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Check the Reliability Monitor for information as to what may be causing the freezing. Type "Reliability" in Start and select the first option. If you are open to this, you can try performing a clean installation without loss of data. Upgrade installations can be rather buggy and clean installs...

Try re-installing the built-in apps using the following instructions. Open up an elevated Powershell window by typing Powershell in Start, right clicking on the first option, and selecting "Run as administrator." In the prompt that appears, enter this command: Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers| Foreach...

Resetting Windows 10 and choosing to keep files will not result in any data loss. You can also try performing a clean installation without loss of data. To do this, download the media creation tool here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Use it to create new USB or...

Try using the media creation tool to create USB or DVD installation media for Windows 10: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Boot this new installation media and use it to repair Windows 10. The result will be that your boot loader will be replaced with the Windows...

Can you take a picture of the "Out of Range" message? If it is not a BSOD or one of those kernel error messages that appears as white text against a black screen, then it's possible that you are looking at a message from your monitor, indicating that the resolution or refresh rate of the signal...

AXTU is said to work correctly on Windows 10, even though supported platforms do not list this. Ensure that it is installed in the right folder location, though - Program Files rather than Program Files (x86) if you run the 64-bit version.

You can safely perform a clean install of Windows 8.1 without loss of data if you select "Custom" when setup starts, and do not format the drive.

Use EasyBCD to rebuild your boot menu: https://neosmart.net/EasyBCD/

The best way to perform an Upgrade installation of Windows 10 from inside an OS, or create Windows 10 installation media, is to use the media creation tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 This does not require any third-party tools to create a DVD or USB installer...

Resets are not 100% reliable for solving software problems. The best fix may be a clean installation of Windows 10. Download the media creation tool here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 Use it to create new USB or DVD installation media for Windows 10, which you'll...

Hibernation is a notoriously buggy feature especially in upgrade installations from older versions of Windows to Windows 10. This also includes how badly it affects sleep mode in the form of "hybrid sleep." To turn off all hibernation-related services, open up an elevated Command Prompt by...

DirectX has been sharing swapping VRAM into RAM since Direct3D 9, more than a decade ago. The memory amount that you see reported thus includes both total VRAM and allocated system RAM for VRAM paging.

Try performing the upgrade installation from Windows 7 in Safe Mode using the media creation tool: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

Try upgrading Windows 10 using the media creation tool rather than the upgrade notification: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10