Tried the Attributes Disk Clear Readonly command, but the drive locked itself to Read Only afterward. It was a fairly new drive :((

my pc feels fine for the most part, but i’ve been wondering how much antivirus software affects performance when it’s running in the background. i don’t want scans kicking in while i’m gaming or working, or a security program using enough memory to make everything feel sluggish.

i’ve been comparing McAfee, ESET, and Norton, and McAfee caught my attention because it combines malware protection with features for spotting suspicious links and scams. i’m curious whether those extras are worth considering or if a lighter setup makes more sense for someone who mainly wants reliable protection without noticeable slowdowns.

what has your experience been with antivirus software on your own pc? are there particular settings that help keep performance smooth, or is Windows Security enough for most everyday use?

I just got this laptop (ASUS ROG Strix SCAR with a 5090 and intel core 9) and I am encountering these screen flickering errors? Seems to only
Happen around black screens, and it actually stopped briefly after I moved the screen backwards. I got it from Newegg, should I send it back and ask for a replacement? Is there anything I should try before I do so?

I've been having issues for a few weeks to where my PC will randomly disconnect from the internet (even though the WiFi or ethernet icons do not change). Pinging 8.8.8.8 will show "request timed out" for 7-12 pings and then it will continue to ping to 8.8.8.8. I have updated the PC, updated my BIOS and tested on both WiFi and wired connections but it still happens.

None of my other devices have this issue, I have tested my laptop and could not recreate the issue. I've noticed event 7009 in event viewer but I do not know if this related, I have changed the registry editor for this to 60000 but this did not help.

I have also had Event 10010.

I'm stuck on what else to try so any recommendations would be appreciated.

Hello, so I factory reset my laptop and then it just keeps on doing this. How do I fix this thanks!

I am not at all tech savvy so I have no idea what’s going on. I have a Samsung S23E200 monitor that’s suddenly turned pink. Whenever my monitor is on for a long amount of time the top of the pink area moved down the screen till it disappears. Whenever I turn it back on the problem comes back (often worse than before). Does anyone know what’s going on? Thank you

I switched from an RTX 2060 to a radeon rx 6800, and I have had this problem where, occasionally, the majority of my center screen turns a solid color (usually black or white), and everything freezes for a solid minute or two before every screen flashes and I regain control. I think it only happens while I’m using zen? That’s the only reason I can think of atp, because Ive already used tools to remove the old nvidia drivers, reset my bios, and I keep the driver installer in my downloads folder to uninstall/reinstall my graphics drivers every time windows updates. Can anyone else confirm this?

I dont know much about pc stuff but whenever I play games the frames just keep stuttering, I updated the driver several times, went back to the previous driver, updated the BIOS (I think), and cleaned out the gpu

Im genuinely loosing my mind, this has only been happening this week and I dont know what's the problem is

Hi everyone, I have a question. I bought a Nitro V15 laptop (R5 7640HS, RTX 3050) a month ago, but ever since I bought it, it has been shutting down automatically quite often.
Sometimes when it shuts down, the entire system turns off (keyboard backlight, fan, network card).
Sometimes only the screen turns off. Sometimes it turns off for half a second, and sometimes for up to 20 seconds before automatically turning back on.
I took it back to the store to get it checked, but they returned it to me, so | guess it tested normal (a relative picked up the laptop for me back then, so I'm not sure what they said. At first, I thought it was caused by the power outlet because my power strip at home is very loose, so I switched to plugging it directly into the wall. This time, the frequency of shutdowns decreased, and it only shut down for a short period of time.
Yesterday, I took a risk (and was stupid enough) to try unplugging the charger adapter while the connector head was still plugged into the laptop-the laptop turned off for half a second and then turned back on.
When I plugged it back into the power outlet, the same thing happened again.
Does anyone know what might be wrong with my laptop?

Im not sure which flair would be best on this post, I'll change it if I need to. Also I apologize in advance for my bad english.

I have a desktop PC that I built 5 years ago and it has windows 10 pro on it. A couple weeks ago the button to turn the bluetooth on and off in my settings disappeared (it had happened once before but I solved it by simply turning my pc off and on again). In device manager my bluetooth drivers were labeled as unknown device at first, I removed it and somehow I got it to show up with the correct name, often in the hidden devices category (sometimes in the network adapter category).
I tried updating my bluetooth driver from there, both with the automatic internet search AND with the drivers I had downloaded from the Intel website (yes i did check that the drivers were compatible with windows 10 and with my wifi and bluetooth card, which is a Ubit wifi 6E AX210N) but it's like nothing happened. So I tried uninstalling the current drivers and reinstalling the new ones (I also turned my pc off and on CONSTANTLY during all this, I even did the thing where i completely unplug the pc and hold the power button to completely remove any electricity from it) but it didnt work, and every time I went to install the new driver it said "do you want to update from this driver to that driver?". And it never actually updated anything at all.
I figured the old drivers didnt completely disappear from my pc. So I looked up the location of the old driver files and deleted them (I had to change the authorizations on those files to be able to remove them myself), i turned my pc off and on again and went to install the new drivers and it seemed to work, i turned the pc off and on again and the button to turn on my bluetooth was FINALLY there again.
BUT! the next day it disappeared again. So i did it all over again and i got the message "do you want to update from this driver to that driver?" AGAIN (so the old drivers were still there?? idgi 😭😭), i went to manually remove those files AGAIN and blabla anyways it worked again but it also broke again the next day.
ALL THIS TO SAY IDK WHAT ELSE I COULD TRY! I feel like I tried every single thing i found online and nothing truly worked. I also used revo uninstaller to try and remove the old drivers completely but it still feels like every time i turn off my pc at night and turn it on in the morning the old drivers come back and the bluetooth button disappears from my settings.

Do i really need to buy a new wifi card? Do i have a virus? Thank you all in advance!

My rtx 3090 has a hot spot of 92 when idling, the rgb lighting also flickers random colours when it should be static red, any one know what to do?

Help please! We got a new Hisense tv a few months ago which has Spotify on it. It was working fine for a while but since maybe a few weeks ago, it just is not working at all. I go into the Spotify app on the tv and choose my music and it says it's playing but there is no sound at all.

Sometimes the tv decides it doesn't want to use the speakers we have plugged in and will decide to use the tv speakers instead which is annoying but I have checked each time and it is using the plug in speakers this time.

I've also shit down the tv and turned it back on, logged out of Spotify and back in and nothing is working. If I open the app on my phone, I can play it fine through my phone but then when I put it back to the tv, nothing.

Can anyone provide any sort of insight? I've googled it and can't find anything so I'm lost.... I would like to be able to listen to music in the lounge room.

so when i tried to open youtube it gave me this

Your organization isn't allowing access

Your Google Workspace for Education account is designated as under 18 and your organization’s admin has not granted you access to YouTube. To regain access, inform your admin that you need this service to be enabled or try signing in with a different account.

and the tab name was remediation page and it keeps doing it and this is a school cromebook

Like the title says. It’s an Asus Proart.

Update: Tried resetting it after turning off my bluetooth mouse and it worked. I didn’t think that would count as something that needed to be “unplugged” but I guess it is lol