General Problems Thread - 2016 onwards

[Sqotty from office works]

Need advice and desperate for help.
I'm a complete useless technical person.
Somebody told me I can get 9 now and 7+ for free and it's easy to put on the telly.
I've got no internet (besides phone) and have no idea what and how to do the technical side.
Anybody can help please

 

[bok_party]

Need advice and desperate for help.
I'm a complete useless technical person.
Somebody told me I can get 9 now and 7+ for free and it's easy to put on the telly.
I've got no internet (besides phone) and have no idea what and how to do the technical side.
Anybody can help please

From memory you have to register with both (you can do so on the app on your phone). Not sure if your tv has the apps on it themself. If so you can then log in through those. If not, you may need a Chromecast to then cast from your phone to tv.

 

[Xtreme]

So with the black friday sale promotions I've taken it upon myself to upgrade several SSD's across my laptops

Waste of money spoiler alert lol

Spoiler

Have upgraded the ssd's in my 2021 gaming laptop several times (added a second drive, then upgraded both the O/S and the secondary drive to larger sizes later on). Swapped the 512gb ssd to a 4tb SSD in the laptop I purchased last year. And with my second gaming laptop (purchased just a few months ago) I added a 2tb SSD in the secondary slot

Now I should have upgraded each SSD to the maximum size straight away, but not wanting to spend the $$$ in one hit, I elected to replace the SSD's periodically and as mentioned in the spoiler boxed text.............. I just upgraded to a slightly larger increment.

In each of those instances of replacing the SSD, instead of starting with a fresh install of the O/S drive I'd just clone it. Ditto with the secondary drive. But each time it would take less than an hour for the successful clone (ranging from 512gb to 2tb of stuff on each ssd).

Jump forward to today - my first task is updating/replacing the SSD's in my 2024 gaming laptop. For some reason the USB-C to USB connection was going super slowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Basically had only cloned 6% of 1.8tb of data in an hour.

Then as a test, I had a lightbulb moment....... I was going to try buying another SSD enclosure and seeing what happened (would hate it to be a faulty SSD itself).... until I saw the google listing of the enclosure that I've been using...... then boom I'll see what happens when I use the USB-C to USB-C cable................................................................. The process finished in less than 30 minutes L O L.

 

[Brown_DOG68]

Whenever I or my son shut down the Xbox (series x), the wifi router shuts down and restarts - has anyone else experienced this? I cant see anything in either the xbox or router settings that controls this. Internet searches offer varied, vague and inconclusive explanations and solutions.