In the past, before Windows 11 came out, which is where I remember that, this lockscreen started to have problems, it no longer has curious data about the landscapes in the background, it was for useful purposes and aesthetics to accompany the background, but now ads appear, even in another language (I speak Spanish and that is in German idk).

I want to use Office 365, primarily for Word and PowerPoint. I have an unactivated version of Windows with the watermark. Would activating a key for Windows 10 Pro also activate Office 365 or do I have to activate them separately? Currently, on the unactivated Windows version with the watermark, I am able to use Office 365 services, but everything opens in the web browser, and I would prefer to have it open directly on my PC without the browser. Also, where can I find the most affordable keys for Office 365 and Windows 10?

i was chilling and the pc randomly had a notification that said "get ready to set up your new realme c53 phone" or smth and im pretty scared can anyone help

windows is forcing me to download windows 11 which i don’t want because i don’t want to have to reinstall all my stuff i’ve tried the delete software distribution but it just comes back is there any way to completely get rid of it

my pc has been slowing down over the last 1-2 years and i want to reset it without losing certain files (videos, pictures, downloads) while getting rid of everything else . i have 2 drives. c: (windows) and D: (data) D: is where all my downloads, videos and pictures are, if i reinstall windows completely (from iso, clean install) will it wipe the D: drive? and, if i wanted to wipe both drives how can i keep just the files i want?

I had to install a new SSD on my computer. For some reason now I can't seem to get my computer to recognize my tablet. Are there any settings on my computer need to change?

The UI is very counterintuitive and it's easy to get lost trying to do something as simple as choosing not to log in using a password. I've been searching for solutions on the web but found nothing relevant to my problem, every supposed solution leading only to more confusion rather than actually solving the problem.

To everyone who also faces this difficulty, I would like to share the solution I found myself, while struggling for almost one and a half hours...

1. First of all, you might consider checking the Settings > Accounts > Your Info , where you might find that you're logged in with a microsoft account. (When I installed windows it gave me 2 choices, to either log in this way or introduce a key, and since I didn't have a key...)
2. Look for "Sign in with your local account instead", click it, choose your username, leave the password boxes blank if you want, click Next > Sign out and finish, and that was literally it.
3. You can later remove the microsoft account if you'd like to, from the same settings tab. You won't lose any files or control over your device.

I hope this post comes as helpful.

Hello I have a desktop pc running W10 64bit. 3.5gig processor, 16gb ram and a 1tb HDD. The hd light is always on and the pc is good for nothing. Under task manager it shows hd at 100%. I've uninstalled all software and performed a clean boot, still had is 100% Any ideas please?

I get this false positive when attempting to drag 'n drop any file from my "Downloads" folder to anywhere else, even to one of its' own sub folders, as well as when I do the same move in reverse.

https://preview.redd.it/txn52hsyd3xc1.jpg?width=550&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fa00bc7a207b50e244508ed81b127db06ed303d

It also occurs with the same move outside of the Downloads folder, i.e. my desktop, but if I try that move in reverse, I get no warning. However, if I take that same file, and once again drag 'n drop it back to my desktop, I get the warning.

The other crazy thing is that if I cut 'n paste or copy 'n paste the same file, no warning appears.

Hello,

Currently at my work, they have finally installed Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, so we can surf the internet on Windows 10 while working. On some website I can play a video and it shows at the buttom right corner as a little screen (that I can adjust) while still working on the computer (the video doesn't dissapear on the buttom right corner no matter what I click on with the mouse) unfortunately I can't do this with YouTube videos. Is there a trick or can I press a buttom so the video shows as a small screen somewhere on the corner without disapearing when I click on something else on the screen. I hope you guys know what I mean by that and can help me.

I have a multilingual family. I am Belgian, so I speak Dutch and French, but also English and Portuguese. My husband is Finnish, and speaks Finnish and English. My kid is born here in Portugal, and goes to school here, so he speaks English and Portuguese, but he still has trouble with reading English (he’s in 2nd grade now) and he asked today if the laptop, mainly used by him, if it could be in Portuguese. I don’t have a problem with that, my Portuguese is good enough by now that I could help him with computer problems if the language was Portuguese. But my husband wouldn’t be able to. He would like to have the option to be able to swap the computer language from PT back to EN if the kid needs help and I’m not around. Before you yell and say “Learn Portuguese, you live in Portugal “ my husband has a learning disability and trust me he has tried, he really has, he knows enough to do groceries, but that’s where it ends. When conversation is to be had, it falls on me or our kid.

So my question is, is it possible to create such a hot key or does one exist? Because all Google gives me is Keyboard language. But that’s not what I’m looking for. My computer is in English while my keyboard is Spanish. My kid’s laptop is for now still in English while he uses a Finnish keyboard. (Old laptop from my in-laws ) so clearly not the same thing.

Anyone has an answer? And different profiles isn’t an answer either since it’s only my son who uses it, but like I said before, if he gets stuck, and im not around, my husband will struggle to help him.

All other threads are out of date and locked. The old advice that recommend using regedit break windows search completely (no results shown). Here's what worked for me:

Open windows firewall and add a new rule to block

%SystemRoot%\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy\SearchApp.exe

Double check that path is valid by going to C:\Windows\SystemApps\Microsoft.Windows.Search_cw5n1h2txyewy

You might have some cached internet results from previous searches.

Hi.

How can I synch windows calendar (regular windows calendar right near the clock) with my Android phone ?
I usually click on windows calendar, and make a note on the day, putting also an warning to the day before the event/task. But, I want to have that sync with my phone, in order to manage everything, being on PC, or on Mobile. But till now I didn't find how to do it. I only know how to access on Android by opening the Outlook App, and going into outlook calendar inside the App, and there has the calendar and remember's from windows.

But I want to have it on phone display, on a more direct way to access and check the days.

PS: I also have 2 problems with windows calendar.
1st - My time zone is on 24h, and not 12/12h. But on calendar for whatever reason, it shows 12/12, without I know if its AM or PM lol. Basically I have to test, to know if im making a note/remember to a certain day at 5PM or 5AM lol
2nd - I click on the windows Calendar, and did not show any of my appointments. lol Isn't supposed to have a mark, something? I mean, its a calendar... A mark on the days with task's / remember, had to be there.

If someone could give me some tips about this I appreciate. Since I really need the calendar sync with android to manage and remember things that I need.

I'm drowning in a sea of WMV files with all sorts of different specs - bitrates, frame rates, resolutions, you name it. I'm looking to convert them all to MP4 for better compatibility, but the manual work in Handbrake is killing me.

Ideally, I'd love some free software that can analyze these WMV files and automatically choose the best MP4 settings to minimize quality loss while keeping the file size reasonable. Any recommendations from the video conversion gurus out there?

Thanks in advance!

Ever since I got my PC, my file explorer icons were always the newer/fluent icons (fluent icons are the icons in the 'after' section of the picture below). But, since October last year, the icons suddenly changed to the older variants (the ones in the 'before' setion).

Before=the old icons (my current ones), After=the fluent icons (the ones I had/want back)

For the past couple months, I have been looking for ways to change them back to the fluent icons, but I always failed. I even tried using 3rd party apps like CustomizerGod but all my files started to look like this.

https://preview.redd.it/fqci74ynfxwc1.png?width=56&format=png&auto=webp&s=6b6b8a0b3996e1f8020afeeb9fd9e502949d3f5f

In addition, even if I didn't care about the files looking like that, every windows update would change them back to the older icons.

In conclusion, I need a way to change them back to the fluent icons WITHOUT using apps like the one I used. Could anyone help me?

Anyone know how? I'm using POR INTL layout and is really annoying when I want a quotation mark. I tried powertoys, autohotkey, sharpkeys, but no matter what, when I press shift + ' it waits instead of just writing "

Hello everyone,

Is there a way to add delay to my bluetooth speaker so that I could synchronise it perfectly to my lights ?
Thanks in advance

Hello,

After windows update at my home screen I have this new widgets, see attachment. My question is how can i remove / disable / delete?

https://preview.redd.it/eci9qgyj0uwc1.jpg?width=2991&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88851e5c5ed3d53ea1ca8a4ff0f37bec04c840ff

There are a lot of suggestions out there on how to fix the download error you get when trying to install the Windows 10 KB5034441 update. Most of them are very complex and require you to edit the registry. The video below has the best solution out there and it is easy...and I know it works, because I just did it! The solution in this video shows you how to download the MS Tool that allows you to "hide" a download. That way, your Windows 10 NEVER tries to download it again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBWsib2GxFs&ab_channel=Windows%2CcomputersandTechnology

I know that I can use the voice search function when using the chrome browser because it always has a microphone icon in the search box. My question is when using Edge or any other browser is there a way to use voice search? Ever since I had my hand crushed I can only hunt and peck type and that is very slow compared to voice search.

In Control Panel > Credential Manager > Windows Credentials I found a strange credential item with blank username and with a long Internet or Network address having a few sequences of letters and numbers separated by "-". What could it be?

Freshly installed Windows 10. In the past, I would use some tools to debloat my Windows, but doing some research, it is considered unsafe as it can potentially harm your pc. Now I'm wondering if there's even a need to debloat Windows at all. Does it even speed your pc performance up? What are your thoughts?

I want to install Windows 10, but my computer gives me an error when installing updates. I want to know how to install Windows 10 without installing updates.

I was really bummed when they got rid of that feature, it had some funny visual effects I added to photos for fun

Earlier today, I was in my first period class with the laptop I use for school. I wasn't really paying attention and I accidently mistyped my pin 3 times. Stupid mistake, whatever, but Windows found the need to disable the 'sign in option' for TWO WHOLE HOURS for such a mistake. I needed this computer for my classes so it was a massive inconvenience to have to wait two hours to be able to log in again. Three hours go by and it was giving me the same message when attempting to log in even though it clearly stated to 'wait at least two hours' before the sign in functionality was returned. It didn't work for the rest of the school day. I've read online that this kind of thing is a bug and it isn't intended to happen but generally people are given access to their devices after the two hours. I, on the other hand, am on my 14th hour of being locked out. I'm not sure if it'll ever give me access to my device again, so I made the decision to factory reset and reinstall the operating system which resulted in losing tons of unbacked up data. As a programmer, this is a lazy bug and it's completely unacceptable to leave something like this in the commercial product. Countless support tickets have been made by others who have fallen victim to the same bug and still nothing has been done about it. It is simply laziness on behalf of Microsoft and the inability to listen to their users that makes me furious. If you have the option to send an entry level programmer to spend 5 minutes solving a critical bug like this that causes users devices to soft lock at the operating system level, why wouldn't you?

I don’t think i saw any threads about this but if there is one and i missed it i do apologize in advance. Im currently in the process of building my second pc which has two ssd one of which has my windows setup. So if I take the other ssd that doesn’t have a windows boot on it, am i able to copy all the data from the other data and then use a new key to activate windows? Or can i just use the same windows key from my current build? Thanks in advance.

How do I get them to open in a new location?

Windows 11 has brought some significant security upgrades and features, such as restricted access to critical system processes like lsass, why do people keep using Windows 10?

I don't get it, Windows 11 is far superior in everything that Windows 10 is but every time I ask a person what OS they using its Windows10. Given the enhancements in Windows 11, this has me curious: What are the main reasons some choose to remain on Windows 10? Is it due to compatibility issues, hardware requirements, or perhaps preference for the Windows 10 interface? Even for games, Windows 11 has better access to API's that greatly reduce lag in game through DirectStorage and whatnot anyways just curious.

Need this to read an XP disc (for OG Xbox) on Windows 10.