PraveenRamanujam

This video genuinely saved my bacon. I had an external drive fail when I used it on a Windows computer. The disk kept showing as local disk and the computer kept freezing every time I tried accessing the drive. I tried most of the usual trouble shooting steps and with no success, decided to seek help from a "professional" hard drive recovery center here in the Netherlands since I don't have access to another computer running a different OS nor an external SATA USB adapter or something so that I can test the connector itself.
Admittedly, I only spent 30 euros for a diagnostic service not a full fledged recovery. Despite me telling them that I suspect a file partition system error or something along those lines, even after 5 days, the "professional" service wasn't able to apparently diagnose anything and advised me to send it to a clean room recovery service. I was not ready to spend 500 euros on this. I had pretty much resigned to the fact that whatever data was on it, it was no longer mine.
Out of nowhere, this video tells me to disable automatic windows volume mounting and boy, I cannot express the joy I felt when I was able to read this RAW disk and recover all of my data successfully and better yet, be able to read the disk from Windows' disk management and repartition the whole thing. Now I have all my data back and also a fairly usable back up backup drive.
 
I guess I'm just trying to say thanks for doing what you guys do and as much as I am now inclined to support @LinusTech either through a flloatplane subscription or a merch purchase, I am sadly not in a position to throw around money. But once again, a big thank you from me for this video and all the other videos in general. Huge fan!
 
Praveen.

Last time I used the downloadable version, windows notifications worked, no luck on the UWP version though

@Yeasman If you are not satisfied with the audio coming from your audio output, you could try using a USB external soundcard. All you need to do it plug in the device, install the driver (if you need the EQ and other speaker configuration utilities) and you should have pretty decent audio. Something as cheap as a 20 EURO one from ROCCAT, i.e. the ROCCAT Juke 7.1 does a fairly decent job for me. My laptop has pretty good on-board audio but still I could notice a small, albeit perceivable difference in the audio experience from my device. The external soundcard has a 3.5mm jack for the headphone out and also a microphone input. So all standard 3.5mm audio devices should work with this. Now I know this is not a free solution..but considering that you have  an old motherboard, I'm sure the 20 EURO investment that I made would also work well for you.
The software utility that comes with this (still an outdated Windows XP/Vista based version) has some potent tweaks and the built-in equalizer effectively processes all audio signals transmitted through the card and you'd have very less trouble getting the experience you desire (unless you're an audiophile). If you don't mind stretching your budget a little further, consider similar cards from Creative/ASUS. I'd definitely recommend these cheap external soundcards for improving the experience from your on-board audio.
 
The key benefit of using an external sound card is that this card receives the audio signals as a digital input and does the analog conversion outside the motherboard. This theoretically eliminates interference from other electronic devices in close proximity to the on-board audio devices and so you should technically have no static noise in your audio. Bear in mind that the one I have suggested here does not come with any kind of audio amplification. It simply provides better stereo separation by processing the signals as though you are listening it on a 7.1 (virtual) speaker/headphone setup.

Hey Willi, my guess is that the adapter is configured to only look for thr 5GHz band. I suggest you try the following..might work..
 
1. Open Device Manager.
2. Navigate to Network Adapters -> Your wireless adapter
3. Right click the necessary network adatper -> Properties -> Advanced tab
4. Set the preferred band to "No preference".
 
My prediction is that this could remove the single band preference and open up your router to look for other frequency bands as well. Let me know if it works or if my suggestion was useless. Cheers!
 
Praveen.
 

Did you disable event log service by any chance? Disabling that in Win10 causes all sorts of problems with connections.
 
type in to search
 
msconfig
 
go to services tab and select enable all
 
click apply, reboot and hope for the best
 
 

There's no real restraint, youtube's algorithm hates spam, so if they where to throw out 5+ videos one day their CPM might be lowered because of the change in video releases, not to mention the lower views per video due to the short time gap.
 
I'm sure there is some science behind releasing, but video creation can take time for sponsors to agree etc, then theirs videos like this one where the products might take 30-60 days just to get to them, then they can film/edit etc. So a video like this with a intended release in say Oct could be pushed 2 months if shipment was delayed, which gives additional reason for large date differences.
 
You also want to keep your employees fully employed too so even if you could produce 20 videos a week if you can't keep up that production you might find the revenue and full time employees are not beneficial. This could not just be ad revenue but partners like Tunnelbear might expect lower fees due to the short lifetime of the video. One other thing they rely on are amazon affiliate links, if you keep throwing new videos out people might pass on clicking the amazon link to buy products just to watch the next video, hence lost income.
 
It's a delicate balance of workload and income from their sources.

Look at the Tech Showdown It'll give a rough idea when they made it: The dates said Sept 27-Oct 2 yet that ep was released in Dec.
 
I gave a possible explanation in the 2nd part of mining video here (I think) , simply put they had no available slots for maximum ad revenue till said time. Releasing videos on FP possibly months in advance is not good either. It also gives them time to fix errors (no excuse with the intel video mistake really...)

Ehhh, the fans are cheap enough to replace, I wouldn't worry about it.

Nah, probably not, I'm sure there is enough manufacturing differences in batches to not be able to guess. But I think Lenovo's thinkpads are made well so I wouldn't worry about replacing the fan too often if ever.

Thanks for instilling some confidence man!