Recent content by dc2000

I've been trying to resolve this before and did not succeed. So I have to start again. Let me explain the issue: When I'm trying to connect to the website of this small local bank from my desktop using both Chrome and Firefox browsers, both hang for about half a minute and then display these...

I have a 4 monitor setup for my desktop. 3 screens are ACERs which show colors nicely. But one is AOC, which generally shows all colors but for some programs like Photoshop and Windows Photo Viewer it displays this ugly yellow color instead of white. So I went into CP -> Color Management and...

Yes, possibly. I don't remember now. I'll check when this happens again. But, just approaching it logically, wouldn't Windows see that the drive letter I: is already assigned to an existing drive and not use it? I mean, it's kinda obvious, right?

No, I didn't assign it any drive letters. It's just an external USB stick that comes out as soon as I'm done with it.

I have the following layout of internal and external drives in my desktop: C: thru G: are internal drives, while I:, J:, N: and O: are external HDDs used for onsite backups. Each drive also has BitLocker full disk encryption on. The key to unlock each drive is stored on a USB stick that I...

I'm running Windows 8.1 desktop with 3 monitors. They are set up to show password-protected screensaver after 5 minutes of inactivity and then to turn all screens off after 30 minutes. It used to work great until ... I installed Windows updates yesterday and noticed today that one of the...

Thank you. I'll try it next time. That Com Surrogate doesn't run anymore after I rebooted. So I can't tell if your solution would help or not...

I've noticed that the CPU on my Windows 8.1 desktop seems to have been continuously used up by 12%-15% by something named "COM Surrogate" (see screenshot attached.) Is there any way to find out what that is? And maybe stop it?

The thing I didn't like about Virtual Box is its poor integration with the host. For instance, I couldn't drag-and-drop files from host to guest and vice versa, plus I couldn't copy and paste between guests and the host.

Thank you, guys. I don't think the issue in on the guest VM's side. And no, I don't have hibernation, nor sleep enabled in them. As for Cliff's idea to restart services, it might be a good idea, except knowing which ones to restart. There's quite a lot of stuff that's running there:

I have a 3-monitor desktop setup running Windows 8.1 (as a host OS.) I use one monitor exclusively to run VMWare Workstation 10. When VMWare first loads up at host PC boot I click "Enter full screen mode" button, which expands it to the size of that monitor. I then usually load several guest...

Thank you all for your suggestions. I can't wait to get rid of Acronis. Oh man, I wish I knew how bad it is. I checked and Macrium looks very promising!

Hi everyone: First let me share the bad experience that I had while using one of the major brands of software for the local backup -- Acronis True Image 2014. I purchased and was using their software since 2014. I set it up to make incremental backups of my local files to an external hard...

Thanks. Hmm. Interesting, why are mine reset? (My system doesn't even go to sleep.)

Just curious if this is something that can be fixed? Say, I have several Google Chrome windows open in my Windows 8.1. Then if I leave my desktop, the screen turns off in about 20 minutes. (The system itself is not configured to enter sleep though.) When I later move the mouse to wake it up...