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A new Local Disk just showed up in "This PC" on Windows 10 for me. It says 70 MB free of 95 MB. Does anyone know what this is? It tells me I do not have access to open it.

Is there a way to downgrade Windows 10 Pro to Home without reformatting? My friend accidentally installed Windows 10 Pro and he only has a Home key. I remember a registry edit you could do with 7 and I'm wondering if you can do the same with 10. Thanks!

I recently got a Asus Z170 Maximus Ranger and I had to finally give up my Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty after all these years because the mobo does not have a PCI slot. I'm using onboard now and the sound seems to be OK but there is a high pitch ringing/whining noise on my mic now. People keep...

I've been having problems with my 1.5 TB Green WD for about a year now. On Windows 7, sometimes it would go unresponsive and I couldn't access it. Restarting/letting it do a chkdsk would fix it. Ever since switching to Windows 10, sometimes when accessing the drive it will completely lock up...

Does anyone know if it's safe to use the regedit to change from IDE to AHCI on Windows 10? I just realized today that I should be using AHCI and I went to change it and got a Inaccessible Boot Device error. Also if anyone knows of a guide to do it that's safe and could hook me up with a link...

I love relaxing and swinging around in an open world. It looks like they took the web swinging back to a respectable style. I'm just wondering how the quality of the PC version is gonna be before I spend money on it. Did anyone buy the first Amazing Spider-Man game on Steam? Was it a buggy...

Some places are selling Titanfall pre-order for 25% off and I'm wondering how they're able to do this? Is it bad for the developer to buy from places like this? Just curious who takes the loss.

Having some problems getting the 3DS to connect in my room. My PC connects to the wifi fine but the 3DS is limited/to mostly no connection. Is there a device I can get for cheap that will let me connect the 3DS to my PC for internet? I tried using another router to boost the wifi signal but I...

I'm having a problem and I need some guidance. Every now and then this PC will completely hardlock and when I restart the PC the webcam on it is not being detected. I have to replug it in in order for the PC to pick it up. Other times the wifi will cut out and I have to replug in the wifi...

I have 2 broken Dell 2005FPWs. They lasted me a long time and were awesome. After a while they both came down with the same sickness :(. The screens started to bounce up and down as they were first turning on and after time they continued to bounce until the image was a blur. Is this fixable...

The signal strength in my GF's basement is really low. Her router is upstairs and sometimes she likes to play on her DS in the basement. The signal for her DS in the basement is too low for it to actually work, however her PC works. So I have a couple of questions: 1. Do the Wifi...

Seeing as how G-Sync monitors wont be out for a while I'm probably gonna do a PC upgrade this year instead of a new monitor. I got some questions though: 1. Will a 770 GTX be a big enough upgrade from a 660 Ti? I want something that's gonna handle Wildstar OK. 2. When will we see the 800...

Turned on my monitors today and my 2nd monitor starts up and gets brighter and brighter till it's all white. It's dead isn't it? :(

I made a HUGE mistake and bought an Xbox 360, Call of Duty: Ghosts, and one of those keyboard/mouse adapters for the 360. It doesn't feel like I expected, the aim assist on the consoles makes it pretty dumb. Does anyone know if Amazon will take back an opened Xbox 360 or am I better off just...

I have an i5 3570k and a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H. I got 2x4 sticks of G.Skill F3-10666CL9D-8GBXL that turns out both sticks are bad. One of the sticks wont even let the PC boot and the other that will as soon as I started testing with HCI Memtest, errors starting popping up endlessly. I was...

Anyone have any experience with the GS power supplies? In need of a power supply today and Best Buy has these. Been having boot problems with a pc and I'm pretty positive it's power related. Read some bad things about the Gaming Series and I just wanted to see if anyone here has any experience...

Been having a problem with motherboards. Here are the specs: i5 3570k AMD 5770 2x4 gig G.Skill 750W Antec The boards I've tried were an ASRock B75 Pro3 and today I got a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD3H. The first board I had problems getting to boot with 2 sticks of ram. I used one stick for a week...

I had one 2gig stick of G.Skill ram in a machine I'm working on. Got some new ram today 2x4 gig sticks of G.Skill and now I'm getting BSOD randomly. ntoskrnl.exe+7efc0 was in the error report. I have no way of running memtest86 but the memory did pass window's memory diagnostic. i5 3750k...

New pc specs: i5 3570k ASRock B75 Pro3 2x2 G.Skill 750 Corsair ATi 5770 Computer started got to try to load windows then BSOD and powered off. I was able to get into the bios then it shut off. Now it just turns on and shuts back off again with nothing. Tried 1 stick of RAM, no video...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130621 MSI Z68A-G43 or http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130655 MSI B75MA-P45 Would either of these 2 be ok for an i5-3570K? Not really sure the differences besides ones a micro-atx with only 1 pci x16 slot. Any...

Just got a BenQ XL2420T and I have a stuck blue pixel at the middle top left. I've been running JScreenFix all night and it fixed the problem for like 15 mins but now the blue pixel is back. Does this mean it will never go away or can I eventually get it to unstick for good?

Well I turned over a few minutes ago and thought I'd get up to check some things on the computer. I stood up and bumped my mouse to turn my monitors on. They came on but I heard this loud whining noise which I thought was coming from my video card. It went away after 15 seconds so I walked away...

Just got a 660 Ti and I've been playing APB for the past hour when my screen went all glitchy. When the game came back I was getting 15 fps. Do you think this is because I didn't reformat and switched from ATi to nvidia that's causing the problem? I'm gonna keep playing and see if it happens...

I put 2 5770s in my gf's comp and installed drivers. GPU-Z is showing crossfire as disabled and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. The crossfire bridge is on and both cards work fine alone. What can I do? Here are the system specs: Q6600 2x5770s Abit IP35 Pro 2x4gigs Corsair

Anyone have the Zowie Celeritas? I keep reading about how unpleasant the spacebar is and it's keeping me from getting one. A lot of reviews saying the spacebar sticks. Would the CM QuickFire Pro be a better choice?

I've been using this mic - http://www.amazon.co.uk/SteelSeries-Siberia-Microphone-Black-PC/dp/B0035JL2LO It picks up everything in my room. My keyboard sounds ridiculously loud to everyone on skype, no matter where I put it (desk, shirt, chair, ceiling, etc...). Everyone I read about says to...

Can I use Wifi to access internet stuff on a Motorola Droid phone that doesn't have service or a data plan? Thanks.

My girlfriend recently put a 9800gt into her machine and now when she tries to view 720p or 1080p flash videos her machine lags like crazy. The 4650 she had in before didn't give her any problems. Tried reinstalling flash and it's still lagging. Any suggestions? Specs: q6600 @ 3.0 8 gigs...

My friend had power issues in his apartment building and ever since then he has been noticing worse pc performance. The power issues are fixed but his pc isn't running like it used to. Is there anything we can do to check if something is wrong with his pc and what could be wrong? Thanks! Here...

Need help with crazy packet loss. Wireless adapter is a Compact Wireless-G USB Compact USB Network Adapter. The adapter doesn't have a Windows 7 driver but it does have xp and vista driver. It installs fine it just has really bad packet loss. Can't even move around in online games. What can I...

I downloaded all of the drivers for my MSI last night and the TPM driver I got I'm not sure how to install or if I even need it? This is what was in the zip: http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1043/tpmo.jpg What's up with that?

So I changed some stuff in the bios to try to hit 4.5 on my i7. When I restarted this is what cpuz is giving me. http://img52.imageshack.us/img52/9360/overclocka.jpg Confused? Why is it not saving? What am I forgetting? The vcore seems to be saving but not the overclock.

Is the extra 30 bucks for the KUHLER worth it? Gonna be getting a 2600k and trying to hit 4.5 with it.

My friend's power went out the other night and now he is having weird computer/video issues. On boot ups he is getting a chkdsk every time. Also he now has a horizontal line that goes from the bottom of his monitor up. Everything above the line is fine but below everything shakes. It lasts for...

Right now I'm looking at the MSI P67A-GD65, but I wanna know what the differences are between it and the MSI P67A-C43? Does the GD65 perform/overclock better or am I just losing the 1 PCI-E 2.0 slot and some SATA ports? If anyone has any other board recommendations please give em up. Trying...

Windows PowerShell 2.0 and WinRM 2.0 for Windows Vista for x64-based Systems (KB968930) Installation date: ‎3/‎3/‎2011 11:43 AM Installation status: Failed Error details: Code 80073712 Update type: Recommended The Windows Management Framework Core package...

My friend went to install the chipset driver for this board and it tried to just install Catalyst video drivers it seems. Does he need to run this install if he already has the newest Catalyst drivers installed for his video card?

My Uncle has an old Dell that we are trying to get his webcam working with (VX-800 LifeCam). I am running out of ideas to try to get this thing working. When we go to My Computer and click on USB Video Device we get a "Creation of the video preview failed. Please check the device connection and...

My power went out on Thanksgiving and ever since then my Vista is having a hard time starting. I have to keep powering off and restarting and pray that it makes it through the Windows load screen. I've tried doing a start up repair and it isn't fixing the problem. Any other ideas on how I could...

My friends hard drive is dieing. He has to reformat like every month because eventually his windows folder gets corrupted. This might be the stupidest question ever asked but is there a way to format around a bad sector on a hard drive? It's gonna be a while before he can get a new drive.