ChrisF

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bio	website	chrisforman.me.uk
	location	United Kingdom
	age	51
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I've been a developer for nearly 30 years in one form or another. I learnt Pascal at University and my first job was programming in Fortran 66. I've since moved to C# & .NET via Ada, C and C++.

Over the years I've used most operating systems (apart from MacOS), starting with PR1MOS and then moving onto various flavours of Unix. I'm now exclusively on Windows (until a job that requires Unix comes along!).

Over the years I've built most of my own PCs, reinstalled operating systems, changed graphics cards and attached various peripherals both for work and home use.

One of these days I'm going to get round to these books on my Amazon Wish List

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986 Answers

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91	How does the computer know that the PC was not properly shut down?
50	Does it make sense converting a file to a higher audio bitrate?
45	What if a USB was plugged in backwards, what would happen, and would Windows warn you?
31	Why is distributing random pieces of a file faster than a contiguous transfer?
31	Why does hardware get slower with time?

31,427 Reputation

+20	Setting and getting windows environment variables from the command prompt?
+10	Does it make sense converting a file to a higher audio bitrate?
+10	Securely erasing all data from a hard drive
+10	How can I rotate text in Paint.NET?

22 Questions

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9	Can you really get a trojan in an image file and if so how will it be executed?
7	Why isn't the Skype Chrome extension showing up on my home PC?
6	PC Blue Screens and then instantly reboots. How do I stop this or find the error later?
5	How can I search for all files that have their archive bit set in Windows 7?
5	What does this diagnostic output mean?

757 Tags

482 windows × 159	98 shutdown × 3
351 windows-7 × 164	92 hard-drive × 34
211 windows-xp × 129	85 command-line × 24
122 performance × 25	83 usb × 15
104 operating-systems × 8	82 graphics-card × 31

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