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windows 11 AVG Antivirus Updating Virus Defintions Taking way too long.
by Guest Sonic Plays2321- 0 replies
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Hello.Recently, I installed an antivirus called "AVG Antivirus", a good antivirus for basic viruses/malware.One Problem. Updating Virus Definitions taking way too long, taking up to an hour, Leaving me unprotected.Why is the problem? Continue reading...
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windows 11 accidently forgot to make new partitions when factory resetting
by Guest Benjamin Asp1- 0 replies
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so when i was factory resetting a while ago i forgot to make new partitions when i formatted and all of my 3 disks got into 1, today when i factory reset my pc and tried to make new partitions it just wouldn't let me simply. does anyone know how to like revert this without making just 'virtual' partitions as i want to know which one is a ssd and hdd. Continue reading...
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windows 11 Sudden BSOD interruption in Windows 11, each time with a different error message.
by Guest drj_grrc- 0 replies
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A month ago there was a malware attack in my system. I had my SSD completely formatted and Windows 11 reinstalled. However, after the installation of the windows, I have been experiencing BSOD regularly. At times the whole system will not boot into Windows, after a sudden shutdown. It is a different error message each time there is a BSOD. It would be kind if someone could shed some light on the problem and how it can be resolved. I have attached the minidump files for better understanding.2024-12-07 Minidump files.zipConfiguration:Processor: Intel® Core i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz 1.99 GH Continue reading...
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windows 11 Adjusting touchpad deadzone from low input.
by Guest Tim Kristiansen- 0 replies
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HelloI produce music on a laptop, which means a lot of finnicky click-to-drag on edges of notes to resize them.Is there a way to reduce or remove the lower limit for input on the touchpad? It seems plainly obvious that it's ignoring my finger draging the touchpad because I'm only moving my finger a very short distance, would make sense to have this be a thing in most usecases so your mouse doesn't jitter when you're holding it down, but for my usecase I need this removed.Is there a way to do this? I've looked at the basic touchpad sensitivity option, but only moderatly helpful, I already have Continue reading...
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windows 11 WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR when playing a game
by Guest Eddie_Kus- 0 replies
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HiI have recently started experiencing more BSOD. More notably I get these when playing Stalker 2 and Path of Exile 2. This could be an issue with those games, but I was hoping to get some help reading the dump files created during the blue screens. I have gotten multiple errors, but the last two have had the WHEA one. One other I still remember is the IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL.I'm using the following hardware:Nvidia RTX 2080Intel i9-9900k32GB 3600Mhz DDR4 RAMThe games are installed on my M.2 SSDWindows 23H2 (downgraded from 24H2 since Path of Exile 2 users experience issues with it)I've turned o Continue reading...
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windows 11 System Completely Shut off while playing a game trying to diagnose the issue
by Guest CanadianBuck- 0 replies
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Basically was playing a game and all the sudden my computer freezes everything got slow for a few seconds then black screened and turned off. I have a copy of the even viewer if anyone would like to see it. Just trying to figure out if its a hardware issue or what. I followed this What Should You Do When Facing Event ID 7023 in Windows 10/11? - MiniTool Partition Wizard guides as well to see if this would help no success I also noticed my graphics card is really pushing to 100% while running a this game. The problem is my roomie has the same card and his runs at 20%?? System Info -Intel i9-990 Continue reading...
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Hello,Recently my system has been getting multiple BSOD errors after updating to the newest Windows 11 24h2. BlueScreenView indicates the cause for each is "ntoskrnl.exe" and same address "ntoskrnl.exe+4b87e0" When running memory diagnostics, it occasionally mentions "hardware issue" but the file never seems to get saved in the Event Viewer once the system reboots to check. When I run command prompts for sfc /scannnow and chkdsk, they do not detect any issues. Device manager shows all drivers currently up to date and I'm at a loss for where to check next or how to further investigate the issue Continue reading...
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windows 8 windows phone 8 nokia 520 update error 80072efe
by Guest mats van driel- 0 replies
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my lumia 520 from nokia did a update that would help me update my phone to windows phone 8.1 i got this code 80072efe when i wanted to update to windows phone 8.1 can anyone help me? Continue reading...
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windows 10 random reboots (Event 41 Kernel-Power)
by Guest GH_444- 0 replies
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I built this PC in November of last year and it's been fine up until this past week. Typically while playing any game save for Team Fortress 2, although I've experienced some reboots with it as well, my computer has been experiencing random reboots with critical error 41 in event viewer. I haven't noticed any other errors that relate to the kernel one. I've attempted to troubleshoot the past 4 days to no avail, including rolling back drivers, monitoring temps and no overheating as far as I can tell, ran a memory test, and reseating my RAM/GPU. All the parts were purchased in November 2023 save Continue reading...
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windows 10 Metadata staging failed, result=0x80070490 for container
by Guest tony hoti- 0 replies
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Hello, Ive been having this error pop up in event viewer ( Metadata staging failed, result=0x80070490 for container )While playing video games or just watching youtube my computer will completely turn off as if you unplugged it and then turn back on all alone, if anyone has a fix for this please help, very annoying issue to have, havent seen a fix for this on reddit. Continue reading...
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windows 10 How to increase icon font size and bold them
by Guest James De Jager- 0 replies
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My sight has deteriorated and I need to make my icon fonts larger and bold. Please assist. Continue reading...
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windows 10 Need help converting partition from MBR to GPT to upgrade to Windows 11.
by Guest TrevorMaguire- 0 replies
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Hi, I need to upgrade to Windows 11, but have run into the issue of all of my drives being partitioned as MBR. When trying to run MBR2GPT to convert the drives, the validation fails. I believe this is because I fumbled the upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 and now have two "System Reserved" partitions, one on Drive 0 and one on Drive 3. My BOOT drive is on Drive 3 currently. I will attach a screenshot for context. Can I get a step-by-step guide on how to clean this up and properly convert the drives to GPT? Thank you very much.-Trevor Continue reading...
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windows 10 Windows recovery and password issue
by Guest Muktadir Ahmed- 0 replies
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Hi, I,ve deleted the catroot file from system32 and on restarting, my pc won't boot. I tried troubleshoot but asking account password when entered after reset, shows wrong.please help Continue reading...
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windows 10 我的账户不用了，想更改账户，但是找不到选项更改
by Guest 林峰 杨- 0 replies
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我的账户不用了，想更改账户，但是找不到选项更改，*** Email address is removed for privacy ***，我没有办法找回，但你们却不让我更改我的账户，我十分不解，进退两难 Continue reading...
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Every time I press capslock, I get a readout on my main monitor that capslock is being pressed. Is there a way to move this notification to another monitor or change its position? It is very annoying. Continue reading...
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windows 11 Unable to update to windows 24H2
by Guest sai mouli- 0 replies
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while i am trying to update my windows 24H2 getting an error that'sWindows 11, version 24H2 is available. We couldn't install this update, but you can try again (0Xc1900291) Continue reading...
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windows 11 Windows fails to detect drives after upgrade to 24h2
by Guest Juplay_JS- 0 replies
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Hello everyone.Yesterday I started the upgrade process from 23h2 to 24h2 on my System.Besides my main NVMe drive, I have 2 Barracuda HDDs in my system, one being 4TB and the other 8TB, with most of my User folders residing on the 4 TB one (Desktop, Downloads and Documents).After the installation of 24h2 completed and the system restarted, i sat on the welcome screen for quite a while until i get to a completely blank desktop with an error message saying something like "Location is not available, E:\Users\<username>\Desktop can not be found or is unavailable."Checking in the explorer and Continue reading...
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windows 11 can anyone help check my dump file?? computer keep freezing and restart randomly nor 100% sure what happened
by Guest JadeC144- 0 replies
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computer keep restarting randomly i did have nvidia driver problem before and DDU it .....and it happening again not sure is it the same as last time or not thank you 120724-11890-01.dmp Continue reading...
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windows 11 question about update on my windows
by Guest Faris Besic- 0 replies
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Split from this thread. I've got question about update on my windows, i've had licence since like windows xp service pack 2, Windows 11 got on my last (pc) [laptop] acctually on this one i've installed like 11 pro , this pc got windows 10 preinstalled, what do i do next "like" do i reinstall my system or do i keep like this.@Edited on my last laptop i got all microsoft features (Like microsoft 365 and so on) can i get those features here.Thanks regards Continue reading...
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windows 11 TIP: 2 VERY Different Routes for Files in Screenshots
by Guest Drew1903- 0 replies
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Actually/technically, this is being repeated, but for 2 very good reasons. 1, because it's handy, good, useful info, that might be new info to some Users and 2, because it might not garner as much notice where it is initially. That said:This refers to retrieving previous images from the Screenshots folder AND OR fetching them in a way that they can be 're-used'... See below 👇 You can open an image from the Screenshots folder as a photo .png. BUT... what if you want to open it as a snip, again? Maybe, you want to mark it up or modify it in some way before using it, again. Well, here is how y Continue reading...
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windows 11 Cannot update brand new Lenovo laptops to Windows 11 24H2
by Guest hongkongpom- 0 replies
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I have tried to upgrade two brand new out of the box Lenovo laptops to the latest 24H2 just to find that this update is not available via the Windows Update screen.I even tried using the update helper and it didn't work.What is going on with Lenovo and W11?Lenovo driver or service blocking the update?ANNOYING! Continue reading...
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windows 11 Why is my PC restarting randomly when it is in waiting state?
by Guest Stefan Moise- 0 replies
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I am getting this error in the Event Viewer that is a kernel problem. I have a link for minidump files as well Minidump. Can you help me figure out the problem here, because I have no idea what does minidump files contain.Log Name: System Source: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power Date: 12/6/2024 5:18:48 PM Event ID: 41 Task Category: (63) Level: Critical Keywords: (70368744177664),(2) User: SYSTEM Computer: DESKTOP-ECRFP6F Description: The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the Continue reading...
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windows 11 How to fix this audio problem with Realtek(R) audio speaker?
by Guest AA_0246- 0 replies
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It all started when I used my laptop to edit a video on capcut pc. I could only hear the audio of my video when I plugged my earphones in. Once I unplugged them, I couldn't hear the audio when I would use capcut (even though the volume mixer and volume settings were set at max). At first, this didn't happen with my other apps/browser that needed to output sound. After I exported the video I was editing, there was no sound if the sound output was through the speaker. I tried to plug my earphones back in and now I could hear the audio. Same goes when I go to youtube, twitter, etc. Help pls T_T i Continue reading...
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windows 11 The new version of Windows 11 24h2 is causing pointer issues, which are reflected in images and Excel.
by Guest VenkateshKumar8- 0 replies
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The new version of Windows 11 24h2 is causing pointer issues, which are reflected in images and Excel. Continue reading...
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windows 11 Installing WebView2 runtime
by Guest Yanal Alnimer- 0 replies
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I ran the latest update for Windows 11 today. The update gave an error, but it was successful after I deleted the software distribution files. However, Microsoft Teams and New Outlook are not running. They state that I have to install WebView2 runtime, but when I try installing it, it says it's already installed. When I searched the control panel, I could not find WebView2 runtime. Any help is appreciated. Continue reading...