I don't know when but Show Desktop has started to just disappear when windows aren't maximized this can be very annoying when windows doesn't maximize every window it also means I can't use it anymore to unminimize windows from the desktop is there any way change it back to what it was or at least stopping it from disappearing and always be present?

To update to the latest version of Windows 11, I was asked to log into my Microsoft account. After the update, I was digging around the 'accounts' section in settings in an attempt to find the 'use a local account instead' setting, but it seems as if they removed it altogether.

Did anyone figure out how do you actually log out of your Microsoft account, is it even possible?

When I start my computer and login. The Wifi-options doesn't show at the usual place. It is just gone. I can go services and activate WLAN and it then shows up and connects. However, I have turned on that it should start automatically, but it just doesn't. Anyone who knows how I can solve it? I have tried to do a startup repair, but it says that it can't do one.

When I am starting my computer it starts like normal. Then after the usual loading screen, this shows up and it loads for at least 5 min before the usual Windows dotted-loading circle shows up for a milli-second and lastly I am taken to the login screen. Anyone who knows how to fix it?

Long story short I have two Acer laptops I have an external hard drive and I'm trying to get them all onto the single external hard drive so I can reformat the two smaller drives so I have an external hard drive enclosure and I have it plugged into my laptop where should I look for photos and files on the external? Also is there any programs or freeware that could help me reformat and not have to reinstall windows? But I'm just struggling and want to not lose my children's photos and wedding pictures etc.

I deleted some files from my rubbish on my PC. Which I now know I need them back.

When I right-click download and go to the previous version I have the version I want to go back to but this error keeps on popping up (TOSHIBA EXT (E:\) IS disconnected) even though my external hard drive is plugged in. The picture should show the issue here.

Does anyone happen to know a fix to this problem I'm currently using Windows 10, and I've done the basics of trying to plug in the external hard drive into different USB ports.

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Hi all, I have an old Dell Latitude E5540 that I set up to be used as backup with raid disks. It's useful because it has 2+1 potential disk slot (1 mSATA, 1 standard 2,5" SATA and I replaced the DVD slot with an HDD 2,5" adapter). I have a 128GB mSATA ssd for OS and 2 HDDs for data.
Sad thing is that the laptop is old and the intel "raid" doesn't support large disks (I just replaced the previous non raid 1TB HDDs with 2TB HDDs) so I need to use a software raid in Windows.

No problem, I tought, I can use the raid capabilities in Windows. Second sad thing: bitlocker doesn't support dynamic disks (used in raid capabilities).

Now I'm stuck. I want both bitlocker and raid but I can't. I need external software to manage it.

I have already Cobian Backup 11 installed used to make a 1:1 backup of another task, but it's not really what I want, because I have 1TB+ of data with daily use and file modifications so even if I setup an incremental backup+task image it'll take a lot of time with a single run.

Is there some software that create a real time sync / raid 1 / mirroring between 2 disks?

I need one that is simple and fast to configure (like just "Sync D: disk with E: disk").

Thank you.

I prefer using the now discontinued Google Picasa to open image files over any image viewer, I'd only use Windows Photos to open .gif files since Picasa can't. It's getting annoying for the past few years that my default application to view pictures keeps on getting reverted back to Windows Photos every so often, at a random frequency (like every 3-4 days). But one thing for sure is that it is always getting reverted back on every Windows updates. Which is weird because I don't have this issue on other apps, it's only an issue on image viewer default apps.

Hey all, I Accidentally deleted my brothers user profile in windows 10, am I able to reinstate it? I’ve googled and I struggled to follow it, but I’m going through a lot. If so, can it be written in simple steps? I’m worried I lost the photos that were on it.

Hi there

I leave my computer on 24/7 and while I'm across the room, I often hear the familiar "chime" noise it plays whenever there's a notification to be read. It might be an incoming e-mail, it might be a notice from reddit or any other app, sometimes it's just to tell you there's an update pending and so on.

The problem is - often times whatever the notification is, goes away before I can get to the computer - and it will NOT appear in the bell icon for pending notifications in the bottom right

It's like you literally need to catch the popup, in the moment, or be forever confused

It JUST happened to me right now. I can find no pending notification even though I just heard the chime from downstairs

Very frustrating. Any help would be great, thanks kindly

There are these two "extra" buttons around the basic browser navigation buttons and they're really making me angry. They sit on top of the window, so if you're in a web browser and you have a lot of tabs open, you can't do anything with the last one because these things sit on top of them and you end up clicking on them. The first one expands your browser/window across all of your monitors, the second one moves the window to another monitor. You can't right click on them, nothing comes up if you hover over them, and I can't find anything in any of my settings that will make them go away. I thought they were part of Chrome, however they're on my File Explorer and Settings windows as well. Any help would be appreciated.

Download the app from here and you should be good I was experiencing this issue so Now That I have solved it I know the pain so am here to save your time.

Here

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-defender-it-administrator-has-limited/921e9b42-8eff-4bb5-bd1b-997cbf987c1a

Hoping someone can help! I had some VOB files from a burned DVD that I converted using VLC player to mp4, the video plays fine in VLC, but i'd like it to work with regular media player so my mom doesnt need to install a different player for these videos. Anyone know why there's no audio in media player after converting to mp4? The original VOB did have audio in media player.

Thanks!

I have been having an issue where Edge is loading certain webpages really slowly. It is happening to most of the websites I use, except for Microsoft sites. The issue came up last week, and I have not had a chance to look into it yet until now. I have tried clearly some of my cookies but that did nothing, and I am reluctant to clear everything until I find out it is necessary as I do not want to lose my saved data. I am also wondering if repairing the program will do anything, and I could do that, but I want to make sure that I won't lose any of my data or settings before I go through with that. If anyone else has this issue and knows how to fix it, I would very much appreciate it. It would be a pain to move to a different browser right now, I have way too much going on to have the time for that

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I have no idea what this is and for what game it is I haven't modified a game in months how do I stop this and what is the source?

Even the ones on the desktop. I checked if it was a virus but no the scan says my pc is safe and i used to have this problem on my second account. The apps started to look like that after i moved the pc to another location and reconnected the cables.

It probably wont go on its own. I waited long enough to know that

I did a Restart on my Windows 10 because it wouldn't run one of the programs I had installed. I chose Keep All My Files and Cloud Install. It said it would restart on its own after downloading Windows but it's stuck on the Restarting screen without the circle loading thing. I'm afraid if I do a hard reboot, it would totally ruin the laptop. Help me I know nothing about computers, I just Google solutions and try them. I suspect it's a driver problem but I only vaguely know what that means... How do I fix this? 🥹

I can't save new screenshots so I can't post what is going on but I can at least explain it. I moved my PC from one room to another, and it seemingly was working fine but I noticed drivers were having errors and now I've realized I can't access my C: drive. I assumed something got corrupted during the move somehow, so I figured I would reinstall windows and now I can't even do that! When I try using the recovery tool in settings the window just closes and nothing happens. I'm very bummed, if anyone can help I would be eternally grateful!

Edit per the auto mod response:

Model of your computer - It's a custom built desktop, I can post the specs if needed.

Your Windows and device specifications - Windows 10 Home, AMD Ryzen 9, 32 gigs ram.

What troubleshooting steps you have performed - I've tried reinstalling windows to no avail.

Any error messages you have encountered - C:\ is not accesible. Access is denied.

Any screenshots or logs of the issue - I can't save new screenshots :/

This is what it says after performing a scan:

[

No current threats.

Last scan: 29-Sep-24 11:18 PM (custom scan)

1 threat(s) found.

Scan lasted 9 minutes 7 seconds

240248 files scanned.

]

Version: 23H2 22631.4169

Specs:

i9 13900HX

RTX 4080 mobile

32GB RAM

I've already tried restarting and rescanning, and nothing has changed. I also deleted the data in the protection history folder.

Genuinely, I hate this so much. OBS doesn't work with bluetooth, so I got wires for my headphones. Now, the fucking computer doesn't register that there's something plugged in!! Its a 20/80 chance that it does, and I only won that once. OBS has told me the laptop microphone has been obstructed by this wire, and when i tap my headphones; it makes noise on the input.

How do I fix this? I troubleshooted 4 times, talked to microsoft support (they told me to 'pair the device' thanks a lot), and I restarted the computer 3 times:

Restarted with the wire plugged in - no success
Restarted with it plugged in + into the headphones - it didn't even realize there was a wire!!
Restarted THEN plugged in - no success

I already googled, nothing came up.

Specs:
Windows 11 personal
GIGABYTE laptop 2022 model i don't know exactly

7900x, x670 elite mobo, 32gb ddr5 6000, 4080, 1000W power supply

I had issues when I first built the PC with bsods that were entirely fixed by finding a stable bios. Never had issues after that until the other day when I updated to windows 11.

The first night was fine, but day 2 every game I launched would crash, and about 1/3 times when opening a game, or a YouTube video, it would BSOD. I tried clean installing windows 11, and still had the same issue. Everytime I go back to windows 10, the issue is fixed and entirely stable.

Any ideas of what may be causing this?

I bought a USB hub splitter for USB 3.2 for my laptop, and I plugged it into my USB 3.2 port and plugged my Firecuda hard drive, and even after I unplugged the USB hub and plugged the hard drive back into the original port, it turns on and the status light is on, and disk management and the hard drive app recognizes it, but I can't change rgb, it doesn't appear in file management, and I can't format it on disk management and it says I need to initialize it into GPT or MBR, but both fail when I try.

TL:DR messed with hard drive and usb hub, now hard drive only turns on but doesn't work.

My local disk D have total space of 157 gb and there is file of 1.70 gb but the available space is 135 gb. Similar is the case in disk C. I deleted all temp files emptied recycle bin used disk clean up even though it didn't do any thing. I see no hidden files even after switching it on .

My laptop works fine by itself, the built in monitor is detected and doesn't have any problem.

I have purchased 2 more monitors and used the 3 of them (2 externals and 1 built in) together for a while (say 2 weeks) then decided to switch and only use the external ones.

I somehow disabled the laptop screen and now cannot go back to the previous setup in any way.

I'm not sure what i did but the laptop built in monitor is not detected in the settings, no matter what i try to do (i tried a lot)

windows 11 enterprise

anyone knows any way to fix this?

edit: i also have my laptop speakers in the menu for the audio output sources, and they work 😅

Please help. The download won’t go past 7%. It’s been like this for over 1 week 2024-09 cumulative update version 23H2 Also, disk usage is always at 100% I went through many of the online suggestions to fix it Update windows Stop super fetching Virus scans Stop startup apps …etc Thank you in advance

Windows won't boot till login screen and I can't find the Bitlocker recovery key. Any way to fix the boot issues? Nothing in the troubleshooting options seemed to work. I do have the Windows login password.

Seems that both partitions were bitlocked at some point.

Thanks!