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Specs Processer - i7-3770k Ram - Corsair 8gb GPU - GTX 980ti PSU - 750w OS - Windows 10 Currently I am trying to play Total War Warhammer 2, every time I start a campaign after the first end turn my whole pc will reboot. this happens even when I have just turned it on. I have been using CPUID HWmoniter to check what is going on. My pc is not overheating, im not using up all of my RAM or disk space while playing and my graphics card is up to date. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling my graphics cards, uninstalled and reinstalled steam as well as my game. plus I have also deleted all mods attached to the game and the vanilla game still crashes. So now im rath…
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Pretty much as the heading above. I am so used to W7 that the lap-top with W10 has me stymied. What do I do to get them on the desk-top of the lap-top? If I download them they disappear. Jim.
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Hi all, I need a new desktop PC, but haven't been in the loop for a while so have no idea what's what. I need a PC capable of running Photoshop and other photo editing software, a bit of video editing using OpenShot, and some light gaming. I was going to buy a PC a few months ago but lockdown came along and the prices shot up. Just looking for advice, and I'd prefer a ready made, or configurable system, as previously when I tried building my own I ran into compatibility issues. Thanks in advance.
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When I finish what I am doing with my laptop, I always close the lid. When I need it again, I simply open the lid and it works. Today that changed for some reason. Now when I open the lid, no connections are available. I have to restart the laptop in order for my router to be found. It is an Acer Aspire E15. AMD A9-9410 dual core. 8GB ddr4 ram. 128gb ssd. 1tb hdd
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Dear friends I have a new computer! It is an HP slim desktop S01-aF0xxx running Windows 10 64-bit. We use it for the odd presentation or academics, and a bit of browsing, and emails, using Office 365. It has come with a free McAfee personal security thing but I'm not sure if I need an added anti-virus on top of what Windows already has. If I do need another thing on top, which would you recommend? I've used Eset and Avast in the past. Should I uninstall McAfee or just leave it to run out of its free trial period? or pay for it? Any help would, as ever, be gratefully received. I think this is now the 3rd desktop PC you've helped me manage, plus the (now adult) k…
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I hope someone can help. The laptop in question belongs to my dear old Dad, who causes me sleepless nights with his technical issues. He has a five year old laptop, which is Windows 10. Last week, while I was trying to work from home, he rang and said his laptop wouldn't connect to the wifi. The router is merely a few feet away. I had to video call him, so I could see what he was doing on his PC. We managed to get on to the diagnostic tool, which picked up that a driver was missing, it then did the troubleshooter, restarted and the laptop connected to his wifi. All good, so I thought and I was very proud of my 80 year old for managing this. However, he has rung me toda…
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I recently spilt something on my laptop, which caused the keyboard and mousepad to stop working. Then I dropped it from about ten feet in the air (while it was switched off). Then it failed to switch on. Whenever I put the Hard Drive in a disk enclosure, it starts clicking and fails to show up in Windows Explorer, Device Manager, or Disk Management. What are the chances of my data being recovered with a data recovery specialist? Can you recommend any such specialists or identify any that need to be steered clear of? And are there any data recovery software programmes that I could use instead? Thanks in advance.
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I have an old HP laptop. It works well but it is very slow. It takes a lot of time to boot. How do I improve its speed without making any hardware adjustments. Are there some settings that can improve my laptop's speed?
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Do you have a PC that has two operating systems? Many people prefer to use Linux over Windows, but still need to use Windows for software that may not work properly on Linux. I know Wine exists, but some programs still rely on Windows or even Mac to work. Anyways, I'm currently dual booting Windows 11 and Lubuntu on my gaming rig. I went with Lubuntu because it's lightweight and I only have flash drives lying around so I wanted to go with a smaller distro. If I get the external SSD that's on my Christmas list I'm probably going to install Ubuntu or another distro on it and then keep Windows installed on the internal SSD on my computer since I know there's programs I use t…
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I have a Samsung phone. It is an old phone but everything is ok, including a good battery backup except for the camera. A few days ago, when I opened my phone camera, it did not open instead gave me warning "Camera failed" I have checked the app and there are no issues, it just does not open. What could be the possible person, is it related to hardware or just a software problem?
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Looking advice/suggestions on switching between two screens and 2 keyboards on one pc. We have one pc in the fab with a display screen/keyboard and then outside the fab we have a screen and keyboard. We did have a rotary switch kvm thing but its just stopped working. Simple plan would be to replace this but its older than me. Any other ideas or suggestions to switch between the 2 screens without a switching box, don't mind if both screens show the same thing and can be controlled from both sides
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I'm considering purchasing access to a VPN so I can securely connect to a remote site. I've never used a VPN before and I'm unsure of the details. I have a Windows 10 PC which seems to come with a VPN client installed and all that is necessary seems to be to configure that client to use the purchased VPN service. However I'm not sure if setting this up would mean that all my traffic would use the VPN or only traffic to the remote site. How do I ensure the VPN is used for only traffic to my remote site and other traffic connects to the internet directly?
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Hi to all, I got a new cellphone and I forgot to get my login info for Facebook and my other yahoo mail account. Now I cant access either of those on the new phone. Is there a recovery tool I could use to logon to them? I cant even get to them on the desktop , I didn't use the auto fill in feature. I have tried a lot of things but none are working for me. I can get this website
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Curious about what might happen if you try to delete Microsoft Edge from its file location? When you open the file location for Edge, it directs you to a folder containing a few subfolders and a mysterious 4MB file labeled MS Edge. Even if you manage to get the necessary admin privileges to delete these files, you might quickly find out that it doesn’t actually remove the browser. But just for fun, what if you went ahead and gave it a shot? Would deleting those files actually do anything, or would Edge simply reappear like nothing ever happened? Let’s find out! 🤔💥
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Recently, when I was trying to edit some codes, I asked ChaGPT for the solutions and then ended up using the codes generated by ChatGPT. It worked but then I realized what if it had suggested me the wrong codes? Can we actually trust AI when it comes to doing stuff, especially something related to coding.
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