The Seagate Expansion usually sports a beefier, more rugged chassis—plus, they typically pack faster drives in there with higher cache levels—but honestly, once you plug it into a USB port, those specs don't really move the needle for you. If your Seagate Expansion Desktop is doing the job right now, then an Expansion should be perfectly fine too.
Those Liberty power supplies from Enermax were about as reliable as a screen door on a submarine—I wouldn't touch them with a ten-foot pole. I’d much rather go with Scythe.
Anyway, I'm on the hunt for a modular PSU somewhere in the 500W ballpark (it's gotta handle an i5 2500K paired with a GTX 460), but Corsair doesn't seem to carry anything in that range. Right now, my options are basically either the Scythe Gouriki 3 or the Cooler Master real Power M520. Honestly, I have zero clue how Cooler Master units perform in general—this thing is a few years old, so I haven't been able to find any decent, modern reviews online. 🤷
Maybe give your system a good deep clean with these tools—you can grab the standalone installers whenever you're ready. Also, just for a second, try disabling UAC and see if that changes anything.
...I'm looking at the ratings, they take PayPal, everything seems legit enough... anyone actually tried this before?
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Look, if you buy it, you're basically just buying a license key that might work—or might not—and honestly, it’s probably just a matter of how long it takes before Microsoft blacklists it. Don't bother unless you're getting the actual box and the physical disc.
They aren't going to feel any real difference regardless of which version they pick—unless, of course, they’re planning on throwing more RAM into the mix—in which case they should definitely go with the 64-bit version.
I need to merge several different documents into one single master file using Microsoft Office. The thing is—I split them up originally just to make things easier to manage, since the whole mess totals about 350 pages. Now that I’m trying to pull them all together, it’s a total nightmare—every document has its own settings, so the page numbering goes haywire, table fonts shift everywhere... basically, it's absolute chaos. Is there any way to avoid this? Can I use sections within the document so they don't "bleed" into each other during the merge—basically keeping each part's formatting intact?
Thanks in advance!
Drew Bennett68
Just stick to the classic copy/paste method. Go to the end of your current document, drop in a section break, and then paste the next document right there. If you try to use "Insert File" or some fancy merge function, the formatting is going to be a complete disaster.
goldeneagle112 said:This might sound like a pretty silly question, but how does this actually work?
Basically, you just make copies of all your CDs—you know, create an image file using Nero or whatever burning software you have lying around—and then you load those images into a virtual drive program. If you're using Daemon Tools, just hit F1 to pull up the help menu; it’s all laid out right there for you.
A 53% fragmentation level is pretty brutal—that’s exactly why it took forever... honestly, just fire up Microsoft Word and Defrag and you shouldn't have to stress about this anymore. Anything left over will eventually get smoothed out by Norton Utilities on its own over time. If you still feel like the system is dragging, though, you might want to run a boot-time defrag. Personally, that's my go-to move whenever I'm doing a fresh install of Windows—I wait until absolutely everything is installed and then kick off a boot-time defrag to wrap things up perfectly.
Sam Murphy said:This Diskeeper thing has been running forever—it’s been defragging my drive all day long.
Either your drive is completely trashed or something just isn't working quite right... I mean, how much data are we actually talking about here? In theory, you really only need to defrag the system partition once in a while; messing around with the partitions where you just stash movies and MP3s doesn't make much sense at all.
Man, I’ve been there—I totally dropped the ball once and didn't bother cataloging my music library when I should have. Ended up spending three whole months manually scrubbing through every single disc just to get things straight. 😁
Give thisa shot—the tagger connects directly to the freedb, MusicBrainz, and CDDB servers, so you should be able to pull whatever metadata you're looking for from them.
Look, you basically had two choices—you could grab the localized version or just go with the English Office + MLP that came on its own special CD. And just so we're clear, you couldn't get that MLP separately; it was strictly bundled with the English version of Office.
feralmarlin8 said:Which one of these guys am I talking about? The one I just posted? I can't even deal right now. I was browsing some tech specs online and stumbled onto this piece of gear—basically just a standard black laptop case/sleeve—and it's got me thinking about how much junk gets marketed as "premium" these days. Honestly, looking at stuff like this makes me miss the days when you could just walk into a Best Buy, grab something that actually worked, and not feel like you were being scammed by fancy minimalist branding. Everything is so overpriced now. You see these sleek designs and think, "Yeah, okay, looks cool," but then you realize you're paying an extra fifty bucks just because the logo looks expensive. It’s a joke. It reminds me of that time I tried to buy a specialized sleeve for my old MacBook at a boutique shop in downtown Chicago. The guy behind the counter looked at me like I was crazy for asking if it had any actual padding, then tried to upsell me on a "designer leather" version that felt like thin cardboard. Total rip-off. Anyway, I don't know. Is it just me, or is everything becoming more about the aesthetic and less about whether the damn thing actually protects your tech? Just feels like we're all getting played.
Yeah, that one—or the one Jamie Ramos5 posted. Honestly, the only real catch is that the IPS panel on that Dell monitor is a bit sluggish for actual gaming... you know, when you're playing high-FPS shooters or racing games and need that response time.