The There Are No Stupid Questions Thread

I am having issues with PM… I responded toa PM but after sending, I don’t see my reply in the PM conversation thread…what gives??

Now that my laptop has been restored to good working order, my PMs are posting fine… head scratch… what a weird day.

Recent update from Windows 10 (Friday June 8th) bricked my laptop keyboard and touch pad drivers… now I’m stuck using the touch screen keyboard…

Here’s how it went:
10;30 pm while watching shows on Netflix with the kids, the windows update popped and ask for install and restart now or later… i chose restart later… finished Netflix, got too tired, went to sleep (closed the folded the screen down)… woke up to check email at 8am Saturday… no Windows log-in screen… no cursor on screen… keyboard keys and touchpad all unresponsive… had to log in with touchscreen keyboard (sucks crazy) and connect an external usb mouse… i checked the hardware drivers and it has issues… keyboard driver (ps/2 keyboard driver) has a code 10 issue and touch pad pointing device has a code 39 issue…
i have a Lenovo Flex 2-15…
tried uninstalling both drivers and rebooting several times to no avail… yes i tried rolling back the drivers, too… holding off on widows restore as a last resort…
Anybody have these issues, if so how did you fix?

Switch to Linux…

Naw, the damned thing kept ruining a work laptop, killing wifi completely. Know what a laptop is without wifi? A brick.

Kept rolling back, uninstalling drivers, etc., and that eventually got wifi working again, but slooooooowly. To finally stop its insistent attempts, I found the dir where it starts dumping new files in preparation for mangling the OS beyond recognition, ‘windows10upgrade’ or some crap like that, created a file with that name, and turned off all attributes, especially admin, to make it untouchable.

For a while I’d get popup boxes citing an “error”, as in not being able to create or write-to the dir, and it made me feel good. It eventually stopped trying.

You can try updating drivers with this: https://sdi-tool.org/

I use it often when repairing people’s computers and it works great.

On the fenix rc40, there are two holes… anyone know what are there for?

1… lowest mode… i kind of see yellow spot… after lowest mode, no yellow…
2. All my xpl dedome have hint of green…
3. I dont know.

“LightUpTheDark” If you can get to the ” system Restore ” do that first. If that works, disconnect the internet immediately, find the Windows update and turn it off, reconnect the internet. You need to have a restore point saved when you are done and you need to be prepared in advance for those PITA updates.

“Newlumen” I see pictures for a Shoulder Strap Mount on Google search. :beer:

https://www.google.com/search?q=rc40&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj24qfSocrbAhXPzlkKHTN4CWYQ_AUICygC&biw=1280&bih=707

Thank you all for your inputs.

I did the restore to a previous point via Lenovo’s (or maybe windows 10 safe mode via delete/F2 during startup) and restored to Thursday June 7 restore point and it fixed everything…

After windows reloaded with working hardware keyboard again, created a new restore point…

BLF for life…

Don’t forget to turn off Windows update, or it Will happen again.

@CNCMan, I would not advise doing this.

Do updates on specified hours.

Or do, as I do, and only use Windows for gaming, and use Lubuntu for everything else, except for Excel too.

Lubuntu, compared to even Windows on an SSD, is crazy fast. It boots in like 2 seconds, and there isn’t any lag in the system, unlike Windows sometimes.

Thanks CN and enderman…

You could turn it off, disable it, delete the .exe, turn on “metered access”, all the usual tricks, and it’ll STILL come back to bite you when you least want it to.

M$Widows is the Borg of OSes.

This took some digging. Apparently there are three types of ZWB glass. It’s a model number for filters manufactured by Optima, a Japanese optics(?) company.

Source

” BlueSwordM ” You are correct for most peoples needs. My Wife worked at a computer repair shop once and we learned a few things about Windows. So one thing that does help is to only do updates when you are prepared to, several restore points made, back up important info, and a some time in case things get screwed up. You can do updates every 6 months or more. I have not done an update in years with no problems, but then again, I don’t play games on it, just surf the net.

Thank you!

Which tripod mount do you guys recommend for the blf gt and astrolux mf04… thanks.

I just got a new flashlight. I noticed there was some little dust particles on the lens on the inside. So I took the bezel off and cleaned the glass on both sides with a microfiber towel. While I was doing that, dust particles fell into the reflector! How do I get it out of there?? I wish I would have never taken the lens out!

“Canned air”.

Else a little squeezy-bulb thing like to clean camera lenses would work. Just never ever ever touch the reflector.