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Time for new laptop?

My laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad 110 (about 8 years old?), and has been upgraded to Win10. About 2 years I thought the WiFI adapter was intermittently giving me problems, so I installed a D-Link USB adapter. It seemed to work ok, althought my laptop gradually got increasingly and painfully slow. So, I installed Auslogic Software several months ago and achieved a marginal, but not great improvement. The WifI speed tests I run are fairly low, around 30Mbps. I do have a new desktop PC in my house and it runs just fine, and it's WiFI speedtest shows a download speed of about 150Mbps.

Today my internet provider was down, so I decided to connect my laptap via Bluetooth to my cell phone hotspot. This is the first time I have done this. I couldn't believe the performance improvement that this resulted in. But he Wifi speed test was only in the 30Mbps range.

So, I have considered buying a new WiFI adapter for my laptop, but was concerned that if it didn't improve things, I just wasted the money and I might be better off just buying a new laptop.

But I like the current of performance that I get with the laptop connected to my cell phone hotspot.

I would be interested in hearing your comments and recommendations.
Thanks,
Brian

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May 06, 2025 at 01:05 AM

C Drive space going down to 2GB

Hi,
My HP Pavillion i7 (about 6 yrs old) laptop went down - over days - from about 100GB spare of 237 to 1 or 2GB. I had Panda & Fortect. No good. Wiped PC & re-uploaded Windows 10 (won't take 11). Became 177GB spare. Great. But now again going down ridiculously. Uploaded nothing more than 40MB. Tried your & Wise Registry cleaners. Spoke to Panda who said you & Fortect & Wise remove junk files and skim / clean the surface of the registry. (Actually proved this with Fortect full scan & repair while I was on phone to him.) Said needs our technician to get to back of registry else this'll never go away. But want to charge 100s. Prefer to go my PC friend.
It's now 166GB from 5 days ago!!
I only had your & Wise's free stuff.
Any advice pls?
Anton

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Apr 23, 2025 at 08:46 PM

Отсутствие звука

На этом компьютере есть нормальное изображение, но нет звука. Напишите как исправить эту проблему.Пошагово объясните,пожалуйста!

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Mar 31, 2025 at 06:18 PM

Kindle not visible via USB

My laptop doesn't recognise my usb to connect the kindle. It's not visible. However the cable is working, because it's charging. Is there any way to connect it?

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM

printer 'in error state' message

The printer is online (lamp lights up, I have checked the connections) but the display constantly shows ‘on error state’, Windows Help does not help. What else can I do?
Thank you very much

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM

Cannot play sound in my headphone connected via bluetooth

can you please help me fix my sound. it doesnot work!

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM

My computer does not see any phones connected via USB

My computer does not see any phones connected via USB cable. I tried changing both phones and cables. The computer sees the component itself but cannot access it in the hard drive menu. I always give access to files on the phone and the phone itself charges normally

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM

Logitech G213 Keyboard and G203 Mouse will not connect

Windows 11 will not recognize and allow either of these two really nice, brand new, input devices to operate in the windows environment.

I've used the Auslogics Driver Updated version 2 to make sure all the drivers were current and operational.

I'm running a MSI Rader GE76 12UE 871, with 64 GB Ram, and 3 TB of SSD storage. I've also verified with the MSI Support site that I'm running the latest version of BIOS.

Everything else seems to run just fine.

I can utilize any BT keyboard and mouse without issue.

When I boot the system into BIOS setup, the USB G203 mouse works just fine and allow me to make any selections that I might need. I've also taken both devices to my wife's laptop and they both work just fine there as well so I'm fairly positive there is some setting in the windows environment that has become corrupted and will not allow me to uise these nice devices.

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM

Hard Drive disk usage 100%

Hard Drive disk 100% usage...How to reduce disk usage?

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM

Mein PC erkennt meine USB Sticks nicht mehr

Mein PC erkennt meine USB Sticks nicht mehr

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Feb 21, 2025 at 02:42 AM

Camera is not detected

Why might my cameras not be detected since install?
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Feb 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM

Какая видеокарта лучше?

Какой лучше в этой линейке адаптеров. Качество-производительность

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM

lost mbr? drive is not accessible or corrupted error

I have about a dozen 2.5" & 3.5" SATA HDs, no bigger than 4TB that I have been using for years without issue. They are used in conjunction with via a WAVLINK eternal docking station, holds 2 drives" to USB. Recently, one HDs, 3TB one, when I tried to use it, I got an error message, "invalid parameter", "drive is not accessible or corrupted" or something like that. So I used the DSK command in Window 11 and it showed up as a "healthy drive" but showed up as "RAW" (needed to be formatted basically of course) instead of NTFS as it should be. I took this situation to be a fluke but just now, with two 4TB drives in at the same time in the docking station, the same thing happened TO THEM BOTH. I had them connect to my laptop for several hours then suddenly got the "drive not accessible" error.  Same issue as before basically and back to RAW. Correct me if I'm wrong but does this very likely indicate that the docking station is creating this problem all of a sudden? It's either that or my laptop is sending something out to the drives that is causing this. Give me your opinion. My bottom question is, I'm assuming the MBR got corrupted or disappeared, of course there could be something else but it's been a very long time since I have messed with HDs on this level. Is there any way without having to send the drives out to have them professionally recovered, something I can do myself at home to re access the drives normally? Thanks in advance, Jim.

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM

Flickering while downloading ".acsm" files

Screen flickering occurs while downloading ".acsm" files.

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM

warum funktioniert die Tastatur nicht?

warum fällt die tastatur bei einem notebook von captiva gekauft 01.01..2021 komplett aus diesess schreibe ich mit der bildschirmtastatur. neupreis: 1.459,- €

CAPTIVA 43,9 cm (17.3") GB7 726IG 20V1
(PB71DDS-G) RTX 2060 6GB/FHD 144 Hz NB
WVA/i7-10750H/MC/SSD 500GB/HDD
1TB/32768/WLAN/BT/w/o OS
1 1459,00 1459,00St
201,24Umsatzsteuer 16 %
1.459,00Summe Brutto
1.459,00Endsumme
EUR
EUR
EUR
1.257,76Gesamt Netto 16 % EUR
Zahlbar per Paypal
DHL National Standard
Zahlung:
Spediteur:
Bedingungen:

inbetriebnahme im januar 2021, ausfall tastatur anfang april 2024

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM

Toneport KB37 sound interface stopped working on Windows 11

My good old Line 6 Toneport KB37, midi controller, and external soundcard combo stopped working on my new PC.

When running on an Asus TUF H310M with a Core i5 9400F and 16GB of RAM, it was working just fine.

Now, on the new setup, a Gigabyte Aorus Elite B760M with a Core i5 13th gen and 32GB of DDR5 RAM, the installation and driver setup ran okay. However, when playing any kind of music or sound file in any player, including YouTube, streaming services, you name it, it doesn't work. The sound feels 'cropped'; it plays extremely slow and low pitched, clearly malfunctioning.

Cubase 12 doesn't even recognize the device or the ASIO drivers for configuration.

I've been using the Toneport KB37 for music production and as a general soundcard for years, and on the old PC, it still works perfectly.

The same USB cable is being used on both PCs.

Am I missing any kind of configuration, new driver, or something that could make it work with Windows 11?

Thanks in advance for your time and help. Any kind of tip or suggestion will be extremely appreciated.

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM

Fix HDD 100% usage

Is there an easy fix to get rid of an HDD 100% issue. Tried resetting RAM limits.

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM

Drives showing different amount of free disk space

I have two external HD of exactly the same size, 3.63 TB, they both hace exactly the same amount of data stored on them both, 1.84 TB, 2240 files, 61 folders. My issue is that the "free space" shows a difference amount, 1.50 TB verse 1.55 TB. I have ensured that recycle bin on them both are empty and ran every program that would make sense with the confines of BoostSpeed 13 and nothing seems to make any difference. This isn't the only example of this sort of thing happening. I'm bewildered. Please advise.

By the way, I wasn't sure what to pick above for "Device" so I randomly picked something.

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM

Drive is 81% fragmented and disk defragmenter does not defrag

Drive is 81% fragmented and disk defragmenter does not defrag, just states completed. How to get the drive to defrag/optimize?

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM

Change Function Keys default action

how can I change my function key default action

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Feb 12, 2025 at 01:47 PM
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