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I’m trying to factory reset my Acer eMachines E525 to factory settings, but I can’t find a recovery disc on the internet, and can’t launch the built-in eRecovery.

I have a laptop where it was upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11. Since such an upgrade, there seems to be a lingering problem of connected displays. Sometimes if I connect an HDMI monitor to the laptop, the monitor doesn’t work. However, if I restart the computer, the monitor […]

How can I recognize on Windows a car plate from a picture and convert it to text? I need a simple software, sort of tesseract, to be run silently from command line (no gui); tesseract would be fine, but car plate recognising is a particularly hard task and I don’t […]

On Windows 11, the setting “Optimize taskbar for touch interactions when this device is used as a tablet” causes the taskbar to become massive and take up one fifth of the screen. Periodically, it keeps re-enabling itself, even though my device is not a tablet, and I never use the […]

My wifes HP laptop recently started throwing an error 90b on start up. After running the recommended steps (updating bios, drivers etc.) I decided to simply replace the fan, which was a €15 part, so why not. However the error persists. I installed speedfan to check on fan speeds, because […]

I try to convert none 10 bases to each other via using bc in linux but the answers are different from what I expect ibase = 3 obase = 7 23 11 why here the answer is 11 ? how it calculate it ?

We are Christmas tree growers. I need to send documents from quickbooks from computer to a location 10 miles away that does not have internet or direct phone line. Would like to set up a printer to print out documents needed for trucking without having to drive them there each […]