Just to show how things have moved on a bit in the last 60 years...



Uploading (Yes, the term 'uploading' is correct) the first 5 MB hard disk onto a PanAm aeroplane in 1956.

Perhaps the usual size of hard disk these days would be around 1TB (or 1,048,576 MB) and over here we might even call it a hard disc or even a hard drive. Here's a portable one from Toshiba:

But not even 1 tebibyte!

Update on the graphics card situation for my son's gaming machine. Card arrived today. Uninstalled the old drivers - and no, screen did not go blank! :-) Removed the two six-pin power connectors from the old card before removing the card altogether. Slotted the new card in. It needed a single six-pin connector. Made sure all screws were back in place, reconnected the display cables (2 monitor setup) and powered up the machine. Immediately noticed the blocky green lines were gone. Windows booted up in standard VGA mode. Installed the new drivers from CD, rebooted and everything is now back to normal. Thanks for the guidance I recd. here.

You may need to update the drivers via the maker's web site. They continuously update the drivers based on problems found with games.

Yep. Plan to do that as soon as my daughter lets me at the PC again. Minecraft maniac is what she is!

I'm getting the error - "your connection is not private" on AOL this morning.

I remember having this error many moons ago when it was down to the date/time being incorrect - not the case this time - any pointers?

The certificate seems to be issued by "entrust certification authority - L1C", who seem legit!

I'm getting the error in IE11, chrome and firefox.

It could be an out of date SSL certificate that is causing it skinny.

Kim - despite my Chrome presets pointing to AOL.COM (been like that for years) I was directed to AOL.CO.UK, which looks to have had an out of date cert.

It confused me as the two sites look identical (and it was early!!) and it was occurring in all browsers - anyway all good now.

Computers can be a real pain in the butt at times!

Cant get in to my second laptop, type in the password as usual and get this:


The user profile service failed the logon

User profile cannot be loaded



Any ideas?

Have a watch - User profile service failed the logon User profile cannot be loaded

Many thanks skinny, I'll have a go :-(

can you not go in on safe mode as administrator and reset passwords ect from control panel?

My PC is running slower & slower - or the display is. I'm wondering if it could be adchoices software, but I'm struggling to work out how to remove it, as it doesn't appear anywhere on my list of installed programs.

Of course there could be another reason, but this is my first thought - does anyone have any suggestions?

May be of use? How to Get Rid of Adchoices or Remove AdChoices or How to Remove "Ad Choices Adware"

Thanks Skinny. I've already tried some of those but not all. Very wary about installing any new software, and one of those (Spyhunter4) has poor reviews saying you have to buy the package once you've scanned the PC.

The AdwCleaner seems to have good ratings so I'll try that. Will keep you posted.

Seymore.

May be the obvious.

But if you are referring to Adblock, put cursor over icon, press the right button and the menu suggests removal.

Whether it works or not I don't know.

Fred - AdChoices is something entirely different.

Skinny's correct - it is AdChoices. Strangely seems to link to Google and I can't find it or anything remotely dubious in my list of programs. I might get my tame PC man to have a look if I get nowhere.

If you are using CHROME, check the Search engines under settings.