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My Desktop folder is shown as Downloads in File Explorer even if the filepath is %USERPROFILE%/Desktop. I have made some regedit suggested on Microsoft forum but that didn't help either: This is what my Explorer looks like: These are what my the two registry locations look like at the...

I used a tweak months ago to remove all OneDrive options from the context-menu because they were superfluous at the time. Of course that also removed OneDrive options within the OneDrive folder which is problematic when I want to make a folder available offline. I tried adding it using the...

My PC: Edition Windows 10 Home Version 22H2 Installed on ‎27-‎08-‎2023 OS build 19045.4598 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.19060.1000.0 ____ I can't open the Games Bar by pressing Windows+G but I CAN open it manually from the Start Menu. I've tried...

I've had this issue for about half a year now and I can not find any fixes online whatsoever. My issue is when I right click my audio button that's next to the time in the bottom right then click "open volume mixer" adjusting the sliders for applications has no effect on the applications at all...

Hi Laptop model: HP Victus 16 e-0xxx OS: Windows 10 I recently I bought an external monitor for my laptop so now I want everything to be displayed via the dGPU and not use the iGPU at all. I prefer completely disabling the iGPU, but if that isn't possible what would be the best way? By the...

I have a Dell Inspiron laptop with windows 10. I was using it today and suddenly the internet went down. I thought it was the whole network but realized it was just my laptop. Everything else worked fine though. I decided to restart to fix it, but the laptop immediately went to automatically...

I've been having this problem a few months, just had it muted in system sounds as it had no impact, but it lags my Elden Ring everytime it happens so now its a problem.. The images are here: View: https://imgur.com/a/3jkzbyU The first screenshot is my Event Viewer but I'm unsure if it has...

I have a drive that randomly disconnects from my machine. I has my EFI partition, which means when this drive disappears I can't boot into either of my Windows 10 installations. I'd like to move the EFI partition to a healthier drive. The main partition on the target drive is tight on space...

I have been having a weird issue with my PC and Need some help. Ranging from a few days to 2 weeks the PC will suddenly freeze. The only thing I can do is move the mouse. No other functions work. The screen is on and whatever I was looking at is visible, but it becomes “frozen” or sometimes it...

Hi! I'm still on Windows 10. Every now and then whenever I update the system I get the option upgrade to Windows 11. I always hit the blue "Stay on Windows 10 for now"-button. But now I'm wondering if Windows sneakily downloads Windows 11 installation files and takes up my storage space. When...

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?