I did a quick search and the smallest storage model is 32gb, so the OS shouldn’t be taking up anything close to 90% of your storage. If you have an SD card available I’d suggest that for storage.

Rather than having 4 monitors I would suggest having a newer GPU… which graphics card are you using? I don’t think something old enough to not have a single HDMI port would be capable of giving input to 4 displays. If you’re certain you want to try though, motherboards generally will have a port of some kind, if it’s an older mobo probably VGA or DVI but if it’s newer it may have DP, HDMI, perhaps both. Still though, I wouldn’t recommend trying to run all 4 displays if you find a way lol.

Sounds like your firewall is blocking it. Take a look at this video I just found and see if you have any luck. I’d say do it for both epic’s launcher and fortnite. Best of luck!

Have you tried turning off ‘sleep after X minutes?’ It sounds like your pc is entering sleep mode and your monitor is unable to find the input again after.

Right click on the Start button then select Power Options. On the Power & Sleep menu, under Sleep, there is a dropdown menu with time options. Select Never on both options. (I believe there’s 2 anyway)

Lmao, kind of a funny situation you got yourself into. I believe making it so hitting delete skips the recycle bin entirely could help, since the files aren’t being moved first.

On your desktop, right click your recycle bin, hit properties, and toggle the option that says something along the lines of ‘remove files immediately when deleted’

Let me know if this helps!

Obligatory reminder to check your drivers are up to date, blah blah blah you know the drill. (Not trying to insult your intelligence here btw lol) Make sure that your monitor is displaying a decent refresh rate too. I’ve noticed a lot of people buy 144hz monitors and don’t even realise they left it at 60hz. If you’re a total newbie to pc gaming that’s something to watch for, cause it may seem like you’re getting bad performance when in reality your monitor may just not be outputting what it should be and you’d probably just assume 60 fps and 144fps look sort of similar and not great.

I will say though that for high settings that’s pretty decent performance, maybe just toy around with your settings and tune it to your liking performance to looks-wise. Another thing to watch for is the potential that motherboard is bottlenecking your system. Your graphics card and cpu could quite happily be sitting in a board that- while it can hold them physically; is holding back their performance. Stuff like pcie slots being slow etc.

1. Navigate to settings>ease of access>keyboard and scroll down to the filter keys option. Enable that, and enable the ‘Allow the shortcut key to start Filter Keys’ option too.
2. Hold the right shift key for 8 seconds until a window pops up
3. Once you close the window that pops up and you’ve verified your ctrl keys are working again, you can reverse the changes you made in step 1.

You could very well have knocked something loose, but also do keep in mind that spinning fans can actually generate voltage, so cleaning with compressed air is pretty ill advised. If you let the fan fins spin freely while using the compressed air they could in theory have generated enough voltage to short something. If possible, test with another cooler. If the issue persists you’ve damaged the mobo, if it doesn’t you’ve only damaged the AIO.

Bit of a doozy… I’m not sure what to suggest, but how did you try reflashing the BIOS if your monitors were on but not displaying anything lol? Maybe I just misunderstood.

This seems like something you should go to a technician IRL about, considering how much testing and tinkering you’ve tried with no results

• what’s the file called? • what’s inside the file? (Turn on view hidden folders if you have it turned off) • what did you think you were downloading? Was there a name or brand or anything associated with what you were downloading?

It may be a log file of some kind, the program you downloaded is probably somewhere in your program files or appdata folder or something and it’s just dumping a log of the application or some other random shizaz. The file itself is probably benign aside from being an annoyance, but the application you probably don’t want installed.

I would suggest going through a bunch of your directories on your C drive and trying to find where the program that’s causing the issues has decided it’s going to live. If you’re able to remove it I should expect the self replicating file will die along with it. Best of luck!

(Using instructions for windows 10 but the process is basically the same, may just be in a different part of settings) Open settings on the device, then accounts, and try to find the option along the lines of ‘Switch to local account’

Once you’ve done that, the laptop won’t have an associated microsoft account and the local account option will have changed to ‘sign in with a microsoft account instead.’ You can now login with the correct account

Try connecting it via cable. If it comes to life, maybe look into a wireless adapter. I’m unsure if Xbox controllers can connect via Bluetooth. I bought a wireless adapter for my Xbox controller a few years ago and it works great.

If using a cable connection doesn’t work; I suggest downloading the Xbox app from the Microsoft store if it’s not already preloaded with win11 (it probably is knowing Microsoft but worth mentioning lol.) and give your pc a restart with the cable plugged in. I believe they include drivers for controllers in the Xbox software

Is it a landline phone? Because you mentioned the baby babbling it could have been interference from a baby monitor or something. No clue how that would happen but I’d be interested to look into it lol.

I was super against opera GX and their whole advertising to the cringe gamer type, but I downloaded it and personalized it a LOT, and it’s now my favorite browser. It’s got so many features and almost all of them are togglable, so you aren’t forced to use anything that doesn’t fit your needs. Highly recommend! (Especially if you have a lower end machine/your machine is under load a lot, since you can tune how much ram/cpu the browser can use really easily :D)