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November 13

Reinstalling Windows 7

How does one reinstall Windows 7 from a backup DVD (which one had previously made from the Windows 7 already installed on the hard drive) to a brand-new, completely blank hard drive? Is it a matter of "just insert the DVD and follow the directions", or does one have to memorize the steps? (Note: My hard drive has NOT failed yet -- I had a new one installed just a few months ago -- I am asking this in order to be able to reinstall Windows 7 on my own when this second hard drive, inevitably, will also fail a few years from now.) 2601:646:8E01:7E0B:0:0:0:EA04 (talk) 10:26, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Take a look here: https://www.wikihow.com/Install-Windows-7-(Beginners) . You probably do not have to remember the steps, as there are menus, but you can decide beforehand which disk you want to install etc. Another good thing is to make sure you have your license key. If it is not handy, say on a disk sticker, look it up from your working installation and record it. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 01:30, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

You mean look it up from Control Panel > System, as I just did? 2601:646:8E01:7E0B:0:0:0:EA04 (talk) 02:04, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

I don't think that works, I use Belarc Advisor to retrieve the license key. It is encrypted in the registry. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 12:31, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

How exactly DO you do this? Where does it show the license key? Never mind, I just found the product key -- my only question is, how can I tell whether this is my key or the manufacturer's, and does it actually matter when installing from a DVD which I make myself? (The OS on my computer was NOT an original installation -- it was a reinstallation onto a replacement HD made by the Geek Squad from a DVD-ROM which was marked "Intended for installation of Windows 7 using OEM tools".) 2601:646:8E01:7E0B:0:0:0:EA04 (talk) 02:22, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

You install the program, run it, and then it makes a file called:C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/Belarc/BelarcAdvisor/System/tmp/(your-pc-name).html and displays it in a browser window. Section #licenses has the keys. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 02:29, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

The key in Control Panel > System is not the installation key and won't work with the installation disc. You need to use a different method to get that key, like what Graeme Bartlett suggested. 93.139.55.105 (talk) 19:30, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

November 14

Why is colour scanning more expensive than b+w?

If I use a commercial scanning company, they charge more for oclour than for black-and-white. Is this just profiteering? Surely it's the same piece of equipment and it costs just as much/ little to use. Amisom (talk) 07:32, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

This is a philosophy of pricing. Today CCDs and CMOS picture sensors include color, but storing the color information is up to 3 times the amount of memory. Only high speed equipment uses separate RGB channels. Mass scanning of documents may require a more expensive high speed machine. Printing the scan in color really increases the costs of ink or toner. --Hans Haase (有问题吗) 12:41, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Automated download of Google Drive files

Hi, I've been sent a long list of musical training files in Google Drive, over 50 links in the format https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5IxHKz1ru_qZDItWEl6VGUyUFk/view

If I visit that page I can download an MP3, however is there a tool that will let me download the MP3s en messe or do I really need to click on every single link and download its file individually? Thanks for your time and help — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.19.236.182 (talk) 07:33, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

The downthemall add-on for firefox should do it. Other download managers are available. Henry^Flower 09:34, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

But random download managers won't necessarily download the files successfully since they aren't simple file links. The manager will need to understand Google Drive enough to know how to get the file instead of just getting the htm file that the link serves. (This includes your browser, if you right click or whatever to force download the above link, you'll just get a htm file.) Even worse if you need to be logged in to Google Drive to download the files although the comments of the OP make me think you shouldn't have to. For example, Free Download Manager 3.9.7 build 1638 (the latest Lite version [1]) will just download a HTML file with the above link. Jdownloader 2 unsurprisingly does get the MP3 file and would be one option. Nil Einne (talk) 09:47, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

What level of permission

What level of permission do you have to get for an image to be counted as having been released into the public domain? I found a facebook post where someone had uploaded a set of photos to a museum’s page and said that they were free to be used. Does this mean they are now suitable for upload to Wikipedia? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tesandjo (talk • contribs) 12:12, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

• @Tesandjo: I would ask at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions, but here is some preliminary analysis.

You need the person who holds copyright to the photographs (assuming there is a single such person) to unequivocally state that they release the photographs in the public domain. While a Facebook post is probably a suitable place to make such a statement, the situation you describe might fail on multiple counts:

1. Does the person really hold the copyrights?
2. Does the statement unequivocally release under a PD (or at least Wikipedia-compatible CC license)? "Anyone, you can reuse the photographs" is probably not enough (you could argue that "anyone" refers actually only to the people in a particular FB group, or that that permission is intended to be revokable, etc.)

This sounds like a tricky question, so I encourage you to seek clarification (cf. above, at Wikipedia:Media copyright questions). Tigraan^{Click here to contact me} 15:30, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

Part of the reason this is tricky is because in English the phrase "free to use" could mean "no charge to use", or it could mean "no restrictions on use". ApLundell (talk) 18:39, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

As a quick additionto Tigraan's excellent comment, I should point out you also need to consider any copyright over whatever is being depicted in the photo. Permissions from the copyright holder of the photo can't overide any copyright limitations over whatever is depicted and it's fairly likely any copyright holder of what's depicted belongs to someone other than the photographer (and probably the museum for that matter). While many museums depict things too old to have any copyright this is far from always the case. So if it's something which potentially has copyright, e.g. a 2D artwork (e.g. painting, mosaic, drawing, photo), 3D artwork (e.g. sculpture, architectural elements of the building, wax work, statue) you need to consider whether local law surrounding freedom of panorama means there are no copyright concerns or whether there could be. As Tigraan has said, for comments on any specific case, you should seek feedback in a suitable place. (Note in the particular case of 2D artwork, if the artwork itself is old enough to be in the public domain, and the photo is simply trying to accurately depict the artwork, the foundation has rejected any copyright that may exist outside the US, and US court rules have found there is no copyright under US law. So in that limited case, you don't generally have to worry about the photographers copyright. See Commons:When to use the PD-Art tag for some details.) Nil Einne (talk) 08:16, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

November 15

OTG Virus checker

Which android AV software is curently recomended best for checking viruses on a flash/pen drive via OTG cable? 123.108.246.90 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 17:27, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Programming with Autocomplete: Keyboard Shortcuts?

Most of the programming editors I use (e.g. Visual Studio, Eclipse) have an autocomplete feature to automatically balance quotes, parenthesis, and other grouping characters. For example, if I want to store the string "hello, world" in the variable hello, I start typing (in Python):

hello = "

At that point, the editor will automatically insert the closing quote marks, like so:

hello = ""

This is nice, but when I'm creating a Python list of strings, it makes me move the cursor past the closing quote marks with the arrow keys, which is inconvenient. For example, to type the list:

countries = ["US","CAN","US","US"]

I need to type <">,<US>,<right arrow>,<,>,<">,<CAN>,<right arrow>,<,> and so on...

I want to know if there is a key combination that will automatically move the cursor past the closing quote marks after I type each item, or if there is another way to avoid using the arrow keys (which are inconveniently placed on my keyboard), without having to turn autocomplete off. Thanks! OldTimeNESter (talk) 20:17, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

It depends on the editor. In mine (Kate), when I type ", it throws in a ". As I type, the trailing " moves over. If I type ", the cursor moves to the right of the closing ", allowing me to type a comma and then a ", which will start a new pair. 209.149.113.5 (talk) 19:45, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Why has no one created a page for serial entrepreneur Samuel Petuhov?

Recently a Samuel Petuhov has popped out into the technology scene and everyone has been looking for informaton about him, but his life is pretty much have been privatized His family is also very wealthy 200 - 300 billion according to Google. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ZSYRE (talk • contribs) 20:47, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Before a page is made, we need WP:Reliable sources to base the content on. If there are no sources there is no article. You can consider the possibility of Hoax. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:36, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Help me with chromebook issue

My chromebook suddenly stopped showing the bookmark star, and I can't use Ctrl+d to bookmark either, and this is a problem. Please help! I am using the latest version of the operating system but it is a managed chromebook and I can't powerwash it. Bardic Wizard (talk) 21:52, 15 November 2017 (UTC) It's back so never mind. Bardic Wizard (talk) 19:45, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Struggling Software Developer Needs Career Advice

I'm a software developer with 20 years of experience. But lately, I've been having problems at work. I'm at a senior position, but have been having difficulties getting some tasks done. I'm wondering if there is something wrong with me.I'm going to the doctor tomorrow to see why I'm having trouble focusing. In any case, I'm worried that I might lose my job. I sort of wish I was a junior developer so not as much would be expected of me.

So, here's my question: Can anyone think of a computer-related field that is not as demanding mentally? AnonComputerGuy (talk) 23:32, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

Become a manager. In most companies that I work with, you will do nothing more than go to meetings and plug tasks into an integrated management system. 209.149.113.5 (talk) 19:43, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Based on my experience, I'd suggest software sales. My brother-in-law and I both graduated in 1979, on the same day, from the same uni computing degree course. (He was my future brother-in-law then). He was never much of a programmer and ended up in sales. (He looks good in a suit, where-as I don't). 38 years later, both close to retirement, he's still in sales and quite well off financially, and I'm still a broke programmer. However, I've only been out of work for brief periods; ploughing the legacy furrow has been my life and it's not too mentally taxing. --TrogWoolley (talk) 11:24, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

November 16

why did windows restart?

Hi, I just seem to have had a windows reboot, and don't know what caused it. There would appear to have been an update, acc to the update history. But I can't be sure because there's no timestamp on the update, just a date. Does anyone know where I can find a log file of restarts?? Or some other thing that will tell me exactly why my computer restarted? Cheers, IBE (talk) 01:37, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

@It's Been Emotional: That will depend on which Windows version you are running. Here's a link I found for Windows 10: [2] RudolfRed (talk) 01:52, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I meant to say, Windows 10, sorry there. Will check link in due course, though currently I'm occupied, just quickly saving anyone else the hassle of not knowing which version. IBE (talk) 03:28, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Windows 7 key

If you find the Windows 7 key using Belarc Advisor, how can you tell whether it's your key or the manufacturer's key? And does it actually matter, if you're reinstalling Windows from a backup DVD you made yourself onto a new, blank hard drive? 2601:646:8E01:7E0B:0:0:0:EA04 (talk) 02:15, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

App

I possess more than 83 app on my phone, What is the best solution: 1) Should I keep all my android apps on? 2) Should I only keep useful apps on? 3) Should I use apps when necessity arrives than "Force stop" them? 123.108.244.151 (talk) 10:08, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Apps running in the background use up memory and slightly increase battery consumption (see below). Get rid of the ones that you never use, and force stop (see below) the others when you will not need them for a while. Dbfirs 15:39, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

This is a myth.[3][4] (probably spread by people with more familiarity with desktop OSes.)

On Android and iOS, with only a few exceptions, only the currently focused app is "running" in any meaningful way.

It's true that they're "using" memory, but the way memory management works on those devices makes that a good thing. The OS is empowered to kill any backgrounded app at any time if it needs the memory. So the only side-effect of leaving an app in memory is that if you switch back to it (before the OS decides to re-use that memory) it will load faster.

(This is very different than the memory management on a desktop. On a desktop, it's bad if an unused app is using RAM, because the OS isn't allowed to kill it.)

It's true that there are "services" that run in the background constantly. (If you install an email app, for example, it will have both an app which acts as I've just described, and a service which will run in the background and check your email regularly.) In most cases, force-stopping a service will just waste your battery because the OS will re-start it automatically moments later, and the start-up procedure will usually be more intensive than whatever it was doing just sitting there. This effect can be especially bad if you install one of those apps that automatically kills services. Those can drain your battery real fast because your phone will spend a lot of resources repeatedly restarting and killing the same services. [5]

If there are services that are draining your battery you should uninstall those services. Force Stopping them when you're not using them will usually make things worse. ApLundell (talk) 21:42, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

I withdraw the "force stop" suggestion. According to the linked article, stopping "Background App Refresh" works better. Dbfirs 22:01, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Dbfirs: i read through the articles, couldn't find the "Background App Refresh" option, could you please guide me where it is? 123.108.244.135 (talk) 15:42, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

It was this article, and it refers to iOS rather than android, so the settings will be different on your phone. Dbfirs 22:05, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

ApLundell, this might hold for newer Android versions, but at least on older Androids there are apps that drain power while in the background, e.g. some video players. 93.139.55.105 (talk) 19:35, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Battery life of a Smart phone

Recomendation desired to keep it extremely healthy. What are your experiences and what do you suggest? 123.108.244.151 (talk) 10:08, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Charge the phone to 55%, turn it off, put it in the fridge and leave it there for 2 years. After 2 years, take it out and leave it out for a few days. Then plug it in and if the charge status is under 35%, charge it to 55% again then turn it back off, back in the fridge and repeat every 2 years. Nil Einne (talk) 15:26, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

That is, of course, the extreme example of how to prolong the battery life. Most people will wish to use the phone occasionally, and not keep it in the fridge, so a compromise would be to turn off all services and applications that you are not actually using (Wi-Fi, GPS, updates) and close down applications as soon as you no longer need them. Keep the phone as cool as possible. (Others will add other suggestions) Dbfirs 15:36, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Turning off features you're not using is a good idea.

"Closing down" applications after use has no positive effect, and sometimes makes the problem worse, as I've described above. ApLundell (talk) 21:44, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Good points, though you are assuming that the applications stay dormant when not being actively used. Wi-Fi, GPS, and updates still drain the battery. Dbfirs 21:48, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

In general, just closing the part of the app you can see will not fix that. ("updates" generally come from services connected to apps, not the apps themselves.) But you're right that there are exceptions. Anything that lives in your status area like an MP3 player or a navigation app, will continue to consume resources even when it's not he active app. ApLundell (talk) 22:05, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

November 17

errorlevel

How do I view the current errorlevel in MS-DOS 6.22?

ECHO %ERRORLEVEL% doesn't seem to work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.77.173.30 (talk) 07:55, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

According to this page, you have to use conditional statements or loops to determine the error level in MS-DOS.—Best Dog Ever (talk) 08:20, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Only works in scripting due DOS prompts overwrites the ERRORLEVEL. So use in BATch files only. --Hans Haase (有问题吗) 09:56, 17 November 2017 (UTC)

Try this (it is the program startup line in a .BAT file):

yourprogram.exe -v %1

Akld guy (talk) 05:05, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

November 18

Windows 7 backup -- part 3

If you want to perform a clean reinstall of Windows 7 onto a brand new, completely blank hard drive, is it better to do so from the installation DVD supplied by Microsoft, or from system image DVDs (at least 3 and maybe more) which you have made yourself? (I have both of these.) 2601:646:8E01:7E0B:5917:3E80:D859:DF69 (talk) 11:05, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

It depends on what you want to achieve. If you use Microsoft DVD you will get a completely new (clean) Windows 7 installation and you will then need to re-install all other programs. If you use system image DVDs, you will get the system exactly as it existed at the moment the image was taken. Ruslik_Zero 19:35, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Well, I can reinstall all the other programs -- it will be time-consuming, of course, but so will reinstalling from the system image DVDs (plus, I'll be getting basic functionality from the instant I install Windows, whereas in the second case I'll have to wait until everything is installed before I can use anything at all). So I guess when my hard drive fails in a few years, I'll reinstall Windows on the next hard drive from the original installation DVD. 2601:646:8E01:7E0B:404:F3D3:C557:159A (talk) 10:53, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

I'd go with the system image. Reinstalling programs manually, and especially reinstalling all Windows updates, is going to take longer than an automated install from 3 DVDs. 93.139.55.105 (talk) 19:26, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

In my case, it's more like 30 DVDs :-/ 2601:646:8E01:7E0B:404:F3D3:C557:159A (talk) 02:59, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

migrating firefox open tabs

I have both Firefox 57 and Firefox ESR installed on my computer that's running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. I have about 100 open tabs spread across two windows in Firefox 57 that I want migrate onto Firefox ESR. What's the best way of doing this? (The dumb method would be copy and paste each URL into a text file, and then copy and paste it back out again, but I'd like to avoid that if at all possible).

I have Firefox Sync enabled, and have synced those ~100 tabs onto it, and I can see them perfectly fine on Firefox ESR, but unfortunately I can't seem to open all of them at once. Mũeller (talk) 11:09, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Apparently, people have been using this extension, but I've no experience of it myself. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 11:51, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, I'll give that a try. Though since I'll only be doing this once, installing an extension on both browsers and then deleting them from both browsers is kinda hassle-some. I'm kinda surprised that Firefox doesn't some built-in way of doing this. Mũeller (talk) 13:50, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

When I did this on my Windows box at work, (Firefox 15 to ESR) was copy the files in the profile directories in AppData to the ESR profile. Worked swimmingly and all my settings and extensions worked fine. I think the extensions might have updated themselves. The only issue was Flash, which advice on the web said that I needed portable Flash. This didn't work for me, but copying the Flash executable into the ESR directory did. --TrogWoolley (talk) 18:38, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

PC-MAGAZINE code

A lot of the more useful programs on my MS-DOS computer seem to originate from "PC-MAGAZINE" according to their info dialogs. I've been trying to find out more information about PC-MAGAZINE and how these programs were originally distributed in the early 1990s. From what I can tell many were published as assembly source code for the user to compile at home using the DEBUG command in DOS. Is this true? Was the code actually published in a print magazine and then typed by the user into DEBUG or did the magazine come with floppy disks or something with the code on them? Thanks for your time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dsoqeeee (talk • contribs) 19:31, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

See PC Magazine for our article on the magazine. In the 1990's, programs from magazines were generally distributed on CD (cheaper and less bulky than a floppy) - AOL were notorious for bombarding the entire public with them, and most copies of IE3 were obtained from magazine CDs. The days of typing in listings from magazines, or of loading them from flexidisk, were a decade earlier. Tevildo (talk) 22:29, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Picture with no context

Example: http://i1.wp.com/www.danielseidel.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/IMG_0303.jpg

Sometimes I end up at a photo url and want to find the article that it is used in at their website. How would I do that.

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:48, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Paste the image link into a TinEye search, and click the "found on" links in its search results. -- Finlay McWalter··–·Talk 23:52, 18 November 2017 (UTC)

Another possibility: Go to Google Images, type in a few words describing the image, and add a site: modifier indicating where you hope to find it. For example, nest tree site:wp.com. This doesn't work in this particular case, but it can work. --69.159.60.147 (talk) 03:56, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

I've tried that but it's a longshot. But thanks. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:44, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Finlay McWalter, good idea. I never thought of that even though I use tineye a lot for tracking down image copyvios. Many thanks. :) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:44, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

November 19

mds_stores is a disk hog as is systemstatsd; can I kill them?

iMac11,3; Intel Core i5; 2.8 GHz; 8 GB; OS X 10.11.3

My computer's running a bit sluggish. (I probably should delete some saved movies; I have far too many; according to Activity Monitor I have 6.14 GB of memory used of my 8 GB.) Anyway, when I look in Activity Monitor, the two biggest active disk hogs are the headlined programs (after Firefox, when I'm online). After a bit of googling, my understanding is that mds_stores has something to do with Spotlight, whch I never use. I always run searches through Finder, though I understand they use the same index. Long and short of it: Is there any problem with turning off mds_stores? Actually, a related question is whether I can, or if it will just relaunch? If the answer to the first question is that it would not be a problenm, then how do I do it so it stays off? Basically, same questions about systemstatsd. Do I need that disk hog running? Can I just turn it off through Activity Monitor, or some other way? I guess I have another question. It occurred to me that since Activity Monitor is accessing system information, the reason I always see systemstatsd as high usage mght be because it runs high when Activity Monitor is being used, so it might be a 'refrigerator light issue', if you see what I mean. Thanks--185.77.248.5 (talk) 01:09, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Factorials

How do we find factorial of number directly i.e. without writing a program etc.(which will find it anyway) in Visual Basic ?210.56.109.192 (talk) 08:20, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Visual Basic doesn't have a built-in factorial function - this page lists the functions that are available. To calculate a factorial, you will have to write your own function, I'm afraid. It's not difficult, fortunately. Tevildo (talk) 09:26, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

The Factorial n! of an integer n is obtained by multiplying together all the integers up to n. For example if n=5, its factorial $5!=5\times 4\times 3\times 2\times 1=120.$. A BASIC program can do this in a loop:

	PRINT "Please enter number n"
	INPUT N
	F=1
	FOR J=2 TO N
	 F=F*J
	NEXT J
	PRINT "Factorial n!"; =;F

But if by "find directly" you mean obtain n! without doing multiplications, it will be necessary to store a table of values of n! for various n. Such a table is found in the article Factorial. But note that 16-bit integer arithmetic cannot handle larger factorials than n=8. Blooteuth (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:09, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

Maybe the OP is asking for a closed form solution. I don't think there is anything much simpler than the product version. Stirling's approximation provides an approximate solution, but it requires the computation of an nth power. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 15:22, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

The Wolfram language can do this with n! see http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Factorial.html Graeme Bartlett (talk) 00:05, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Python, storing and retrieving data

What options are common for storing data for retrieving them at another session? Json, sqlite3, csv? Anything else? B8-tome (talk) 13:28, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

There's also pickle.-gadfium 22:24, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

What is Quick Decompressor?

That is my question. Also is it malware? If so, shall I remove all traces of it from the registry (Windows10) --AboutFace 22 (talk) 17:06, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

See here. Ruslik_Zero 19:57, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

I got an email from my professional organization (actually another company that allegedly works for them) and that email had an attachment file with the extension ".emz" I've never seen anything like this. When I clicked on this attachment line in the email, another page opened with various offers, some paid, one free. The free one was Quick Decompressor. I was not sure if I should get it but simply clicked on it. Without further ado this program got downloaded and installed, by itself. No other clicks were required.

My computer almost immediately developed problems. I could not open my email browser anymore, the folders would freeze, execution became slow. I got scared and uninstalled the sucker. Still for two days the problems remained. I checked the registry and Quick Decompressor is there. Some consolation is that it seems to be a Microsoft program. --AboutFace 22 (talk) 23:07, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

windows 10 vs ubuntu

Hi, I've been having constant problems with windows 10 restarting (bsod), and tried fixing from the internet, with no end in sight. Is microsoft aware of the problem? Are they going to create a patch of some sort to stop this garbage? Otherwise, I am looking to install ubuntu. I have downloaded ubuntu 17.10 onto my windows 10, hp laptop. Do i just click on this to intall? Will it take care of everything, and leave my win 10 filesystem intact? Regards, IBE (talk) 22:34, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

I do have Windows 10 on HP Pavilion. It works fine. I have Ubuntu 16.04 LST on my HP laptop and it works very well, no complaints. It is a more convenient OS. I used to have a Dell machine where I installed Ubuntu parallel to Windows 7 and both worked well. You have to use .iso disk with Ubuntu on it. Just put it in the bay. When you turn the computer on, the BIOS will detect the second OS and will ask you if you want to overlay Ubuntu over Windows 10 or have both OS together. Choose the second option. With BSOD, I don't know how it will work. Perhaps you will have to reinstall Windows 10 from Microsoft. $120 home edition. Read this about BSOD[6] --AboutFace 22 (talk) 23:18, 19 November 2017 (UTC)

November 20

Delicate touchscreens

Are all laptop touchscreens always less resistant against impacts, like falls, etc? It seems to me they are always made of glass. And contrary to a smartphone, at this size, one fall and it's toast. --B8-tome (talk) 02:05, 20 November 2017 (UTC)