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The Samsung Note 7 is the best phone I've ever had. It took a beating from dropping, was "water resistant", and had super fast charging, faster than my current Moto Z Force. The Note 7 had responsive buttons and bright colors with a great speaker. (Disclaimer: I am NOT an audiophile. I don't know the difference between Bose & offbrand speakers.) The Note 7 did have issues, and did "burn" my "wireless" "rapid charger". It did also overheat when charging, and the phone would usually charge on the ground, on my cold hardwood floors. This was not because I was scared of it exploding, but I drain my battery on all of my phones during the day. They are in constant use. My phone is usually at less than 10%, so when I charge it overnight, I think of it as taking a pan that was boiling something, and then putting it under freezing water. Putting my phone into shock. This is why I wasn't surprised it over heated, most of my phones get hot. I wish Samsung put the money in to fix the phone, rather than recall. My Moto Z Force I currently use, has served me fine but has its issues. I really don't have much to complain about the Note 7. I have not given up with Samsung. Don't give up on them either please.

Hi! I've seen the "The Ultimate Pixel 3 KILLER" video and i want to buy the Redmi Note 7. What are my chances for using the described method to flash lineage os on the note 7? Does anyone have experience with this? best Regards Daniël Vegter (netherlands)

Let me just preface this by saying, I've already typed a lot of this and my pinky hit a button causing this text box to be de-selected. I was hitting the backspace key as I did that. I now get to retype a good chunk of text. I hope you'll forgive me if at any point I come across as wanting to kill something, like perhaps murder a carrot. Edit: I found out after retyping what I had lost that there is save functionality. Goldurn. So, this story begins fairly recently. There was a Windows Update on Wednesday the 14th. I believe this is where my story starts, however this first issue may well have started Wednesday morning before the application of the update. Please be wary of this inconsistency. Issue #1 Anyhow, this first issue starts as such. Recently I have set my computer to hibernate instead of shutting down because it loads much faster. Normally this works beautifully. Recently it has instead resulted in a myriad of issues when I wake my computer. So, I turn my computer on and it supposedly loads from where it left off, which was having a couple of tabs open in Google Chrome. I start my day's browsing by opening up a series of new tabs to check my beloved webcomics of the day. If I recall correctly these tabs simply never did load. They hung indefinitely. During this period I also go to open Microsoft Outlook. So, I see Microsoft Outlook load and start downloading emails. I check them, and move on back to my browser to try and figure out why it's not working. Many refreshes later and looking in the networking center I find no reason why it shouldn't be working. Networking is saying that it is connected both to my dinky 100mbps switch and my 300 mbps wifi. Dafuq? Anyways, I exit Chrome at some point and notice that Outlook has stopped responding. I end the program. At some point I opened Internet Explorer and it never even did fully load the User Interface (UI). At this point I'm starting to think that my system may have been penetrated by something malicious. First thought and action? Open Avast Anti Virus. Again, the UI never fully loads. That scared me because it wasn't even a freaking browser. Next step? Run Malwarebytes. The UI loads. I click the "run scan" button. It wants to update the data base. I know it won't be able to connect so I just click the "Skip Update" button. It did not acknowledge that it was a button or that I was clicking it. It just hung there trying to update its database. Next step, restart the computer. At some point I believe I managed to get to speedtest.net with google chrome, speeds were abismal. 7 Mbps down, less than 700 Kbps up. Connectivity existed, just was barely functional. Internet should be 7 Megabytes (not bits) down and 1-2 Megabytes (not bits) up. Other devices were at proper speeds. Issue #2 Today I had the computer in hibernate last night, and went to turn it on. Similar internet connectivity issues. Wisened up and just restarted from the get-go. Issue #3 So recently I've been wanting to move my operating system over from my mechanical drive to my Corsair Neutron GTX ssd. The hard drive has more space, and was holding more data than the sdd had space. This means I've had to move stuff off of there. I started this a week and a half ago, originally just removing programs and moving files from places they had built up to my 3TB seagate external drive. I was using WindirStat to help me find the places with the most data. Originally it did not have any discrepancies with Windows Explorer. No differences in terms of space used were emerging. They were reporting the same thing whenever they were refreshed. So, I decided to continue making space today. This included moving 20 GB of music off of my (C;) drive to my Seagate drive. It was going swimmingly. Files were moving reasonably fast and WindirStat was making me proud by telling me that there was less and less data. I then at some point went into widows explorer and noticed that it was still around 240 GB used (it was slightly north of that, and it has moved by small amounts up and down throughout the day, just I don't know by how much and when). Needless to say, I was alarmed. Moving 40 GB of stuff made around 10 GB difference. (Or perhaps less again, amounts are unknown. I wasn't religious about this). I then went on to see if maybe I had mis-remembered the amount of data I had started with. I went on to move some movie content and delete old IOS apps on Itunes. According to Winderstat I had moved a significant amount of data. Again, Windows explorer begged to differ. Fudge nutters. Issue #3 In what may have been fatal foolishness I went and right clicked the (C:) drive and clicked properties from the right click menu. I then went to disk cleanup (at the bottom right of the pie chart). It told me with a straight and honest face, that it could clear away a whole 60 GB of temporary files. First thought? HALLELUJAH! I'VE FOUND THE SACRED BUTTON! Guess what? According to Windows Explorer it may have done jack all. I may have accidentally interrupted it (I totally did) when I went to go do the same thing at the same time to the SSD (F:). This may have been a bad idea. So, I went and opened up the menu again, and guess what? It takes a couple times to get it to open again. Wasn't working at first. Eventually it works. Guess what? It says it now has around 53 or 58 GB of space from temporary files it can delete. After a little bit of user error I managed to run it correctly again. Windows Explorer is still not saying that there is any difference in data. Fudge. I forget when, but at some point earlier today (morningish) I was made to restart the computer. It did not restart properly. It was a basic Windows XP looking menu about how it needed to fix an issue with Windows. It said it could not fix the issue automatically, but when I restarted it Windows booted nicely. I also had an issue at one point where it was saying that the built in disc defragmenter was not installed. I got a menu telling me to go to the control panel and click "install programs". No such menu was showing up at that point in time. Issue #4 Today Microsoft released another Windows 7 update. I updated. Now, this update does not seem to have affected the previous issue. In fact, I am at a point where Windirstat reports 120 GB even and Explorer is reporting twice that, give or take 3 GB depending on the last disk cleanup and any other stuff it does. So, I after this update, I've notices that windows does not want to load certain programs. Even if I go to the location of the EXE, and I click that one directly, it will spit out an error saying the file can't be found. I can not run Windirstat as Admin, only normally. I can't get DXtory to work either way. Some things in Explorer don't work, like trying to get to the Uninstall programs menu. The button can be clicked but I see no disk activity when I click it, or some other buttons. At this point the only reason I haven't nuked it is because I don't want to lose my beloved Winamp Pro. With the service that allows me to activate Winamp Pro being down, nuking this computer will make me lose it potentially forever. Please Help. SOS. Will smooch if you can fix.

Seagate's Seven Is the World's Thinnest External Drive Available mid-to-late January for $100, the Seven's steel enclosure not only provides rigidity to protect the drive inside, it also allows labels and other information to be stamped onto the case during the manufacturing process so there's no need for garish stickers or labels to be added afterwards. original article by gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/seagates-seven-is-the-worlds-thinnest-external-drive-1675288957

I noticed that a folder called winsxs is slowly growing from 532 MB to 4.1 GB. It's not a big problem but I have a very limited hard drive space (151 GB) and I can't afford to lose 4 GB. Upon searching on the internet on how to reduce the size of this folder, I saw a topic about doing that. It says that I should be running Windows 7 SP1. What I did is I right-clicked computer and went to properties, but it only showed Windows 7 Professional, no service packs. I take a look at the Windows Update and clicked View update history. It was empty. It says that I have not tried to install any updates for the computer! The computer is set to automatically update, and yet it doesn't even have one update installed! I can recall a time when I raged because Windows was installing SP1 and it took a very long time to install, so that means it has installed even one update! The computer is 5-years old. Never broke down. Came with a pre-installed copy of Windows 7 Professional. Any help? I have attached a screen capture of the Windows Update. You can see it says that I haven't installed any updates in the computer. EDIT #1: The second attached screen capture is the Windows Update settings, requested by Tetters.

I noticed that a folder called winsxs is slowly growing from 532 MB to 4.1 GB. It's not a big problem but I have a very limited hard drive space (151 GB) and I can't afford to lose 4 GB. Upon searching on the internet on how to reduce the size of this folder, I saw a topic about doing that. It says that I should be running Windows 7 SP1. What I did is I right-clicked computer and went to properties, but it only showed Windows 7 Professional, no service packs. I take a look at the Windows Update and clicked View update history. It was empty. It says that I have not tried to install any updates for the computer! The computer is set to automatically update, and yet it doesn't even have one update installed! I can recall a time when I raged because Windows was installing SP1 and it took a very long time to install, so that means it has installed even one update! The computer is 5-years old. Never broke down. Came with a pre-installed copy of Windows 7 Professional. Any help? I have attached a screen capture of the Windows Update. You can see it says that I haven't installed any updates in the computer.

Please note: This is my first review, so structure may be a bit lacking, but I'll try my best. This is going to be in a quick pro/con setup. Price: $279.99 (As of today 249.99 at BestBuy and possibly others) Audio Specs: 5.1 Uncompressed Surrond(Pc/Mac) and Virtual Dolby Digital 5.1 via control box included. Whats Included: Headset, Audio Control Unit, Console Adapter, Headset to ACU cable, Headset to Phone cable( Mic + button on 4 pole), Phone to ACU cable. ACU USB/9 pin extender cable, Xbox Chat to ACU cable, and 1 optical digital audio cable. Pros: Very light, but durable, build quality. They are make of mostly plastic, but the swivels on the earcups and the higth adjustment feel VERY solid. Uncompressed 5.1 surround VIA USB for PC users. Virtual 5.1 surround from almost any source. Immersive deep bass notes. Good microphone. Total control of everything, from the presets to the speaker angles/volumes Control audio levels of your game, chat, phone, and mic monitor with their own independent wheel. The foam ear cups are very nice feeling after just a few days of use. Cons: Pricey, but have a reason to be. Not 7.1, but I didn't hear a huge difference in testing compared to my other headsets. Plastic... They are really rough on your ears for the first 10 or so hours. I personally don't care for the color scheme of them, but it doesn't bother me much... A bit too much for phone gaming...( They include a cable for you to wear around town with your $280 headphones....) The console interface looks a bit blocky when compared to the design of the ACU The ACU buttons are a bit too touchy for my taste... I caught it after accidentally moving it's wire and changed the preset, muted the mic, and put it in 5.1 editor mode. Final thoughts: I really am enjoying the experience that this headset gives me. I have big ears, but the foam rests perfectly around my ear. I wouldn't recommend these to the casual gamer, but if you are looking for an advantage, you will hear every footstep around, that is if you can set the settings right :/ 4.5/5 Thanks for reading Edit: Formatting

Hey guys, Windspeed36 posted this in his status update, but I felt like making a thread on it just for those who aren't his friend (who wouldn't be? But wtv). Here's the kickstarter (8 days left as of posting) It's basically a mixture of a zombie survival game and Minecraft. It's as awesome as it sounds.

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit Machine: [see siggy] Ok so my problem is short and self explanatory. Sometimes, not all the time, Windows 7 is slow to start up. It hangs at the "Starting up..." text for an extended period of time. Other/ most times its less then 15 seconds from pushing the powerbutton to the logon screen for me give or take. I'm not sure whats causing it, and I'm not asking if any of you know but I am asking where I can start looking for answers (I.e, event viewer). It's annoying when it happens, and isn't anything serious. But if 2 out of 10 boots is slow, its a problem for me.... Any help you all can offer is greatly appreciated.

Hello, I need help, my pc had windows 8 and 7 in dualboot, after (again) a failed attempt to install osx on the shitty bastard... Windows 7 wont boot, and i formatted the drive with windows 8 installed on it so i think the bootloader got deleted, and i cant just re install, my usb dvd drive (ide is used for 80gig hdd with windows 2000) wont be powered for a long enough time... What should i do, using my mac until i have the money for an new rig, or say fuck it and install 8 again

Hello possibly picking up the Razer Tiamat 7.1 and I just wanted some opinions on the headset also would be nice to hear about any one who has used the 2.2 model with 2 sub-woofers built in to the headset. Personally I think the device will have the best sound quality available for a current headset.