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new laptop is fucking up

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:11 pm
by dill786
bentech wrote:want to upgrade the memory but ive no idea how much Ive got now and what type it will take
don't even know the model, just that its an hp

couldn't find anything while poking around in the icon at the bottom left


did discover it has a dvd-rw drive!
didn't realize that; assumed it didn't have any drive
but knowing it does now, and since its not a cromebook it will need maintainance. how do I strip the system down and them make a disc so that I can do clean installs?
control panel> system and security>system ( in green)

new laptop is fucking up

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 11:11 pm
by bentech
well now I know exactly how much memory ive got,
but it doesn't name the model number

new laptop is fucking up

Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 11:19 pm
by dill786
settings ( then type in about in search then click about your pc

new laptop is fucking up

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 11:41 am
by bentech
the 'about page' has vague answers,
the type of memory it states doesn't google
neither does the model number
I went to hp but I cant find it either
about page doesn't state what graphics card I got so I cant narrow it down that way either

new laptop is fucking up

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:51 pm
by bentech
well it looks like I can add 8megs of ddr4 but I cant afford it

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new laptop is fucking up

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 5:15 pm
by Intrinsic
bentech wrote:want to upgrade the memory but ive no idea how much Ive got now and what type it will take
don't even know the model, just that its an hp

couldn't find anything while poking around in the icon at the bottom left

did discover it has a dvd-rw drive!
didn't realize that; assumed it didn't have any drive
but knowing it does now, and since its not a cromebook it will need maintainance. how do I strip the system down and them make a disc so that I can do clean installs?
micrsoft moved away from providing an installation disc for a clean install. now they want ya to network (moving to the online cloud installing and bullshit pay-per-use).
Because of MS's and apple's greed over user usability, Deran is right linux is the inevitable solution. resistance is futile.

Ya could always call up MS tech support and ask for help. or even an installation disk. :roflmao:

new laptop is fucking up

Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2017 12:11 pm
by Jesús Malverde
I'd deffo find someone more computer savvy to have a look at it in person.

new laptop is fucking up

Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2017 2:26 pm
by bentech
ive found now that if I'm just more patient it will eventually wake up every time

10 years ago I bought a quad processor with vista and ran it into the ground,
no maintainance
next I had a cromebook that did fine until it didn't wake up a couple months back

ive no idea what responsible care of a windows machine is anymore
I cant even get around in windows anymore, no idea whats what

but its complaining about my free demo of mckafree expiring now
mabe I should watch the tutorial that came with it...
if I can find it

new laptop is fucking up

Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2017 3:15 pm
by dill786
download

avast its free and ive not had any viruses or any other strange sgit happening to my laptop since i installed it

https://www.avast.com/en-gb/index" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

new laptop is fucking up

Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 1:44 pm
by deran
here a story of my short time room mate (wanted to sleep 2 to 3 nights, and lasted for 6 weeks)

anyways, he got a laptop, his very first puter in his life, a total noob, had it only for 2 or 3 months ....

it was fucking up anything you wanted to use it for, so i attached my usb stick, booted up linux as a live system and ran an anti virus software (clamAV) only to find it had a ton of malware installed, more than 30 viruses ... just bc he (the idiot he is) clicked on anything that popped up, bc he was watching movies online, either a stream or as a live download .... i gave my best to erase most of them, but 10 couldnt be killed .... my solution was to format the disk, and restore his data that he had. like personal pics ....
2 days later, i found out, he restored the viruses and all shit ...

so i had to cut down the router access, bc the idiot he is, he didnt understood that his machine is a threat to the whole network - nope idiot, no inet for you


what i want to say

ppl are victims of their own behavior, they cant think outside of the box and a movie for jerking is much more important than security ... well, still today ppl fuck hookers without rubbers, and havent learned a thing

step by step, knowledge wont come over night only by lessons


ben, do yourself a favor and install a parallel linux distro, for your own saftey

a buddy of mine said once:
windows costs nervs
linux costs time
apple costs money

take care