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Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact!

Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

Posts by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Is it wise to delete C: (containing Program Files) on an old hard drive, to create space to backup more files?

Essentially (it is actually a bit more complicated), the information on a hard drive (or solid state drive - a computer will normally treat them basically the same, and actually floppy disks, flash...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A How can the total size of all frames of a video > that video's size?

As already noted in another answer, the answer is compression. But it is actually much more than you might think. A typical video has a huge amount static from frame to frame. Even an "action" vide...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Best practices for small, internet-critical company's ISP for maximal uptime

Generally speaking the best thing is two different internet providers. Different means not just who you send the bill to but different physical networks. In most areas, your options are: One cab...

posted 9mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Why does my second LCD monitor overflow, when I try to maximize windows?

An LCD (unlike a typical CRT) has actual hardware pixels for the defined "native" resolution. If you set your video card (in this case, set your Windows display resolution) higher than the native r...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Anti-Twin's Byte by Byte“ vs. ”Compare images (pixels)"

I never heard of Anti-Twin. So I went to the web site and quickly found the answer: http://www.joerg-rosenthal.com/en/antitwin/similar.html As expected, "byte by byte" will look for an exact matc...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Why does Google Search Console shows data two days prior?

TL;DR TANSTAAFL Google is in business. They give a lot of stuff away for free. But much of that is in order to get things that people pay for, either directly (paid accounts for G Suite or whateve...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Easiest way to set up a mailing list

Sorry, no simple answer here, though I did find one service free for up to 100 users: https://groups.io Any "service", as opposed to software you install on your own system, needs to be paid for, ...

posted 12mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A How to concurrently, productively change all gray color in all headings and subheadings in this PDF?

TL;DR You can't, at least not easily. Generally speaking, PDFs are read only documents. That is deliberate, as it helps with use of PDFs as a replacement for paper documents. What you see is what ...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A How can I transmit my current location to someone else's phone?

On Android in Google Maps (Googled to get this, but tested and it works): Touch and hold an area of the map that isn't labeled to drop a red pin. In the search box, you can find the coordinates...

posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A My hard drive is screeching, now what?

Hard drives make sounds, just as anything spun around at 5400 RPM or 7200 RPM (typical) would do. If the sound changes than that is often a sign of a problem. There are some exceptions (especially...

posted 8mo ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A In Word, how do I readily sort a string of numbers separated by commas?

You can't do that in Word. Word's Sort command operates on "fields" in separate rows. It is nominally for Tables, but if the selected data is not in an actual Table then it treats each row of text...

posted 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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