The Computer Thread

OK. So I've recently had problems with freezing. It keeps happening to me. Even stuff like Ctrl Alt Del and the task bar seem to be freezing up. I have no clue how to solve this problem. Most of the time the issue will resolve itself if I wait but that's highly inconvenient and sometime force quitting is the only option.

In the task manager while this is going on what do your stats say? Like CPU usage, Memory usage, Non-paged pool memory. If you have a memory leak that could be the problem.

On the same subject. My power went out yesterday while my comp was on and after that my computer loaded things so slow and took forever to start, looked and saw that 60% memory filled while idle. I looked online and there was a tutorial to turn off the 'NDU' and that took it from 60% to 20% right after a restart and it seemed to start normally.

Does this 'NDU' do anything important? Like should I leave it off? If I turn it back on will it leak memory again?

edited 30th Jul '16 12:46:02 AM by Memers

Specifically tell both to look for each other, rather than leaving them on auto-seek?

They're both seeing each other, it's just that whenever I connect it a little window pops up in iTunes saying "an iPod has been connected but has not been recognised".

I've gone through the troubleshooter on the Apple site with no luck.

It apparently is some kind of Network Diagnostic Tool and can cause a memory leak (meaning it allocates more RAM than it frees, causing a 100% allocation over time)

No. The simplified Task Manager.

ndu is a common acronym for a lot of things. As I have not heard of it, you don't need it.

I think you are going to have to go into the pairing data on the ipod and delete the data for the old computer.

edited 30th Jul '16 11:32:53 AM by war877

Considering doing a reset / factory restore on the iPod didn't help...

I'd say that should cover it, but phones tend to annoyingly remember more than they are supposed to through factory resets.

If the device is not recognised, why did the computer attempt to connect to it instead of attempt to register it? I give up.

I mean my initial troubleshooting chain was "check it's not the cable" (happened with two different cables) -> "check it's not the USB port" (happened with multiple USB ports) -> "Problem with the iPod".

Reinstall iTunes? I'm reminded why I haven't booted it up in a while...

Tried that. Didn't help.

And it seems to have frozen after I plugged in my old iPod to test.

Does anyone have experience with their wireless mouse having inverted axes of movement? My Morrologic Air Shark somehow interprets horizontal movement as vertical movement and vice versa. Rebooting it a lot fixes the problem, but that's rather inconvenient for obvious reasons. Changing ports didn't help, and uninstalling the drivers and rebooting seems to have done nothing.

By the way, I visited a Cash Converters near my college which had a used Razer Deathstalker keyboard on offer for RM 89, or around 22 US dollars. It's a lot more attainable for me than the Asus Strix headset there (RM 419) and more practical than the Wii, Xbox 360 and PS3 there (would have to buy a PC monitor + required cabling), so what do you folks think of the deal? Granted, at that price point I had better make sure of their return policy, test it in the store or check for grey residue on it...

Looking for a goood cheap.... Uhhhh I dunno what there called actualy.

I just want something super cheap, the bare minimum to run an OS and keep a python based bot online 24/7..... without having to run my full sized desktop 24/7....

Like the absolute minimum for the lowest cost, does any one know something?

edited 3rd Aug '16 3:05:23 AM by Imca

A Raspberry Pie Zero costs 5$ + 6-10$ for a WLAN dongle. If you don't have a SD that's an additional 5-10$.

edited 3rd Aug '16 4:36:16 AM by Kiefen

So what is everyone's fav free virus scanner? With this anniversary update to win 10 it broke my AVG Free and I have just had enough with that program, I have had nothing but problems with it.

Trying out 360 Total Security as it was recommended to me, I have also heard Avast is good too.

Avast works for me.

Ad-Aware Antivirus... though I'm still on Win 7.

I use comodo.

Yahoo shutting down their Desktop Messenger service Yahoo! Messenger.

I forgot that was even a thing, not that I really used it much over the years.

Another entry in the Deader Than Disco section.

My ISP is bonkers. Take a look at this:

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.10586]
(c) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\-[snip]->ping www.google.com

Pinging www.google.com [238.131.112.4] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 238.131.112.4:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

C:\Users\-[snip]->ping www.google.ca

Pinging www.google.ca [74.125.193.94] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 74.125.193.94: bytes=32 time=1396ms TTL=45
Reply from 74.125.193.94: bytes=32 time=1424ms TTL=45
Reply from 74.125.193.94: bytes=32 time=1424ms TTL=45
Reply from 74.125.193.94: bytes=32 time=1012ms TTL=45

Ping statistics for 74.125.193.94:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 1012ms, Maximum = 1424ms, Average = 1314ms

I wonder what the problem is?

UPDATE: Still don't know what the problem is, but I overrode my ISPs DNS server with google's and now it is significantly faster and less glitchy than it has ever been. O.O

edited 8th Aug '16 5:00:59 AM by war877

So I installed the Windows 10 Anniversary update earlier. Aside from disabling Cortana is there anything else you guys would recommend doing?

Do not use classic shell right now, it has been comprimised by hackers into installing a trojan rootkit.

By classic shell, do you mean cmd, command, or something you download off the internet?