected Windows 10 Operating systems utility that allows the user to back up their default User-files such as "Music"; "Pictures" or "Documents" easily to a storage medium at an appropriate interval of time.

    To get to the solution i reached, follow the following steps
     
    Enter your control panel
     


    Enter System and Security
     


    Enter File History
     


    Ensure that file history is turned OFF
     


    If all is done right: It should look like this



    If this helped you - please dont be afraid to leave a like and give credit where credit is due. Thanks everyone,
    have a good one
    Flash
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    Flashie reacted to vorticalbox in Network Sharing   
    you need password protected sharing.
     
    http://www.isunshare.com/windows-10/turn-off-or-on-password-protected-sharing-in-windows-10.html
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    Flashie got a reaction from swordsman247 in New SSD not taking win 7 install   
    Thanks for the replies - Im just gathering info at this stage and will be using all this information tomorrow when i have the PC in my hands again. Right now i've disconnected the sata data cable for now, and re-setup his HDD which he will be using in combo with the SSD. This way he will still be able to work till i can get to the system again.
     
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    Flashie got a reaction from Enderman in New SSD not taking win 7 install   
    Yup - One of the first things I did. Fortunately ive made that mistake only once with my personal rig and beared the consequences. Therefor i wont do it to a customers PC or any PC im servicing again
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    Flashie reacted to ComradeVodka in Youtube videos not loading   
    Try clearing your cache/cookies/etc. And basically restore chrome to its fresh factory condition. This often solves a lot of issues.
     
    Otherwise do this and then do a full reïnstall of chrome
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    Flashie reacted to prieter in Physically rebuild a USB memory stick   
    If it has a cover, make a mould of it and try to resemble the thickness of the material that it's housing used to have
     
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    Flashie reacted to Mr.Meerkat in Physically rebuild a USB memory stick   
    Maybe get a old cable and try soldering the wires to the contacts? probably not a good idea but in the worst case scenario, it's something  
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    Flashie reacted to Mr.Meerkat in Motherboard no post   
    Very likely, yes...unfortunately  
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    Flashie reacted to Mr.Meerkat in Motherboard no post   
    It is but, it's a ivy bridge CPU but the boards were launched a year earlier for sandy bridge and in order for them to be compatible a year later when Intel released ivy bridge CPUs, you had to flash the bios for the bios to support the new ivy bridge chips..
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    Flashie reacted to Naeaes in R9 290 DVI doesnt work   
    I'll explain four concepts to get to the root of this. Passive and active conversion and digital and analog signals. It's a bit too elaborate but will help you with a lot of other stuff in the long run.
     
    Passive conversion is just two connectors soldered together. You can have, say, RCA at one end and a 3.5mm plug at the other and a wire connecting the two. It does nothing to the signal but you'll be able to plug it into different connectors. There's nothing smart abot a wire like that. And since a wire like that doesn't do anything at all but physically connect the two together, you can technically have any wire you can imagine with any connectors in the world. Want a DVI to 3.5mm audio? Fine. Want HDMI to Sata? Sure. Want friggin' left-front stereo channel from a 2012 Toyota Hilux into 240VAC Scuco? Why the hell not, just solder the two together. None of these do anything but convert one connector to the other and do not comment if it will or technically even imply if it will work. That's entirely up to the two devices. Both all digital and all analog devices can use passive conversion but not mix and match. DVI-A to VGA works, Mini-HDMI to HDMI works, DVI-A to HDMI doesn't work. 
    Unless you don't use it for the implied purpose but for something entirely different. Solder an HDMI jack on your headset, and a DVI-A instead of the headphone connectors on your computer and use a DVI-A to HDMI cable to connect the two. 
     
    Active conversion actually does something. It's more than just connectors. You might say, the active part of the conversion is entirely separate from the passive connectors. There's a chip or something that listens to the signal coming in, perhaps de-compresses it, converts it onto something else and then transmits it onward to the other connector. Think of it like a translator. You speak English into it and Spanish comes out. 
    BTW, that's not to say that if you speak Spanish into the other end, English will come out from the first one. Active conversion isn't always two-way. But with active conversion, it's possible to go from VGA (Analog) to HDMI (Digital) or for instance PCI-E (Digital) to Sata-III (Also digital). Did you see that? The signal stays digital but still needs active conversion. And also, the connectors can stay the same but the signal can change. A HDMI splitter would have HDMI-in and several HDMI-out and only mess with the signal to trick the sending device into thinking there's only one device plugged in.
     
    Analog signal is generated by varying the intensity of the voltage according to the intensity of the signal. For example, a black color might be 0 Volts, bright blue could be 5 Volts and a mellow mid-way gray-ish blue would be 2,5 Volts. Do the same for red and green channels and you basically have VGA on your hands. 
    Also going below the 0 Volts is possible in analog signaling. Sound does that. Going far above 0 Volts pushes the cone of a speaker far ahead and going far below 0 Volts pulls it far back and varying different voltages in between very quickly and precisely, moves the cone very quickly and precisely generating sound like music. 
     
    Digital signal on the other hand is kind of all or nothing. Either there is electricity or not and it's not so much about how much there is. Hope you know about binary and bits a bit.
    In digital signal you'd put 5 Volts into the wire to generate a 1-bit and 0 Volts generate a 0-bit. There's never 4 Volts or 2 Volts or anything but either 0 or 5 Volts. Well, there shouldn't be or there should be as little of them as possible. So, combining with the example from the analog signal, since you only have 0 Volts and 5 Volts available, this digital signal could only ever generate full black or full blue and nothing in between. But digital signals don't work like that. Instead you combine those ones and zeroes together and create numbers. And the receiving device interprets the numbers, not the voltages. For instance there might a signal of 00000000, 00000000, 11111111 representing #0000ff (that's bright blue in html) and 00-00-255 in plain decimal.
    As I explained earlier, it's entirely possible to connect a digital source to an analog input. You can for instance pull apart the cable leading to your modem, solder a jack on it and plug that to the mic input in your stereo. Every 1-bit would push the cone far forward and every 0-bit would pull it back in the middle. It'd generate noise too. If you ever heard the noise from a Dial-up modem, that's an analog representation of a digital signal. 
     
    So to recap, passive converters exist and can work but it's not the converter making it work, it's the devices. Active converters do something to the signal itself and usually also include a passive part that converts the connectors too. Analog signal is about how much electricity there is and digital is about if there is or not. 
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    Flashie reacted to itvend in DIY Testbench   
    Did it for lulz




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    Flashie reacted to Naeaes in What is missing? What Goes Here (PCB Intensive)   
    A diode. It's a component that allows current to pass one way but not the other. They're often used as a security measure in case of short circuits, wrong polarity, overcurrent/voltage and so on and so forth. Kind of like a fuse of sorts. But technically not. 
     
    Edit: Here's an actual smart person explaining the same thing.
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    Flashie got a reaction from Mr.Meerkat in Motherboard no post   
    I'll keep an eye open and ask around, thanks for assisting
     
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    Flashie reacted to Thx And Bye in What is the fix?   
    MSVCP100.dll is part of the Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Package.
    Just download the right (32bit / 64bit) package from micosoft.
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    Flashie got a reaction from Thx And Bye in What is the fix?   
    Now i luv you  I eventually found that out by trying the 32-bit after that (hence the browser_x86 error )
     
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    Flashie reacted to mikat in E-Book to PDF   
    http://www.epub-to-pdf.com/

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    Flashie reacted to SoftwareNinja in Can someone help me with my question?   
    So overall to be safe i should just reinstall my os!
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    Flashie reacted to ReturnOfCzex in Can someone help me with my question?   
    Pretty much. Backup data first.
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    Flashie reacted to Dietrichw in Is Scrapyard Wars Episode 2 already on Vessel?   
    yes it is
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    Flashie reacted to Toxicknight79 in Can someone help me with my question?   
    Actually Its hard to say really if it will be as simple as that , you'll have the  old drivers and registries for said drivers chipset, about everything will need to be  properly uninstalled  then your new drivers installed , I had a pc that wouldnt boot into windows when I added a drive with a preinstalled OS.  had to  format and start over. but usually you can boot in safe mode. to do the driver uninstalls
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    Flashie reacted to ReturnOfCzex in Can someone help me with my question?   
    Uh... Not quite. Windows is attached to the hardware it's used with to activate first. Once removed, it may need to be reactivated. Make sure you have that key.
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    Flashie reacted to ShadowCaptain in Google is discontinuing the Chrome App Launcher.   
    When I first added this to my taskbar i was like "wow awesome this is great"
     
    and then completely forgot it existed
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    Flashie reacted to EvilNeo in how do you get the free game from Nvidia offers?   
    so the two notes were inside the GPU box?
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    Flashie got a reaction from mcraftax in Generally what do people think about buying old servers on ebay?   
    I was planning on doing this earlier this summer, and found one for $80. Eventually went against it. Was planning to buy it just for the sake of gaining more experience in the practical field of servers and server maintenance as well as handling server OS's and possibly setting up a file-storage-server.
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    Flashie got a reaction from ServerSide_Drew in Generally what do people think about buying old servers on ebay?   
    I was planning on doing this earlier this summer, and found one for $80. Eventually went against it. Was planning to buy it just for the sake of gaining more experience in the practical field of servers and server maintenance as well as handling server OS's and possibly setting up a file-storage-server.
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