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My laptop was running hot so I removed the screws, opened the backplate, and wiped the older paste with a soft tissue paper and IPA. I applied a little bit more because I had heard that "very little" paste would be more damaging than "too much" paste. I put everything back together and started...

Well, hi! I want to update the firmware on my Kingston NVMe SSD but the Kingston SSD Manager (the only way to update) doesn't see any drives. BIOS is OK, Windows is OK, speeds and etc OK. Just the manager doesn't see it ? It gives me some errors that you can see on the images below, so if you...

Hello! My apps do not launch instantly as they used to do. There is a small delay from 2-5 seconds, sometimes even more when I try to start something. I do not know what is going on here but I will be more than happy if someone can help me. This also happens with Windows 11 There is also a...

Hi. I'm using Windows 10. If I want to use my Dell Inspiron 7570 laptop only with laptop charger, there are two options: 1) Remove laptop battery physically This option works fine for me. I just need to plug in charger all the time so it doesn't shut down accidentally without turning off...

The PC would get stuck on the motherboard screen and not boot into Windows. If I wanted to get into the bios it would take 5+ mins to load into the bios screen. The SSD was still showing up in the bios like normal. After hours of trying to get the SSD to load I decided to install Windows on a...

I was wondering: Will 22H2 or 23H2 be installed on the Windows 11 HP PC through Windows Update that I just used the OEM factory settings memory stick which took Windows 11 back to 21H2 version?

Ryzen 5 2600 RTX 2060 Super 16gb DDR4 3200 B450m Pro My motherboard doesnt have built in WiFi so I had a wifi dongle for the longest time, but when my connection started to get slower I switched to a pci wifi card, however my wifi was still very slow (30mbps) however my phone and any other...

Dell G15 Special Edition 5521 laptop with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti Recently, I noticed that I no longer have the ability to record my Desktop through NVIDIA GeForce Experience. On Windows (on the Desktop), the recording status icon is missing. The Record/Start button does not initiate...

Hi Guys! I've recently been facing some very frustrating blue screen that I would greatly appreciate some help in troubleshooting! I initially speculated that it may have something to do with my ancient boot SSD as I had also been experiencing a completely separate strange issue where my PC...

Hello. I built a PC, and is trying to install Windows on it, but the USB Boot Drive simply won't show up in the BIOS. I've tried using both Windows Media tool and Rufus, but it doesn't work. I insert the USB into the new pc, boot it up and enter BIOS, but it doesn't show up as a bootable device...

When I turn my computer on, after about 30 seconds, I get a BSOD, and it reboots. But then its fine for the rest of the day. I have updated all of my drivers, including ethernet drivers. I did recently get a new RX 6600 GPU.

backup or sync from Onedrive to Googledrive can be handled but backup between the 2 clouds with limiting the copy speed is impossible for me using Azcopy or Ondrive client ! how can I limit the copy speed from 50m/s to 10m/s to give the other devices in the network the ability work normally...

Ive been using a dongle to connect my dual sense controller in my old pc. Got a new pc and didnt realise it had bluetooth onboard so was using dongle as normal- needlessly, but then i ran into some serious issues….. I took the dongle out to plug in something else and when i plugged it back in...

I have a problem with my PC. Every now and then while I play GTA, randomly my PC starts to lag and the game starts to run at 2-5 FPS and the GPU only uses 10%, if I go back to the desktop, Windows it goes jerky, watch the video at the bottom. I tried reinstalling the GPU drivers with a clean...

I’m having an issue with my desktop tower. I have a USB drive, Logitech keyboard-mouse set with a single wireless receiver for both, and a USB WiFi adapter. I’ve been getting some odd behavior. The USB drive works fine as far as I can tell, but my mouse and keyboard have noticeable lag (this...

Hi, Iam using a Lenovo IdeaPad L340-15IRH gaming laptop with an i7-9750H (undervolted/tuned using Throttlestop) and a GTX 1650 mobile ( tuned for low usage on battery and overclocked on AC) i have an issue where system CPU usage is at least 10% at idle, which is bad, it affects battery life...

My windows 10 install is completely borked. I tried creating a Linux distro usb but got booted right into UEFI. Tried a W10 usb via media tool, right into UEFI. Why is this happening? It's an ASUS notebook with Windows 10 Pro installed (originally home). I once installed a Hackintosh on it...

Hello everyone. My brother has been buying Macs for many years and is very comfortable with them. Currently his Mac has become slow and for work he needs some programs that only work on Windows ... so he was thinking of buying a new Mac and emulating Windows on top of it (I don't remember how to...

A few months ago, a very brief power outage occurred while I was using Windows 10. It lasted less than a second and when I turned my computer on again, it booted into Ubuntu, which was installed on an old HDD that I rarely used, instead of my Windows SSD, which used to be the default boot...

I've made sure its not just my pc and phone. I've tested other devices and for some reason on any mobile device my download speed is 400+ mbps, however on any pc ive tested on its anywhere from 5-30mbps. Ive restarted my router, made sure its on 5ghz, updated drivers. I even bought a new wifi...

Every time I turn my PC on I don't have sound. So I have to go to device manager and uninstall sound drivers. But I have to do the process 2 or 3 times ( don't know why). After that, I get my sound back. The problem is only for my speakers. When I use a headset it works fine. Any ideas? Thanks...

Dear all I have an offline laptop which I use to backup my data. 1. I have disconnected the laptop from my own network. I have turned off the wifi function in Windows. I have disabled network card and Network adapters in device manager. Does the following malware exist? A malware that gives...

I was dual booting Ubuntu and Windows 11. I deleted my Ubuntu partition as I no longer have a need for it and when I did so I have 250 gb of unallocated space on my drive now. I have tried to extend the other partition of the drive but it says there is not enough space. I formatted the windows...

So I am on a Dell Inspiron 3595 laptop and have been using it for a while. I upgraded it to an SSD and it was definitely better but recently I updated my bios. Everything succeeded and looked good until I powered it off and turned it back on the next day and the boot took around 1Min 10 sec (a...

I noticed activity on my pc, tweaked with tasks and etc, got someone to try to save all of my data, got him writing some microsoft learn feedbacks and being in teams on the same PC I was yet all of his actions were hidden from me. He eventually kills my drive booting from which leaves me with no...

Hello, I just upgraded my R5 3600 to a R7 5800x3D on a Msi b450m pro-vdh max. And I upgraded to 3200Mhz 32GB RAM. Put in a new PSU too. Both the RAM and CPU get fully recognized in the BIOS. I made sure to update the BIOS before the upgrade to the latest version 7A38vBK. I can see both of my...

Ello! Got myself a new M.2 SSD to install Windows 10 on. I boot a Windows installation USB in UEFI mode and run the installation up until the point the installer does a restart. After restarting, it throws me back at the start of the installation. If I remove the USB during the restart or try...

Hi guys! I have a very weird problem. I bought a new ssd and i installed it instead of my old hdd which is empty just taking space in my pc(500GB). I have another HDD(1TB) which has windows on it which i use every day. The problem occurs when i unplug that old hdd which is empty. My pc says...

I launch my pc and everything is fine until i get the windows lock screen for logging in, i can't click on anything i tried going into safe mode by rebooting the pc multiple times and nothing worked i couldn't boot into safe mode, i pressed ctrl/alt/del and it wouldnt do anything, i can get into...

Hi, since yesterday I've been dealing with a problem that I can't seem to resolve. The situation went as follows: 1. I assembled a computer from entirely new parts. 2. I booted it up, and everything was working correctly. 3. I connected a USB with the Windows Installation Tool. 4. I installed...

It freezes at the attached screenshot when I boot many times and having to restart multiple times. But when windows loads, it works properly. Any idea why? I use windows 11 and Gigabyte UD4-X99 motherboard

I never used this dvd rom before and now i am trying to install windows 10 from a disc. But i cant find the correct way to insert the dvd. There isn't a holder in the center like the most of the laptops dvd rom has where the disc easily sits. There is no such holder in the center and i also...

So for some reason my Windows 10 PC will not show thumbnails on videos, but only videos, PNG will show thumbnail, but MP4, WMV, stuff like that will only show icon like the VLC logo or the Medial Player Icon, I have already messed with File Explorer Settings, Visual Effects Settings, Cleared...

Hi, I've had the Klipsch R-51pm speakers for a while now and I used the included usb-a to usb-b cable to use them on my desktop pc. For a while now the usb connection hasn't worked at all and when I take a look at device manager, it states that "This device cannot start. (Code 10)...

Laptop running Windows 10, version 21H2, build 19044.3324. iPhone 14+, iOS 17.0, United States. Connecting phone to PC with USB-A to Lightning cable. This problem began three weeks ago. Cannot open pictures from Files Explorer. Microsoft Photos returns the message "Sorry, Photos can't open...

Do I need to re-install Windows again? Hi everyone, I am pretty new to using Windows 11 and am finding my feet, so please forgive me if my question sounds stupid! I had a BSOD that happened nearly a month ago and was an unspecified error. I did a hardware scan which found no errors and I...

I built a brand new pc, all new top of the line hardware just so I can play new games at decent frames, but I can get this installation down so I can finally boot to home screen. First my windows install wouldn't finish onto my Samsung 970 pro m.2, so I go check the bios, it shows it as storage...

So after Updating my windows 11 last night I have been running into this problem of 3 driver can not be loaded and it's related to my ASRock Polychrome RGB software. It's not working and get's stuck on updating the led firmware forever. Reinstalled restarting is not fixing my problem. I get...

Bought a new RAM memory (2x8gb) and after installation I noticed that system uses only one stick of memory (8gb). Found on internet solution to set "Maximum memory" setting in msconfig to something else than default, and it was automatically set to full RAM capacity. After that I couldn't boot...

TL;DR: My second system drive is 'a little' corrupt: files can be accessed, partition taken/used space information is correct, sectors are good but it just won't boot past Windows loading. Chkdsk, sfc etc. all good. The only error is seen in SRTTrail.txt (Startup repair) logs. I now have 2 SSD...