window 10

So I had a previous computer that I bought prebuilt and that had a licensed version of windows preinstalled and activated with it. Several months ago I built my own computer and installed windows but didn't transfer the product key. I put the hard drive from my old PC into my new PC for extra...

Hi everyone, My internet was working fine and the next time I switched on my PC I was unable to connect to the internet with the error message "No internet secured" appearing. I don't recall there being any updates upon shutdown that could have caused this but when you Google it, it comes up...

Hello Forum! Recently I've noticed that my computer is being hogged down by something and when I checked the task manager the Search process is always using around 30% of my CPU. Up until now I didn't had any problems since I've disabled windows search and indexing as I have no use for it... My...

Hello everyone! I'm going to be selling my custom PC I built tomorrow to a friend but I want to make sure that all my files are deleted before I do so. I've had numerous people tell me that all I have to do is do the "Reset this PC" option on Windows 10, but I have a few questions. My first...

DISCLAIMER: I'm new to building PCs so forgive me for my ignorance. I am trying to learn as I go along. So I recently re-installed windows 10 after having issues getting my OS to boot. I reinstalled windows 10 via USB (Windows media creation tool ) and I've only been able to get it to boot...

Hello everyone, I am currently working on a new PC build but I was able to salvage my HDD from my previous PC. I plan on using this HDD as backup storage and then an SSD for everything else, but can I still use the Win10 that's already loaded on this HDD? So to summarize, can I use an old...

Built my first pc on Monday and I’m running windows 10 and have bought a 4TB HDD. Well, after getting booted up I noticed I didn’t even have the 4TB HDD to store things on, had to use my 500gb SSD. Well, that being said, I found out I had to partition the 4TB but I can only partition 2TB of it...

Why do I have a folder full of photos and videos - each file's size is more than 58 gigabytes, however the size on disk 4 kilobytes. The files do not open. These photos and videos: were exported from my mobile to my PC while transferring, couple of times the transfer was interrupted are not...

So I’ve noticed that whenever I’m gaming my Computer goes into different phases as I call them. This is hard to explain so bear with me. But the computer runs fine one minute and sometimes it doesn’t mean the general browsing is very fast and the FPS is phenomenal one minute and not the next...

i have a windows 10 machine that runs perfectly fine other than this. the only problem i have is that it refuses to completely restart. i click on restart and it acts like its restarting only to get a black screen. it doesnt post and doesnt boot to any other screen than a black one. no bios or...

So today when i turned on my PC.My task bar would't show my pinned apps I thought that was strange then when i tried to shutdown my PC I found that my whole task bar wouldn't work I couldn't click on the search bar or anything else on the task bar.I tired to end the windows explorer and restart...

Just under a month ago, I built my dream rig that I had been saving and looking forward to for about a year. The specs are: MSI Ventus OC RTX 2070 Super Intel i5 9600K AORUS Z390 PRO WIFI 16gb DDR4 Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB Ram Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black Edition RGB I recycled the...

Hello, I can't install windows. It is stuck on the windows logo, the circle doesn't load for some odd reason, however I tried to install ubuntu and it installed perfectly, without any changes in my bois BIOS. Anyone has an idea why?

Hi, When I try to drag a window I have to try multiple times. It kind of lets go of the window and then I have to try again. When I was using Blender the same thing happend. Moving stuff was very hard. And sometimes when I try to drag a window it maximises. Is it my mouse or is windows glitcing?

Hello. Today I just built my first PC. It took me a couple of hours and I had some issues with my usb drive that I used to boot windows, but after a little research I got it up and running. It ran a little weird, but I assume that was because I didn’t have any of my hardware’s drivers installed...

My usb flash drive doesn't appear in the bios Can anyone help me fix this problem

Hello, I am in desperate need of some help a few days ago my mom bought a new printer and I installed it on to our PC The IdeaCentre 710. Then all of a sudden one day everything was completely haywire the Firefox browser and a few apps just stop working altogether and has lost the ability to be...

Hello, I recently built a whole new system with the exception of a power supply and graphics card (using them from a previous build). I'm having an issue where when I try to boot from my disk drive to install Windows 10 my computer freezes on my splash screen. I have tried using a retail...

I'm getting BSOD which constantly corrupting windows 10. When I ran some program such as games and adobe Premiere pro. They worked fine for some time after that there's a BSOD saying critical process died. Funny thing about it is that BSOD left window corrupted it won't restart. After that I...

New here pls help :( Setup: Cpu: ryzen 3 2200g apu MoBo: gigabyte a320m-h2s (latest bios) RAM: Corsair vengeance 3000 Mhz (8gbx1) HDD: wd blue 1tb SsD: wd green 120 gb System boots up fine. I can entert in bios and updated it as well. (However ram shows up as 2133mhz when xmp is turned off. I...

So I just ordered an SSD M.2 which I plan to use as my new PC's boot drive. I have a 4tb HDD that I use as a second storage option (my current PC boots off a 1tb HDD) and was told a long while ago that if I have any data I want to keep, that I'd need to partition a portion of my HDD and send it...

Hi there! I really need some help sorting out this major problem of mine. My computer is an HP Pavilion desktop It came out of nowhere yesterday evening. A black screen will appear, along with the HP logo and "Preparing automatic repairs..." loading up below it. It never gets anywhere...

Recently, I decided to clean my 4 years old Alienware 15 r2 laptop so I dissembled it, after putting it back together, windows keeps showing blue screen with code Critical Process Died. I tried to boot the SSD Drive from another computer and it works fine and now I really can’t identify any...

Specs: CPU: Ryzen 5 2600X (no overclock) GPU: RX 570 8gb (no overclock) Motherboard: MSI X470 Gaming Plus Bios Version A.40 Ram: Patriot Memory 16gb 2400MHz Storage C: Samsung NVME 120gb Storage D: Kingston 120gb SSD Storage E: Toshiba 1tb HDD Storage F: Sandisk 120gb SSD I have...

Hello Microsoft my pc hangs and freezes after some time of restart and gets a blue screen error named critical process died. i have the minidump files { http://www.filedropper.com/070119-28921-01 , http://www.filedropper.com/070219-32031-01} can you tell the reason of this please?