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So I have a virus on my laptop, and my usual methods of fixing it don't seem to have worked e.g. uninstalling unusual software from recent days, clearing and unusual chrome extensions etc

But basically it has changes my chrome homepage to www-searching .com, xmediasearch opens new tabs then redirects to adds, a health programme tries to install and when i go on task manager it has the title nstc17e.tmp (if that helps?). It was worse but I uninstalled some programmes and it seemed to have worked.

I downloaded cc cleaner to try and it, did a clean of the laptop but it is still there. Any help?

any time you have a virus:

boot into safe mode
close the nstc17e process (if it's running)
virus scan (microsoft security essentials should do the job)

<]:^D wrote:any time you have a virus:

boot into safe mode
close the nstc17e process (if it's running)
virus scan (microsoft security essentials should do the job)

Thanks! I'll do that this evening

hopefully that should clear it for you!

<]:^D wrote:hopefully that should clear it for you!

Noob question but how do I run a virus scan when in safe mode?

Windows 10 and I can't see the option when on the blue safe mode screen...

weird.

did you try searching for MSE in the start search?

sorry i dont have windows 10!

In Windows 10 (and in 8 I think) all of MSE's functionality is folded into Windows Defender.

HSH28 wrote:In Windows 10 (and in 8 I think) all of MSE's functionality is folded into Windows Defender.

Windows defender comes up with a message saying it has been turned off by group policy (which i assume is the virus doing that). It's my laptop and i'm the only account on it so i assumed I'm the administrator...

Found a YouTube video that seems to show how to solve that so hopefully that will work

good luck

didnt realise windows 10 was so different

HSH28 wrote:

Kezzer wrote:Intel Core i5 i5-5200u dual core processor .... personally id say no

EDIT - For more like the money you might have spent on the Toshiba, there's this HP ProBook 450 Laptop also from Ebuyer...

http://www.ebuyer.com/725913-hp-probook ... 4p52et-abu

Its £486.99, but there's £50 when bought from Ebuyer this month, making it eventually also less than the Toshiba. Again its only got 4GB of RAM (not really a problem) and only 128GB HDD, but its an SSD which should make it noticeably faster, it also has the latest generation Intel CPU which again should be better.

Thanks for the advice!

Can anyone explain to me the difference between these 2 as i can't really see why there is a £100 price difference?

http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=P0R94EA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB

http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Produ ... BU&sel=NTB

The one at £649 has 8Gbs of RAM but has no optical drive
The one at £549 has 6Gbs of RAM but has an optical drive

That is about the only difference I can see.

As to why its £100 more for 2Gbs of RAM and no optical Drive.... ask HSH28

I just couldn't go back to having less than 8 GB of RAM. It's 2016.

Ronaldinho80 wrote:Thanks for the advice!

Can anyone explain to me the difference between these 2 as i can't really see why there is a £100 price difference?

http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=P0R94EA&opt=ABU&sel=NTB

http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Produ ... BU&sel=NTB

Kezzer wrote:The one at £649 has 8Gbs of RAM but has no optical drive
The one at £549 has 6Gbs of RAM but has an optical drive

That is about the only difference I can see.

As to why its £100 more for 2Gbs of RAM and no optical Drive.... ask HSH28

The Envy is a 13" laptop and the Pavilion is a 15" laptop.

It depends what you want I suppose, the Envy is definitely more of a premium laptop, its quite a bit thinner and lighter as well as having a smaller screen.

Of course that means its more expensive and isn't able to fit stuff like an optical drive (or a LAN port for that matter), it also looks like it might not have any ability to upgrade or replace the memory.

If you had the £649 to spend and didn't mind the laptop being 15" you might want to look at this option...

http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Produ ... BU&sel=NTB

Similar processor again, but this time with added 940M GPU and a 1TB hybrid HDD rather than the straight up SSD.

Right got a new computer sorted for my son! so I need a new monitor to go with it. in the £150-£200 bracket, which one would you go for. 24" should be plenty for him.

TigaSefi wrote:Right got a new computer sorted for my son! so I need a new monitor to go with it. in the £150-£200 bracket, which one would you go for. 24" should be plenty for him.

I got a new monitor about 5-6 months ago, looks great , has HDMI input as well which is handy as you can then connect consoles to it. Still the same price as when i bought it which i did based on good reviews. I'm no visual freak though so others might say no for whatever reason but i'm very happy with it.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-ve247h-23.6-1920x1080-tn-widescreen-led-multimedia-monitor-black-mo-028-as.html

degoose wrote:

TigaSefi wrote:Right got a new computer sorted for my son! so I need a new monitor to go with it. in the £150-£200 bracket, which one would you go for. 24" should be plenty for him.

I got a new monitor about 5-6 months ago, looks great , has HDMI input as well which is handy as you can then connect consoles to it. Still the same price as when i bought it which i did based on good reviews. I'm no visual freak though so others might say no for whatever reason but i'm very happy with it.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/asus-ve247h-23.6-1920x1080-tn-widescreen-led-multimedia-monitor-black-mo-028-as.html

Yes, Saw that being reviewed as a good 'un. Thanks. I will keep an open mind as I can't buy anything till 16th April.

Barclaycard have seen fit to provide me with a generous credit limit and a lengthy 0% on purchases offer so I'm in the mood to build a new gaming PC. I'll be moving from a Surface Pro 3 so I won't be upgrading anything, it'll all be from scratch save for the monitor and peripherals.

My current monitor is 4k, so I'm wanting something beastly.

I've heard rumours that nVidia's Pascal(?) cards will be released some time this year - is it worth waiting at all?

Probably worth waiting yeah. Most recent rumours are announcements at Computex (31st May to June 4th) with initial release in July (but there'll probably be shortages for a few months while they struggle to keep up with demand). Some reports are saying 3 cards are going to be released, basically (for lack of knowing the actual naming system) a 1070, 1080 and 1080ti. It's odd, I've seen this be mentioned in two places now and personally this seems a strawberry floating stupid guess to me, and if they are going to release 3 cards it'll be the 1070, 1080 and the new titan. Guess we'll see.

AMD are due to release their new cards this year, but unless they really pull a rabbit out of their hat they'll still have the same issue with drivers no matter how well they use the new architecture. Nvidia always seem to like to play dirty with giving devs access to closed sourced tech such as hairworks with the intention of benchmarks performing in their favour. Also talk is vulkan will mean you just develop for this API rather than for needing to develop in mind for each AMD and Nvidia, but this is early days so uncertain how widely implemented and actually what real world results will be.

Also, AMD are due to release a new CPU this year which some people are excited to see, apparently it's their first real shot at an intel competitor for years, and since it looks like intels new chip this year will only be a modest bump from last years skylake release. Hopefully there'll be viable competition which force intel to really try.

At the moment 4k gaming on a single GPU pretty much means a 980ti, which means spending up to about £1300 ish on a whole system, and even then you wont be able to play everything on ultra at 60fps (the current max fps for 4k due to the amount of data that can go down cables), but that's not to say this card can't do 4k.

Personally I'm not a fan of SLI (more than one GPU), but I know some people on here do this.

As always with building a PC, it comes down to budget, what you want out of it and where you're willing to compromise.

Thanks TNAG. I'm a fan of 4k for general PC work due to the increased screen space but I'm assuming I could run a game at 1440p on a 4k monitor and not have a problem with scaling?

If we'd be looking at it not being until September until the next generation of cards are easily available then I think I might just purchase everything now. Hmm.

It's been about 8 years since I built a PC so I'll be back in here a few times I reckon.

I initially got a 760 card as it was my first build and wanted to keep the cost down. It past the two year mark at the end of last year so I can now justify to myself buying a new card and I have been hoping for Pascal or Polaris to come out sooner rather than later. After that I will probably need to look at upgrading my monitor to a higher resolution model.