Re: Microsoft becoming more aggressive in pushing Windows 10+end of Windows 8 patches

I kinda wonder about if someone were to write modern hardware drivers for older Windows systems, what would their boot times be?

Newer Windows systems are so bloated up. I've disabled alot of drivers for NetBT and stuff... which I believe should be userspace services, not kernel-mode drivers anyways.

I pretty much disabled over half of the system, and I'm running just fine! The desktop looks old because I disabled the Themes service, but hey! More GPU cycles for the...

Re: New Members - please post your introductions here

Hi, my name is Tony and I am got interested in the whole capacitor plague thing by watching a YouTube channel with someone who deals alot with computer PSUs.

On one of his videos, he mentioned a user on this site that designed a IC 5V standby rail mod for the infamous Worstec motherboard killer. You know, that ATX-250-12E has killed many eMachines boards back in the day.

I have worked with computers since I was young, and I have always wondered why electronics failed all the time. My parents would always...