windows 10

Hi! I’ve been experiencing random freezing/stuttering with nothing showing in event viewer, i’ve tried fresh windows install last night and tested again today but still getting the same issue and it’s almost impossible to replicate it, both of my monitors will freeze briefly then readjust...

I was launching an unreal engine 4 game and my PC BSOD'd, i opened the dump file with BlueScreenView and it told me that "ntoskrnl.exe+3fdaf0" caused the problem. I can provide further information if any of you need it. Specs: Windows 10 Pro 22H2 i5 4590 16 gb ddr3 1666ghz Asus B85M-C/C/SI...

I recently built a new PC. Everything is fine when gaming. When I am doing everyday stuff though, the PC crashes randomly. Even when I was typing in this forum. I really don't know what is wrong. Even more confusing was that it crashed when I typing my PIN to login, after a restart. Event...

Good morning all, I have a PC which I did a clean install of 7 on one hhd, and then I installed 10 on the SSD. When I select windows 7 instead of 10 from the windows boot section, windows 7 no longer has USB functionality. I’ve tried disabling legacy USB, and reinstalling drivers. I get nothing...

My computer wi-fi is very slow. When I do an internet speed test it comes in at about 80-100 mbs but on my laptop and phone i get 300-600. I also have super high erratic ping in games on the computer which has an Qualcomm Atheros AR938x Wireless Network Adapter. I tried restarting, reinstalling...

Hi, I just built a new PC with new cpu+mobo+memory listed below. GIGABYTE B760 DS3H AC DDR4 (new) Intel Core i5-12400 (new) TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan Z DDR4 32GB Kit (2x16GB) 3200MHz (PC4-25600) CL16 Desktop Memory Module Ram (Gray) - TLZGD432G3200HC16FDC01 (new) Wester digital hard drive 1TB...

My friend gave me his older desktop pc , which is a better one than mine (dell xps 8940) ...i tried to reinstall Windows 10 on to my used sata ssd drive that had Windows on it but I got this error: " Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI...

Hi guys, short question: My XPS15 9550 broke yesterday. If I bought a used one with the same specifications (CPU, GPU etc.) and replaced its main SSD by the SSD from the broken laptop, would I be able to continue working in my usual environment (same operating system, same software) without any...

So, I was watching anime some 30 minutes ago and a cmd window popped up for no more than 500ms, even less than that. First thing that came to my mind was "***** [Mod edit to redact profanity. Remember that this is a Family friendly forum.] I got some malware", but I began checking around...

Hello, I am upgrading my pc. Currently have an asus z390e mobo, i7 9700k, 32gb ddr4 3200mhz ram and a 2070 super. I am upgrading to a asus z790a mobo, intel i9 14900kf, 32gb ddr5 6400mhz corsair vengeance ram, and will stick with current gpu due to insane prices at the moment lol. I kind of want...

I used a partition manager to change my BIOS from Legacy to UEFI (MBR to GPT) because I heard it is faster and I need it to be on UEFI to upgrade to Windows 11 if I wanted to, but it was causing issues with shutting down and sleep mode. I changed it back from UEFI to Legacy (GPT to MBR) with the...

Hey so as the title says, whenever I play games my PC will freeze and I will need to reset it. This has been happened for about 2 weeks now and never happened before. The weird thing about this, after the first crash my PC won't crash again until the following day. I'll be playing Rocket League...

I just put together a new system and upon power up it boots to the bios every time. I have the ssd with windows selected as priority boot, but I have to click it manually from bios. The system boots into Windows 10 fine after that. That same drive is also listed on the Boot menu so I am confused...

Hi, Two years ago after a bios update, my windows got deactivated suggesting I went through a hardware change(which I didn't). I couldn't re-activate it for some reason. I had two windows 7 OEMS(the home variant which I used to upgrade to windows 10) from my previous PC. I entered the generic...

I am running Windows 10 22H2. I am sure I have corruption. No means of resetting or reinstalling Windows 10 are working. The process won't even start. On startup, some applications run fine. Windows Mail runs. Chrome runs. But anything to reinstall Windows 10 or fix corrupted files won't run. I...

Hello everyone, I'm encountering a persistent issue with my PC where all peripherals briefly disconnect and then reconnect without any apparent trigger. This happens randomly, typically during video playback or gaming. The Event Viewer logs the following under the BTHUSB source with Event ID 18...

In Windows 10, I was trying to delete every program I thought I didn’t need (using Add / Remove Programs). But I think I must have deleted something that my headset microphone needs to work. I was trying to make a phone call with Google Voice, and it will not detect the microphone no matter...

Hello, I have a bunch of issues with the motherboard. First, the back panel jacks are only working for outputting audio to my headphones, but they do not accept input audio from my mic (mic is seperate from the headphones). Front panel is working just fine. Another issue is that after...

Hi, Pc was working fine for years, suddenly this. I uninstalled audio, lan and graphic drivers, didn't help. 4 Dump files: https://we.tl/t-YWUHpZlbIr Virus scan doesn't seem to work in safemode

Last night I was Giving my brother my old CPU, he is going from a 2600x to a 3800x. He has a ASUS ROG b450-f motherboard, and a 1070 out of a Alienware prebuilt. Before putting in the CPU I updated the bios to the most recent version on the ASUS website and made sure the PC worked fine. After...

Hi! I'm a little out of my depth and would appreciate some help! :) It's a lot, and I'm not sure if these issues are even related, I just want to give a full picture. Sorry for the complete brain dump, trying to make it as coherent as possible. Specs: CPU - i5 13600k RAM - Corsair Vengeance...

Hello, I've got a super strange problem... When I plug in my 2016 HTC Vive and launch SteamVR, everything works for like 5 seconds. Then, audio randomly changes output to this weird generic "USB audio device", which sounds really bad. If I disable this audio device in Control panel, all audio...

Tried clean installation of windows 10 but the issue isn't solved . Can anyone help me

I have a very unique and bizarre issue that I can not find much help on. Computer: RTX 3080 10gb Ryzen 7600x DDR5 32gb SSD/M.2 NVME's Windows 10 Please Note: Neither the CPU nor the GPU are overclocked. When playing games, any game, and the FPS is either uncapped or does not...

hello and thanks for reading this: i am using bluestacks, nox player and ld player 9 simultanuesly to play 3 android games all together, problem is that after a while my 3 monitor setup goes black or machine freezes etc. i have tried all in order not this to happen: upgrading gpu (radeon r9 290)...

Hi everyone! First time for me posting here, I have no idea what else to do: Thursday morning, on latest Windows 10 version, eveyrthing worked great. I shut the computer off, and turned it on again several hours later to receive the logo on start up and then a black screen of death, with...

Hello. I've tried fixing this myself best I could googling for solutions and looking here but I run into issues whatever I try. On my disk are five partitions, three Recovery Partitions, one EFI System Partition, and my C drive. I understand Windows creates additional Recovery Partitions when...

Hi, i just free upgraded from windows 10 to windows 11. my windows 10 was activated and had digital license assigned to my Microsoft account, so i used to just activate my windows 10 after fresh reinstall by using that microsoft account digital license without using any product key ever. So now...

I have Windows 10 and want to upgrade to 11. I need to make my disks from MBR to GPT to enable TPM in the BIOS. How do I convert my disks to GPT?

I have a local account on my Windows 10 PC. I want to upgrade to Windows 11. If I go to settings, update and security and upgrading from there to 11, will Microsoft try to have me do a sign in to Microsoft account or can I keep my local account?

After transitioning from MBR to GPT, whether through the OS command prompt, the repair command prompt, or the Windows MediaCreationTool command prompt, my SSD fails to start up properly. Instead, it presents a black screen with a typing cursor (not a mouse cursor) at the top left corner after...

Hello, I have installed a second windows 10 on my laptop, and although the both appear as I want them to in the BCD, when I try to boot into the second one, the computer does a reboot first before entering that system. Is there a way to disable this from happening and to be able to boot both my...

I know this question has been asked before, but I tried multiple solutions and none worked. I am trying to access a folder on my external hard drive but it says "Access Denied". The folder's name is "Local Disk". I made this folder on my old school laptop about three years ago. Later, I moved it...

Hi, First and foremost, I've been considering a wide variety of options for an operating system with the following priorities in mind: 1- Privacy: At the risk of sounding paranoid, the geopolitical state of MANY "democratic" countries and just the world in general is very concerning to me and...

I built a gaming pc and when i went to install windows it took a very long time. eventually after a few hours it reset and started booting into the software where it then took another hour and a half for to load in. after that i installed some updates and reset the pc. and when i went to turn it...

I'm getting Windows Script Host Errors on Windows 10 Startup. I followed this guide and ran the Autoruns: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-remove-and-install-windows-script-host/3bc43654-a4be-46df-8ce5-86beba2eba12 but the file isn't appearing on the list, I also...

I recently upgraded my motherboard and CPU, and now it won’t stop booting straight to the bios no matter what I do I’ve tried to clean, install windows from a flash drive, and it won’t install windows. I’ve tried unplugging all of my storage devices aside from my thumb drive with Windows 10 on...

Hello everyone! For some background context, I've been troubleshooting and trying to get HDR working for 2 months now... I had bought a new TV, two new PCs, new GPU, new cables. I'm slowly ready to rip my hair out by frustration.... ... Latest status: ordered brand new HDMI 2.1 cables to be...

Summary Display is not clear or sharp after starting my PC for first time in a year. I tried every Linux Distro, its worse with Linux but slightly better with Windows 10. Details I booted my computer in January 2023 after 1 year of not using it it powered on but NO Display, after checking...

Hi, I've been struggling with my PC lately, it absolutely refuses to update since new years and every time I start it, it goes into about 5 minutes of trying to update to restarting to apply the update and then always saying "update failed, restarting PC" and it finally booting. I figure the...