Recent content by altae

Well I'd try a USB port ;-)

Maybe some software has exclusive access to the audio device? If a program has exclusive access the volume slider does not work.

I run VMWare Workstation Pro for my Linux guest which I use for web surfing and e-mail. Workstation Pro does everything I need and the performance is just fine. But if you want you can also try Virtualbox (also supports audio playback) which is another free virtualization software.

I recommend using FastCopy for the job.

You can run the wizard (if you deactivated it you can launch it in the options) and select "In a specific location" where you can enter a path you want to scan. Or if you chose to install the context menu entries you can also right click the corresponding folder in Windows Explorer and select...

If you get too many results you can also limit the search to certain paths. So if you know the path where the files you deleted were stored you can only search for deleted files in that path. This should make it easier to pinpoint the correct files.

These are the deleted files Recuva has found. You can select and recover them. The file names are never restored which can make it challenging to identify the right files. By the way if you recover files make sure you save them on a different drive and not on the one the deleted files were...

Recuva is also a good program to recover deleted files.

I have the Chinese characters too. Seems to be a common problem.

1)The user configuration only applies to the current user while the computer configuration affects all users. If you're the sole user of the computer you can use either of them. 2)I don't know this setting but maybe what it means is it wont show a notification (the ones shown in the bottom...

I use compression for backups of my system drive and my drives with various file types. For my drives with multimedia files on the other hand I turn compression off as these audio and video files are already highly compressed and Macrium Reflect is not able to compress them even more.

In order to use Windows Defender instead of Kaspersky you need to uninstall Kaspersky first and then navigate to Windows Settings, Privacy & security, Virus & threat protection and make sure Windows Defender is enabled.

There is no EFI partition on your system drive which leads me to assume your boot loader is installed on disk number 1 (in one of the 4 EFI partitions). I suspect if you remove disk number 1 the system wont boot anymore.

I used to run it too. But nowadays with fast SSDs I don't see a reason to use it anymore.

Well worst case just add the price of a Windows 11 license to your bid. If it still sounds like a good deal go ahead and buy the laptop if not look for something else.