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Well I am using the 850 Evo 500GB drive in my desktop and I noticed the change right away.. It's a shitload faster then the mechanical drive I had in there, however I still have that as the emergency backup..
 
Damn. Nothing like digging through Windows Update. I have over 50 of them to check to make sure none of them are crap. :ouch:

I don't see this one on my list for updates but I'm wondering what it is, aside from what I saw on Microsoft's site about it.


KB2882822 - Update adds ITraceRelogger interface support.


It sounds like a keylogger to me.
 
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Damn. Nothing like digging through Windows Update. I have over 50 of them to check to make sure none of them are crap. :ouch:

I don't see this one on my list for updates but I'm wondering what it is, aside from what I saw on Microsoft's site about it.


KB2882822 - Update adds ITraceRelogger interface support.


It sounds like a keylogger to me.

nah - though looking at the entry on Microsoft.com I'm still not sure what exactly it's for.

Microsoft need to improve the update information so you're not crawling through their blasted website to get info on what a patch is.

Doing a rebuild on my server at the moment so Windows Server 2012R2 I had to load something like 201 patches and that's just for the damn OS it's self.

Have all the patches stored locally via WSUS but was still pain because the updates borked up and had to be rolled back. Ended up starting from scratch again.
 
nah - though looking at the entry on Microsoft.com I'm still not sure what exactly it's for.

Microsoft need to improve the update information so you're not crawling through their blasted website to get info on what a patch is.

Doing a rebuild on my server at the moment so Windows Server 2012R2 I had to load something like 201 patches and that's just for the damn OS it's self.

Have all the patches stored locally via WSUS but was still pain because the updates borked up and had to be rolled back. Ended up starting from scratch again.

Ah.

Yea.

Dang that's insane.

Woah.
 
Damn. Nothing like digging through Windows Update. I have over 50 of them to check to make sure none of them are crap. :ouch:

I don't see this one on my list for updates but I'm wondering what it is, aside from what I saw on Microsoft's site about it.


KB2882822 - Update adds ITraceRelogger interface support.


It sounds like a keylogger to me.


It could be telemetry tracking usage data...

But I found this also

The iTraceRelogger interface is a dependency for certain features to work (for example, the UI Responsiveness tool in Internet Explorer 11 F12 tools). After the update is installed, the application that is dependent on the iTraceRelogger interface can now enable certain features that runs in Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1, Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
 
Quick question - with this set-up, what would I need card wise to drive two WQHD monitors ? (I don't game at all - it's purely work and web stuff):

Version 10.0.10586 Build 10586
System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model H87-HD3
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 3201 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. F3, 09/05/2013
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.10586.420"

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 12.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 11.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 8.64 GB
Total Virtual Memory 13.7 GB
Available Virtual Memory 10.6 GB
 
It could be telemetry tracking usage data...

But I found this also

The iTraceRelogger interface is a dependency for certain features to work (for example, the UI Responsiveness tool in Internet Explorer 11 F12 tools). After the update is installed, the application that is dependent on the iTraceRelogger interface can now enable certain features that runs in Windows Embedded Standard 7 SP1, Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Good point. Well that's frustrating.
 
Quick question - with this set-up, what would I need card wise to drive two WQHD monitors ? (I don't game at all - it's purely work and web stuff):

Version 10.0.10586 Build 10586
System Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System Model H87-HD3
System Type x64-based PC
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 3201 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. F3, 09/05/2013
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "10.0.10586.420"

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 12.0 GB
Total Physical Memory 11.9 GB
Available Physical Memory 8.64 GB
Total Virtual Memory 13.7 GB
Available Virtual Memory 10.6 GB
You would need either a videocard that can run two monitors or a second video card.
 
I would go for a Radeon RX480 one with an aftermarket cooler, like a Asus or MSI, it should be able to run everything and it supports multi monitor setups, also price/performance is great.
 
A lot of the better video cards have 2 monitor capability. The one I bought 9 years ago (EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS KO ACS³ Edition) had dual DVI ports, and I wasn't even thinking about that sort of thing 9 years ago.
 
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A lot of the better video cards have 2 monitor capability. The one I bought 9 years ago (EVGA GeForce 8800 GTS KO ACS³ Edition) had dual DVI ports, and I wasn't even thinking about that sort of thing 9 years ago.

The motherboard runs natively two 1080p monitors now and as far as I can tell would run a single 4K monitor with no problem... But thanks for the card tips folks.
 
Well shit. My Windows 7 laptop has started to act up since updating itunes. It's started to run into Google Chrome not responding errors more frequently and just general Windows slowness.

Before then it was only occasionally. I figured it was due to running lower on memory, but now it's getting worrisome.

I checked for mal ware, spy ware and viruses and my laptop has come up clean.

Now I'm pissed off. Tried running scandisk and it was unable to verify more than 14 percent and this error showed up: Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation

Damn. I'm seriously concerned now.

I had a right to be. Ran CHKDSK in read only mode, it only could run 2 percent in and it ran into errors. So it sounds as if something corrupted in it.

I'm very angry now.

It's looking as if the drive itself might be dying. I'm not 100 percent sure on it though. But I'd rather have it be that then the motherboard.
 
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If you have a Windows CD then boot from that and run the repair option, if that fails, I usually would go to https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
Get the cinnamon distro, burn it on DVD and boot from that, it has a program called "disks" run that, it will have an option to scan your harddrive's SMART status, it will tell you if the drive is on its way out.

If it is, buy a new drive, if its okay then maybe reinstall Windows from scratch.
 
If you have a Windows CD then boot from that and run the repair option, if that fails, I usually would go to https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
Get the cinnamon distro, burn it on DVD and boot from that, it has a program called "disks" run that, it will have an option to scan your harddrive's SMART status, it will tell you if the drive is on its way out.

If it is, buy a new drive, if its okay then maybe reinstall Windows from scratch.

I don't have that, but I'm taking it in to get checked out. I was already planning on taking it to have it updated to Windows 10. It's in the middle of a CHKDSK scan and it found four bad file areas and had to delete some stuff off. It just finished off and it found another bad area. It seems to run better now afterwards, but I'm still getting it checked to make sure.
 
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Don't go to the Best Buy or Geek Squad ..... There's videos floating around where they got busted ripping people off for faults that could be fixed by changing whole parts that probably would work rather then look at the issue.
 
Don't go to the Best Buy or Geek Squad ..... There's videos floating around where they got busted ripping people off for faults that could be fixed by changing whole parts that probably would work rather then look at the issue.

I'm not doing that. I'm heading to a computer place that I've gone to for years. Only issue I've run into with them was them installing Avira onto my mom's laptop and I had to bring it in due to it butting heads with the memory somehow. It clashes with Windows 8. And they seem to like it as a program. So I'll be making damn sure that they don't install that crap onto either of our PC's. We do just fine with Avast.

But they did do a fresh install of Windows 8 to fix the issue for my mom though. So it worked out ok. They aren't on my shit list just yet :lol:. It would take a lot more to do that, like stuff like you mentioned above. They at least take the time to check parts out to make sure that they need to be replaced or not.
 
(rant) This is the problem with most current users, they don't know anything about their machines, can't fix hardware, can't fix software, they don't even know the basics of it, in the old days you either learned how to fix things or you would end up with a really, really REALLY expensive paperweight, so you learned and that was that. (end rant)
 
(rant) This is the problem with most current users, they don't know anything about their machines, can't fix hardware, can't fix software, they don't even know the basics of it, in the old days you either learned how to fix things or you would end up with a really, really REALLY expensive paperweight, so you learned and that was that. (end rant)

That's easy to say, and not always easy for everyone to do. Not everyone is mechanically inclined. I know my share about my computer, but when it comes to anything internally, I wouldn't feel comfortable enough to do it. I'd hate to break something or make it worse.
 
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