Hello everyone, my computer has been lagging notably for the last year or so. I can no longer play games online because it lags too much. I thought it could be a virus so I performed a factory reset with no luck at all. I also hear it making noises like it is struggling sometimes, not the...
Hello everyone, my desktop is an HP compaq from 2015 and on the power supply it reads "AC input 100-240 V-/4 A,50-60 Hz" then "DC output shall not exceed 240 W"
and on the actual power cord to the power suppy reads "10A 125V"
I bought a new European powercord because I am in europe now, but it...
Hello everyone, My HP pavillion dv6 laptop keeps shutting down after I installed windows 10. It was working fine for a while, but then windows started logging me out everytime I tried to log in. I tried to reset my pc but windows kept logging me out and eventually just started shutting down all...
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If I buy a windows 7 installation CD from the store, does a retail license come with it? In other words, will there be a retail license number written in the box somewhere? or will I have to insert the CD into the CD drive to get the retail number?
Hello all, I have a laptop that came with windows 10 preinstalled. The issue is that this laptop is painfully slow, so I would like to transfer windows 10 from this laptop to another laptop that I have which only has abuntu installed on it. Is this possible? If it is not, I was thinking of...
thanks for replying GDany. I have not been plugging it directly in the wall because there are no american outlets here, only european. I already had two eu ti us adapters with me so I had no need to buy a european power cord up until now for troubleshooting reasons. that being said, I have now...
Hello everyone! so I am currently in Europe and I had my desktop computer mailed to me from the USA. When I try to boot it
it up, nothing is displayed on the monitor besides "no signal". I thought maybe the HDMI cable was loose but it was not.
I thought that maybe the graphics card was not...
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Long story short, a while ago, I bought and returned a hard drive that still had sensitive information on it including social security number, passwords to online accounts, etc. At the time, I thought that I removed all the information on the hard drive because I quick formatted it a few times...
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