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AskWoody PlusI tried Clear Disk Info and it gave 1% life remaining for one of my disks. But Crystal Disk Info and Hard Disk Sentinel give 96%. Power On Time is 14140 hours. A Kingston 120G with 11TB writes.
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AskWoody PlusJune 20, 2020 at 4:36 pm in reply to: Yes,. you read that correctly: Win7 machines don’t get free security patches, but they do get a free copy of Chredge #2273872Whether I install Edge from a download or Win Update in my Win 7 Home, it comes up with Oriental characters and I have no way of turning them to English.
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AskWoody PlusI would get the monitor’s driver from their site and install it, for the information the video card will get from it.
Also, whoever sets a lower resolution than their monitor’s, if you have AMD then you may have what I have in the control panel — the card will do the conversion and send the monitor its native resolution, but you have to turn this on. For mine it’s Enable GPU Scaling under Flat Panels. You can choose to stretch it to the panel, or maintain aspect ratio, for when your chosen resolution isn’t HD and you don’t want to distort it.
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