Author: trparky

Microsoft… you halfwits!!!

trparky October 4, 2019 0

Microsoft released KB4524147 to fix the printer issues that were introduced with KB4522016. Too bad they broke more stuff! According to BetaNews, people are reporting broken Start Menus with this update.

Printer-fixing KB4524147 update is breaking the Start menu in Windows 10

For me, it didn’t break the Start Menu but like the previous update, the Action Center was broken. This means I can’t dismiss notifications and I can’t reconnect to Bluetooth headphones using Windows Key+K since that part uses the same overlay that the Action Center uses.

I built an AMD Ryzen system…

trparky September 22, 2019 0

So the system that I gave my father that had an old Intel Core i5 3570K was showing signs of instability. Well, I did have the chip overclocked for quite some time to 4.4 GHz when I was still using the system so who knows, perhaps the overclock for three years resulted in a degraded …

DSLReports, you are dead to me…

trparky September 22, 2019 0

I talked some time ago about how I stepped away from DSLReports, I went back to the site after a month of not visiting it and kept going to it for some time until I once again got into it with the moderators over what was essentially very stupid stuff. I don’t agree with a …

The Death of Star Trek

trparky April 13, 2019April 13, 2019 0

Yes, I know… this isn’t a normal tech blog post but I think it needs to be said here. The Death of Star Trek is upon us, they’ve pulled the fourth Kelvin timeline Star Trek movie because the third one bombed so badly. Now why did the third movie bomb so badly? It’s very simple …

AMD Ryzen… today vs a year ago

trparky March 15, 2019March 15, 2019 0

Some people may remember that I wrote a rather glowing review of the Intel Core i7 8700K (review linked here). At the time it was the best processor one could buy at the time if you were a gamer. Ryzen version 1 had issues, clock-for-clock AMD was indeed slower than Intel and game benchmarks did …

Windows 10… an unmitigated disaster

trparky December 10, 2018 0

Recently Windows 10 has been plagued by a series of not just one but several Windows Updates that have had to be pulled from distribution because of, as Microsoft puts it… “unforeseen issues”. Unforeseen? Yeah… only because you fired your whole entire software QA team!!! Now had you, Microsoft, actually kept your internal software testing …

The Intel Core i7 8700K

trparky August 10, 2018August 10, 2018 0

I’ve recently upgraded to a new Core i7 8700K processor. OK, not recently, I bought it about four months ago. I previously had a Core i5 3570K that was overclocked to 4.4 GHz and I had that for nearly five years. Unfortunately that older system just wasn’t keeping up with the demands that I had …

Stepping away from DSLReports.com

trparky June 1, 2018 0

I’m stepping away from DSLReports.com, if you ask me the DSLReports community has turned extremely toxic as of late. There’s a lot of FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt) along with paranoia going on in that community. Any time there’s some kind of program that even makes the slightest of outgoing communication the entire community jumps …

Windows 10 Diagnostic Data

trparky January 26, 2018January 26, 2018 0

OK so I did some deep diving into the app Windows Diagnostic Data Viewer that’s part of the new Windows 10 Fast Ring Build that was released recently and to be honest, it was an eye-opening experience. If I am using the app correctly (and I most likely am) there is a toggle that will …

Identity Politics

trparky October 21, 2017October 21, 2017 11

I usually don’t write about politics here because it usually ends up in nothing more than a series of insults being traded between one another in the comment section. I feel I have to write this because of the current political climate in the United States. First of all, I voted for Trump. There, I …