windows 10

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...

I'm struggling to find out what is eating up my memory on my Windows 10 PC. The longer I leave my PC on, the more RAM gets taken, but task manager will not show what is taking up all the memory. I have done some tests with RamMap, all I found is page table will increase slowly. Ran a sfc...

Photo1Photo2Photo3 Hello everyone, i have a problem with my windows 10 on my pc, many times every day in the windows security icon appears a problem as you can see in the photos i attach here to this post and i can't solve it, i'm thankful for any help you can give, thanks in advance!

Hi, so I torrented a file containing Adobe Master Collection from one of our teachers in a university. Installed only InDesign to test the program. After a few days I started to feel that my PC is slower than usual. After looking at Task Manager, I saw that my disk, and sometimes CPU consumption...

Hi there! I recently bought an Linx Vision tablet running Windows 10. I wanted to install a fresh copy of Windows 10 But I still wanted to preserve the original OS so I tried to install a fresh new install of Windows 10 (32bit of course!) to an micro SD card slot (since it the only real port I...

I usually like to supervise my PC while it does an update, but I only update a few times a year. My system is also a server and needs to be online pretty much 24/7. This latest update happened while I was away for a D&D game (Thursday night, Feb 1st) . Had tons of stuff open that clearly didn't...

It's been years since I've visited, so pardon me if I'm not in the right category. I can't be sure where this fits given every fix I've tried. I have this problem where Windows 10 acts as if I'd tapped the Control button, and by default will magnify/zoom out the size of my browser -- any...

Apologies but can't provide a dump log rn since I'm currently doing Memtest I am randomly BSOD-ing, like I would go on 12-jour sessions with no BSOD, leave my PC on while I sleep on purpose to see if it would and I would wake up with my PC in BIOS. This error code has been the most common...

Hello IT professionals, I recently was messing around in bios and now got myself a problem (not surprisingly). When I restarted my pc I got a message on screen for a split second saying something about "game boost" and then my display stopped working and remained black even after several...

I have an older gaming pc, but based on everything I know I should be able to run 2 with IGPU and my main monitor from GPU, but still only 2 monitors connect at once. I have tried all possible cables with each monitor and different bios settings and resolutions. IGPU multi-monitor is enabled...

Hey all, I'm having massive issues trying to get anything working after a failed windows 10 update. I'm currently not sure if it is a Windows issue, or a HW issue following the failed windows update, so wasn't sure where exactly this question should be posted. Yesterday, I applied the latest...

So after a crash on my PC last night, the computer won't boot past BIOS, and won't even go into advanced repair/startup repair. It did at once and I used a system restore point but it didn't reboot after completing the restore and now it just does a loop of trying to load into advanced repair...

Hi all. I've been having some issues as of late with my PC that I use for my CCTV and storage system. It's normally on 24x7 but has been crashing lately. I've used whocrashed and it looks like i've got a memory issue and an IRQ/Driver issue but I don't know which driver. I'm not sure if the...

My computer has been BSODing frequently lately. Sometimes it won't for a couple weeks but other times it will several times in a single day. This first started happening a while back after upgrading my GPU but has gotten more frequent lately. Here's a link to some minidump files...

Hi. I’m trying to convert my primary drive to GPT, but it doesn’t work (the usual Cannot find OS partition). I’ve looked at everything that crossed my mind, googled and tried a lot of "solutions", but it it just won't budge. This PC has a long history of Windows upgrades, the original install...

We have a laptop that keeps shutting down and a a look at the event manager showed the following codes at roughly the same time the laptop was shutdown: Error message: Error code: 0xDC, Sub error code: 0x7CError message: Error code: 0xDC, Sub error code: 0xB1Error message: Error code: 0xE0, Sub...

On a fairly regular basis, I get this error when attempting to play a YouTube video without the video beginning play in a prompt manner. The videos occasionally do begin to play, but not after at least a 2 to 3 minute wait but usually not at all. And to make this even more puzzling, if they do...

After playing Team Fortress 2 I noticed that my "P" key and my "Backspace" key no longer work, I temporarily fixed this by alt tabbing in and out of the game however this didn't seem to provide a permanent solution and the 2 keys are still broken. I'm sure this is a not hardware issue as other...

Hey everyone, I have a Dell Precision M6800 Laptop with 32gb of RAM, an i7-4900MQ CPU, and running Windows 10 64-bit. I am REALLY losing my mind with this. On the night of 1/7/24, I noticed with Chrome that when a webpage would stay open for a minute (or less), it would suddenly die and say...

So my friend wanted to play Valorant with me and in order to play the game you need to allow it's rather intrusive anti-cheat Riot Vanguard. Long story short, after following several different guides, in an attempt to enable TPM 2.0, in my BIOS (MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK ATX AM4 Motherboard), I...

A while back, I was able to set Photoshop as the default application to open when I right click on an image file and click "edit" in Windows 10 (super handy by the way). I've upgraded my program now, and it still loads the old program. I can't remember how I assigned it before. It might have...

I am having quite a few issues with my Windows. I'm past wanting to solve those issues individually as they have caused me a lot of frustrations. I decided to reinstall my Windows 10 and had it remove all personal files. I set up my computer and alas the problems are persisting. A quick...

Windows on the E drive got corrupted, so I installed Windows on the C drive and wiped the E drive intending to move Windows back to the E drive later. But I made a a mess of it. The EFI and Recovery partitions are still on the E drive while Windows system files are on the C drive, and I'm not...

Hi! I've been streaming Super Mario Odyssey on Twitch with my Nintendo Switch for a few months now, and the use of the Twitch Studio app made it really easy, as I wasn't able to obtain 60fps footage with OBS or Streamlabs (only 30fps for some reason). I'm using a "4K Ultra HD USB 3.0 Video...

I have acquired a 6 year old all-in-one HP PC. The password is lost. I am trying to do a new install from a Windows 10 USB flash drive I have just purchased with a new license. I can boot into setup, but when I am asked which partition to install Windows 10 64-bit to, I show three partitions, a...

I recenetly upgraded my system from a Ryzen 7 1700 to a Ryzen 7 5800x. This required me to update my bios to the latest bios for compatability reasons. So i updated my bios to latest, installed the new cpu, and now my computer won start. I have the MSI x370 sli plus motherboard. The "boot" light...

Hy everyone, for some reason I keep getting "Service Host: Windows Audio Endpoint Builder" on my task manager processes, also the fan can be heard, after this happens the audio stops and if I'm watching a video on Youtube the video stutters and freezes, if I'm playing game starts freezing and...

Hello everyone, So I have this issue with booting up my PC. It worked completely fine for over a year until a few days ago. Suddenly when booting up the BIOS outputs the typical Gigabyte screen, but then stays there for like 3 minutes, then it will start windows and the spinning circle appears...

Background: PC: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz 4.00 GHz, 64-bit, 16GB RAM, 250GB SSD I tried installing Windows 10 and it kept crashing at or before 50% with error code; 0x8007025D (Windows cannot install required files. Make sure all files required for installation are available...