I own a tech repair shop and lately i'm a bit hesitant to accept jobs that would cost my customer over 100 euro for pc older than 7th gen intel or not compatible with windows 11

Thing is what if i make them pay and then in 2/3 years the pc may be unusable like windows 7 right now

Stuff like browsers etc not working

Do you think that for the average user windows 10 will still be ok?

I am trying to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 because I accidentally installed the 32bit version of Windows 7, I have the Windows 8 setup on a Rufus-made flash drive, but once I put in my product key it says "The computer has starting using the installation media", if I restart my computer and boot into it again the same thing happens, a solution I have seen online is to run the setup from within Windows, but I can't do this because it's a 32bit OS and the setup is 64bit. Please help me.

EDIT: Posted to wrong sub, sorry.

The school network admin has kicked my personal laptop off the network. Obviously this could be for a variety of reasons but I digress. I want to get back on, But have no idea how. I have 'spoofed' my MAC Address but got nowhere, And I'm wondering if anybody has a way on. Thanks in advance!

If you have this problem you may have a Virus. I currently do not. I've came across various types of viruses in the past on people's PC'S and encountered some interesting things. I have never came across a root kit of any kind but I've also never encountered a problem I could not fix.

Now, I am not claiming to be a professional of any sort but my passion is in Network Security and I'm barely a "Script Kitty". Now if you're a professional that's stumped and you've just read that last part and said I'm definitely not going to be taking advice from this noob. Please don't click away just yet.

I have a shity Dell laptop, and I've experienced very slow loading times on just about everything. From loading into an application to "Slow internet" but in my case I could never find out what the problem was. Sure windows 10 has many issues with dealing with how the system works and the tasks that is brought to it. It overloads the CPU. I've tried for years to get my PC to run more efficiently. One day I took a look at my task manager and asked for help. To no avail from many corresponds and hours of time talking about solutions to the problem. I had no luck. I have reset my computer more times than I care to admit but nothing helped. I kept my personal information on it, I've completely wiped the drives and started new. Still the CPU usage was 100%. I thought "Well shit. It's time for a new PC." After watching videos and wasting hours of my life trying to fix this damn problem I finally figured it out.

I have a problem, I become obsessed with a problem and I can't let it go. I searched through every scrap of programs I can find to see if I had something malicious. I & malware programs could find nothing. In a last attempt I said "fuck it. " I hit the windows button on my keyboard combined with (R) and typed (msconfig) and if you don't know what that is, it's your windows services I then went to disable all and HOLY SHIT WTF JUST HAPPENED?!?!?!?!

After my computer restarted, my CPU usage was now at 1%!

Of course my audio was turned off and a multitude of other features were off. But why? WTF windows 10?! You're such an asshole.

I still don't know what creates that problem and I've spent hours working on it. When I mean hours I mean hours. I've literally went through and turned about 3 services on and restarted my computer to see if I can narrow down the problem. I would love to receive some help, but I'm not sure if anyone wants to. Its boring as hell and takes a LOT of time but I've concluded that it's a combination of services that messes with other services to make it look like one service is overwhelming the CPU. Honestly. I've gotten back up to 100% CPU and turned on and off those last services that I turned on even in different combinations, and it doesn't just effect those services, meaning I can't find a specific service that causes the issue. I just kept turning on services 3 by 3 until my CPU was running efficiently. Even after I've turned on the service's that are important for windows to run correctly.

The funniest part of all of this is watching how each service effects your PC and keeping them on and turning on more helped. At one point my Memory usage was 90%+ and disk usage was the same while my CPU was at a cool -20% vise versa and so on and so forth I would like to have a few people I can discuss this with and once we figure it out report this dumb ass shit to Microsoft. Hopefully we can get a big enough crowd behind us to back us up. So these changes will happen. Because I have a feeling that this is done on purpose to get people to buy new products from them so it will "run more optimal and efficiently".

Please get in contact with me if you'd like to join this long lonely voyage with me.

Thank you.

Today, I was working on a ticket a user submitted following the orot) proper protocol for requesting help. Then this old lady at the desk walks up to me and starts shouting "SittingWonderDuck! ALL OF THESE COMPUTERS HAVE TO GO! None of the students can print to the printer and it takes forever for the print job to come out. The computers are slow and the students only have 5 minutes or a very short time to come in to print their assignments really quick."

I can continue the story but that would be /r/talesfromtechsupport

Why are we computer technicians treated like janitors? End-users speak to us like we are janitors, waiters, or a peasant.

Clearly what we do is important to keep operations running. It's crucial. It's important. Technology is just as important as the maintenance team guys that keep the building services up and running of elevators, escalators, lights, water, electricity, etc.

What makes us computer technicians any different than maintenance guys that support building services?

We have been around over 30 years and have 4 full time techs currently. Looking to add another. Entry to level 1, email me at support at chipheads dot com

I was just wondering if there are really 404 kinds of errors or just a couple.

Random question but I’m also very confused as to why?

I'm working on a customers computer and when windows loads everything is in English. But when I try to start it in safe mode all the options are in Spanish. So if you have any advice I would greatly appreciate it.

I'm buying lots of used laptops in bulk for a research project. I probably have 60 sitting in my garage right now. Aged anywhere from 22 years old to 5 years old, with the average being here in between. I know I'm not going to make a lot of money off them, but I don't want them to end up in landfill and I also want to recoup some of my losses (paid for this research out of pocket). So my plan is to list them on eBay. I've wiped all the drives, and cloned Linux Mint 22 xfce onto them. Works great on even some of the oldest laptops, although certainly not the snappiest. I can get the drives for about $7 apiece. And the chargers for about $7 apiece (bargain shopping for lots). I want to gain as much money (or lose as little money from my investment) as possible- would I be better off selling the laptops barebones no HDD, no charger, or including them? Would I make more money stripping units down and selling the working parts - DVD drives, HDD caddies, batteries, RAM, etc? I know what would be more work too. Just curious what people's experiences are. Thanks!

I logged on to my Travel Laptop to check updates.
1 update available: KB3161608.
Oh Good!
The results so far...,

Not LOL
Oh the IRONY

Hello. it would seem i have managed to somehow create enough stress to bend either my cpu or motherboard socket. Can someone tell me from experience, if i bend the cpu does it also bend the socket? The motherboard and all other things work.

Looking at RMA for asus sabertooth 2.0 990fx and amd cpu, i would have to replace both with my $ because they only warrant defects i guess? should i post this somewhere else? thanks

For the passed week I've been getting random times where my computer would shut down then start up instantly while playing games (ARMA 3 and one time on Dirty Bomb.) It's happened about 7 - 10 times now. At first I figured it was just overheating but I watched all my temperatures for the cpu and gpu, but nothing seems hot at all. My SSD may have been hot but I didn't take note.

Just now I turned on ARMA 3 and was instantly hit by a bsod that started dumping files. I turned off the computer and booted it back up the windows loading took about a minute longer than usually then I was left looking at two black screen and the Corsair Link window. I rebooted again and it stayed like this for about 5 minutes until finally my startup bar and background showed up.

EDIT: I've checked bluescreenview and nothing shows up. Also WhoCrashed only shows one crash from today at the time that my computer just shut off and started up, not the blue screen.

Any ideas?