Time for a new free virus scanner - advice?

[Buster's Uncle]

It did.

[DrazharLn]

Love the new sigline - I do my best

I haven't thought about this since last year, of course...

Hotmail is really bad, overclocking can kill your computer instantly if you do it wrong, but going in small steps should be safe-ish.

OTOH, there is a risk of cooking the whole thing, and if you can't afford a new machine, maybe don't do that.

I'm sorry you had some trouble with turning off startup stuff. Glad you sorted that.

I don't have much more to add to my earlier list. Getting an adblocker will help a fair amount, though. Use ublock origin if it's available for whatever browser you use.

[DrazharLn]

I don't really know what else I can help with, here.

[Buster's Uncle]

Download CPU-Z and confirm you only have one core working.

Look in your BIOS for "Advanced Clock Calibration" and turn it on.

Check again in CPU-Z.

The processor can also be overclocked quite a lot (up to 3.4-3.7 GHz, supposedly). You might not be able to get that high on the stock cooler, though.

One core.

-Okay, somebody tell me where my BIOS is and how to turn on the "Advanced Clock Calibration".  I'm curious about the overclocking, too, though not inclined to risk being very bold...

The bolded bit - I don't know where that is/how to do that.

[Buster's Uncle]

...I haven't looked into it, but would dumping AdBlock Plus in favor of ublock be as simple as go find ublock, uninstall AB+, etc.?

[ColdWizard]

...I haven't looked into it, but would dumping AdBlock Plus in favor of ublock be as simple as go find ublock, uninstall AB+, etc.?

That's basically what I did. Though keep in mind ublock and ublock origin are different. Ublock is like ABP in that it whitelists stuff where Origin is a branch by the original ublock guy that actually still blocks things. Or that's how I interpreted the saying of people more knowledgeable than me.

[Buster's Uncle]

I like the sound of actually still blocks things.  Ain't been enough of that going around.

[ColdWizard]

Plus you can block other page elements pretty easily. The right third of my Facebook is blank because I blocked all the trending and suggested nonsense, for example.

[Buster's Uncle]

Oooh!  I rather like the trending when it's not sports kadsian or something else hopelessly stupid/trivial, but if I never had to close a suggested anything again, that would be great.

[ColdWizard]

Most of the ones that show up in my feed do show up, but I might not have tried blocking those yet as I've found a couple of them interesting enough to follow.

[DrazharLn]

> ...I haven't looked into it, but would dumping AdBlock Plus in favor of ublock be as simple as go find ublock, uninstall AB+, etc.?

Yup.

> Look in your BIOS for "Advanced Clock Calibration" and turn it on.

* Get into BIOS (restart computer, hold down delete, usually)
* Look through the various pages for anything that sounds a bit like advanced clock calibration

If you can't find it, look for the name of the motherboard and I can maybe get a manual.

[Buster's Uncle]

If that's anything like just bringing up the W7 Control Panel and poking around, I've tried at frustrating length, both running searches and clicking and categories and looking.  I imagine clock settings are buried pretty deep on purpose...

[DrazharLn]

The BIOS system is separate from your operating system. You access it by turning your computer off and then holding a key down or repeatedly pressing it when the machine starts.

Looks like this: http://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/bios.jpg

[Buster's Uncle]

I will be looking into this in an hour or two if things stay as slow on the boards as I expect on a Sunday afternoon during summer in the American hemisphere...

[Buster's Uncle]

It was a more interesting day IRL than I'd hoped.  -This morning's looking slow, though, so if there's nothing interesting when I go investigate who's stomping around the kitchen, I'm going to try to gut up and take the plunge when I come back, before I get projects going and programs open...