r/computers

Home desktop computer: Years ago, in the stone age, I had a wireless keyboard and mouse. It was a new thing back then. They were unreliable (at least mine were). The technology must be lightyears ahead of where it was back then, right?

I visited a shop and that shop owner showed me a refurbished laptops of some other countries that comes india and they sell it like refurbished laptops.

Should I buy that? (Price - 18k-23k)

I woke up to a trojan on my pc, my cashapp card had failed transactions (benefits of being broke), and my roblox and ubisoft account had logins and password changes. I reverted all of these and ordered a new cashapp card, added 2fa apps to my roblox and ubisoft.

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I booted up my pc and the kwu1z1s9v started automatically, its some ip manager thing. I opened the file location and it was in contained in my discord files? And i have no clue what the data validator thing is too, i deleted it as well.

Can anyone explain what these two things are, what I should do?
I ran a full offline windows scan, deleted everything that was suspicious, and my pc seems to be running fine. What else should I do?

Bought an iMac (8‑core, 24GB RAM, 512GB) for $1699 after upgrades. Now I’m realizing the 10‑core GPU upgrade was +$200 and pushed it into a weird price range.

Seeing the Mac mini M4 Pro for ~$1599 with way better specs:

14‑core CPU, 20‑core GPU

24GB RAM, 512GB

more ports + multi‑display support

Did I overpay or is the iMac still worth it?

I am noticing too much slowness in windows 11, 10.. lot of forced updates are getting pushed and its making the pc very slow.. post startup, it takes 1 hour to get into a workable condition.

I use edge for browsing and its dam slow as well..

anyone facing similar issue? any suggestions?

Hello! Ive been playing a rhythm game called unbeatable and a few days ago I closed it with alt f4. After this it gave me and error and my entire computer restarted. The game works fine on other computers but no matter how many reinstalls I do the game will never load past the health and safety so I know I fucked something up.

Hi everyone,

I’m upgrading my laptop from an HP Pavilion, but I’m not sure what to get. I’ve been shopping around and researching and the two that I’m interested in are the Surface and OmniBook.

Does anyone have any personal experiences with either of the computers? Any pros or cons?

I know my buddy had a Surface and he loved it except when he wanted to replace the battery on it he had to rip it apart basically to access the battery, like literally rip it apart with hands, and was forced to crack the screen.

Specs for exact ones I’m looking at are below:

HP OmniBook

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-omnibook-x-flipngai-16-as0047nr

Surface Laptop

https://www.bestbuy.com/product/microsoft-surface-laptop-15-2k-touchscreen-snapdragon-x-elite-2024-16gb-memory-256gb-storage-7th-ed-copilot-pc-platinum/JJGXP2VF38

Looking forward to responses!

Edit: I’m planning on using the laptop for school and work in the future. Not planning on gaming on it.

So I have this older pc build that’s been having issues lately. It just turns itself off due to overheating and the details say specifically one core in my cpu is overheating. I replaced the cpu (amd fx 8370) and the thermal paste but that didn’t fix anything at all. I can’t diagnose the issue or find any solutions online.

Would anyone have any ideas as to what’s causing this? Bad cooler?

Deleted the setup files and didn't have it bugging me for a few weeks. However, it's back again

So, roughly a week ago the W key on my Lenovo legion 7 stopped working. Took the keycap off, cleaned underneath it, seemed to get it working again. Unfortunately I had broken the keycap hinge taking it off, so I had to order a replacement (thank you Aliexpress?). Came in yesterday, I managed to get it put back together. Seemed to be working. Yay!

Nay. Gave one of my games a spin today, and what would you know, it’s stopped working again. Although, this time I discovered something bizarre. If I use it in quick succession with another key, it works?? Like pressing “w” on its own does nothing. Quickly typing “ewewewewew” will work. I don’t know anything about computers so no clue why it would do that.

Things I’ve tried: blowing canned air under the key. Reinstalling the keyboard driver. Beating the heck out of the key. Turning filter keys on and off. Did some thing that was supposed to test if the keyboard was working right. I’m going to do some more troubleshooting but that’s where I am right now.

I’ve reached out to a friend in tech and have yet to hear back, so for now all I’ve got my computer-illiterate self and the internet. If anyone has any advice please please help me this is driving me nuts.