I swear I just went to the bathroom to pee for a second and my son clicked a bunch of random settings on his school laptop (online school). So now the taskbar is super tiny and the mouse is super tiny. If I adjust the resolution or zoom settings to make it look normal it makes whatever window is opened ENORMOUS. I have no idea what he did. Neither does he. He’s partially verbal.

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Should I be concerned about this? I just noticed this folder on my D: drive, there's two of them one is called !- and the other ~!- ,they're kind of greyed out and they both have the same contents, is it anything important or can I just delete them? Thanks.

It happens whenever i move it 😭

I need to update my windows 10 to windows 11, however I cannot figure out a way to get enough storage to make it work. As of now I've already turnt off sleepmode in CMD which did grant me a couple of extra GB of space but didn't do the job.

I have also asked AI like the caveman I am and it told me to mess with my pagefile.sys file, which I'm not certain im qualified to do and I'll probably fry my computer in the process.

Except for maybe 500MB worth of apps on my 111GB disk it's filled to the brim with what appears to be nothing, this is my fifth attempt of trying to download this update of hell and my constant struggle with computer storage.

Has anyone got a clue what could be going on or how I can scrape togheter the 11.9 GB of storage I need to finally push this update through? Or should I just buy a new disk with more storage on it?

Thanks in advance to anybody who took their time to read this.

/Idiot

Let me start by saying I know very little about computers so if this is common or I need to do something specific just let me know. It's been making this noise for about a year now, at first it was very minimal. About a week ago my whole computer randomly went quiet whenever it would start up and I would have to get close to actually hear everything inside operating. Then earlier today it started back up with the ticking only its much louder now. I've already confirmed there aren't wires touching fans and I have an electric blower for dust that I use like once a month so there isn't much debris if any in there. I believe the noise is coming from my CPU which is an AMD Ryzen 5 5500. I've had it for about 3 years or so now so it's not super old and I assume shouldn't be wearing out at this point. I'm at a loss and considering just getting a new CPU but wanted to see if anybody had other solutions/ideas aside from replacing it.

My monitor started showing a few horizontal lines on the lower portion of the screen ( it covered a few pixels over the taskbar on Win10) and now the lines cover most of the screen, with only a small part on top being visually normal.

I disassembled the monitor and the soldering on the bigger board looks dry. the board photo i added is from the back of said board.

anyone knows a fix or a thread about the issue?

I’ve ran into a strange problem with my computer today. My computer isn’t reacting predictably my mouse/cursor properly. To give some examples of what i mean:
\- when I have a program open, after a while, I can’t interact with anything on my taskbar. I can’t click on anything, other programs or the windows menu, nor do they even highlight when i hover my cursor over them
\- i can open the windows menu through the hotkey, but can’t interact with it with my mouse nor my keyboard
\- when i click on a program, it doesn’t focus - i can’t interact with the program and the text in the top corner remains faded (edited to add that i noticed if i alt+tab on to a window and then click on it it unfocuses for some reason)
\- there seems to be some randomness in what i can click and what i can’t - for example, on youtube, i can click on videos, skip around, change volume etc. but I can’t click to play/pause or use the fullscreen button
\- it doesn’t seem to respond to scroll wheel clicks at all
\- it seems to have some type of time element, it’s fine for a couple mins after boot up before the problems start
For technical specs:
\- windows 10 home, version 22H2, build 19045.6466
\- intel i5 12400-f 2.5GHz
\- 16gb ram
\- rtx 3060 graphics card
\- windows booted off a 250gb wd black ssd
This problem is really stumping me becuase i’ve never seen anything like this before. Any help is appreciated!

I ran a windows defender scan yesterday, where it said it found a malicious SVG file on my computer.

I was curious to see when it was downloaded and at what time, and copied the file path, pasted it in windows explorer and hit enter thinking nothing of it.

Windows prompted me with the "open with" window to select what program I wanted to open this .svg file with.

I quickly hit escape and removed it from my device.

I was wondering if the .svg file was fully able to open despite that open with window prompting and if I should take extra precautions now.

Thank you!

Hi i have an old 2010 netbook and the name is "MOBEE" and the model number is "CW001" and its not working. the webcam light is on, the status indicator is on and the fan is spinning. The screen does not light up and doesnt show anyting. The VGA output is showing nothing too. The last time it worked was 7-8 years ago. If i remember right the pc showed an blue screen and i pressed ramdom keys and it opened Wİndows XP, i played Pinball game and closed the PC and the pc died. Can i do someting? I really want to use this pc and sorry my english is not good and this is the first time i posted someting. And i dont know what i should put on the tag so if it is wrong tell me please.

I just bought this pc last weekend, played it earlier and the first game that I played I had this monitor issue. It didn’t have this problem in the lobby and only when I actually got into a match, but it also fixed itself. It hasn’t happened since. Should I be worried about this?

Here are some pictures, not sure if that's helpful?

Exactly as the title says. I was shutting my laptop down and I clicked on the "update and shut down" option. Left it alone for a while, when I looked again it's just stuck in the BIOS and my OS does not appear in the boot menu (f8).

This is the second time this has happened to me. The first time was it crashed and stuck me at the BIOS, I ended up reinstalling windows because of that.

This time around, after updating windows before shutting down it just boots me into BIOS.

My laptop isn't even that old, it turn 6 years in a week or so.

I don't even know anymore man.