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[Reudh]

The drawback to an i7 is that they cost twice as much as a same-grade i5 (such as i5 7600 vs i7 7700), for virtually (or often literally) zero increase in performance for most purposes.

The i7 has a marginally higher clock speed, and has 4 virtual cores in addition to the four physical ones fond on both i5 and i7 processors. For most games, this translates into frame rate increases of 0-5 FPS.

The only areas where an i7 is beneficial is in highly threaded applications. For most users, only editing/rendering video and high resolution photo benefits. If you are not doing large amounts of this, then buying an i7 is essentially throwing money into the trash.

Yeah, in real-world purposes, my i5-4690k (Haswell, 2013) still beats the i5-6600 that superseded it, and is ~17% slower than the i5-7600k (Kaby Lake, 2017), which afaik is the top end i5 currently. That said, there is a sizable jump in performance between the i5-4690k and the i7-7700k, but you'd kind of expect it from a mid-to-upper range Haswell i5 vs a top end i7 Kaby Lake.

[heydude6]

Shit, I have a very urgent problem.

So my mother's email account has been hacked and now the website doesn't even believe it exists. When we try to login, the website simply says it doesn't recognize that account. Problem is, that email account was one of the most important email accounts in our family containing all sorts of valuable financial information and such. As a rather young guy who doesn't actually own financial information and doesn't know what it means, what am I supposed to do? We tried contacting customer service, but yahoo customer service is run by a bunch of bastards and isn't even willing to look at our problem. We also tried google, but it only gave us advice about how to prevent ourselves from being hacked, not what to do once it's already happened.

We probably won't be able to recover the email, but we want to at least prevent identity theft.

[Lord Shonus]

You should have a list of all your credit cards, bank accounts, and other such things. Contact them immediately over the phone, explain that your security has been compromised and that you need to freeze everything immediately. They'll walk you through the rest of the steps you need to take, as any finiancial institution takes identity theft very seriously.

[Aklyon]

Also, are you sure the account is missing, not just had the password changed on you?

[Lord Shonus]

I had the same thing happen to me with one of my throwaway Yahoo accounts. The people hacking them lock them down somehow so that it becomes impossible to restore.

[AzyWng]

I've been having this problem as of late where a random window pops up and suddenly closes, interrupting whatever I'm doing. This includes fullscreen games.

This is bad.

The window looks like a command prompt window, but I can't see the thing long enough to tell what it is or isn't.

What should I do?

[BigD145]

That could be a lot of things, up to and including Windows itself. It might be related to drivers. It might be a Windows update. It might be a scheduled task. Look in your scheduled tasks. Look in task manager and see what processes are running.

[AzyWng]

officebackgroundtaskhandler.exe or something like that.

That's the window that's been popping up.

Any ideas?

[Aklyon]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_officeinsider-mso_win10/officebackgroundtaskhandlerregistration-flashes-a/2600497e-78e4-41a1-9040-461cd2c3ea13
This came up in a search.

[BigD145]

I saw that as a prominent culprit. Good job being even more intrusive, MS.

[TD1]

My mouse is scrolling down large chunks of the screen. I've gone into mouse settings and made sure I set it to three lines, but it didn't help. Any suggestions on fixing it? It's really getting on my wick.

[Khan Boyzitbig]

Unplug it, clean out the connector and port and try again? Mice are finicky if any dust gets in.

[TD1]

Strangely, it is now working normally. That's weird, but glad it's stopped.

[Lord Shonus]

I just set up a linux box on my network, and I want to share files between it and my main Windows box. So far as I can tell, I have shares properly set up on both machines, but neither can see the other. The linux box is connected to the network via a second router connected to the main one, while the Windows box is connected to the main one. Is the problem caused because one box is on a 192.168.0.xx address and the other is 192.168.1.xx?

[Khan Boyzitbig]

As long as both systems are under 192.168.x.x they should be able to see each other. Troubleshooting networks is tough.

Can both routers see each other?
Can both PCs see the routers?
Can both routers see the PCs?

Yeah, sometimes one can see the other but not vice-versa.