Thank you very much!

I am an Electrical Engineer. I also hold a Mechanical Engineering Degree, and today, I am an INCOSE ESEP. Let me tell you something about the electricity at the average outlet in the USA. How many compressors are in your home? I have four: one in my heat pump, one in my freezer, one in my main fridge, and one for my beer fridge. Without getting too technical, think of it this way: that electricity is dirty. Think about that 13.8 KV line coming into your home! How many electrical motors are starting and stopping that are also on that line? I DO NOT recommend using anything but a properly sized UPS when it comes to computer equipment. Right now I am using 5G home internet. I also use a 2-monitor system. This along with both of my printers are behind my UPS. One last point. ALL conductors move when an electrical current passes through them. In most cases, it may take a powerful microscope to see it. Today modern PC power supplies are much better than they used to be, still, a UPS filters all that dirty electricity and this will make your PC last years longer! I also want to add a bit to the last part of the video. Another reason I highly recommend using a UPS is for those times when Windows users are doing updates and especially when AMD MB users are updating the BIOS so the AMD AGESA can get updated. Simply put if you have even for a brief moment a loss of power while doing a BIOS update you might find you have bricked the PC. Several years ago I read a story about a man who was in the middle of updating his BIOS when a car hit a power pole near his house. In that one moment, he lost his PC.

I have a UPS for my Desktop. And a utility surge protector on the Metter box.

How do you fix it where you can turn off updates all together?

Richest country in the world & it has a crappy, unreliable, electricity grid because power companies are more interested in making profit rather than serving their customers. Add to that most household electrics are not fit for purpose in the 21st century.

I reconize that tv. Lol. Good information to have and glad i know someone to help guide me in the right direction!

Laser printers need to be plugged into the surge outlets, not the battery backup outlets because they draw too much current. I plug my PC, monitor(s), speaker system, router, switch, and modem into the battery backup outlets and everything else into the surge outlets. Also, I would set the UPS to stay off until I turn it back on. If the power goes off due to a fire, you don’t want your equipment to suck in the soot.

Keep in mind that the battery in the UPS will lose charge over time. I ran into this problem recently when the power went out and the battery failed to keep power to the PC long enough to shut down the computer. Replacing the battery with a new battery was necessary (~$ 45). In some cases, it may be cheaper to just buy a new UPS.

Well, technically nothing will give you 100% protection from power surges and lightning strikes. That's why I still do what I parents did back when I was a kid. My dad said _"No matter what it is, if it is electric and you want to keep it, unplug it during electrical storms."_

Wake up call for me. I am running 2 computers and peripherals on plain old power strips completely unaware that I have 0 surge protection. Got to fix that immediately. Thank you so much for this video.

Good thing surge protectors are built into the power cables of laptops nowadays, among other things. Surge protection is a gimmick in modern homes.

Such a simple thing but SO important...especially in the day of "working from home". Thanks Brother!

What if you don’t have a mouse ?

As always this is great information for any computer user! Thank you for sharing these videos with us.

Even better is an uninterruptable power supply AKA battery backup.

Will these work on old windows PCs? I have a Vista desktop and one that is even older in the garage and would like them to start doing more than taking up space. Will Windows 10 confuse them?

This is a US only video cause European systems are different.

Do battery-backup, surge-protectors use lithium batteries that can be shipped via the Post Office from place-to-place? Thanks

Why are you trying confuse people by referring to a power source as a signal, when clearly that is misleading and wrong.

Good advice on the UPS. Have you looked into Whole Home Surge Protectors?

As you shown, a power strip and surge protector look alike which is why people make mistake them. You can look on the box of a surge protector to see what it is good for. Also, you should neer plug a space heater into one as it could get too hot and start a fire

Thank you for sharing this information. Great video. 👍

Absolutely important information and well put together. This tells me EVERYTHING i need to know about surge protection and UPS stuff, i might save this for later

I had a surge protector installed into my main breaker panel for this very purpose. We don't have a lot of lightning, but we do get strong winds that cause tree limbs to fall on power lines. So, lots of power outages throughout the year. No problem so far!😎

I always pull the plug when I go to bed or when I am going out, just to be sure. But I should have some protection as well for when the comp is turned on. Thanks for the reminder!

Thanks to you, now I have a restore pt.But, I do not like other than an administrator acct. because it is the only way to use many functions on the pc.

Ive been using Cyberpower UPS backups for many years and highly recommend them. They have always protected my equipment, and you can replace the batteries at a reasonable cost when they will no longer hold a charge.

I dream of a future where we will finally master low-power computing and all of our tech devices can easily survive power outages thanks to internal batteries. But that's not the present. I might look into a battery backup.

Depending on your electronics, you might (or not) need a UPS with pure sine wave

What happened to PDF24?

Same scenario in my laptop, can you help me bro?

Thanks for this video. Very informative. I know this is an old video, but I wanted to add that there are other ways to boot from a USB rather than the traditional ways of using the bios change. I got dinged by KZbin for putting a link in the comments once, so I can't do that. But just look up "4 different ways to boot from a USB". It shows you how to do it from the Windows command (CMD), through settings, by hitting restart, choosing repair my computer, selecting the USB you want to boot from, and a couple other ways. Good luck. Rob

There is Basic Office 365 that gives 100GB on storage in One Drive plus access to ad free Outlook plus online Office apps. Malwarebytes Pro no longer plays nice with of AV's with real time protection as it used to do. I would suggest Tera Copy is better than Super Copier. You can pause copies, moves files from one drive to another & it will verify transfers! If you are copying 10's or 100GB of files it won’t crash like Windows Explorer. It is free or you can donate.

A while back a work friend called and said his hard drive was full and he had not downloaded anything new in a long time. I suggested he first use a program like CCleaner. It ran for two hours and removed 50GB of stuff.

Your advice is much appreciated! A lot to learn from you. Thank you!

now that i have set up 3 computes at home under my MS log in. how do i go back to a local user, and what do i "lose" when going to a local account?

@ask your computer guy, I have an issue with my windows 11 pc. I went to system format my pc and when I did it went to a black screen I waited about 5 minutes and nothing happened so I shut the pc off, I turned it back on and it sent me to the troubleshooting page asking which windows I would like to run it had 2 options but they were both windows 11 v3 everytime I would try and boot windows 11 the pc would load for a second then crash and go back to main screen. Everything in advanced tools won’t work it just crashes instantly can’t open bios and now all of a sudden it will boot up but nothing comes up on my monitor I need help

thank you so much , ive been trying to find macrium like this , the new version you have to sign up for and verify and everything so thank you so much

My Windows 10 laptop stopped working. Kinda bummed out about it, but I'll definitely get a new Windows 11 laptop when I save enough money for it. :)

Hi is it ok to delete quarantined item with virus in malwarebytes?

hello is it safe to delete quarantined items with the virus in malwarebytes?

Too much. Nothing at all never get to the point

Ive bought mine for my hobby of enetring competitions! x

Who keeps files only on their computer? I have a NAS, pi server, and two clouds. You can take a hammer to my computers and no data would suffer. But great info!

Thanks for those points.... especially the system restore since mine was turned off and I know that I had it turned on before. Microsoft, in my opinion, makes some really stupid decisions sometimes. On a side note: Do you ever use CCleaner?

I have a problem where the windows in the taskbar all disappeared and i cant connect with the wifi

I hate microsoft and their tendencies to control and oversee by invading my life with their horrible one drive and their bullshit apps plus their complete inefficient customer service. Its over. I am sick of them and want to reset windows 11 since they ruined my life with one drive. How to bypass their dictatorship and monopolization of my account.

So I had a Sandisk 1TB USB flash drive stick that had my backup document files. I’d reached out to Sandisk and they said I have to return the flash drive stick in order to get a replacement 7 - 10 days under warranty. Is this risky? I do want that USB flash drive since it was about $100 - 150.

Thank you so much for this guidance, Scott. My Lenovo with Ryzen 5 is more than capable for 3D FDM slicing, however, none of the programs are compatible in S Mode🙄. Have a great day, Scott, I’m getting rid of it.

I'm liking your channel, you have some very useful videos but sometimes what might be a minor statement that's misconstrued. Command Prompt is not MS DOS, it's exactly what the name suggests a Shell or interface to pass latent commands to the system. As you suggest for anyone reading between the lines they were originally completely separate and since MS DOS hasn't existed for almost a quarter of a century but CMD is still available in Windows. Perhaps you're just confusing people by calling CMD DOS as it's not the Disk Operating System...