win 10

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  1. Newgeye

    Question Why is my HDD so full?

    I have been trying to clear some space on both my HDD and M.2 SSD and I have noticed that my HDD is very full! I have attached some screen shots of both my HDD storage and when I have run WinDirStat. I don't under stand why WinDirStat is saying I have used so little yet windows is saying I...
  2. G

    Question Converting MBR to GPT problem ?

    Im going to update from Win 10 to Win 11, but have a problem. My OS drive (M.2 SSD) is Disk 4 on the list instead of Disk 0 and the OS disk is in MBR, I have followed this guide: https://www.windowscentral.com/how-convert-mbr-disk-gpt-move-bios-uefi-windows-10 But it doesn't work, I also went...
  3. bedouinbro

    Question Microsoft Copilot in Windows 10 ?

    How do i enable Microsoft Copilot in Windows 10 ? I've tried Vive Tool to enable it but getting errors, there's no option in the registry either ?
  4. D

    Question How to get Remote Desktop working ?

    I there anyone here that wants to help me get the remote desktop working? The best microsoft tech support would do is tell me to use quick assist. That's not gonna work from another state with no one here to click "allow". Plus it was slow as hell. Gameplay was impossible. It'll work here...
  5. B

    Question windows 10 product key retrieval

    Hello, I have windows 10 and i want to change my hard drive. This mean reinstalling windows. How can I find my Windows Product Key? I don't know where i got my current windows licence.... It used to be a windows 7 or 8 licence. wmic or wmic path softwarelicensingservice get...
  6. N

    Question Windows 10 upgrade messed up my laptop (Booting problems) ?

    Hello Community After 6 months trying to solve the problem on my own, i finally reach out to you because I cannot find any solutions.. I have an ASUS Zenbook UX425EA Laptop It worked perfectly fine until a Windows 10 mandatory upgrade which messed up everything.. 1) After the update and...
  7. V

    Question System crash only when using second monitor

    When using a laptop, sometimes things like the one in the photo appear on the second monitor (I bought it as used). I can restart it or wait until the system restarts itself. It used to happen rarely, but now I have it more than twice a day. One time these artifacts simply appear (by themselves)...
  8. W

    Question Drive not initializing during raid set up

    I built a new system with a Asus ROG STRIX B550-F. AMD Ryzen 7 5700G. 64GB ram. Set up with existing Windows 10 drive that I cloned from old system. Everything working great except the drive is a WD Red and slow. So I put in two Samsung 990 Pro with heatsink 1 TB. Had to install a stand alone...
  9. DesperateinTexas

    Question Seagate HDD on Win 10 write protected

    Can anyone please help me resolve a troubling issue with my Seagate HDD, which had been running with Windows 10 on board? One day the PC booted up just fine. The next day it wouldn't boot up the system at all. I've made the ultimate arse of myself by not having the backup I should have been...
  10. Astronauman

    Question Windows 10 will no longer boot, or even attempt to.

    Windows 10 will no longer boot, or even attempt to. It ran fine and then all the sudden it just wouldn't boot up again Scenario: turns on PC, screen to enter BIOS pops for ~2 seconds (I don't enter BIOS), screen shows no DP signal, screen to enter BIOS pops up again. I've made a bootable USB to...
  11. Obsidian2024

    Question Help. My PC starts with no display, Keyboard or mouse

    My PC got the BSOD and the error message told me that win32kbase.sys failed. My PC wouldnt restart so I did it manually. My PC then crashed twice under normal use and after the second time the keyboard, mouse and display don't turn on. The BSOD screen told me it was just collecting error...
  12. ke5tgd

    Question Video Driver Crash: Windows 10, GTX 970. Looking for trouble shooting advice.

    Hello all, I've have a problem that is resulting in what I believe to be a video driver crash. This is a recurring issue that has persisted over many months and through many common fixes. The Symptoms: Audio glitch, Audio output holds a note or tone for maybe a tenth of a second when the problem...
  13. J

    Question Computer freezes at random, Windows 10 (64-bit) still operating but not fully responsive

    Recently I've started to experience strange behavior - at random my Windows starts to stop being fully responsive. Sometimes it does not happen for hours, sometimes after 30 minutes other time almost over 2 hours of using the PC before it freeze again. Sound of the YouTube video is still...
  14. KLVK

    Question pc won’t boot after clicking restart

    pc won’t boot after clicking restart will go to restarting page and just shuts down running Win 10. Checked all front panel connectors, and also tried hard resetting the pc , hard resetting the bios also still won’t restart. Using Ryzen 7 3700x,2060 super, aorus X570 elite and 850w psu(gold)...
  15. A

    Question Laptop not recognising USB headset, not installing drivers ?

    I recently bought a new ROG Zephyrus G15 GA503QM laptop and when i try to plug in my Hyper X Cloud Alpha S with USB it does not recognise it at all, like no Windows prompt or anything. The small dongle thing gets power but the normal hyperx devices dont show up in device manager or in playback...
  16. TheExperiment01

    Question "ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED" on various sites and I don't know why ?

    So sites like https://www.fnb-online.com/ and https://www.ea.com (specifically when I click login for ea). I've tried everything I can think at this point, different browsers don't work (other devices on the network work), firewall turned off, updating drivers, clearing cache, using google dns...
  17. X

    Question Geforce GTX 750TI 2GB video card: Searching for Win 10 x64 drivers

    Hi, I have a Geforce GTX 750TI 2GB video card which I have been using with Win 7 for video editing. I am trying to find a Win 10 driver for this card for an upcoming Win 10 x64 install. Searching on the official NVidia website www.nvidia.com, is met with no hits and the response: "No certified...
  18. C

    Question Kernel-Power, Event ID 41, Task Category: (63)

    Hello, I’ve been dealing with this Critical error for quite some time now. The issue only happens when I’m gaming and at completely random times. Sometimes I’ll go weeks without getting any, and sometimes I’ll get four in one day like I did the other day, which finally prompted me to create...
  19. N

    Question saving my windows environment

    My boot drive is reporting it has raw file system (instead of NTSF in Win 10 Disk Management) and will not boot. I have a spare boot drive so the machine is up but it does not have all of my most current environment. I can see all the files on the bad drive with several disk management...
  20. bishoukun

    Question Clipboard is spontaneously adding a text string ?

    Hello all, I've been a lurker for years, and you lovely folks have solved problems I haven't found answers to anywhere else multiple times. So, with this issue nowhere to be found even here, and persisting to more than six months now, I decided to just go ahead and be the one to ask. What's...
  21. 1Reality1

    [SOLVED] Stuck on BIOS Screen - Won't Boot to OS

    Monitor went into "Power Saving Mode" while I was sitting at the keyboard and actively using the PC. Shortly before the happened, there was screen flickering and going black - and it came back from that a few times; until it didn't anymore. After trying a couple things, I reset the CMOS and...
  22. H

    Question My computer suddenly restarts while browsing, gaming even using MS Word.

    My system unit/computer has been randomly restarting while browsing the internet, while gaming, and even while using MS Word for the past week. This is really frustrating as I do my projects writing on MS Word, research on the internet, and play some games on the side. My Memorytest result(pass...
  23. Colif

    How To Identify what Device a Driver is used by

    There are plenty of guides out there showing how to find a driver for a device, but what if you have a driver running and don't know what its associated with Download and run Driverview - http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/driverview.html All it does is looks at drivers installed; it won't install...
  24. B

    Question Dual boot Windows 10 and Fedora on Laptop with SSD set to MBR

    Hi All, I'm looking to set up a dual boot between Windows 10 and Fedora, but my SSD is set to MBR. From all the videos I have seen, when creating the bootable USB using Rufus, they all set it to GPT. In my situation I'm guessing, I would have to set it as MBR. Will doing this cause any issues...
  25. G

    Question Why is there a problem with OS everytime I install

    I have formatted and installed windows so many times in the last few days due to some error or glitch. Sometimes the WIndows Start Menu won't open on pressing the Win key, other times many parts of control panel won't directly open give the error " The item you selected is unavailable it has...
  26. T

    Question Corrupt HDD cloning issues

    Experienced PC enthusiast here, looking for advice on what to do here. I'm trying to clone my mom's old hard disk (upwards of 8 years old) onto an Nvm-e. Every time I try it, my progress stops at about 40% and will not progress further. I left it overnight and still no luck. I tried defragging...
  27. Xpoes

    Question restarting windows 10

    Some programs on my system occasionally freeze. I then close them with the task manager and restart the PC. When I restart I get the following message: "Closing 1 app and restarting - To go back and save your work, click Cancel and finish what you need to do". The app that needs closing is "t"...
  28. leolulu

    Question Need Help with annoying Stuttering Problem

    Hi everyone i hope someone can help me with this problem, example: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joizk-d2jSM its not my video but its basically the exact same i have, latencymon looks like this View: https://imgur.com/a/4CeH0Or it seems the "Current measured interrupt to process...
  29. wabale97

    [SOLVED] I'm installing windows on my new SSD, What will happened to my old HDD data?

    I think unplugging the HDD before SSD windows installation and plugging it back again will be fine. Need to confirm this as I never have tested this. Also, what will happen to the C drive on HDD as there will be a new C drive on SSD now?
  30. G

    Question Start menu slow to respond to keyboard

    I have to press the windows key 3-10 times for the start menu to open. Keyboard works fine(checked online ). The menu opens just fine when I click on it to open. The RUN function using WIN+R keys works everytime, but when taking screenshot WIN Key+Printscreen key ,shot is taken but earlier it...
  31. breezett93

    Question Trying to implement dual-boot with two drives, Win 10 and Win 7. Keyboard/mouse functionality gone on the Win 7

    I bought an ssd from someone with Windows 7 on it. When I initially connected it and booted to it, my keyboard and mouse were working. I then started installing the chipset cd so that I could get networking etc to work. Install needed pc to reboot. After rebooting, keyboard and mouse stopped...
  32. Rosales

    [SOLVED] New Samsung 980 SSD keeps crashing while playing games ?

    i bought a new samsung 80 SSD recently and clean install win10 on it. It works normally when i do nothing but keeps crashing and restarting like every 10 mins while i play games. It just freezes for 5 sec then reboot the pc. I tried reinstalling win10 and updating my drivers nothing works. Any...
  33. S

    Question Dual boot: main drive no longer bootable

    This morning my dual boot pc (Win 10 & Win 8) decided to stop recognizing the Win 10 drive as a bootable device. If it's first boot device in bios I get an endless loop of restart/BSD error 0xc0000001. If I put the Win 8 drive in first position it boots up and I can see all the files on the Win...
  34. S

    [SOLVED] How to stop Windows 10 defaulting to Microsft Edge for things like "Windows Help" ?

    Hi this is probably a common question but I couldn't find the answer, How do I stop windows using Edge to open the internet for help etc. Example: when I accidently click on the little 'help' question mark at the top right of an explorer window (see pic) it will open the relevent webpage in...
  35. W

    Question Does anyone have a clue as to what is going on?

    I've looked everywhere and I can't find the specific issue that I am having. My windows 10 PC starts up fine, but a few minutes after I log in my monitor goes black. The PC stays on and I can't wake the monitor up or anything. The only thing I can do is force shutdown or hit the reset button...
  36. H

    Question Blackscreen after choosing Safe Boot from msconfig

    I tried to boot into Safe Mode to uninstall drivers using DDU because i had issues with game drivers but everytime I tried to access Bios or Safe Mode, it showed only blackscreen. Windows was booting without any issue. So, I changed from “msconfig”, boot option to “Safe Boot”, and then after...
  37. Lucasff

    [SOLVED] BSOD "The computer has rebooted from a bugcheck.

    So i build a pc in the end 2020 and i change a lot of parts but i got a problem that happens about once a month eversince i build it, already made several clean installs but nothing changed. PC runs fine no real BSOD but when i turn it off it reboot and create a minidump, and then i can turn it...
  38. N

    [SOLVED] Outlook Mail telemetry

    I have an Intel desktop with Win 10 Pro and the MS Office Suite which includes Outlook. I recently began a trial of Eset security software and set it to require my permission to scan any outgoing mail communications. These are non-"send" functions that seem to be triggered by various security...
  39. rulaeer

    Question Constant crashes and BSOD in Win 10

    Hi guys thanks for watching this. I am encountering this same problem for more than a year that is my PC crashes constantly (sometimes twice in a few minutes, sometimes one in a month). The log of the recent two crashes are (sorry some of the words are Chinese, pls let me know if you need a...
  40. D

    Question Win10 won't boot if I add second HDD

    This is a first for me: Just did a major upgrade on my roommate's computer (CPU - Intel 11th Gen/RAM - 16GB/Mobo - Gigabyte Z590 Gaming X/Storage - 2TB Firecuda NVME). I installed Windows 10 on the new NVME drive, no issues, even after several reboots. When I try to add one of his old SATA...