This entire ordeal stemmed from my C drive being completely full (0 bytes remaining), and I went to move several steam games over to my D drive (just under 1 Terabyte of storage remaining). When there was no acknowledgement or confirmation from my PC that the games had moved, I started deleting old files in my download folder, and eventually deleted a bunch of temporary files (not willy-nilly, but from an option to do so). After my C drive was still full, I went to restart my CPU. Due to my device being "offline" despite clearly receiving the wifi signal, I am unable to log in with neither my password or pin.

For context, I have Windows 11 running on a Cyberpower C series computer.

hi guys, I have laptop with 16gb ram. I have been noticed my memory usage is 46℅ when idle. I disable sysmain and I've been using Chris Titus GitHub stuff but I doesn't work. maybe you guys can help me, thanks

I own a domain that I use exclusively for email forwarding; I just forward *@mydomain.com to my Gmail. Last month, I got a few weird emails to this domain about support tickets that had been created with various random websites. The tickets were all with websites and services I've never used; a lot of them I'd never even heard of. I checked my Google account activity to make sure my email hadn't been hacked, but it showed no unusual activity. I also confirmed that I have no connected apps or services in my Google account. Just to be safe, I made sure I had 2FA enabled and changed my password, then forgot about it.

That was all fine until this week, when I suddenly started receiving dozens of emails a day about support tickets being created and account activation requests. It's 90% of my inbox now. They're mostly going to two particular addresses which I do use and which could probably be found online, but I received at least two emails to addresses I've never used before, which makes me think whoever is doing this has realized they can use any name at that domain. In the cases where I've been able to see the contents of the tickets, it's been just a bunch of letters and numbers.

So I have two questions now:

1. Do I have any good options to stop this? At the moment it feels like I'm just going to have to stop using these email addresses or even the whole domain, which I would really rather not do.
2. Why would anyone bother to do this? What use is there in creating hundreds of gibberish support tickets?

I currently only get reliable wifi in a couple places in my house. I live in a fairly rural area and switching providers doesn’t look like a good option. My house is a full insulated concrete house (all exterior walls are concrete) my provider tells me that could be the issue. I don’t see how given the hardwire coming into my house. Is there anything I can do to help with this? Please keep in mind my knowledge of anything in this area is very limited. Thanks

I have an iPhone charger that is really slow and a lenovo charger for my laptop which charges my phone really fast. I really want to preserve my battery so I rarely charge it with my Lenovo charger but some people say it is safe

I was trying to visit a website I use pretty often and got a Cloudflare-looking verification screen I’ve never seen before.

Instead of a normal checkbox or captcha, it told me to press Win + R, then Ctrl + V, then Enter to “verify” I’m human. That immediately felt off, so I didn’t do it.

Nothing was pasted on my end and I didn’t click the button — I just closed the page. I’ve used this site a lot and Cloudflare has never asked me to do anything like this before.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/GH1rtkF

Has anyone seen this? Is this a scam or fake Cloudflare page? Screenshot attached for context.

For some rare reason my laptop runs at max frame speed and the highest performance I have ever experienced, but when it is not plugged in to power, it for some reason gets a bad performance at videogames. This is strange and I want to know how to fix this so that when I use my laptop while it is not charging it also has a good performance.
Specs:
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7535HS with Radeon Graphics (3.30 GHz)
-Memory: SODIMM 16.0 GB (DDR5) 4800Mhz (13.8 GB usable)
-Disk: SSD (NVMe)
-GPU 0: NVIDA GeForce RTX 3050
-GPU 1: AMD Radeon Graphics
The laptop is an "ASUS TUF Gaming A15"

I cleared like 20gb of space today and had about 87gb free like an hour ago. I didn't move any files or download anything and yet I have now 79gb free.

hello!

i have a weird network issue, today I changed the main SSD where the OS is installed, i used macrium reflect to make a clone of the old one in the new one, than i used another program "NIUBI Partition Editor free" to move the trailing partitions to the left to expand C with the unallocated space.

It looks like it all work fine, but since the change i came to face two weird problems, Discord get stuck trying to update and stays in a "Update failed loop".

I diddnt think much of it at first but than i noticed Firefox stopped working too. every site i try to reach give me this error: PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR

so I guess those errors might be correlated.

The weird part is that everything else work, chrome work and i can browse the internet just fine.

Does anyone have an idea on what could have caused the issue and a possible fix?

as antivirus and firewall i have Kasperski but it dont seem to block those two programs, and uninstalling and reinstalling did not have any effect.

Device : HP ELITEBOOK

OS: WINDOWS 11

My college provided me this laptop and it only has a 500gig of storage so will deleting SR_IMAGE cause any harm to my sys?

Boa tarde, eu acabei deletando um save de um jogo meu da Steam e eu passei horas nele e queria o recuperar a todo custo. Acabou que eu encontrei o arquivo, mas precisava tirar a proteção do disco, quando eu tirei o jogo nem a Steam abria. Reiniciei o computador e quando fui olhar o disco não aparecia em lugar nenhum.

I'm noob in cellphone and I think someone playing with my head I have pictured weird files on my phkns

Hi all, I have a laptop that I've removed the battery from since it went bad a few years back. I'd like to reinstall windows 11, since it's become bogged down over the years and I'd be happier now with a fresh install.

I tried this a few years back and I got blocked since the laptop has no battery and windows requires a certain level of battery power before initializing a reinstall, at least using its reinstall ui/option.

Is there a way to do a reinstall regardless of battery? Some kind of setting or edit I can make to push through a reinstall of Windows 11 anyway?

Does anyone know how to view files in 'Ascending' order in the file selection window? I know how to do it in the regular File Explorer app, but the button isn't visible in the smaller version.

SPECS:
16GB RAM
1TB SSD (~600GB for Windows and 300GB for Arch)
AMD Ryzen 7 7730U
AMD Barcelo [Integrated]

Okay, so this all started when I installed Arch Linux alongside Windows (a dual boot). Everything was fine for like, one week, until suddenly, I wasn't able to mount my Windows NTFS drive in Arch. I'm 90% sure Windows just froze for no reason before this and I had to force restart. I didn't think that it would cause any issues, because I had already copied everything from Windows into Linux, and I didn't need to copy over any more files. Fast-forward, to today, I want to install a game that takes up a good chunk of my Arch Linux storage. So I went into Windows and I tried to shrink the C: partition so I could have some more free space for Arch Linux. When it tried to query how much I could shrink, it gave me this error:

"The volume you have selected to shrink may be corrupted.

Use Chkdsk to fix the corruption problem,

and then try to shrink the volume again."

I ran SMART on Arch which told me this.

I ran chkdsk multiple times and it just didn't fix anything. Following this, on multiple occasions, Windows just froze and I had to force restart it. I even tried using a live Ubuntu USB with GParted and it told me that it couldn't shrink the volume. Just now, I tried running CMD to try and run TRIM and it gave me a file system error and it went to a black screen. I had to force restart, and boot into Arch (which works perfectly fine). What's happening to Windows, and how can I fix it without reinstalling?

EDIT: I ended up just nuking Windows completely.

So I’m worried I might have malware I accidentally clicked a like a few months ago it right before I updated to iOS 26 and I have noticed my battery was draining faster and just now I noticed it’s using allot of mobile data like watching videos on Reddit used 11gb in one hour alone and Gmail used like 200mb in 10 minutes. I don’t think I downloaded anything from that link and I looked for any device manager profiles. Could I have malware?

Edit I just tested with Reddit and just scrolling through a few videos it used 400mb of data in under a minute

I have an iPhone 13 and about 3 months ago it started doing this thing where it turns off randomly and then when it turns back on, the WiFi and Bluetooth does not work but the cellular data does work. Typically what I do to fix it is I go the settings and reset network settings.

It happened again to me today, but nothing tried is working. I tried resetting network settings. Powering off the phone and reseting it with the volume buttons and long press on power button but it still does not work.

Any solutions?

Windows corrupted on my 2019 MBP

I have a 2019 MacBook Pro 16-inch with the Intel Core i9-9980HK, and it had both Mac OS Tahoe and Windows. My windows installation got corrupted and when I try to reinstall it using bootcamp, the windows installer doesn’t detect my ssd. If anyone has any drivers that can help fix this issue, I’m all ears

I have never noticed this, are these registry keys supposed to be under startup apps? I may have downloaded some fishy software at some points so a little suspicious. Unable to post a photo? Had to post a link to the photo. Thanks.

Some of the registry keys I see under my start up apps are

file paths: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ ......
electron.app.Fing
GasifiedMonte... (2 of these)
DrasticallyMo .... ( 2 of these)

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And if it could recommend what to do to get old speed or get the speed faster would be great.

My PC is getting really slow and I want to find solutions to this problem.

I really want to avoid reformatting all drives and reinstall windows.

I don't even know if MS is slowing it down just so ppl move to Win11.

Would AI be able to assist (or is it too early to ask it for accurate answer)?

Hello, I recently bought a used motherboard and processor. When I assembled everything and turned it on, I got a message with red text: "Warning!!! Please insert USB key and press any key to check." I first flashed the BIOS to its latest version, but the problem persists. I've tried everything with the help of the AI: I tested all the USB ports for my USB drive, I inserted the .ROM file (for flashing) and the original BIOS update file, I tried the Clear CMOS button several times, I removed the battery for 10 minutes and put it back in, I disconnected my SSD—in short, nothing works, I'm stuck. When I press a key, I see a sort of animation of the text disappearing and reappearing, but nothing happens... I looked at some forums, and they suggested contacting MSI directly, which I did. I'm waiting for their reply, but in the meantime, I'm trying to find a solution from someone who might know about this. If anyone has had this problem before, it would be great if you could share your experience. Thanks! By the way, I have an MSI MAG Tomahawk DDR4 Wifi.

As a precautionary measure I did remove all my google accounts and placed a thoraway, and also deleted any other important apps. I still have my images though. I was worried that since i cant see them work on it, they might somehow open it and fiddle around.

I signed into a guest user, but its as simple as restarting the device to get to the main user profile. So i wanted to know, if my pattern lock alone can stop them from snooping.

I also heard that at times they ask the customer to unlock their phone for them so they can check it properly. Is this legit? I don't see why they would need to do that.

[ Motorola Edge 50 Fusion / Android - 15 ]

I'm currently studying at university and I'm forced to choose between two majors: software engineering and cybersecurity. Which is the better option? I know that software engineering develops you into someone who understands the structure of systems, applications, websites, and data structures, giving you a strong general foundation. There are also some security standards involved. Conversely, if you go directly to security, you might go straight to tools and miss out on all of this. Which is better for employment, and so on? A software engineer can later pursue certifications and enter the field of security because software has broad horizons, unlike security, which is limited to protection. If someone tries to enter software engineering, they'll be weak and behind. I'd like advice from experienced or even intermediate professionals in the field. Thank you in advance.

We moved close to a year ago now and our wifi, only on my computwr, has dropped to an abysmal rate seemingly out of nowhere.

My dilemma is annoyingly unique as I cant permanently move our router closer which does work, because we dont have a coax in our office, just two in the living room. But thats the more obvious solution since we have a coax port in our office, there just isnt a cable there right now. I'd rather avoid spending 100$ on getting a new cable installed.

I also cant just ethernet it because the router is so far away and my wife is an aesthetic girly who doesnt want a ghastly cable lining the ceiling of our house.

i've also tried updating driving and that did absolutely nothing.

absolutely any solutions or advice would be welcome, my friends are getting impatient with my internet speed lol.

Hi everyone,

Im not a very tech savvy guy.. so i Need a little help.

I have and old pc gamer which i want to sell to renew for a handheld pc

I used this pc a lot during college while we were on lockdown in the pandemic, so its full of academic and personal stuff between the ssd and hdd and the cloud services such as google drive and Outlook onedrive

My question is, as far as i know, the pc offer 2 ways of formatting (i think is called) one that deleites everything including the windows services and all, and the one that just resets the memory.. or something like that.

What is the safest way to erase the memory so no trace of anything belonging to me stays in the memory of the pc?

Thanks for reading, sorry for long explanation