I have been given a PC and I want to determine if its 64bit and therefore what OS to purchase. I prefer 64-bit but dont know if this machine is capable.
How do I determine that the hardware is 64 bit capable when there is no operating system installed?
Yes, it is hard to find an article that shows you how to find out what processor is installed when you don't have an operating system loaded to start the computer.
If you know the name of the processor (CPU) in your computer then you can find out if it is 64-bit by searching online. Most new CPUs are at least 64-bit.
Here is an example using an 8 year-old "Intel Core 2 Duo T7500". I've provided links to the relevant Wikipedia articles: Intel is the manufacturer and the article has links to each generation and brand of CPUs. Core 2 is the brand of processor. The article says "Core 2 is a brand encompassing a range of Intel's consumer 64-bit x86-64 single-, dual-, and quad-core microprocessors based on the Core microarchitecture." Duo means the CPU has two or dual cores. T7500 is the model or processor number. Intel has its own ARK search tool which provides this T7500 specification sheet where is says the "Instruction set" is 64-bit.
Earlier i replaced the hard drive on my Windows 7, 64-bit HP. The tech department at work installed a 32-bit version of windows 7 professional. When the upgrade to windows 10 occurs, and since it is apparently occurring through windows update, will it automatically install the 32-bit version or will I have an option to install the 64-bit version? I wasn't able to find this answer in my brief search. Thank you in advance!
I can't be definitive but it will almost certainly work the same way it does for earlier Windows releases as with 32-bit Windows upgrade to 64-bit Windows 8. The upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit cannot be done using the Upgrade Advisor or any other automatic method. It has to be done manually with a clean install.
To upgrade to Windows 8 it was more expensive to go from 32-bit to 64-bit because the cheapest upgrade path was using the default upgrade from 32-bit to 32-bit. If Windows upgrades from 7 and 8 to 10 are free then there may be no difference.
March 25, 2013, 9 new sites added and 1 dead link removed (1 link fixed). All links here checked and working.
I use LinkChecker to check page links and no longer visit each site individually to reconfirm. So, if you find a site that is not as it should be, then please post here in the comments.
If you know of a site to be added to this listing, please post here in the comments.
If you are the owner of a site that you would like added to this listing, it is better to contact me through the site (click on mr6n8).
Also, no site that has an orange or red rating from WOT (Web of Trust) may be added to this listing, per site rules. So please check the WOT rating before posting.
Thanks
Steve
Great list--thanks for all the links. I would add this series of speculative fiction which is mostly classic science fiction by early greats in the genre. Can be listened to again & again. You can find it over at the internet archive. It's called "Mind Webs" a radio series out of WHA radio in Madison WI.
Guys that is the third of fourth time I read the same online...the 360 has anti-theft capabilities, to lock, erase, and locate the phone, not sure what version are you evaluating...most of the others, use the same google locate for that....
I prefer creating my own wallpaper categories and searching for nice images to fit them. The personalization option in the confrol panel of Windows 7 allows any folder to be used for desktop backgrounds and the images chosen can be viewed as a screenshow at intervals ranging from 10 seconds to a day.
AT LAST!
A wallpaper changer that starts up with Windows WITH the possibility to stop running after the wallpaper is changed.
And it's portable too. What else could you want more?
Thanks a lot for sharing.
the first thing I read today was your message. And your words made my day start better! :-)
Thank you from my heart! And rest assured that I appreciate very much your posts and all you share with us through the years.
*applause*
*thumbs up*
:-D
The coffee map (No.28) surprised me a bit, and the Chinese names for countries (No.39) are entertaining. Can't make out what they call Slovenia though, I'll have to look that up.
No.1, Google Street View, is nonsense :-) Our town is well within the marked area and we definitely don't have it.
If you really love maps and world statistics then look no further than gapminder.org
The ways you can manipulate the data on a map or graph is inspiring, and you can make some very interesting or downright odd comparisons
These are mostly romance novels. I'm interested in freely downloadable epub mysteries by John Dickson Carr, Ross MacDonald, Ngaio Marsh, Leslie Charteris, P.D. James, and about detectives, such as John Cardinal, Harry Dresden, Salvo Montalbano, Jack Reacher, Harry Bosch, Elvis Cole, Alex McKnight, Logan McRae, Armand Gamache, John Rebus, and Lord Peter Wimsey. I've already got all of Agatha Christie's works.
You're in luck - Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey series is FREE here: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20080401.
For current books, still within copyright and by authors who are still alive and need to eat, please consider buying an ebook once in a while (and then use Calibre to remove the darn DRM), or just check out what your library has to offer.
Huh. I'm not sure what genre or category (on the left side of the screen) you were looking at, but the categories I checked before posting this had no romance books. I looked at these genres and their categories: Computers and Technology, Travel, Arts and Photography, Reference, and Biographies & Memoirs.
The landing page has a lot of romance novels though, that's for sure.
I think their classification system is jumbled, but the categories and sub-categories are more reflective of the topic.
You could check the Mystery, Thriller & Suspense category for some of those authors, but I'm not sure that any of them would ever show up in the free category. Lee Child (Jack Reacher), Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch) and Robert Crais (Elvis Cole) are all popular authors. I've don't think I've ever seen popular and best-selling authors in the free category, and I've seen only a few authors at that level show up in discounted books. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Amazon's eBooks are downloaded in their propietary format, though they can converted to ePub on the web or using a program like Calibre.
Doesn't work for Australia - keeps transferring to Australian Amazon site - even though US site says ships online to international. Australian site does not have any free.
I suggest you use a browser like EPIC which allows you to specify what country you are coming from. It's free, based on Chrome code and is a useful addition for when you want to do this kind of thing.
VideoLectures.NET is an award-winning (best educational product of the decade award from UN and UNESCO) free and open access educational video lectures repository. The lectures are given by distinguished scholars and scientists at the most important and prominent events like conferences, summer schools, workshops and science promotional events from many fields of Science:
http://videolectures.net/
As an alternative to youtube there's torch music ( http://music.torchbrowser.com/ ). It's a relatively new service that uses the youtube library, but it works better in that it doesn't have covers or spam stuff, and the adds don't break up the video flow. Totally free too.
I love You-tube it's full of varied videos lot's of different content but it seems google are trying to upset 90% of it's you tube users by forcing them to have a google plus pages , I can no longer comment on you tube videos until I accept the T&C's of having a google plus page which I don't even want , it's seems not enough people were using google plus so they decided to MAKE people use it ( not really the way to go )
IMO it's unfair to list as a con what "spam" comments that nor YouTube or content providers have no reasonable control over. Spam was first used to refer to unsolicited email. By posting comments for public consumption or post original comments to the content one is in essence soliciting responses. Googles/youtubes attempt to encourage/force the use of real names on YouTube had the potential to move abuse from inside the web into the world where people actually live. A crank angered by a John Doe on the web is likely to harass every John Doe they can find a phone number for. Actually comment on YouTube are some of the most useful on the web, particularly since YouTube got rid of the character limit and allowed inserting of all URL'. Yea you have to ignore the stupid crap, but that's a small price to pay for free. tmy gmail account associated with YouTube isn't my primary email account. The only time a make point to visit my gmail account is when I'm expect something from the google help staff or from the google/YouTube forums. Generally I scroll through the mail and based on the subject mark expect email to be moved to a folder for reading, the remainder is block deleted. I rarely engage in YouTube comment peeing contests
One doesn't have to use Google+ to use you tube, why not setup G+? When using YouTube I given the choice to use my long time anonymous YouTube user name of my G+ name. In the event the ability to comment is so important to anyone they should decide to stop viewing YouTube content after telling the google/YouTube and the content providers of that decision, and carry through with that decision. Clearly YouTube's hope was to clean up comments by having comments associated with what are thought to be real names civility would ensue. Did take sever exchanges with someone at YouTube to discover how I could still use my long time YouTube user name at YouTube, not my G= associated name. Sometimes getting what you think is right takes effort, and patience. Yes policy can change tomorrow. I'm ready to be allowed to watch the videos without commenting, or walk away from YouTube, I doubt few others are ready to do so as well. Anyway not in enough numbers to influance policy.
Hi usadoug, thank you for the comment! You make a good point. I am the same way! rarely will I spend time actually reading comments. YouTube also allows the uploader to disable/remove comments. However I think sometimes comments can border on abusive and/or irrelevant to the video completely. And if something can be done to filter comments more, it should be done. Wouldn't you say?
Movie streaming giant Netflix has lost millions of its users this month, sccording to some reportd, A new website has appeared on thr movie streaming scene, and is quickly becoming an apparent threat to cable companies and other online competitors. read more >> https://movie.siteslikenetflix.com
Maybe it's a false positive, but Malwarebytes flagged the pothos.info site. See below warning:
Website blocked due to a suspicious top level domain (TLD)
You're welcome Peter, I'm happy you like it. I like it because you don't have to hunt around to find what you want, it's all right there, a click away.
I did see their other freebies and checked them out. I didn't download and test Red Button or Christmas Elf but the others seemed ok. I liked the Click and Relax.
Agreed MC. :)
Pothos is not the site I wrote up, however, I did visit all the listings offered on Pothos and ran the site through VirusTotal and it came up clean. That's one of the things I normally do before I write anything up - there's a lot of checking, testing, double checking, and research that goes into what I post, it's not quick or casual. For example, I tested every one of the 55 tools on Mara photos to make sure each worked and did what it said it did and to make sure there were no image quality issues that I could detect. With that said, I still miss things sometimes, and I'm grateful for the people who point out the errors. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There's also quite a few programs and sites that don't make it all the way through testing for one reason or another.
I didn't download or test either of the programs that were listed on Pothos (Red Button and Christmas Elf).
I'm not seeing a big red download button on the Mara Photo site: https://mara.photos/
To use any of the tools, just click or tap the name of the tool and will open inside your browser. You can upload an image and use any of the tools to edit or create effects for your image.
The top of this article is a screenshot of what the page looks like.
Good history websites are hard to find so I'm glad to see these archives being made available. Some clips have no sound and others are too short to provide any meaningful historical context but there are still enough good segments to make this video library worthwhile.
February 14, 2013, new sites added and 1 dead link removed. I added the number of series to the title as I did not realize how big this section had gotten.
All links should be working. If you find a site is not working, or is not as it should be, then please post here.
If you know of a site or series to be added to this listing, please post here or contact me through the site.
Thanks
Steve
March 27, 2013, 6 new series added, 1 dead link removed. All links here checked and working.
I use LinkChecker to check page links and no longer visit each site individually to reconfirm. So, if you find a site that is not as it should be, then please post here in the comments.
If you know of a site to be added to this listing, please post here in the comments.
If you are the owner of a site that you would like added to this listing, it is better to contact me through the site (click on mr6n8).
Also, no site that has an orange or red rating from WOT (Web of Trust) may be added to this listing, per site rules. So please check the WOT rating before posting.
Thanks
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I have been given a PC and I want to determine if its 64bit and therefore what OS to purchase. I prefer 64-bit but dont know if this machine is capable.
How do I determine that the hardware is 64 bit capable when there is no operating system installed?
Yes, it is hard to find an article that shows you how to find out what processor is installed when you don't have an operating system loaded to start the computer.
If you know the name of the processor (CPU) in your computer then you can find out if it is 64-bit by searching online. Most new CPUs are at least 64-bit.
Here is an example using an 8 year-old "Intel Core 2 Duo T7500". I've provided links to the relevant Wikipedia articles: Intel is the manufacturer and the article has links to each generation and brand of CPUs. Core 2 is the brand of processor. The article says "Core 2 is a brand encompassing a range of Intel's consumer 64-bit x86-64 single-, dual-, and quad-core microprocessors based on the Core microarchitecture." Duo means the CPU has two or dual cores. T7500 is the model or processor number. Intel has its own ARK search tool which provides this T7500 specification sheet where is says the "Instruction set" is 64-bit.
Other processors can also be found on Wikipedia or at the manufacturer's website: AMD processors at amd.com VIA processors at via.com
Earlier i replaced the hard drive on my Windows 7, 64-bit HP. The tech department at work installed a 32-bit version of windows 7 professional. When the upgrade to windows 10 occurs, and since it is apparently occurring through windows update, will it automatically install the 32-bit version or will I have an option to install the 64-bit version? I wasn't able to find this answer in my brief search. Thank you in advance!
I can't be definitive but it will almost certainly work the same way it does for earlier Windows releases as with 32-bit Windows upgrade to 64-bit Windows 8. The upgrade from 32-bit to 64-bit cannot be done using the Upgrade Advisor or any other automatic method. It has to be done manually with a clean install.
To upgrade to Windows 8 it was more expensive to go from 32-bit to 64-bit because the cheapest upgrade path was using the default upgrade from 32-bit to 32-bit. If Windows upgrades from 7 and 8 to 10 are free then there may be no difference.
Possible mistake: The reference to "WOW32" could perhaps be "WOW64"
Well spotted. Now corrected. That mistake had been there for years. :)
This article has been updated to reflect some of the changes in the last decade and now includes memory limits for Windows 8/8.1 and Windows 10.
Remah
Editor of this article
Thanks. There are some nice icons here
I'm glad you like them. I thought the same. :)
WOW! That is one extensive listing with so many icons to see & look at, it'll wear out my eyes! Thanks for the great find as always!
You're welcome. :) I'm happy you like it. I thought there were some nice ones in there and some unique subjects.
Great list--thanks for all the links. I would add this series of speculative fiction which is mostly classic science fiction by early greats in the genre. Can be listened to again & again. You can find it over at the internet archive. It's called "Mind Webs" a radio series out of WHA radio in Madison WI.
https://archive.org/details/MindWebs_201410
Guys that is the third of fourth time I read the same online...the 360 has anti-theft capabilities, to lock, erase, and locate the phone, not sure what version are you evaluating...most of the others, use the same google locate for that....
Thanks Rhiannon.
Excelent!
Peter
I'm delighted you like it! ☺
In similar vein:
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio
Good source, thank you.
I prefer creating my own wallpaper categories and searching for nice images to fit them. The personalization option in the confrol panel of Windows 7 allows any folder to be used for desktop backgrounds and the images chosen can be viewed as a screenshow at intervals ranging from 10 seconds to a day.
AT LAST!
A wallpaper changer that starts up with Windows WITH the possibility to stop running after the wallpaper is changed.
And it's portable too. What else could you want more?
Thanks a lot for sharing.
WOW!
Thank you so much, rhiannon... and let's share one more Christmas time! :-)
"You will get a sentimental feeling....when you hear
Voices singing let's be jolly....
Deck the halls with boughs of holly"
Excellent link and wonderful pictures!
I'm happy you like them. :)
Hear, hear. :)
rhiannon,
the first thing I read today was your message. And your words made my day start better! :-)
Thank you from my heart! And rest assured that I appreciate very much your posts and all you share with us through the years.
*applause*
*thumbs up*
:-D
Awwww, that's so nice of you to say.......... :)
Great site - thanks for passing on this tip.
Thanks rob.... nice find !
cheers
Fascinating stuff, thanks for posting.
The coffee map (No.28) surprised me a bit, and the Chinese names for countries (No.39) are entertaining. Can't make out what they call Slovenia though, I'll have to look that up.
No.1, Google Street View, is nonsense :-) Our town is well within the marked area and we definitely don't have it.
Well now, that was a really cool diversion! Thanks.
*thumbs up*
Thank you, rob! :-)
If you really love maps and world statistics then look no further than gapminder.org
The ways you can manipulate the data on a map or graph is inspiring, and you can make some very interesting or downright odd comparisons
Thank you for free apps...
Sadly this is for US based Kindle customers only
These are mostly romance novels. I'm interested in freely downloadable epub mysteries by John Dickson Carr, Ross MacDonald, Ngaio Marsh, Leslie Charteris, P.D. James, and about detectives, such as John Cardinal, Harry Dresden, Salvo Montalbano, Jack Reacher, Harry Bosch, Elvis Cole, Alex McKnight, Logan McRae, Armand Gamache, John Rebus, and Lord Peter Wimsey. I've already got all of Agatha Christie's works.
Much of these books are garbage romance written by women. Even free they are overpriced because they would take up valuable space on your device..
You're in luck - Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey series is FREE here: https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20080401.
For current books, still within copyright and by authors who are still alive and need to eat, please consider buying an ebook once in a while (and then use Calibre to remove the darn DRM), or just check out what your library has to offer.
Huh. I'm not sure what genre or category (on the left side of the screen) you were looking at, but the categories I checked before posting this had no romance books. I looked at these genres and their categories: Computers and Technology, Travel, Arts and Photography, Reference, and Biographies & Memoirs.
The landing page has a lot of romance novels though, that's for sure.
I think their classification system is jumbled, but the categories and sub-categories are more reflective of the topic.
You could check the Mystery, Thriller & Suspense category for some of those authors, but I'm not sure that any of them would ever show up in the free category. Lee Child (Jack Reacher), Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch) and Robert Crais (Elvis Cole) are all popular authors. I've don't think I've ever seen popular and best-selling authors in the free category, and I've seen only a few authors at that level show up in discounted books. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Amazon's eBooks are downloaded in their propietary format, though they can converted to ePub on the web or using a program like Calibre.
Sadly, that is often the case. :(
I'll amend the article, thank you for mentioning it.
Doesn't work for Australia - keeps transferring to Australian Amazon site - even though US site says ships online to international. Australian site does not have any free.
I suggest you use a browser like EPIC which allows you to specify what country you are coming from. It's free, based on Chrome code and is a useful addition for when you want to do this kind of thing.
Good suggestion. :)
You would still need an amazon us account to download books.
I already have over 16,000 FREE eBooks ! Thanks.
You're welcome. :) That's quite a few books!
For an Android app, the video link on how to calibrate was for an Iphone.
Not there anymore in google play.
This has been very helpful. Thank you,
As an alternative to youtube there's torch music ( http://music.torchbrowser.com/ ). It's a relatively new service that uses the youtube library, but it works better in that it doesn't have covers or spam stuff, and the adds don't break up the video flow. Totally free too.
IMO it's unfair to list as a con what "spam" comments that nor YouTube or content providers have no reasonable control over. Spam was first used to refer to unsolicited email. By posting comments for public consumption or post original comments to the content one is in essence soliciting responses. Googles/youtubes attempt to encourage/force the use of real names on YouTube had the potential to move abuse from inside the web into the world where people actually live. A crank angered by a John Doe on the web is likely to harass every John Doe they can find a phone number for. Actually comment on YouTube are some of the most useful on the web, particularly since YouTube got rid of the character limit and allowed inserting of all URL'. Yea you have to ignore the stupid crap, but that's a small price to pay for free. tmy gmail account associated with YouTube isn't my primary email account. The only time a make point to visit my gmail account is when I'm expect something from the google help staff or from the google/YouTube forums. Generally I scroll through the mail and based on the subject mark expect email to be moved to a folder for reading, the remainder is block deleted. I rarely engage in YouTube comment peeing contests
One doesn't have to use Google+ to use you tube, why not setup G+? When using YouTube I given the choice to use my long time anonymous YouTube user name of my G+ name. In the event the ability to comment is so important to anyone they should decide to stop viewing YouTube content after telling the google/YouTube and the content providers of that decision, and carry through with that decision. Clearly YouTube's hope was to clean up comments by having comments associated with what are thought to be real names civility would ensue. Did take sever exchanges with someone at YouTube to discover how I could still use my long time YouTube user name at YouTube, not my G= associated name. Sometimes getting what you think is right takes effort, and patience. Yes policy can change tomorrow. I'm ready to be allowed to watch the videos without commenting, or walk away from YouTube, I doubt few others are ready to do so as well. Anyway not in enough numbers to influance policy.
Hi usadoug, thank you for the comment! You make a good point. I am the same way! rarely will I spend time actually reading comments. YouTube also allows the uploader to disable/remove comments. However I think sometimes comments can border on abusive and/or irrelevant to the video completely. And if something can be done to filter comments more, it should be done. Wouldn't you say?
http://onevidtube.com/ is great one that support maximum size of 2 GB
Movie streaming giant Netflix has lost millions of its users this month, sccording to some reportd, A new website has appeared on thr movie streaming scene, and is quickly becoming an apparent threat to cable companies and other online competitors. read more >> https://movie.siteslikenetflix.com
I need more of this.. This post really worth checking out. Would like to stream like toy blast.
Good one! I think it will be good if you add more video streaming platform.
I would like to introduce New video streaming platform Mobiotics
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The free version of A-Drive is being discontinued, users have until November 16th to either move to a premium plan or retrieve their files.
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That's quite the jackpot you found Rhiannon!
Kind of reminds me of a StumbleUpon thing.
Have you noticed the link below to http://pothos.info/ ?
Full of freebies that could be helpful to some.
Thanks Rhiannon!
You are a genius! This tool is going to be the star of my box of online tools!
Best Regards
Peter
Maybe it's a false positive, but Malwarebytes flagged the pothos.info site. See below warning:
Website blocked due to a suspicious top level domain (TLD)
Very easy to use. Very effective
Of all the confusing commercial security software folks insist on paying for Malwarebytes tops the list. It's riddled with false positives and even if users read the documentation 95% of them will not be able to understand how these results are generated. This makes it IMO totally useless as a security tool. Forticlient Free 6.0 will give you better and more accurate results plus it provides custom settings for your web filters.
https://www.forticlient.com/downloads
Otherwise just use reputable online scanners. MC - Site Manager.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/b96d57c87841d5d7c0e302086fc7575f6c627...
https://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/568e8216-0741-43df-996b-9592bf37cefc
https://www.urlvoid.com/scan/mara.photos/
Thanks for the links. I was referring to pothos.info referenced by another member; not the Mara site.
Sorry - my mistake. Same analysis result however. MC - Site Manager.
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/98fe92fc120e5df74c1069d51cea952935d55...
https://www.urlvoid.com/scan/pothos.info/
https://zulu.zscaler.com/submission/6bb3082f-b5ca-46d7-b71a-c7fa68fcdd17
I'm glad you found it useful. :)
You're welcome Peter, I'm happy you like it. I like it because you don't have to hunt around to find what you want, it's all right there, a click away.
I did see their other freebies and checked them out. I didn't download and test Red Button or Christmas Elf but the others seemed ok. I liked the Click and Relax.
Agreed MC. :)
Pothos is not the site I wrote up, however, I did visit all the listings offered on Pothos and ran the site through VirusTotal and it came up clean. That's one of the things I normally do before I write anything up - there's a lot of checking, testing, double checking, and research that goes into what I post, it's not quick or casual. For example, I tested every one of the 55 tools on Mara photos to make sure each worked and did what it said it did and to make sure there were no image quality issues that I could detect. With that said, I still miss things sometimes, and I'm grateful for the people who point out the errors. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
There's also quite a few programs and sites that don't make it all the way through testing for one reason or another.
I didn't download or test either of the programs that were listed on Pothos (Red Button and Christmas Elf).
Love it! I had too much fun with the click and relax and the photo editor. Thanks!
You say there isn't need to download software, but there is a big download button??? Don't we need to download the suite to use it?
I'm not seeing a big red download button on the Mara Photo site:
https://mara.photos/
To use any of the tools, just click or tap the name of the tool and will open inside your browser. You can upload an image and use any of the tools to edit or create effects for your image.
The top of this article is a screenshot of what the page looks like.
I'm glad you like it. :)
Good history websites are hard to find so I'm glad to see these archives being made available. Some clips have no sound and others are too short to provide any meaningful historical context but there are still enough good segments to make this video library worthwhile.
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