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    Need help using laptop on tv via hdmi

    the option is on the tv, could be a botton called wide or aspect ratio also could be a setting in the tv menu, the pc just sends the signal, tvs can do alot with it or just be dumb and stretch, crop or report wrong resolutions what tv model? this one? 60uh7700...
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    can the graphic card in asus K501UW be changed?

    i couldn't find the teardown but afik it comes soldered to the motherboard so not viable to replace
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    Worth upgrading laptop

    sata II is around 300 megabytes per second, the ssd, a decent one will work at 450 megabytes per second, you loose 30% of maximum speed in reality, i have used emmc that runs at 200 megabytes per second, lower than the sata II, it was a very good experience, i didn't felt that machine to be...
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    Worth upgrading laptop

    the ssd will increase dramatically the speed of windows booting, the speed of apps loading, the browser, everything the speed of the cpu will remain the same there and you already are over 8 gbs of ram, so add more ram wouldn't be a option the coding, well, any cpu will do well, but when...
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    MOV video files black ? but sound ok ?

    quicktime was abandoned years ago, it was advised to be removed because it is abandoned and also is a security risk http://blog.trendmicro.com/urgent-call-action-uninstall-quicktime-windows-today/ use a different player is required now, that is why i mention vlc player, which supports many...
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    MOV video files black ? but sound ok ?

    vlc is a not a editor, please try installing it firefox is not a video player, windows media is very limited on what it can reproduce, please try with vlc www.videolan.org
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    MOV video files black ? but sound ok ?

    what video player are you using? please install vlc and open the mov files with it, mov files requires quicktime and the plugins corresponding, quicktime doesn't exist anymore so vlc might support the files without the codec pack you mention
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    Virus surviving reinstall please help

    reinstall no, again, no, you need a clean install remember that a virus is just a file that does something you don't want and also can put registry ntries, that is why you need to get rid of the install and the users folder, only save personal files and add them after you install windows...
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    Virus surviving reinstall please help

    the virus could be a attachment or a file you copied on a usb drive you have there use malwarebytes and a good antivirus, if you can install windows from clean, that is great too if you can use a linux livecd and you know what the virus are, just delete them, linux is not scared of any windows...
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    Virus surviving reinstall please help

    reinstall keeps the old files, the virus is still there of course what you need to do is take the important files from the hard disk you have installed windows and when you are sure you savd what you really need like desktop files, my documents, downloads, images and that sort of stuff, i would...
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    Need help with the security of my new pc.

    if you have avast and want to go to bitdefender, yes, uninstall avast and install bitdefender about the virus on the other laptop, if a os has been compromised with a really hard virus, the antivirus will see nothing, sometimes doesn't even run at all if the files are few, you can send them...
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    Need help with the security of my new pc.

    those antiiruses are services eating resources, more than one and they basically just become useless and the pc too, choose one and don't open any attachment on mails from people you don't know to avoid bad surprises avast is very good, avira is good too, avg is also good, as you see each site...
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    use laptop as monitor for pc?

    connect via hdmi a tv, use it as monitor while the monitor arrives the original question is no, not possible, at all
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    acer chrome os

    if you are asking us what you see on a screen, from what you describe sounds like dead pixels, but not sure if caused by a damaged screen or defective, a picture could tell us a bit more if it is under warranty, i would apply that warranty, if it is new, rma the thing, ask your money back
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    portable hard drive

    usb is backwards compatible 3 works on 2 and 2 works on 3 it just works on the speed of the slowest side, it will work at usb 2 speeds if the hard disk is usb 2, that means around 40 megabytes per second read and 20 megabytes write more or less, values do change alot with some devices and with...