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Hello, My laptop is Lenovo Ideapad 110S-11IBR (4GB RAM ,eMMc 32GB Hard drive,Windows 10), Yesterday, I let the system go to "sleep mode" before I sleep, When I wake up and restart my laptop, I was shocked... beacuse the hard drive just have 3GB space . I never saw update.esd (3GB) before it found in my laptop (by "Treesize" software ) This file is under by hidden system folder "OSRSS", it is hidden and can't be delete even I click "Show hidden files" in the folder options. How can I do to delete this files and get my hard drive space back? Thank you~ More...

Hi I am connected to domain, there is not any domain level group policy set to disable PIN for windows. I have tried enabling few local GP to enable PIN and biomatric but I have no luck to enable fingureprint. Please help !!!!!!!!!! More...

Hi, After updating to 1803 I get following error in Device Manager Display adapters: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39) {Bad Image} %hs is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support. Error status 0x I uninstalled the driver and rebooted - no success DSA shows: Intel? HD Graphics Adapter Compatibility Intel Corporation Driver Provider Intel Corporation Driver Version 8.15.10.2900 Driver Date 11/26/2012 Availability Offline Status Unknown Location PCI bus 0, device 2, function 0 Device Id PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_0042&SUBSYS_304A103C&REV_02\3&B1BFB68&0&10 Intel? Core™ i5 CPU 650 @ 3.20GHz Manufacturer GenuineIntel Description Intel64 Family 6 Model 37 Stepping 5 and there is no newer driver. What can I do? any help most welcome More...

PIN and Fingerprint Sign-in options unavailable (greyed out) in Windows 10 1803 Enterprise PIN and finger print option greyed out after joining system to domain, i have create necessary GPO to enable Windows hello for Business and PIN, Fingerprint but still cant add or change finger print under settings Account and then sign in option. Below are the GPO enable for WHB:- Policy Setting Comment Configure dynamic lock factors Enabled Signal rules for dynamic lock Policy Setting Comment Use biometrics Enabled Use certificate for on-premises authentication Enabled Use Windows Hello for Business Enabled Windows Components/Biometrics/Facial Featureshide Policy Setting Comment Configure enhanced anti-spoofing Enabled AllowDomainPINLogon (Order: 1) General Action Update Properties Hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Key path SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System Value name AllowDomainPINLogon Value type REG_DWORD Value data 0x1 (1) More...

Windows 10. Changing Default Browser. I can't change default browser either through Settings applet or Control Panel. Everytime I try to change it from Settings, the window automatically closes. When I reopen the applet, Edge stays as the default Web browser. If I try it from the Control Panel, it takes me to the Settings applet and I get the same results. More...

Folder sizes not reporting correct number of files or total size Win10 Prod build 1803 Hi everyone, Short story: Update 1803 borked my previous hard drive/OS during installation, so I decided to upgrade my boot drive and clean install since there was no recovering my old boot drive OS. I ran a (manual) backup of all of my files from my storage disks (to my external USB drive). Upon comparing folder sizes, I noticed certain folders on my backup drive had a significantly lower number of files and sizes were different. Did a bunch of troubleshooting (including trying a separate external USB drive)...fast forward to me trying the same (secondary) USB drive on my Win10 Home (build 1709) laptop, where the correct number of files and folder size was reported. Back on my desktop (Win10 Pro) I found that shortening the path (the files were in a 4-folder deep hierarchy...a bunch of albums in their respective folders) allowed the correct number of files and correct folder size to show in folder properties. I have not validated 100%, but I'm pretty sure I don't have any files that have an absolute path > 255/256 (whatever the limit is), so I don't think the registry update to support paths > this will do anything. I'm pretty sure this is a defect, and I *think* specific to Win10 1803. Does anyone else have this issue or know if an update is coming? I spent hours trying to figure out what was happening and started freaking because I thought one of my drives was starting to take a dump. Thanks in advance! More...

I have encountered a number of directories that now show incorrect “properties” information after the recent Windows 10 upgrade to the 1803 Feature Update. Most directories that I have looked at still show valid information. But in some specific directories the calculated size, number of files, and number of folders is wildly inaccurate. Prior to the 1803 update, the information appeared to be valid for these directories that are now in question. From one of these subdirectories, the “CNT +” subdirectory should include everything below it. By just taking a brief look at the immediate subdirectories it can easily be seen that they describe more utilized space, number of files, and folders than indicated in the “CNT +” subdirectory itself. In actuality, there are approximately 31K files, 4.5K folders, and a size of about 4.1G in total for the “CNT +” subdirectory where the current properties information shows just 87.2M for size with 695 files and 95 folders. The directory structure and expected files are physically present. I have walked the subdirectory structure and can see the expected components. For some unexplainable reason, a large number of these files are not being counted anymore in the higher level subdirectories. It is not until you get deep into the subdirectory structure that the properties information becomes credible again. It just looks like in some of the subdirectories that a large number of files and folders are being ignored. I still haven’t been able to figure out why. This has nothing to do with “hidden” files or other system related file information. These are just plain user files. The subdirectories in question have been in the same structure and naming convention for years. And I regularly used the associated properties information to verify the current backup size. That is now failing miserably. More...

Hello, is it possible to unpin pinned apps from the start menu via Powershell? I am only looking for a Powershell solution (not GPO oder whatever). The Windows version is Windows 10, version 1803. More...

Hey there, for some time now I have this weird problem that I sometimes have short freezes. For instance when I type the cursor will just stop and for a second it will buffer my keyboardinput and just releases it when the freeze stops. Same goes when playing, which is even far worse. When I play starcraft 2 a second of freeze is just unacceptable. I have literally no idea whats causing this. I tested my RAM with memtest, removed all harddrives except my M.2, tried with intel integrated graphics, tried different displays with different settings without success. My setup is: asrock z370 extreme4 Intel i7 8700k (not overclocked) G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-2300 DIMM CL16-18-18-38 be quiet pure power 10 600watt MSI Geforce GTX 1080ti Twin Frozr Main Harddrive is Samsung 960EVO 500gb How can I track whats causing this down? Cheers, Thomas More...

I am unable to send email to groups with the mail and calendar app in Windows 10. My verison is 17.1620.42011.0 Is sending mail to groups supported yet in Mail & Calendar? Thanks, A. More...

Hope to be fine here with this question. It is about Windows 10 2018 March operating on physical machine. It hosts Oracle Virtualbox Hypervisor with two Debian virtual machines on top of stack. Virtual machines want to get quite periodic updates (patches, fixes, security updates and so on). Quite every day except for weekends there are new updates. Currently they go through V.B. NAT network to Internet to fetch updates. Regarding generated traffic it is of double amount as each of two v.machines fetches same updates for itself separately. So to reduce the load of internet connection the idea is to setup on WSL cache-proxy for Debian package management used on virtual machines for package management. These two V.B. virtual machines should connect to host's WSL through host-only adapter each, dpkg-cache proxy should listen to these 2 host-only adapters. The choice is apt-cacher-ng, it acts as proxy dpkg system clients however shows extended cache capabilities regarding downloaded packages. Two Debian virtual machines should connect to Debian servers through apt-cacher-ng, latter one operating within WSL. What level of feasibility might be this goal? Can anyone immediately see any technical points doing this goal unreachable? In some WSL document, side myself found one time short notice WSL was not good for server application, each proxy has a server-element in its function. Actually a proxy is no server so from this point of view no conflict. I am not sure if generally there are cons to be considered in current planning phase. Apt-Cacher-NG User Manual More...

hello recently i have an issue with my windows 10 machine. everytime i start the pc net framework 3.5 ask for the pc to restart to install the software, but after rebooting the pc it asks the same question again like some kind of loop. i tried the offline installer and the network repair tool but it doesn't seem to fix the problem. so i was wondering if anyone has the sollution to this problem. thanks in advance. More...

This is not necessarily a question but more of a statement. Microsoft, I installed fresh install of Win 10 pro. I ran Edge for a bit and it was pretty fast. I needed to look at video on youtube, oh... I'd say about 3 minutes after I installed windows 10 because that's what we do with freaking browsers!... And guess what I got... "NO SUPPORT FOR VIDEO FORMAT ERROR"... that is stupid Microsoft. I will not trouble shoot it, I will not look on a forum to figure out why it isn't working, I will not spend one ounce of my time trying to fix Edge browser not working with Youtube. I installed Google Chrome and guess what? It works fine. If you want to be accepted by the masses you need to support the masses out of the box. No I will not send you error reports and no I will not send log files. YouTube has been around for Many Many Many years. If you cant figure that out then... bye. More...

Hi, I have just upgraded from windows 8 to win 8.1 everything is fine except the context menu I don't know why it is so delaying. Every time I do right click on desktop to refresh it takes almost 15 seconds to appear. Help me guys. Many thanks. Umair. More...

Hello! First I'm happy to found a way, if Search don't react. If I stop the service 'Windows Search' I have the items in File Explorer. (Restart of the service often brings no result, it works, only if I stop the service .) Is there a easier way to get find results? This with 8.1 Prof 64 bit More...

I want ti share many files in a folder structure , under One drive . please help. More...

Hi, when i make new shortcut for download folder with *explorer* and *space* in front of the path name, right click on folder and pin to taskbar, when the download folder open, at the same time open another folder (separate) "this pc" and i don't know why. This happens on W8.1 not on W7. On W7 it's very simple (with the same method but on w7 it work well). I have try many methods, but none of them work. Have any idea of how? Image example: https://image.prntscr.com/image/aNHdMlXSQO_jRwhhDT1-aQ.png Image: left folder is the pinned folder, and the right folder icon opens when i click on the left folder (W8.1). Thank you. More...

Ok, I'm probably not the first person to ask about this. Why on earth, can I not see any of my connected network printers under 'Devices and Printers' of Windows 8? The devices are without question, 100% connected and registered with the OS, as evidenced from their presence within the 'Print Queues' section of Device Manager, and various software packages, when accessing the 'Print' dialog. I can't even find any evidence of the printers within Print Management! What is going on? More...

I want to activate my windows pro 8.1 with the product id 00261-50000-00000-AA 562, could you please provide me the steps how to activate windows 8.1 More...

Hello everyone, I would like to receive help, my wsus server presents an error, after it has been formatted it does not display the management console. making it difficult to update the networked computers. More...

when I connect my usb cable from my phone to my computer I get an error message that says Unknown USB (Device Desciptor Request Failed) Driver Error. What does this mean and how do I fix it. More...

Hi, What is maximum Size of Notepad, More...

I want to schedule a windows task to run when a secondary output device (e.g., VGA monitor or HDMI A/V receiver is turned on or off) but I'm not sure which event should be used for this. I found something related to network cable plug/unplug here How to launch a command on network connection/disconnection? basically, the event is Log: Microsoft-Windows-NetworkProfile/Operational Source: NetworkProfile Event ID: 10000 for connect and 10001 for disconnect but couldn't find anything for external audio/video devices. Any such event or events exist? If not, any other way to do this? Thanks More...

This message pops up when I try to open internet explorer or google chrome. I have Norton antivirus. I have tried changing my settings on IE and Norton and all other settings I could think of. I have tried various different wireless networks and get the same error message. What can I do to get on the internet? More...

I accidentally deleted some important photos and want them back. Is it possible to restore deleted photos for Windows 8 machine? More...