DisplayPort adapted to HDMI works but arggh, NO audio!

[Malnutrition]

A quick look at your ScanRapide log and things seem to be fairly in order. Let us know when you are able to grab a audio cable and try it out.

[Rusty_Rusty]

Sure, but I buy stuff like that cable on eBay and I won’t have it for a few days.

BTW, Quick Diag Scan crashed after about a third done with an OS error “Error allocating memory”.

Getting back to stuff, I appreciate my browsers’ cookies, history and cache and find all of them useful from time to time. I know that ad-blocking is possible but I am not ferociously avid about that. MANY THANKS THOUGH!!!

[Malnutrition]

BTW, Quick Diag Scan crashed after about a third done with an OS error “Error allocating memory”.

Nevermind that scanner.

I know that ad-blocking is possible but I am not ferociously avid about that. MANY THANKS THOUGH!!!

Just figured you may want to tidy things up a bit while you were here. Have a good day and let us know how things work out.

[Rusty_Rusty]

Will do!

[Rusty_Rusty]

Though QuickDiag Scan crashed it left a log of 188kb. I’ll assume I need not post it for your perusal.

Speaking of hijacking, I just now noticed that CCleaner made itself my default browser and client for opening PDFs, and who knows what else. I intend to revert those. 'Not sure why CCleaner is better, yet free. It’s abhorrent perhaps but ignorance is bliss.

[Malnutrition]

I just now noticed that CCleaner made itself my default browser and client for opening PDFs

Strange, I have never heard of it doing anything like that. CCleaner isn’t even a browser, nor does it have anything to do with a PDF. What browser is it?

Though QuickDiag Scan crashed it left a log of 188kb. I’ll assume I need not post it for your perusal.

No, I was going to use that log to clean up junk from your machine but you declined the offer, so there is no need. I just think that your machine is a bit to old to remedy the DP issue, since the support site does not provide drivers for windows 10.

[Rusty_Rusty]

Yep! ..it’s a fully capable browser with (apparently) special privacy and security functionality, plus I notice it can download videos for you (I presume videos that otherwise are not rigged for user download). I haven’t explored it greatly and may not but it is a browser and it’s a separate entry on my Start menu apart from CCleaner itself. The About text from the browser says:
CCleaner Browser

CCleaner Browser is up to date
Version 75.0.74.83 (Official Build) (32-bit)

[Malnutrition]

Strange, I apologize about that I have not updated my version of Cleaner in while. There are other tools to manage startups.

https://www.maketecheasier.com/startup-managers-windows/

And you can clean up temp files with another tool as well.

https://pchelpforum.net/attachments/tfc-1-zip.3487/?temp_hash=91a47f474266b4edf8d9d0e6f61af327

[Malnutrition]

If you have trouble removing CCleaner

https://geekuninstaller.com/

[Rusty_Rusty]

Thanks for the tip; I just love freeware and rely on it heavily. But I intend to keep CCleaner on my system, though I have already reverted the filetype handling which it sneakily claimed. 'Turns out it was only those HTM, HTML and PDF which I had first spotted - none else.

[Rusty_Rusty]

Major update! Someone had steered me wrong over at Dell but I am certainly at fault as well. The in/out ports on my monitor are not RCA but simply 3.5mm stereo standard!! Loss of one stereo channel is a non-issue! I rummaged around in my basement and came up with the appropriate male-to-male cable and hooked it up and voila, stereo sound emits from my monitor’s built-in speakers. The quality kinda stinks so I may just continue using my higher-end detached speakers even though they do have a considerable footprint.

I thank everyone so very very much. This issue can now be presumed closed.

[Malnutrition]

Thanks a lot for letting us know. So many people just bail when their issue is solved, slightly irritating. Marked as solved and closed.