I’m trying to download the windows media creation tool on a older laptop that I have and I forgot the password to the admin account and have been using a local one, how can I figure out that password? Or change it? Whenever I press reset password it tells me to download the wizard password tool but when I go onto it it asks for my password which I don’t know, so then it leads to absolutely no where. Please help!

I've been using Windows 10 for years and just having it auto login for years. Never had a problem with startup programs at all. I recently got a fingerprint reader and decided to enable Windows Hello login using that (or a PIN). I immediately noticed that my task bar was empty of the usual programs. Discord, steam, Razer mouse software. Everything except the windows stuff like network.

I searched for a solution, but it seems that some people have reported these symptoms but never connected it to Windows Hello. It would occasionally start some programs, and less occasionally start all programs, but based on this I never trusted everything had started. I have about 14 program icons in the system tray area. Usually I had zero start, sometimes a handful.

The logical first step is to ask for recently installed programs in the startup and conflicts. Sure, that could be a thing, except it really did start happening the moment I started using Windows Hello. To that end, I disabled Windows Hello login and now I again have all programs starting consistently.

I noticed this unanswered post from a month ago of someone else having the same problem. And I suspect posts like this and possibly this.

I believe something is wrong with at least Windows 10 when using Windows Hello to login to the computer. Not sure if it's in Windows 11 too.

Edit to add:

• Windows 10 is up to date
• No error messages pop up or are seen. Just a blank system tray
• 5800X, Asus B550M Strix, 32GB ram, Asus 3080, 2TB 970 evo nvme

Hello! A couple months ago, my pc powersupply and motherboard was taken out by a power surge. After I replaced my psu, motherboard, and cpu just to be safe, my windows had gotten deactivated since I had a system builder license. Currently, I was able to change my wallpaper on the homescreen to the default darkmode one. However, my wallpaper on my lockscreen is reallly embarassing and it wont let me do the same thing to change it. How can I change it without activating windows? Right now buying a windows license isn't and option, and im not trusting a key website. And, it dosent bother me not being activated. The activation popup only occurs after a few hours of usage, so I don't even see the watermark most of the time. If any of you need to know im running Windows 11 Home 23h2.

My laptop was in 0x0000225 problem which when I want to open safe mode or any other it was not opening and not launching recovery options it keeps on restarting it what are the best way to get it right and please help in this and any one to try power off method I tried it but didn't work and by using this method the problem was looping to 0x000001 to 0x0000025

Is this view still available in Explorer? How do you enable cascading file view?

Windows 10 Pro

This is a screenshot from MAC OS but I know that this view was available on windows years ago and cannot find this option anymore. It makes it easier to see the files in folders without opening and closing them.

When I start Geometry Dash, the screen refresh rate automatically changes from 165Hz to 60Hz without having DRR enabled. How can I prevent it from changing? I have Windows 11 updated (26100.3037), and the game doesn’t have any administrator permissions. I have an AMD Radeon 6600XT GPU and a Ryzen 5 3500X CPU (in case it's helpful). The monitor is the PcCom Elysium GO2480CV 23.8" LED FullHD 165Hz Freesync Curved. This has not happened with any other game so far.

I updated my Windows 11 3 days ago. There is a lot of weird problems in general but can anyone help me with 0xc0000142 error? My Wondershare Filmora X [crack that I have been using since 2021] is not working and I did everything so far to fix this. I even tried fresh system instalation. Nothing helps.
Should I pray that some further update will come out soon that will fix this?

Also, is it normal that my account sort of split into two when I upgraded to win 11? one local and one based on my Microsoft logging details.

Anyway it takes like up to 10 seconds between seeing the login screen and the pin box appearing. During that time it’s just the background image blurry - Wondering why this might be - it’s an HP omen 2021 with 1tb SSD, ryzen 5800h, and rtx 3070 laptop gpu.

wondering if I might have some insidious little malware or something

So, as many, I dual use my peripherals between laptops and my tower. The Hub/switch comes up as a keyboard and I disabled it through powercfg to stop any slight mouse movements from waking the system, problem is, this stops the keyboard from doing so.

Is there ANY way to allow the keyboard but not the mouse through the hub/km switch? Windows makes this infuriatingly difficult. Can't even tell what device is what in device manager. Guessed and checked as I forgot to use lastwake. Had 6 keyboards all with random numbers lol

I use a Beyerdynamic M70 Pro X microphone to a M-Audio interface that plugs into my pc using usb. I have gain on the interface at max and the volume through windows sound settings at 100%. I have also gone through the more properties tab and increased the levels tab to 100% aswell and I cant get past 12% total volume on mic test, running the troubleshoot that windows offers it wasnt able to find any problems

If I remove the audio interface the total output is even less, not sure if this is something that can be fixed or if I went too cheap on the interface and now dealing with the consequences. any help would be appreciated.

I don't know if it's a bug, it happens randomly. I set a wallpaper of my prefered image and it randomly changes back to a one color background and randomly switches back to my wallpaper, I had multiple wallpapers its not because of the photo, I have decent hardware, I reinstalled windows a month ago and the problem still occurs? I don't know why it's happening

Windows keeps giving me errors like:

The code execution cannot proceed because (FILE NAME) was not found. Reinstalling the program might fix the problem.

My system is Windows 11 and I also installed Linux.

Info:

Windows specifications:

Edition Windows 11 Home

Version 24H2

Installed on ‎24/‎11/‎2024

OS build 26100.2894

Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.36.0

The title doesn't make much sense, but what I mean to say is on touchpad gestures like two finger scrolls, it registers as a tap instead of a slide sometimes, it seems random when that happens. Same with three/four finger gestures, when i swipe, sometimes it registers as a tap. Very annoying as I switch desktops a lot.

If still confused, I set my two finger tap as a right click. My two finger slide as a scroll. Sometimes when I try to scroll, it registers as a tap. It's worse on the three / four finger swipes, but still happens from time to time.

(Any help would be appreciated, thanks!) (OS build is 22631.4751)

Hello everyone, my windows laptop for some reason cannot download apps from the Microsoft store. When I fresh installed it I was able to download on the first day but then on the second day it didn’t work anymore. Then magically it worked the third day and now it’s refusing to work at all.

Bonjour

J'ai un problème d'écran depuis un moment ,j'ai une carte graphique AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT ,et il se trouve que depuis un moment j'ai de gros soucis pour connecter 2 écrans en même temps pour réussir a avoir les deux affichages en même temps il ne faut pas que les deux câble soit enfoncé a fond en même temps sinon c'est qu'un seul qui prend le relais il faut qu'il y ai un câble a moitie branché pour que cela fonctionne ,et aussi parfois quand j'essaye de connecter un écran seulement ca ne marche pas et quand j'essaye avec un autre cela fonctionne mais pas toujours cela dépend de l'écran cela est très aléatoire ,je tiens a dire que j'ai tout essayé reset la carte graphique ,changer d'écran et ca n'a toujours pas refonctionner ,et plein de manip différentes

Nom de l'appareil PCDeLucas

Processeur AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.60 GHz

Mémoire RAM installée 16,0 Go (15,9 Go utilisable)

Carte Graphique: AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT

Cordialement

having the same problem a lot of others seem to have but i can't figure out the solution

the wifi to our really old desktop computer stopped working last night, woke up this morning to try and troubleshoot it and nothing has helped so far

i saw some threads telling people to try reinstalling their wireless adapter as this is a common issue with windows 11 but when i open device manager and look at the network adapters these are the only ones that show up. we don't have and have never used an ethernet cable.

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desktop is HP Pavilion All in One 27

I just got a gaming laptop, and there is an FPS meter on top right side, i am trying to find the settings to close it but i can't find it, even though i am sure i opened it from settings. I am trying to find a way but it's been over two hours and i couldn't find anything, it's just a plain black meter with white numbers.

I'm super stuck on TranslucentTB. I have installed it, then it didn't work so I did the zVive work around and ran command prompt in admin mode (which said that it was successful) I restarted my computer and ~ nothing ~. Didn't work. So I tried to uninstall and reinstall. Uninstalled it, then tried to go back to the windows store and kept getting an error. Found on reddit to delete all files and even hidden ones. Now I still can't even download translucent - I have no idea what to do now

OS Build: 26100.3037

I have always bought prebuilts with windows pre-installed on it. I'm now trying to figure out how to install windows 11 Home on a newly built PC and I'm having trouble distinguishing the difference between purchasing a key or purchasing a USB from Microsoft.

The price difference between the two is stark enough that I'm not understanding why anyone would purchase the USB? Am I not understanding something about how keys work?

The official Microsoft Store has the Windows 11 Home key listed as $34.99 right now. To my understanding, there is a way to install Windows on your own USB at home and just activate it using the purchased key. [Link Here] (https://www.microsoftkeys.net/windows/microsoft-windows-11-home-license-key?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAiAqfe8BhBwEiwAsne6gcpAc_uWlcRA3ayOEXdEY5lg_EjmdOvHwGS2rJpp43ZNQ0__r3gQsBoCFcwQAvD_BwE)

But the USB purchased to install the OS and get an activation key for the same version is listed as $139.99. Link Here

What am I missing? Is the pre-made USB really $100 more? If I purchased just the key from Microsoft and downloaded the OS myself from a homemade USB, would it work fine? Are there any risks?

I'm sorry if this information seems obvious to some, I have never done anything like this before and have no idea what I'm doing. I am mostly suspicious because of how steep the price difference is here.

Thank you in advance.

If you don’t know it’s written : Activate Windows, go on settings to activate windows…

How to I get rid of that ? Bc when I look on settings it says that Windows didn’t detect any Product key on my computer, what’s this all abt bc I keep trying to activate but it never works

Good evening everyone, I was deleting fedora from my pc in dual boot with w11. The linux partitions have been deleted and I am left to fix the boot manager. Unlike many guides, if I run the command bcdedit /enum firmware, I have no entry for grub but only the ones to enter the bios, on windows and to boot from usb. To solve this problem at the time I changed the Windows Boot Manager path to point to grubx64.efi but now that fedora is gone, I should restore it. What should I do? Unfortunately I don't remember initially what it was pointing to. Could it have been bootmgfw.efi?

Can I just run bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi?

The pc is a HP pavilion laptop

Thank you

I have a Windows 11 laptop (Samsung Galaxy Book 3 Ultra) and I'm having issues with bluetooth audio.

I turn on the PC and I can use it for about an hour without any issues, but after this hour passes, my bluetooth speakers/audio starts stuttering. After that it gets worse until the point in which I can't hear anything anymore.

I've tried every solution I could find, and nothing works except for the windows bluetooth troubleshooter pictured here. It indicates that there is a problem with "bluetooth radio status", no idea what that is. This fix only works temporarily, if I shut down my PC or hibernate it, the problem starts again after 1 hour.

Not sure what else to try... if anyone can help me find a solution, I'll send them a $25 USD Amazon gift card.

Hello

I am new to building PCs and wanted to ask a question; how do I install Windows 11? While a novice question, I ran into a problem. I understand you can buy a usb and download windows 11 to install from Microsoft (alternatively you can buy a boxed USB), but how do you get a license for windows 11? Does a license come with a boxed usb installation?

FYI I'm a complete novice with this stuff.

I have "automatic updates" turned off too. Is there a possibility of malware or virus? I recently noticed some failed driver updates:

• AISpeech Technology Co.,Ltd - AudioProcessingObject - 1.4.2.36
• Lenovo - System - 15.11.30.6
• Microsoft Corporation - SoftwareComponent - 1.0.42.0
• SunplusIT - Extension - 2.0.18.5

0x80246019 is the only error code that follows after each failed driver installation.

Tried searching/copy-pasting on google to find more information, though it's difficult to find an official website or trustable source on what these driver updates entail. Lenovo and Microsoft seem like legitimate driver updates, but I'd still rather be able to read up about it or choose when I install it. AIspeech & SunplusIT kinda worry me though. What in the hell are those?

EDIT:

Lenovo (LOQ 15AHP9)

ProcessorAMD Ryzen 5 8645HS w/ Radeon 760M Graphics 4.30 GHz

Installed RAM16.0 GB (15.3 GB usable)

System type64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touchNo pen or touch input is available for this display

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I recently did a clean install of Windows 11. I then had some trouble with one windows update so windows suggested i do a repair of Windows 11. I did that and the next time i started my PC I had two Windows 11 to choose from. I don't know why that happened, and I don't know which is which because they are both on Volume C. So I just pick the one on top. What should I do? Why did this even happen? Or should I just let it be?

My sound doesn't work- I've tried everything I can, running the troubleshooter, uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, disallowing apps to take full control of the speakers, everything. (It's not on mute, I swear.) Running a device scan/antivirus doesn't make a difference, they never find any viruses. Sometimes I'll get the sound to work, but only until the laptop goes to sleep, and then it's back to silence. Occasionally the sound works right after I reboot the laptop, but only for a few seconds. I'm convinced that some application I have is still taking control, since whenever I try to run a "test sound", I get the "This device is being used by another application" error message, even though the "Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device" is turned off. What do I do, and is there any way to find what application is taking control?

My laptop is on Windows 11, OS build number is 26100.2894, and the laptop itself is a ASUS Zenbook 14, if that helps at all.