Saturday, March 18, 2017
USB 3.0 and the 127 device limit.
According to the ads about USB 3.0, you are supposed to be able to use up to 127 devices. NOT SO! Windows 10 Pro craps out around 14 HDD when using USB 3.0. Bummer!!! Reverting to USB 2.0 allows at least 20 HDD drives. That is as many as I have connected and they all work. Using USB 3.0, the system refuses to accommodate more than 14 HDD! Too bad reality does not match up with the ad copy!! Cost a far amount of time and money to make this discovery. Nothing in the information provided by the suppliers mentions the USB 3.0 limitation. You find the limitation when Windows 10 says ".....Not enough USB resources The controller does not have enough resources for this device......" Very very very annoying. My solution was to change to USB 2.0 hubs which have allowed all of my USB HDDs to attach to the PC and function, using slower USB 2.0 speeds. As I said very very very very annoying!!!!
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Changes to 57 Chevy
So far we have put new tires on; the old tires were 25 years old, not good. A radio has been removed from the glove box, and a reproduction has been put into the dash, the non working clock has been replaced with a new quartz clock. The starter died the day after we brought the car. The starter has been replaced. The rear pinion gear has been correctly adjusted. The rear end seals, bearing and axle seals and bearings have been replaced.
A serpentine belt kit along with A/C is being installed. A hole in the floor board has been repaired. Backup lights have been installed, a 12 v power point has been installed. The light switch has been replaced, the cigarette lighter has been replaced. The driver's side vent window has to be replaced, the passenger side vent window regulator has to be replaced.
The brake pedal pad and accelerator have been replaced.
Next year, during the winter, Dynamat sound deadening and new carpet will be installed.
The 57 Chevy has been a great deal of fun!!!
Friday, September 25, 2015
New (to us) 57 Chevy
We have just purchased a 57 Chevy. It is our intention to drive in the Dream Cruise in 2016.
Our 57 Chevy has a 350 V8 which outputs 415 HP. A very nice ride!
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Stardock Start8 Start10
Stardock has by far the best replacement for the start button for Windows 8 and Windows 10. If you don't like the replacement start button images for Windows 10, I don't, you can move the Windows 8 images from a Windows 8 installation to the corresponding Windows 10 installation. If you have a normal installation taking the *.png file from C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Start8\StartButtons and putting it into C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock\Start10\StartButtons will give you a different image file than those supplied by Stardock with Start10.
Monday, August 10, 2015
Further Windows 10 Install Experiences
Well now having upgraded two computers, a desktop, a laptop, to Windows 10, my experience has NOT been good. The desktop was trashed and had to have Windows 7 reinstalled and then install Windows 10. After the Windows 10 install, all my apps had to be reinstalled. A typical Windows OS change experience!!
On the laptop, several reboots later, everything is evidently working EXCEPT for auto hide of the taskbar which does NOT work!! Leaving the taskbar visible at all times solved the issue, BUT that is truly crap! The reboots were done over a period of six hours AFTER the Windows 10 install completed, supposedly! What a pain in the posterior! BUT at least the laptop is back working again, which until the sixth hour, the laptop would not function at all. It appeared that after the Windows 10 install that the File Explorer was unable to function until multiple reboots cleared some setting or file that was keeping the laptop from functioning.
Typical new OS from Microsoft!!!
On the laptop, several reboots later, everything is evidently working EXCEPT for auto hide of the taskbar which does NOT work!! Leaving the taskbar visible at all times solved the issue, BUT that is truly crap! The reboots were done over a period of six hours AFTER the Windows 10 install completed, supposedly! What a pain in the posterior! BUT at least the laptop is back working again, which until the sixth hour, the laptop would not function at all. It appeared that after the Windows 10 install that the File Explorer was unable to function until multiple reboots cleared some setting or file that was keeping the laptop from functioning.
Typical new OS from Microsoft!!!
Saturday, August 08, 2015
Windows 10 Install Experience
Last week, I decided to install Windows 10 on my test computer that had been running Windows 10 preview perfectly. Unfortunately during the initial install process something got trashed and Windows 10 said that activation was not possible.
Calling Microsoft resulted in the comment that "....wait 24 - 48 hours and all will be well....". Well after 48 hours nothing had changed. A second call resulted in more crap!!
So... After reinstalling Win 7 and activating Win 7 via the phone, Win 10 then installed as it should have in the first place, BUT all my customizations and installed apps were gone, as per usual with a Windows install. So after putting the apps back and redoing my customizations as they were prior to all this foolishness, I could finally use Windows 10 on my Windows 10 Preview computer!!
Now after having worked with Windows 10 for a couple of days now, my impression is that it is a very nice Windows 7 OS.
All my old stuff works just fine on Windows 10. My very old "WinSize" program, which positions windows on the desktop and sizes them to the position and size I like for that particular window, works like a champ.
Yahoo, Konfabulator, widgets works great. The gadgets that I use work great. The Universal Apps don't hog the whole screen which is good. Unfortunately, many of the things that 10 ties together, I have already tied together with other programs, which all work fine on Windows 10. Unfortunately the Windows 10 apps, like Mail, appear to be crap at this time. Of course you are never supposed to use any Microsoft App v1 until they get it fixed around version 10 or so!
All in all it's an interesting OS, BUT not necessarily one that I will change all my computers to, since W7 and W8 work just fine for me. Maybe six months from now I will have to change to avoid paying for W10 and the upgrades for W7 and W8 may have stopped by then. Windows 7 was first published on July 22, 2009 and will not be supported for ever!
Calling Microsoft resulted in the comment that "....wait 24 - 48 hours and all will be well....". Well after 48 hours nothing had changed. A second call resulted in more crap!!
So... After reinstalling Win 7 and activating Win 7 via the phone, Win 10 then installed as it should have in the first place, BUT all my customizations and installed apps were gone, as per usual with a Windows install. So after putting the apps back and redoing my customizations as they were prior to all this foolishness, I could finally use Windows 10 on my Windows 10 Preview computer!!
Now after having worked with Windows 10 for a couple of days now, my impression is that it is a very nice Windows 7 OS.
All my old stuff works just fine on Windows 10. My very old "WinSize" program, which positions windows on the desktop and sizes them to the position and size I like for that particular window, works like a champ.
Yahoo, Konfabulator, widgets works great. The gadgets that I use work great. The Universal Apps don't hog the whole screen which is good. Unfortunately, many of the things that 10 ties together, I have already tied together with other programs, which all work fine on Windows 10. Unfortunately the Windows 10 apps, like Mail, appear to be crap at this time. Of course you are never supposed to use any Microsoft App v1 until they get it fixed around version 10 or so!
All in all it's an interesting OS, BUT not necessarily one that I will change all my computers to, since W7 and W8 work just fine for me. Maybe six months from now I will have to change to avoid paying for W10 and the upgrades for W7 and W8 may have stopped by then. Windows 7 was first published on July 22, 2009 and will not be supported for ever!
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Samsung Galaxy S6 - How to enable/disable the floating keyboard?
Open the Messaging app and start to compose a new message to bring up the onscreen keyboard as shown to the right : Press and hold the microphone on the keyboard :
To see this image :
The
keyboard image to the right of the smiley face is a toggle for the floating and normal keyboard. If you press the microphone on the floating keyboard and then the keyboard you will toggle back to the normal keyboard and vice versa. 