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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...

Hello, I have a problem with my Lenovo IdeaPad L340-15IRH laptop. It crashes and I get BSOD. Sometimes it's three times a day, sometimes is three times a week. It doesn't matter I'm playing games or just browsing Internet. Config: i5-9300H Intel UHD Graphics 630 Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 8 Gb...

Ok so in September I built a brand new PC from the ground up (Specs are down below). After getting it up and running it seemed like it was running alright although I had a feeling it wasn't performing as well as it should considering it had a 3080TI in it. I was lagging in games that I really...

At present I have a 2 TB HD running windows 7 that is low on disk space, I want to clone to a 3 TB HD so I can upgrade to windows 10 or 11. Straight cloning only resulted with an HD that was still low on disk space and a whole 1 TB of unallocated space that EaseUS could not extend to. Of course...

I recently also had an fTMP error that i fixed with a bios cmos clear. After that I immedietly tried to load windows 11 onto the new computer but i kept getting 0xc000428 windows error codes. Nothing seems to be working and im not sure why. The computer itself registers all the components as...

Hey everyone, I have a problem with my system. My system is Windows 10 (latest update). I have an SSD and HDD disks - the system is on a 480 GB SSD, the disk is functional and half empty. I have 16 GB of RAM and a GTX 1060. I have a problem when I start my computer (both restart/shutdown -...

Hi, Anyone know how to fix "we can't sign in to your account"? I already try some method in youtube like from opening regedit and delete folder or stuff like that from profile list after that when I restart my PC the problem still appear again. it seems like my PC can't detect my main account...

I am on an old MSI GT60 2PC Dominator laptop. I have tried for hours to fix the blue screens (reinstalled windows 5 times). i did driver updates, but nothing is working. Here is one of my Crash Dumps: KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE (139) A kernel component has corrupted a critical data...

I have an acer 2tb ssd which does not offere bitlocker encyrption. I've used bitlocker on other ssds of the exact same model. The ssd is not a dynamic disk. All other internal drives on this pc have bitlocker enabled. I've rebooted etc. No errors reported on the drive. This seems to be a rare...

Hello, I currently have a Dell OptiPlex 7020 SFF with Windows 10 installed and a LAN adapter "Intel(R) Ethernet Connection I217-LM", and when I turn on the machine, the Ethernet adapter does not appear with a connection except in Device Manager where I get Error 10 "The device cannot start"...

After cloning my C drive (system migration) to a new SSD, it is now taking less space than before, yet all the data and software is there. Unfortunately, I deleted old drive after seeing everything is normal.. I never assumed to size will differ. C size was 470 GB but now it's occupying just...

TL;DR Dual boot Windows has three Windows OS choices on OS selection screen during startup for some reason. I need help getting rid of one of them. I wanted to do a dual boot set up, so here's a little context. I initially had Windows 10 installed on a m.2 NVMe SSD drive and then installed...

I got windbg installed and opened my most recent minidump, which was actually only on 2/20, and i've had crashes since then that i guess didn't produce a minidump?. When i click !analyze -v it says i have a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION (133). Here's the FULL copy paste, including me clicking "!analyze...

So I'm having random hard freezes when gaming and I would have to power down my pc by using the power button. I have PC manager installed and I've noticed that my pc freezes when my temporary files reach around 850mb. I had increased my page file size to 1.5x the size of the ram but reverted...

I recently bought a new Asus laptop with Windows 11. I'm still on W10 on other PCs. I had minor problems between W10 and W11 so I installed W10 on the new laptop. The Asus support site had no W10 drivers for the laptop. I managed to get some things working but still had about 12 unknowns in...

I started encountering an issue out of the blue where after a while where my discord push to talk sound just gets gradually more distorted until after about 5-10 seconds of this it cuts out completely and any time I press it it just stops making the sound from then on until I restart discord...

I feel like a dog chasing its tail. Is there a way to load the drivers from the bios or add them to the windows installation media? New build, new install. Windows is on the drive and will occasionally boot into the home screen, within a few secs/mins it will either freeze or bsod. I know how to...

I have windows 10 installed on a m.2 NVMe drive and windows 11 on a separate ssd. I turned on bitlocker for my windows 10 installation so that windows 11 won't have access to the files on Windows 10. It saved the recovery key on a flash drive and I printed it out as well. I went through the...

This only happens during gaming however after i force reboot from the power button my pc starts up as normal and is fine processing anything else however only gaming causes it Specs are relatively new: Ryzen 7 5700x RTX 3060 ti ASUS x570 MB 32gb RAM 3200 mhz thermaltake 650w gold standard psu...

I'm currently using Windows 10 and there's a minor and slightly annoying behaviour with my desktop icons. I usually sort my desktop icons by alphabetical order, and for a few months now, Windows seems to always leave a one-space gap when it loads up the icons on startup. I usually just re-sort...

Hi, I try to install windows 10 on this cheap pre-owned parts Desktop PC build I recently put together: Specifications: + HyperX Predator 16GB DDR4 3200MHz XMP Dual-Channel RAM. + Corsair 450 Watts 80+ Certified ATX PSU Power Supply Unit. + PNY M.2 NVMe 500GB SSD Drive + ASUS B450M-A...