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Hi I have a laptop from PCS which is, in fact, the second purchase I have ever made from PCS. I purchased it in May 2016. The first purchase I made from PCS was a laptop which was purchased in May 2013. When I received the first laptop (2013) I had to immediately send it back as several...

Noes! My super laptop from PCS died this morning, aged 6 months old. I was using it fine yesterday, but when I went to power it up this morning - nothing. The light on the power pack was on and there were two lights on the laptop front (one green, one orange) showing me it was receiving...

Hi I know there is a lot of debate about these software packages that allegedly scan your computer and "fix" it by cleaning junk files, plugging security holes and scanning and cleaning the registry. The impression I get is that most people advise keeping well away from them. Such software I've...

Hi I had to reinstall Windows on my laptop yeterday and so I did a clean reinstall of everything. However, my display screen is just not sharp as it used to be. My DPI setting is at 100%, which is what I had before. I have the latest nVidia graphics driver installed. I just can't seem to...

Hi I need some advice please. I was playing a game on my laptop, which I got from PCS a few months ago, when the game suddenly crashed. I couldn't CTRL ALT DEL out of it and so had to do a hard reset, i.e., hold down the power button. The laptop turned off. However, when I boot it backup all...

Hi I just wanted to ask how reliable these driver updating software packages are. I have installed iobit driver support 3, just out of interest to see how many out of date drivers it would "detect" on my custom built, not yet 2 month old, PS laptop. It detected 14 out of date drivers (system...

Hi My new labtop from PCS came with Windows 10 pre-installed, with the physical disk supplied. However, I have noted that there appears to be no Windows 10 porduct key with the disk. If I was to ever reinstall Windows, how would I activate it without the key? I have checked underneath the...

Funny Clicking Noise, Optional Driver & Cannot Optimise Games with GeForce Experience KK, today I got my new laptop from PCS - vary pleased indeed with it: real machine! I have three questions related to the laptop if anybody is able to answer. 1) Every so often I keep hearing a background...

Hi My labtop specs are in my signature. Every time I close my labtop down, using the proper way (i.e. not simply pressing the power button), the labtop goes through all its closing down stuff and normally the last two things that happen are that the fans shuts down and the keyboard lighting...

Hi One thing I have noticed in Windows 8 that I did not get in other versions of Windows is this extremely annoying situation: I download a file from the internet, unzip it, and then try to move the unzipped file to another folder and I often get the message "Cannot move the file as it is open...

Ignore this post. I had a question in it but I figured out the answer. Could a MOD delete this thread please. Thank you.

Hi Do any of you here use Iolo System Mechanic to keep your PC/labtop running well? If you use it/have used it I would be interested in hearing your views. I am wondering whether to get Norton Utilities 16 or System Mechanic 11 to keep my system running smoothly. Thank you.

Hi KK, I have a Vortex III which I got from PCS (and vary happy with). It came with two disks of drivers, one for Win 7 and the other for Win 8. My question is; obviously these drivers do get updated from time to time. How will I be alerted to that fact? Will it be included in Windows...

KK, Well I'm confused. Are individual pixels all the same size no matter what the size of the screen? I ask as I have a 15.6" screen with 1920x1080 resolution, yet I see some people have, for example, a 17.3" screen measuring 1920x1080. If their screen is almost 2 inches bigger than mine why...

KK, stupid question time. My labtop has the following screen: 15.6" AUO Matte 95% Gamut Widescreen (1920x1080) Stupid question = is it HD? I noticed that some people on here have screens that are the same resolution as mine but claim they are HD. I thought HD related to the number of...