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You get another memory bonus if you switch to 64bit windows.

Under 32bit Windows all apps are limited to 2GB of address space but most recent 32bit apps are compiled as LARGE address space aware so 64bit windows will give them a full 4GB instead.

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Oh yeh, missed the drives bit. If you only have data on your IDE drives then it will still appear just fine after the new install, even the drive letters will probably remain the same, but if you have any apps on there then they will need to be reinstalled

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Home and Pro both come in 64 and 32 bit versions so you can install home 64 bit without any extra cost. You can then enjoy all of your extra memory 😁

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If you are going to do a fresh install of W10 then I would strongly recommend switching to the 64bit version unless you are still using some ancient 16bit software.

Your key will still be valid and now your motherboard is registered for W10 its best to skip over entering it during an install, let Windows activate its self later (usually in a minute or two).

Only trying to go from one version to another, say home to pro, requires a new key.

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Nothing so simple Ed. The PC is 3 years old and apart from using the onboard Intel graphics it was top of the line then (I helped her spec it on the Palicomp website). The PC gets its time from the MS time server and is spot on.

AVG paid for version is installed and up to date and I tried switching off its web protection feature but it made no difference. Edge and IE both do the same thing

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MIPS were never a very good measure of performance, especially between processors with different architectures. The main problem is that its not a measure of actual work done. A 64 bit CPU is going to shift 8 times as much data per instruction as an 8 bit CPU would for example and a duel core CPU will execute twice as many instructions per cycle IF the instructions can be executed in parallel. The other problem is choosing which instructions you are going to measure because they all take different numbers of cycles and just taking the average doesn’t tell you very much. An add instruction may take 1 cycle and a multiply 20 but how many add instructions does it take to do a multiply ?

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Did you know…

If your display port is dual mode (usually marked as DP++) then you can use a passive adapter.

Or so I’m told 😁

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Couldn’t they replace it with a custom SAP’s module ? Come to think of it, if they did it probably wouldn’t work either 😂

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And another thing…

It has always been the case that Star Trek has taken and adapted screen plays that were clearly written for a different show altogether, usually a court room drama or a western, but since Voyager they have used the holodeck to just import the plots wholesale.

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There are just too many thoughts and “feelings” in modern adaptations of Star Trek, exactly the sort of thing that people who watch it are sick of. What I want to see is thoughts and “actions”, not half an hour of people agonising over what they should do.

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I suppose its for security reasons but it is annoying that they never say what the flaw actually is. A flaw in the cryptographic API could be anything.

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Or you could do that of course 😂

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Oh yes, it SHOULD be safe to use Easeus to remove the Lenovo backup partition and then you can use the space for a Windows recovery partition or you can expand the Windows 7 partition to fill the free space.

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The system partition is indeed where your system boots from, it contains the Windows boot manager and Boot Configuration Data (BCD) file amongst other things. On a UEFI system it should be called EFI and be formatted FAT32. Normally only 100MB but 200 is ok.

The Windows 7 is where Windows 10 lives and it would have been called Windows 10 if you had done a clean install. This is also where you will find Wimdows.old, you can normally remove that by running disc clean up once then ticking clean system files and running it again.

PBR_DRV is the lenovo backup partition and it may well be invalid now you have done the W10 upgrade.

You do not appear to have a Windows backup partition yet as it would be labled PBE for pre boot environment or RE for recovery environment. If you need help creating one I would have to look it up AGAIN for the latest version of Windows 😁

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If you have a hot air gun you may like to use Heat shrink tubing instead of tape. I ordered and used some of the above last year.

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Sorry MBs 😁

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Yep, you have to go out of your way to get buffered memory.

Just in case you didn’t know, PC3 12800 memory is also sold as DDR3 1600.

The transfer speed works out as base clock of 800Mhz, X2 because its DDR and X8 because the 64 bit bus is 8 bytes wide so 12800 Mbs.

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<p style=”text-align: justify;”>Without giving too much away, my design of variable pump is of the rotor type as used in BL’s A series engine for the oil pump. There are 3 capacities available and the only difference is the thickness of the pump and hence the with of the rotor. My design uses a sliding sleeve to vary the width of the rotor.</p>

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Interestingly, information on the Vickers VSG seems to be restricted.

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Speaking of gear boxes, I have an idea for an infinatley variable hydrolic gear box an I can’t see why it won’t work.

I have a design for a pump with an easily variable capacity that would be linked to a fixed capacity hydrolic motor.

In principle it just changes the capacity of the driving cylinder which would increase the gear ratio.

Can’t see why it wouldn’t work.

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