Category: Windows

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Windows

Sytem language

Windows

  • Open a console, with elevated privileges
  • Enter this following command so as to have a window with a choice of languages to install remove

Lpksetup /u

Well as you can see another issue arises, the default language is French, i will have to remove that.

  • Open Settings.
  • Click on Accounts.
  • Click on Sync your settings.

  • Under the “Individual sync settings” section, turn off the “Language preferences” toggle switch.

This will allow you to change the system language

Categories
Soft Windows

Text to speech in Windows

In Microsoft Word

To enable speech in Word so the computer read a document, do the following : 

  • In the menu bar, click on the customize quick access toolbar icon (4th icon in the toolbar on the upper left corner)
  • select more commands
  • in the new window, under choose commands from, select all commands
  • A list of commands will be displayed, you should locate and select Speak icon in this command
  • once selected, click on “Add”
  • conform on “OK”
  • The speak icon is now available in the word document interface  (instead of or after the redo icon)
Categories
Soft Windows

SSD-Z

Information tool for SSD and other disk devices

 

You know CPU-Z right?

SSD-Z is an information tool for Solid State Drives and other disk devices.
Using a database, it will show information about your SSD, such as the controller, processing tech, NAND type etc.
Other useful information related to disk devices are also shown, such as S.M.A.R.T. status and partition layout.

Features

– Details of the controller and processing tech of NAND chips (for known devices). – Verify that TRIM is enabled for your system and SSDs. – S.M.A.R.T. status and full list of all the device’s available attributes. – List of all partitions. Including hidden, unmapped and boot partitions. – Benchmark IOPS, transfer speed and random access time (work in progress) – View the raw device identify data words.

Missing Features in Beta

– Some formatted SMART values may display incorrectly. Bytes written/read especially. – No individual details for each drive in a RAID array. – No SMART attributes for certain external USB drives. – Benchmark not fully implemented. – Support for NVMe devices is incomplete.

Contribute

Are the details for your SSD not being shown, or are they incorrect, then please help out. Within SSD-Z, make sure the SSD in question is selected, then go to the Submit tab. Now fill in any comments you may have, and add your email if you wish. Then submit the data to the online database.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: SSD-Z does not seem to know my SSD. A: Please use the submission feature for your SSD. Q: Certain SMART attributes does not show a formatted or raw value. A: This is because the raw value is zero. Zeros are not shown by design. Q: Why is the benchmark feature so bad? A: This area of SSD-Z is incomplete, and is still work in progress.

Device Color Coding

Green for SSD 

Orange for HDD and other devices

Purple for NVMe 

Pink for Removable 

Teal for Optical Drives