BeefyMeats

yep, it sucks big time I just find everything i need manually and pin it to the start for all other searches the WSL bash mlocate with sed finds all other little files much faster

The sotify program on my computer does this by default.

Is the usb port directly attached to the mobo? Maybe that could help I once had an amp (not a dac) that was powered via usb. When the power was supplied by the mobo usb port it sounded terrible, but when powered with a phone charger it sounded perfect, but the amp was too tiny for what I wanted. I got a dac and amp now that each get their power from the wall, and its been great ever since. I could be wrong, but see if you can buy a usb cable that splits power and data, and plug the power side into a decent separate usb power supply separate from he computer.

Not aware of any, but I have accidentally found a few crypto coin mining websites that managed to slam my CPU. I dont think they will give you meaning benchmark data though. It might be easier to just see the about page on the OS which tells you the model of CPU that many others have already bench marked.

I just tried win10 in virtualbox with ddr3, and its way worse. I think Im gonna ditch virtualbox now It was way faster directly on the host.

Although solved. Another option might have been to use GRUB boot loader to replace the windows boot manager. Its not fun to configure and setup though. Why not run XP in a VM and pass things though to it?

This might sound dumb, but most wifi routers / access points have a web interface that would let you block a MAC address (no internet), and should work on your phone. Might be easier? If they can figure out how to spoof their MAC address then kudos to them; they are smart. As for a free simple way to filter internet content; look into changing their DNS servers to point to a filtering DNS server that you can trust.

That sucks.. Im able to get away with it by telling them to use OWA for a while until changes sync. Be sure to let us know if you find an easy fix!

As long as its not joined to their domain and the OS was installed by you; nothing much at all. Other then possibly removing the activation if they used a MAK key, If it was activated with their own local KMS activation server, then it might have be re activated every once in a while on their network. if you run the command below, than it will tell you what licence model was used to activate and the days remaining if KMS was used. A normal key would say "Retail channel" slmgr.vbs /dli

If you dont have money. Than why buy a license at all? You do know that you can install windows 10 without a key and it will work just fine, right?

If mobo (cmos) is bad than time will be off if the computer has been completely off for a while. In the control panel; search for "time" and click change date and time. Then -> internet time. Type in pool.ntp.org and click update now. Should be good after that.

You could install mlocate than run updatedb, than search everywhere for the file.

I think ffmpeg via HLS and than HLS .js would be interesting. I want to try it someday.

Also if you are trying to play sounds from an application via a "microphone", also look at Audio Router... it lets you route a specific application like Chrome or spotify.. into a virtual cable and treat it like a microphone input, so that you dont hear all the other applications making sounds on the stereo mix.