02Oct 2015 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Everything Search Engine free Windows Utility is worth a look!

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[powr-twitter-feed label="Everything Search Engine"] Recently I downloaded a Windows utility for file searching that is extremely fast locating any type of file on my machines.  The software tool is called "Everything" and can be downloaded from Voidtools.  The software was created by David Carpenter and you can install either a 32 or 64 bit version. Installing Everything is very simple, you download either the 32 or 64 bit Windows version, it takes a few seconds to index and locate all hard drives or USB clips that are known by the operating system.  You will have a shortcut on the desktop and when it comes to locating any type of file you can use the filter to reduce what you are looking for or just put the title in the search box…
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04Jul 2015 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Nvidia GTX 770 Video Card simple installation and high performance.

Computer PC Tips - bits and bytes
Nvidia has been a leader in high performance as well as quality when it comes to their video cards.  I recently installed the Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 2GB GDDR5 PCI-Express Video Card - One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One HDMI, One Display Port into a custom built Intel I7-4290 CPU on a Gigabyte Motherboard along with a SSD.  This combination has produce outstanding performance resulting in games such as Counter Strike pushing out 500 to 600 FPS on a standard cable internet line. The power supply was a Corsair CX series CX750 750 watts which is ample amount of power for the configuration that was used. You can visit this link to view the various testing that was done against some of the other video cards available at…
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06Mar 2015 by richard@baronsoftware.com

How to reset the phpBB admin password in the event you forgot nightmare.

Computer PC Tips - bits and bytes
To reset your phpBB Admin password, please follow these steps: A)  Using your web hosting control panel or the every least you need to identify the MySQL database associated with your phpBB installation. You have to locate the config.php usually located in the phpBB default folder that you originally installed the application. Open the config.php with any text editor to review and locate the section that is set in red bold.  That information has the database username and password which allows you to gain access. // phpBB auto-generated configuration file // Do not change anything in this file! $dbms = 'mysql'; $dbhost = 'localhost'; $dbport = ''; $dbname = 'database_name'; $dbuser = 'database_user'; $dbpasswd = 'database_password'; $table_prefix = 'phpbb_'; $acm_type = 'file'; $load_extensions = ''; @define('PHPBB_INSTALLED', true); ?> B)  From…
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02Feb 2015 by richard@baronsoftware.com

Mozilla Firefox v35.0 still has HUGE memory issues on a Windows machine which creates a resource drain.

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The recommendation for users to not to use the latest version of Firefox until they resolve the issues on memory which at times can exceed 2 gigabytes and could continue to grow during any session regardless of open tabbed windows. In the lab the decision was made just to start up Firefox and have the latest updates applied which at this stage is 35.0.1 and open any single browser session to any favorite web site. To conduct the similar test all you need to do is: Start a firefox session and open a single browser session to any web site. On a Windows 7 machine, click on start and enter taskmgr in the search text box.  This will start up a task manager session.  Task Manager provides the end user…
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