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    Solved! Laptop to 3 HDMI TV Screens

    I hooked a Dell laptop with 1 HDMI port to TV HDMI port. Set to show different windows on each screen. Added 2nd TV with HDMI splitter. I want to show different windows on laptop and each TV. Both TV's show same window. Laptop only identified 2 screens.... Laptop #1 and both TV's #2. How do I...
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    Solved! Toshiba Satellite is stuck on System Recovery Options at boot

    Toshiba Satellite [running Windows 7] is stuck on System Recovery Options at boot. Starts to "Load Windows" then gets to this stage. No Operating System to choose from, only the two restore options, one of which is to load drivers. I have found the 'recovery partition' but nothing loads. I'd...
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    Screen flickering when booting into Windows

    Hi, im facing a problem on my laptop, that i didnt had before. Recently i purchased an ssd, and for a time all went fine. Then, i noticed that sometimes, when booting into windows, the screen flickered for about 2 seconds, and booted normally after. No problems when using the laptop, no lags...
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    Solved! Sir I need ur help sir here in my laptop something showing Windows error recovery I try all methods but it showing again lik

    Sir I am 16 years old my laptop is showing something like Windows error recovery plz help me out from this problem
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    Solved! Is Avast/antivirus really needed on Windows?

    As the title says
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    Solved! Hp windows mixed reality Is it any good?

    Is it any good as I don’t have much space for the sensors from the vive or oculus. Looking to use it for gaming........
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    Solved! New Windows laptop - memory, speed, SSD- what is needed?

    Hi, I am actually looking to buy 2 new laptops. The ones I have are "Ancient" and not worth, time, money aggravation to try and upgrade. I have been on all the major brands websites trying to compare, contrast, build, the memory, speed cores, ssd, ddr, dedicated/not card, How many usb ports...
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    Solved! Laptop not turning on

    My laptop was on hibernate. When I started my laptop after windows logo it shows blue screen with 'Please wait' message and wi
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    Solved! Good Windows program to use USB camera as surveillance camera?

    Hello. I just want a free program which can run on Windows, turn USB camera to a surveillance camera, having motion detection, and take/save a picture every time something moves. I searched and tried so hard, but they either have severe limits on unpaid versions, or don't work at all... Can any...
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    Hard drive won’t boot

    My pc was showed up with an error when booting and said to press crtl alt delete so I did so it restarted and worked fine then the same thing happen the next day but this time the boot took 5 hours and was so slow I couldn’t even get the windows button to work so I ended up restarting and it...
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    Laptop can t find wifi

    I have a Dell inspiron 15 3000 series and i changed my windows from 10 to 8.1. Now the problem is that the laptop doesn t detect any wifi signal. It connects to the internet only through cable. Before changing the windows it worked fine,but now it doesn t detect any wifi,mine or others around...
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    Solved! using certain area of a broken lcd

    hi i have a old hp laptop with faulty screen in bottom side . it's not a lot but it covers the taskbar. i want to know if there is a way for me to make the windows 7 to use a certain area of a monitor. this way i would be able to ignore the faulty section of the lcd and use the rest of the...
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    Lenovo Legion Y530 1TB HDD and 128G SSD stopped working, SSD only has 27G storage after Windows Reinstall

    I recently bought a Lenovo Legion Y530 (1TB HDD, and 128G SSD) After about a week of using it, I tried turning it on and it wouldn't leave the booting screen with the Legion logo. After attempting to get it fixed going to automatic repair and factory reset, nothing seemed to work, and I finally...
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    HP Laptop Bad System Drive

    HP Pavilion 17 Notebook w/ Windows 8. I performed the built in HP diagnostic to find out the hard drive is bad. I prefer to buy a new SSD and install Windows 10. But of course HP has their own media recovery discs that I would have to order. Do you think I could just install my own SSD and...
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    Solved! disable incognito on chromebook

    all info seems to refer to windows. i need to disable incognito on my chromebook
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    Solved! can i download windows to my rca viking pro?

    can i download windows 8 or 10 to my RCA viking pro?
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    Solved! I can't turn on windows defender, Win 10

    I cant turn on windows defender before that i accidently gave some viruses admistrator rank (dont ask how that happened
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    Solved! Slideshow created by Windows Media Center can not be played

    Hello I have been trying to make a slideshow( a video with pictures while a song is played) with Windows Media Center. I managed to create the file and if I open Windows Media Center and find the file there is is played perfectly fine, but when I find the file inside my computer it does not...
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    USB BOOT do not start.

    Hello, I have a USB stick that I used to install windows on my desktop and on a friend of mine's computer. (meaning it's not USB stick fault) I was trying to make a fresh install on my laptop ( ASUS k50IN) but it doesn't start. When I turn on the computer i click ESC multiple times, but the boot...
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    Solved! All photo's + recordings have been taken away by ????

    Last week a windows came flashing across my screen + told me it me l needed to ring some number as my laptop had been hacked, anyway now all my recordings + photo's are gone , can l get them back?
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    please help! my gateway laptop's fan stops and then continuous beeps follow during boot, it beeps for a long time and then fan

    fan starts, stops and laptop beeps for a long time beeps stop and then windows starts help me please
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    Performance much slower than 2 years ago.

    Hi, in the end of 2016 I bought this laptop. It's a used laptop, but it was like 2 years old when I bought it. But the problem is... it's very slow. GTA 5 used to play at ~50fps avg on 1366x768 medium, but now it gets ~30fps avg on 800x600 medium. Also Rocket League, used to play it at 60fps+...
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    Gaming Laptop starting to underperform

    I own an ASUS gaming laptop with the following specs: GTX 1050 Ti GPU i7 8750H CPU 16GB Ram 120Hz Monitor I bought it one month ago, and it was working fine. Now, after a few window updates and stuff like that, it started underperforming (low fps) where my fps would drop about 20-50% (50 avg...
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    New SSD error in Windows

    Hi. I here have a laptop: Compaq Presario CQ62-a10SD Just replaced the old, damaged HDD with a brand new SSD, from Kingston: Kingston A400 120GB SSD Now try to install a new Windows 10 installation, using the DVD. After starting setup, I encountered an error: I am not able to install windows...
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    Help with Windows Battery Energy Report for Battery Drain

    My laptop's battery seems to be draining way too quickly. I am only running Edge with about 3-5 tabs max, Windows Power Savings power plan with Battery Saver enabled. I have Microsoft Word open and that is about it, but it seems that every 3 minute my battery drains 4-5%. I personally find...
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    Solved! S-1-5-18 windows accounts on spybot S&D?

    I am using Spybot search and destroy feature that allow you to disable cookies on windows accounts, but when I select to disable there are many profiles that showed up for selections (other than my own). They have names like s-1-5-18, 20, 21.....And I don't rememeber uninstall windows that many...
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    Solved! Latitude E5400 Bluetooth unavailable

    I own a Latitude E5400 with Windows 10. There is no option to turn on or use Bluetooth.The Bluetooth Troubleshooter tells me that this device is not Bluetooth capable,which is not true since I have used Bluetooth with Windows 7 on this device .The problem has been present ever since I installed...
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    New windows blocking TV signal

    I recently replaced my windows with more energy efficient and UV protection. My simple flat indoor antenna with suction cups no longer works. The windows completely block the signal. Anyone else having this problem? Solutions?
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    Solved! Lenovo y50-70 doesn't start

    Yesterday it was all good. Laptop was running, everything seemed fine. Today, when I pressed the launch button, it went to a message, saying: "Windows Error Recovery Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. If Windows files have been damaged or...
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    where is start key and windows key

    cannot find start key or windows key on this keyboard, nothing in manual describes how to get to them, wanted to change speed on pointer
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    Solved! screen is not working, but can hear the Windows sound

    I pressed the power button to resume my laptop from sleep, the blue lights on the machine indicated that it does wake up, but the screen is not working. I pressed the power button again to turn it off. And then turn it on again, the screen shows this, DELL Inspiron 1525 series BIOS...
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    Asus fx503vm eSupport folder

    Hey, I own a asus fx503vm and Since i reinstall Windows the Performance ist too Bad. I have deleted the esuport folder. Can anyone Upload the folder? Sorry for my Bad english im from germany.
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    Solved! System Uncharacteristically Slow [Lenovo Ideapad 520]

    Hey folks, For the past six months I've been using a Lenovo Ideapad 520 laptop for general purposes, and I've been suffering from some ridiculously slow speeds for... pretty much everything since I bought it. It's got decent specs; an i5-8250U CPU CPU, 8GB DDR3 RAM and a GeForce MX150 GPU, so...