Computer Troubleshooting/Help Master Thread

[Moshe Green]

How does it compare to eset (paid)?

eset paid is amazing. free malwarebytes doesn't compare as an antivirus, but is great for doing a scan a month.

[yeshivabucher]

Trying connect to a printer thats connected via USB to another computer in same network. I set up Sharing of the printer but every time  I try to connect to add it I get the 0x0000011B error can anyone advise how to resolve this?

[Moshe Green]

Trying connect to a printer thats connected via USB to another computer in same network. I set up Sharing of the printer but every time  I try to connect to add it I get the 0x0000011B error can anyone advise how to resolve this?

make sure the printer is shared properly and then restart the computer. try it then.

[yeshivabucher]

make sure the printer is shared properly and then restart the computer. try it then.

done that quite a few times made sure updates are all done as well

[Moshe Green]

done that quite a few times made sure updates are all done as well

sometimes you need to download the drivers/program for the printer on the second computer as well. did you do that?

[yeshivabucher]

sometimes you need to download the drivers/program for the printer on the second computer as well. did you do that?

yup

[Alexsei]

Is there any way I can gain remote access to a computer that needs admin pass for exe run/install?

background, I need to install remote access software for remote employee that requires elevated access however the DC is offline and will never be back

[Jojo202]

Is there any way I can gain remote access to a computer that needs admin pass for exe run/install?

background, I need to install remote access software for remote employee that requires elevated access however the DC is offline and will never be back

"Quick assist" is preinstalled on many devices these days.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/install-quick-assist-c17479b7-a49d-4d12-938c-dbfb97c88bca

[Yo ssi]

I have a Thinkpad which it seems the screen brightness setting stopped working. I believe it randomly after in middle of using once I noticed the screen blink and reverted to a bigger scale setting then my preferred percent.

I tried reinstall drivers etc. any other ideas?

[Yo ssi]

And now my enter key doesn't work 

ETA
Fixed

[chff]

had some issues with my PC, apps like calc/timer was blank, kept on getting errors when trying to delete "file is open in com surrogate reddit"

I did a clean Windows install, and lo behold, calc is still blank. Why is this?

[Yo ssi]

had some issues with my PC, apps like calc/timer was blank, kept on getting errors when trying to delete "file is open in com surrogate reddit"

I did a clean Windows install, and lo behold, calc is still blank. Why is this?

How did you reset it?

[chff]

How did you reset it?

Thru windows recovery, clean install, download from cloud

[Yo ssi]

Thru windows recovery, clean install, download from cloud

Interesting does dark mode help?

https://superuser.com/questions/1782268/how-to-fix-windows-calculator-numbers-display

[Moshe Green]

Thru windows recovery, clean install, download from cloud

try downloading onto a memory stick and installing from there.

[eli1571]

I bought this from dell https://www.productindetail.com/pn/dell-vostro-3400 Its working really slow, every program i want to open takes ages, there is nothing installed other than windows and word, Is it just a write off or something i can do about it ?

[chff]

try downloading onto a memory stick and installing from there.

Tried before, couldn't get it going

[Moshe Green]

Tried before, couldn't get it going

what went wrong?

[Moshe Green]

I bought this from dell https://www.productindetail.com/pn/dell-vostro-3400 Its working really slow, every program i want to open takes ages, there is nothing installed other than windows and word, Is it just a write off or something i can do about it ?

check the task manager and see which thing is maxxed out. Is it the CPU, the RAM, or the Hard drive? (or none of the above)

[eli1571]

check the task manager and see which thing is maxxed out. Is it the CPU, the RAM, or the Hard drive? (or none of the above)

Sorry I'm not to good at this, when i click on chrome for example, it could take ten minutes before it opens, so how and when would i check the above on task manager ?