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Ah, I see. So I guess I will need to upgrade my whole PC - I am planning to build a new PC sometime this year, so that is in the works. The router is the one that my provider sent me with the 10GB plan, so it should definitely be capable of handling 10GB. Japanese people are tech savvy...

Ok, so I live in Tokyo and I just upgraded my internet plan from a 1GB to 10Gb, but once connecting it by ethernet cable, I am seeing virtually no change in my speeds (Download is about 500mbps and upload is almost 800mbps). This is what I was getting with the 1GB plan. Is it possibly...

1. Yep, like I said - I have experience helping others rescue data from their dead PCs, so I know about this. 2. Ok, I've actually done this before too, but that's good to be reminded! I'll make sure to do that. 3. Yeah, and I was one of those people maybe 20-25 years ago, but the years...

Thanks so much for answering! Yeah, I know about the default windows folders being hard to find as I have had to rescue personal files from dead computers in the past (not MY computer, but friends' and family...so I've dug out the HDDs and sorted through those folders to find them in the...

Hi! I have a simple question - I am using a 2TB HDD with 32GB SSD hybrid drive as my boot drive (C) as it came stock with my Dell desktop years ago. I have upgraded nearly every component since except for the original HDD and motherboard (I’ve added a couple extra HDDs for storage though)...

ST2000DM001 Ok, so you're saying that it is possible that the numbers could go away and my drive goes back to OK status??? I read somewhere else that I should mostly be concerned if the number starts growing. Is that about right?

Ok, this is quite complicated, so please bear with me. Firstly, I inherited an older laptop from a friend - he said his PC was super slow and unusable. I messed with it, and sure enough, very slow. It has a Core i5, and I thought 4GB ram, and everything seemed fine, but you couldn't even...

Ok, I probably already know the answer to this...but I would like some advice. First of all, I am using a Dell XPS8500, but I've actually upgraded nearly every component except for the motherboard and the HDD. It's a 2TB Seagate, but the specs when I bought it said "2TB SATA HDD + 32GB...

Ok, so I have been using sfc /scannow and dism /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth, maybe once a week? For some reason, I always remember it saying no violations and no restoration necessary. However, over a week ago, I was playing a heavily modded game and my PC froze...I couldn't close...

Thank you all for the excellent advice and comments. I couldn't get Windows to try installing it again through the Update settings, but I tried the Windows 10 Update Assistant and it succeeded in installing 1903. After installing, I ran both DISM and sfc and both were able to operate and...

So, I've had some sporadic issues with my PC, one of which has been that it just suddenly started taking MUCH longer to boot about a month ago, with no clear reason. One possibility - I had a PSU that started to die and caused my PC to crash several times, or the GPU to fail because of the...

So I've recently had all kinds of trouble with my PC, and I finally found that most of those problems were caused by a dying PSU. My PC kept freezing, or the GPU kept failing and there were countless times that I had to just pull the plug on my PC, literally. I think so many forced...

I have a question - sometimes when I've been to websites that don't look so safe (for example, downloading mods for Skyrim from Russian or Chinese sites), I'll click on something on the webpage, and a new tab will open and close immediately in Chrome. Is this a security concern, or is my Chrome...

I choose "shut down" from Windows and just let it shut itself down normally. I do not turn off the PSU switch, or the power strip. I have been doing it EXACTLY the same way, and I have changed nothing, it just suddenly started - not immediately after changing the PSU, but about a week after...

Thanks! Upgrading the PSU has really seemed to make some things much better! I didn't know that about the PSU. Unfortunately, the problem with waking up from sleep where it sputters, turns itself on and crashes, on and crashes, and then finally on again - it has happened 1 time since...