Any suggestions on apps to stop scam/spam texts? My mother has dementia and seemed to sign up for every fake republican text chain. And being on a family plan, I now get up to 5 texts a day begging me to support the republican party through fradualant links.

I have HIYA but they don't block text messages. Is there a better app for it? Or service to stop these from reaching me? Or am I SOL?

I got a new PC recently and I noticed that the internet keeps cutting off randomly for about 3-10 seconds and then back to normal whenever I play video games. This usually happens when I'm streaming a game I'm playing on Discord and listening to music in the background. However, this also happens but less frequently when I'm just playing games.

This wasn't an issue with my old PC and I've been using the same ethernet cable. It only happened when I got this new PC. I've tried many solutions online but none seem to work. Would this be an issue with the cable or an issue with my PC? Also, has anyone else experienced this and how do I solve this issue?

Here are the solutions that I've already tried:

• Updated Network Adapters
• Toggling off Energy Efficient Ethernet and Power saving settings in the network adapter advanced properties.
• Changing ports on the router
• Turning on High performance mode

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My network adapter is Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller.

Thank you so much. I hope to fix this issue soon.

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For the last few months my pixel 7 has had multiple issues

First the speaker would sound absolutely horrendous above half volume, really loud to the point of sounding like earrape

And now no sound or media will play or work whatsoever, for example if I go on an app like tik Tok videos won't play

YouTube videos will flash green then play but with no sound

Voice notes don't play at all

In the past I've usually completely shut the phone off and turned it back on and that's fixed it, but even that fix isn't working now

Has anyone had this issue?

Hello,

My mouse seems to bug or not even work in some places of the mousepad, I thought it was the mousepads problem but I have bought another one and the issue is still there.

I have a Razer Abyssus Essential mouse, it did not have those issues when I first bought it.

I have found this chrome extension called Detector.Video does anyone know if it is safe to use?

I also don't mean the videooctopus extension it looks like just an exact copy of the Detector.Video site.

Hey Guys!
So, somehow I ended up with a 50MB Disk Partition on my secondary SSD. (see picture) now this annoys me because i always think "oh, a empty drive, lets copy that project on there - not enough storage"
Can i get rid of F: ? or merge it with G: ?

https://ibb.co/jL57Gy2

Hi all,

I own a gaming laptop model ASUS Strix G16 (Feb 2023), CPU: i7 13650HX, GPU: RTX 4080 GPU (with a MUX switch), display: 165hz. Over the past 2 or so days Ive experienced problems with the output to my external monitor (AOC G2 144hz). It started off as visual glitches (visible horizontal bands that flicker, always in the same spot), but progressed to being practically unusable (terrible freezes, low refresh rate, low responsiveness).

For the past 2 days Ive been experimenting, trying to narrow down the possibilities of the underlying cause. What Ive found is this:

• problems persist only with the external monitor, the laptop display is perfectly fine
• problems persist with either MUX switch enabled or disabled, this does not seem to matter
• problems persist when I connect the laptop and monitor with an HDMI cable to the HDMI port
• problems persist when I use a usb-c to HDMI adapter (the laptop supports DisplayPort alt)
• problems do not appear when I use different laptops, however none of the two other laptops are able to produce 144hz output from their HDMI ports
• problems disappear when I set the refresh rate down to 120hz instead of 144hz in Windows settings
• problems do not appear in mirror mode (this is probably tied to refresh rate)
• when I lower the refresh rate for the external monitor, the colors of the image seem to be more washed out or the brightness is higher, which I just find weird, idk if it could be a symptom of something

At first I thought that the laptop is somehow broken (like a very specific motherboard issue, or a GPU one), but since Ive discovered that the behavior is tied to set refresh rate, Im thinking it is the monitor that is failing.

Unfortunately I do not have access to a different monitor nor a different gaming laptop with a dedicated gpu.

Does anyone please have any ideas? Is the monitor or the laptop the culprit? Do I just have to buy a new monitor to test it out? Thanks.

Titles explains it all, I’ve had the pc for about 8 years and I have no clue if the board was fried ass I have no backup PSU or anything.

It was a prebuilt(please save condescension about the fact that it was an Alienware for a time when I’m less devastated) and it seems like it uses some crappy proprietary PSU that Dell no longer makes. I looked as much as I knew how to and found that an EVGA psu called the 220 g2 0850 xr would work. This is also a discontinued psu. When looking on Amazon I was told that there was a newer version of that EVGA psu, it’s a 220-G5-0850-X1, would this work anyway or am I SOL?

Edit : for clarification the model of the prebuilt was an Area 51 R2 (I think, I got it in 2016)

A while ago I got a new hard drive I use for the Windows installation alone. Now I've run into an issue though.

The old installation is still left on the drive I've used before. I can't delete it though because access has been denied. I've tried going into the security settings to give myself complete access but this is being denied by the system. Now I have an unused Windows folder that blocks space on my hard drive.

What can I do to be able to delete this folder?

I have a GTX 1650 on my PC, and I notice that it falls a bit short when playing, the games are going somewhat well for me, but they could be better, I was thinking about changing graphics, and the ones most similar to mine but that are a little better They are the GTX1060 6GB and the RX 580 8GB, the question I have is that after watching videos these two graphics cards are very similar, can someone help me?

So I discovered my backed up photos from my old phone and wanted to restore them to my current phone. The photos are deleted on the old phone's gallery, just backed up in cloud. Thing is, this "old phone" I gave to a family member as a gift and there may be some photos in there that I do not want them to see. So question is, would restoring those photos to my current phone also restore it on the old phone?

So I reset the settings back to defender firewall recently and now I am getting warnings saying that defender firewall has blocked parts of steam and chrome. It wants me to click to allow these apps to communicate on private or public networks (with public not being recommended). I have no idea if I messed up or how to even get things back to normal again.

I don't see any of these applications on my list when I click "allow an app through firewall". Is it safe to let defender have these apps communicate with private/public networks? What happens if I don't click anything?

Hello guys! I built a computer for myself about half a year ago and the PSU has been making a crackling sound for quite some time now. Sometimes it stops or gets quieter, not that loud, I just worry about it. The computer is not under load. What could be causing this? Won't it destroy my computer?

Video about the sound: https://youtube.com/shorts/lpir5oZcA5U?si=RGbG_T6j1xPJ4xud

Specs: FSP Hydro K Pro 750W bronze Asus tuf b550M-E 32gb Kingston fury beast Ryzen 5 5600 Evga RTX 3070 ftw3

hello. My computer had a virus so I did a clean installation. When I enter my clean windows I find a windows.old folder. My question is why do I have this folder?

I got an RX 570 and an rtx 3070 on my pc. I upgraded but decided to keep both. My two issues are: My rx 570 used to idle at 5 watts and not it idles at 20. I found out it's because if I have it connected to a monitor it maxes out the memory clock. This is something that didn't use to happen.

If I run a game, it runs from whatever GPU I got my main monitor plugged in at the time. Even if I switch the cable after the game has launched it keeps running in my original GPU. I want to make it so I can run different programs on different GPUs at the same time without needing to hotplug my monitor. However if I go to do the high performance or low power option in Windows both show me the GPU I'm connected to. How to set my rx 570 as low power and my rtx 3070 as high power?

Spilled water on my laptop clean it up now a jumble of colors are showing up before boot everything works fine

I've been researching Linux security for over 3 years now. As Linux is open source and well documented, I granted a good grasp on wide range of topics(kernel and user space malware, rootkits, bootkits etc.)

Recently i started to create a password manager and made it secure as possible on a Linux system. Now i want to port it to Windows but i honestly dont know "Anything" about Windows security.

As i need to know kernel-user space relations, IPC's and memory security for make my app secure at the same level on Linux app, i need some resources.

But i would like to know, as Windows is close source, researching "in-depth" Windows security is a total "waste of time" or just limited?

What are your suggestions? Thank you!

I've had this laptop for about 5 months now. It's an ExpertBook with an 11th gen I7, Iris Xe graphics card and 16GB of ram. It's been running great in terms of games and other apps up until last week. Now it's running slowly even with the lowest graphics settings. Does anyone have any idea on why it's been running a lot slower all of a sudden? I should mention that I've been carrying it around in a backpack a lot lately, if that's relevant.

For the past week any time I try to open any of my steam games they either, crash, gets stuck on running, or loads the game but with unplayable lag and nothing loads before eventually crashing. I've tried opening other games not on steam and they load perfectly fine. Even when I set a games graphics to as low as possible they still lag and take more time to load assets unlike usual. I haven't changed anything in steam that I think could have caused this. Please help.

oking to do a little vr gaming (skyrim, beat Saber, fnaf, vr chat), but mainly just normal pc gaming. I don't mind being on low/med graphics for most games. My specs are: CPU: Intel i7-860 Power supply: Corsair CX600 Ram: 16 GB - 2x Vengeance 8gb 1600mHz Which is more worth it for the price?

Hi - I have a small hotel in the U.K. and we need WiFi throughout the building. A few years ago a local company installed a network and provided us with WiFi. Six months ago the company went bust and we had to scramble for a quick solution.

A different company came and installed a TP-link, connected to our original network, which provides 4g/5g throughout the house. Unfortunately it has been having a few hiccups recently. The network will suddenly show up as "TP-link CCF-2" instead of the "hotel network". It is not possible to connect to the internet when this happens. The first time it happened it self corrected suddenly after about six hours. It has just done it again now and I'm not sure what's goi g to happen.

The company who installed the TP Link say that think they know the problem and have quoted me 350 quid so they can take control of the network. Does this sound reasonable?

The first time this happened they said they could send out an engineer for 130 quid an hour - but I cancelled it when the system self corrected. I'm rubbish with tech, and am a little concerned I'm throwing money away on a system I don't understand.

Any advice? 😅

DP Glitch with Docking Station

Hi guys,

I'm totally desperate, I bought a brand new gaming monitor (LG 27GP850P).

I have the following problem I wanted to connect the monitor via my docking station (Lenovo USB-C Dock Gen2) via Display Port, the first time everything worked fine.

However, since I connected my work laptop, I only get a glitching green picture (see screenshot in my profile).

Even with a switch to my gaming laptop, nothing works. Everything works perfectly via Hdmi directly to the laptops.

Can anyone help me? Is it perhaps the cable? Or is it the monitor? Unfortunately I don't have a direct connection to the laptop to test it.

Whenever i'm using google chrome or any other browser like brave, my phone tends to act weird. Just now i was trying to play a sudoku and my phone just strats to glitch out of nowhere. Any idea what the problem could be ?

When I opened my computer this morning I noticed a green horizontal line appearing on the top of my screen and that every everything became really zoomed in when windows(10 pro) opened. On device manager there's a warning sign next to my graphics card(NVIDIA GeForce rtx 3060). Any help is greatly appreciated since I can't get it somewhere to be fixed today

My phone (Redmi note 10 5g) has a problem on some websites that when I scroll up or down it duplicates one part of the page to the rest of the page and it makes it unreadable and sometimes even reloading doesnt make it work normally.

Hi!

As stated in the topic, I’m struggling to chose the model for me. They are right now in my country more or less at the same price. The main question is is it worth upgrading to m3 and sacrificing the ram or not?

Would be great if you can guys help 👋🙏

Windows 10 Vivobook pro 14 oled k3400ph km I installed the latest intel graphics drivers for my laptop and now whenever I try to boot it frezes after some time.Im unable to go into safe mode as its not an option for me. Anything I tried so far didn't work. Any questions about the issue can and will be answered.

Just got my laptop back from my brother who has been borrowing it for a few months, and now whenever im playing a game or have a application open that has dark colors its got this weird maybe gamma coloring issue? Its a pretty good laptop but this issue is making it playing games sort of hard in dark areas (which is a lot). The screen did get damaged slightly when I moved so there are permanent white lines in the middle but I am not sure that would mess with the entire screen like it is. If someone could please tell me how to fix this that would be awesome. Thank you!

I use my phone's Hotspot for 5G on my laptop. The speeds, ping everything is fine but im honestly frustrated that i cannot access websites like Steam, Reddit, Discord, GitHub etc. It will instantly tell me the site is unreachable. VPN doesnt work it doesnt connect at all. I tried cloudwarp too it didnt work at all.

Funny thing is that i can access websites like Pornhub which should be banned wtf

Note: i can open those websites on my phone just fine it just my PC wont bother to open.

i tried changing DNS to google or cloudflare whatever it didnt work still.

I've been having a bit of bad experience for almost a year now with a graphic flickering problem and fps drop while gaming in my ROG Zephyrus G14 2021. It all started when I inserted a pendrive from a company that helped me do my college project, to install all the programs and applications (cracked) required for coding. I wasn't sure to insert it into my laptop as I usually don't use any foreign devices on my PC. When it shows a brighter color on the display and i move any options to the sideways, the top half moves first and then the bottom half (it all happens at that instance itself but it's very noticable) and the fps drops when I play fifa (the fps count stays at 120 hz but there's a noticable drop in fps). Can anyone help me with a fix? I'm planning on resetting the laptop but I wanted to seek help for the last time before doing it. And I don't have any recovery points set before.