On my work laptop, I get these notifications that take up a quarter of the screen and won't close until I allow it to update. I have to close out of whatever I'm doing so this update can happen. This happens probably four times a week. Why is Chrome updating this often? I ask our IT guy and he says it's something with Chrome, not on their end. Is my work doing something nefarious or is Chrome just trying and failing to update, hence why it tries to update so often?

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Should I be concerned about this? I just noticed this folder on my D: drive, there's two of them one is called !- and the other ~!- ,they're kind of greyed out and they both have the same contents, is it anything important or can I just delete them? Thanks.

I need to update my windows 10 to windows 11, however I cannot figure out a way to get enough storage to make it work. As of now I've already turnt off sleepmode in CMD which did grant me a couple of extra GB of space but didn't do the job.

I have also asked AI like the caveman I am and it told me to mess with my pagefile.sys file, which I'm not certain im qualified to do and I'll probably fry my computer in the process.

Except for maybe 500MB worth of apps on my 111GB disk it's filled to the brim with what appears to be nothing, this is my fifth attempt of trying to download this update of hell and my constant struggle with computer storage.

Has anyone got a clue what could be going on or how I can scrape togheter the 11.9 GB of storage I need to finally push this update through? Or should I just buy a new disk with more storage on it?

Thanks in advance to anybody who took their time to read this.

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Exactly as the title says. I was shutting my laptop down and I clicked on the "update and shut down" option. Left it alone for a while, when I looked again it's just stuck in the BIOS and my OS does not appear in the boot menu (f8).

This is the second time this has happened to me. The first time was it crashed and stuck me at the BIOS, I ended up reinstalling windows because of that.

This time around, after updating windows before shutting down it just boots me into BIOS.

My laptop isn't even that old, it turn 6 years in a week or so.

I don't even know anymore man.

I have a Hp omen 3060ti that I got 5ish years ago.
Treats me fine, I’m able to play high res games with no lag, texture stretching , etc . Lately when I boot up my computer it would show me this screen that i can’t get out of no matter what I do. If I’m lucky to not get stuck on this screen I would still see a flash of these lines for a second as it boots up.
I know 100% it’s not the monitor but I don’t know what the issue is (I don’t know anything about the parts and pieces of a pc) . I did really superficial switches to get out of this screen (getting a different DisplayPort cord and cleaning the inside of the pc) which randomly works for a bit but I know that one random day that I turn on my pc I would get this screen again.
Once I’m on my pc everything works, this simply happens when I boot it up to use it.
If needed: my graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060ti (8 GB) and my processor is AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core processor (3.80 Ghz)

I ran a windows defender scan yesterday, where it said it found a malicious SVG file on my computer.

I was curious to see when it was downloaded and at what time, and copied the file path, pasted it in windows explorer and hit enter thinking nothing of it.

Windows prompted me with the "open with" window to select what program I wanted to open this .svg file with.

I quickly hit escape and removed it from my device.

I was wondering if the .svg file was fully able to open despite that open with window prompting and if I should take extra precautions now.

Thank you!

These black horizontal lines just appeared out of nowhere. How do I get rid of them?

Hi. So I did a new install of Win 11 on nephews computer. I'm new to this. It showed under disk management that it had almost as much space for a recovery partition as the regular C drive. I assumed he must have a 2TB drive and half was unallocated to anything but this, not even showing up as a drive letter.

So I used powershell to merge them. Oops. Now I can't create a recovery USB. My intention was good. Why leave half the drive unallocated or something. Turns out that this recovery drive was just a theory or something and his HD is just 1TB

Long story short, how can I undo this without another full install? I do want to learn from my mistakes.

Thanks.

Hi

Had to correct this post, it wrote the wrong thing. Its the video card that seems to be messing up. I have the ASRock Phantom Gaming Radeon RX 7900 XTX 24GB GDDR6 PCI Express 4.0 ATX Graphics Card RX7900XTX PG 24GO I would love some help. I've been having issues with crashes and my computer freezing and two of my ports for display have stopped working randomly.

This is the error message I keep getting if anyone can explain it to me. Honestly unsure what it means

I’m not quite sure if this will work but I’m using a fairly old laptop that’s having its network card whitelisted in bios. It used to work perfectly, idk at what point it started getting whitelisted. I’ve seen others upgrading their BIOS with the network card detached fixed the issue, but since I already have the latest bios, idk if rolling back will be successful. Has anyone successfully installed a previous version of their bios?

My laptop is currently having what I believe to be a software problem. It boots up no problem and goes all the way to my desktop as it should. But once I get to the desktop everything freezes.

The laptop then crashes showing a black screen saying “your device ran into an issue and needs to restart” with the stop code “INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE (0x7B)”

When it first started crashing I was able to get in and work for a few minutes but now it freezes as soon as I sign in.

I’m assuming it has to do with a corrupt windows file or a communication error between windows and my laptop but I’m unsure.

What is the best way to solve this issue as a broke college student who can’t afford a new laptop or an expensive fix but relies heavily on laptops.

I am not a big tech guy either so please I need help!