Recent content by Jeremy Rosenblum

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    Games will minimize to desktop and windows will de-select

    I've been having this issue for the past month or so. I'll be typing, when all of a sudden the window I'm working in becomes transparent and my typing stops in the middle. it's as it I clicked on another window when I didn't. This also causes games to minimize constantly, and often videos I'm...
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    Laptop can't connect to school wifi

    I just bought a Acer Aspire E5-573G Windows 10 Laptop. It works completely fine, except for some reason I'm completely incapable of connecting to the wifi at my university. It has no problems whatsoever connecting to my home wifi and at my friend's house, but any time I try connecting to the...
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    Keyboard takes hours to activate after startup

    Basically, when i boot up my pc the keyboard doesnt light up at all and remains completely dead. After a few hours it'll show some drivers installing and the keyboard will work. Once its on it works even after going in to sleep or restarting, but if i shut down the problem starts again. Already...
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    Youtube not working on Chrome

    Thanks. Clearing the cache worked
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    Youtube not working on Chrome

    For some reason, a few days ago Youtube videos completely stopped working on Chrome. Basically what happens is I'll click on a video, then it'll play for about a millisecond, and then the quality settings tab on the video bar randomly disappears, and the video then buffers forever. I have...
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    Acer V246HLbmd vs HP Pavilion 23xi for gaming

    I can't vouch for the Acer, but I've had the 23xi for a few months and it's been fine for me. I'm not sure how it compares to other gaming monitors, since it's only the second one I've ever had (I had this super shitty dell monitor from like 2007 before this) but it's still been great for me
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    Computer freezes every few minutes

    Pretty straightforward problem. For some reason, my computer will randomly freeze every few minutes for about 10 seconds. Usually a reboot will fix it for a while, but this has been happening constantly. Also, when the freezing starts to occur, the mouse pointer becomes super weird and delayed...
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    PC will not boot after attempted graphics card install

    You might be plugging in the wrong pin connectors to the new GPU. I remember I had the exact same problem when installing a new GPU for the first time, and realized I was actually plugging a 4 pin connector in to a 6 pin slot without realizing it. That might be the problem
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    Loud, fast fan with no display on monitor

    This morning I went to turn on my computer, and the fan started spinning insanely loud and fast the second I booted it up. Normally my fans are super quiet. Also, I got no display on the monitor (Keyboard, mouse, and other USB plug ins were powered up though.) I had to leave before I could...
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    Lost my windows 7 product key

    Yeah.... this is really dumb. I just bought a prebuilt computer from this company called microtel. It came with windows 7 pre installed and it's asking for my windows 7 product key. Turns out, the product key was on this tag that I ripped off earlier and I can't find it anywhere. What should I do?
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    HP PC vs Alienware Laptop

    If you get an Hp phoenix, you're gonna have to upgrade the graphics card. They have super good processors and RAM, but they stick these crap GPU's in to lower the price. I'd reccomend just building your own. Much cheaper for basically the same specs, but if you have to get a store bought...
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    Games randomly minimizing to desktop

    I use maleware fighter and Advanced systemcare. Those rule out any possibilities of maleware. Also, I don't really think it's a power glitch. I mean the games just minimize themselves occasionally and don't crash or anything. It's more a minor inconveniance. Also, the event logs don't show much...
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    Games randomly minimizing to desktop

    Also, sometimes if I'm watching a video full screen, the task bar will randomly pop up as if the video got minimized