After sysprepping a laptop for replication, when I try to add a user the window pops up and then disappears. I was able to get around it using Lusrmgr.msc, but would like an actual fix to the problem. Thanks in advance. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/mvIvYYv

I recently upgraded from the igpu on the 5600g to a 3060ti, and now whenever i alt tab from a fullscreen game the screen goes black for a few seconds. I've already tried all the solutions i found and none of them worked, have anyone experienced something like this? this did not happened on the 5600g, so i think it may be a problem with nvidia drivers. any help would be great

Hello!

so i recently purchased a new computer without windows so i bought a usb version of windows 11 directly from microsoft, the thing is ive heard that your windows licence is tied to your microsoft account and i belive the windows i have on my old computer is not a "real" version, so the question is will it beccome a problem with having two acctivations on one microsoft account beacuse, i want to use the real version as long as i can.

the old computer is currently running windows 10 will there be aa problem when uppgrading?

Thanks on beforehand.

Whenever I log onto my profile on the computer specifically it loads to this black screen. For context: after taking a long break from the pc, I came back to the "we're happy you're here" sign in animation. As it took ages to load I shut the pc down and rebooted, only to find this black screen every time.

Specs are windows 10, ryzen 5 3600, 16gb RAM, Gtx 1660 super

I keep getting this error code and I can't reset my pc or update it, I've tried with a ISO file and it says Windows 10 Installation Failed, need help fixing this, I've followed every instruction on this website and still nothing https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/0x800703e6.html

Please Help

Hello,

I have been experimenting with the 5.1 surround sound outputs on my motherboard in Windows 11 (26100.2605). On the windows test, VLC media player, and this multichannel playback test, the surround speakers work properly; however, whenever I try to stream 5.1 content on YouTube or Prime Video, the sound that is meant to come out of the surround speakers instead comes out of the front speakers.

I have tried Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, as well as the desktop version of Prime Video without any luck. I have tried pretty much every possible configuration on the speaker setup. Does anybody know if there is a way to fix this?

It is also important to note that I am using no center speakers, and my subwoofer is hooked up via a splitter to the front speaker output (because the subwoofer output wasn't playing anything below 60hz). I have disabled both the center speakers and subwoofer when I was configuring it to account for this

I Tried below procedures for uninstalling

To uninstall Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) on Windows 10, you can: 

1. Remove the installed distributions from Apps and Features:
   1. Right-click the Windows start icon and select Apps and Features
   2. Select the Linux distribution you want to remove
   3. Select Uninstall
2. Remove the WSL app and related components:
   1. Go to Settings > Apps > Apps & Features
   2. Scroll down to the bottom of the apps list and find Windows Subsystem for Linux
   3. Click the More button and select Uninstall
3. Remove any additional WSL components, such as the WSL update or WSLg Preview
4. Remove Virtual Machine Platform and Windows Subsystem for Linux features from Windows Features

You can also remove a distribution from WSL and delete all of the associated data by running wsl --unregister <distroName>. The name of your Linux distro is available in the list from the wsl -l command. 

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recently ran malware bytes on my pc and was getting spammed with a message talking about an Async.Rat (powershell.exe) or something. decided to delete malware bytes and run windows defender scan, which picked up nothing. today i checked my exclusions and a bunch of random things were on there, explorer.exe was there too. i removed them all and the scan picked up a threat, the same threat over and over, 4 times. all involving explorer.exe. every time the defender picked it up, my taskbar would vanish and the screen got a bit buggy. my concern is, even though defender's protection history is saying it's been blocked, should I feel secure?

Heya all

I had my PC built and delivered, but soon came to realize I have the Volume(?) license which is deactivated. The shop I got it from didn't charge me for it and thought I didn't want the official license(which is absolutely stupid)

I'm about to buy the official key from the MS site, but just want to know if it'll wipe my local files with the activation? I've seen some people mention that you just need to enter a code and you're all good, but I wanted to triple check first.

Thanks!

For some reason,only the right arrow key in my keyboard is not working,but when pressed with shift or control,the right key does work,this is starting to make me go mad,i cant play any game that needs the use of it,I REALLY NEED TO BE ABLE TO USE IT

i tried:
Safe mode: in safe mode or before i log in the pc,it works! ,i tried disabeling everything that started with the pc but it was the same

Un and RE-installing keyboard drivers: it did nothing.

plugging in and out and cleaning: nothing :(

the keyboard is a Genius GX Gaming Scorpion K220 QWERTY
the weirdest part,is that is not even working on the virtual keyboard

Hey guys, so I have dual booted Windows 10 and Windows 7 and I have a question. If my Windows 7 gets infected, can the malware/hacker get to the other OS? And if not if windows 7 gets infected, will the other OS have any problem? I just want to clear out before using it.

I logged into my PC, but Windows security did not boot. Please help me because I have a lot of work to do, and people often send files without checking them or intentionally including viruses. I've tried many methods provided on the internet, and none seemed to help. Also, I recently installed a fresh copy of Windows and debloated it.
SPECS:
HP Victus 15
i5 13420H
8 GB of ram
Windows 11 home(24H2)
Please help

I lost an Android S21 phone. It's gone, don't even think about asking. I can't get my new Android moto E phone connected in Phone Link. I assume it has something to do with how Phone Link on the PC keeps wanting to connect to the phone is Germany somewhere. It never will. I don't see anything about how to get that old/dead/gone one off of there, without actually having it and changing settings on it.

I have a Dell Vostro 3480 with CPU - Intel core i5-8265u GPU - Amd Radeon 520 Ram - 16Gb Storage - SSD I use both Linux and windows both run fine for normal use but when I start playing games the story gets really different In Linux - Os - Kubuntu 24.10 First there is a mess I have to do to use amdgpu instead of Radeon after that I can play games and using Proton - GE or Wine GE most of games can launch but the thing is all games have low fps like if I play GTA 5 with high graphics and some mods it hits 15-20 fps (unplayable) RDR - 1 with lowest graphics 20-25 (completed the game on this framerate) Cod Black ops 3 - lowest settings with 50% render 30-45 fps Mafia 2 - 25-30 fps but game starts out popping textures and doesn't loads the area after like 30 mins -1 hr gameplay The temperature during gaming is around 97 for the CPU The fans only spin when gaming after like a minute Clock speed of CPU remains like 2.7 - 3 Ghz Now on Windows Os - Windows 11 24H2 All drivers installed from Dell (tried other drivers and almost everything like 4 year ago on windows 10 when my pc was new still the same experience) GTA 5 with same settings hits 30-45 fps (really good) but the thing is after like 3-5 minutes the game starts extreme lags when driving texture popping and other issues the framerate also goes down to like 10-25 fps
Mafia 2 game runs at same framerate as Linux but texture popping issue comes at like 2-3 minutes or gameplay RDR - 1 Game runs like slideshow barely hitting 2-3 frames (extremely unplayable) Cod Black ops 3 constant 60 fps no issues The temperature during gaming is like 85 degrees The fans spin before during loading screen CPU clock speed goes down slowly from 3.7Ghz to slowly slowly getting below 1 Ghz

Now my laptop came with Linux is that a issue that makes games worse on windows? My friend has almost same laptop from Lenovo and gets quite the same framerate without issues Laptop is not overheating and this issue doesn't happens on Intel uhd graphics Multiplayer games are extremely Suttery mess Drivers are all uptodate and downloaded from dells official site facing the same issue since like 6 years from now same experience in Linux and windows since starting Please help and tell me how do I fix it and make windows performance just like linux

I've installed the Olympus Dictation Software on Windows 11 Pro desktop for my organization and am continuously getting a missing shell folder error. (The application cannot be executed because the following Shell Folder defined in the registry cannot be found. Startup) This error is causing the program to not auto-launch when the dictation device is docked. (Additional info, if needed: the dictation dock is identified as a removable device on the F: drive.) I have the steps for how to fix the problem, but can anyone show me or tell what exactly the end result should look like in the folder and/or registry? These are the steps to fix the issue:

Open the registry and follow the path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders

• Next, copy the Path for the relevant registry entry (e.g. Startup).
• Browse to this location using Windows explorer.
• If you do not see the folder, which will be the most likely scenario, create a folder and give it the name of the missing folder, ensuring the path is correct for the relevant registry entry. This is where I'm confused. What folder am I creating? Am I creating a folder called 'Startup' in the location that I copied and pasted from Startup in the registry?
• If you are using redirected folders, please ensure that you are using a UNC path as drive letters may not reconnect when disconnected, and ensure the location contains the folder name in question as above.

System Specs:

Edition Windows 11 Pro

Version 24H2

Installed on ‎12/‎5/‎2024

OS build 26100.2605

Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.36.0

Processor 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13500 2.50 GHz

Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable)

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Any help would be appreciated!

For some reason my bios isn’t detecting my nvme as a boot option and only boots when I have the USB drive connected. My nvme shows up in bios but not as a boot option. I have tried csm and other os but nothing seems to work. I have a ASUS tuf x670e motherboard and I don’t know how to make it appear and run.

Today one of my friend did something with the folders on my laptop. Now I lost all the folders on my ‘desktop’. I did some google search and got to know they are hidden. So with the help of some results I tried to recover the folders but I was not successful. What I did was opened file explorer -> Options -> View -> Hidden files and folders ->Show hidden files, folders and drives. All I can see are some faded folders and files inside File explorer noww😭 My friend doesn’t remember what he did as well😭 I am still searching for a way to recover the folders, Help!

I was screen recording using the system Snipping tool. I had used it in the past for 5min recordings, but today I lost a recording of a GMeet meeting.
I remember seeing the record bar until around 10 mins(the duration was displayed there), so the screen recording was successfully active atleast until then. But after the meeting I noticed that the recording bar was gone. There was no prompt to save the recording and it has not been automatically saved in the Screen recordings folder in Videos.

I had around 36 GB's of free space on my C: drive. The meeting went for around 2 hours, but 36 GB's would be ok for that, right?

Is there any way to recover the recording? Would it be saved in any TEMP folder? Or is there any app to recover it?

##Specs/details

Edition: Windows 11 Home Single Language
Version: 23H2
Installed on: ‎10/‎10/‎2022
OS build: 22631.4541
Experience: Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22700.1055.0

Laptop Model: Lenovo Ideapad gaming 3 15IMH05.

Also, is this a known issue? Which apps do you use to record your screen/meetings. I used the system app because it supported system audio.

Thanks in advance.

I have a Dell Precision Tower 7810 with 2 Xeon E5-2620 v3 CPUs. (Socket LGA2011 v3) As Windows 10 is going to stop reviving security updates in October I would like to upgrade to Windows 11. However I see that my CPU is not supported. Does anyone know of any CPUs which are supported by Windows 11 which I can put in this system?

The update installs to 99% and it says retry with the error code "Install error - 0x800f081f", it has windows 11 in it. And the window in the attached image keeps opening every time I turn on the pc. please check the attached images of the Windows update error and the Window that keep opening whenever i turn on the pc. Is there any way to fix this issue?

The error window that keeps opening every time i turn on the pc

Error in the update

Hey,

This seems like a strange one I can't figure out. Recently moved from win 10 to 11 and shortly afterwards (or possibly as soon as i cant quite remember) the N key stopped working on my keyboard. I tried another KB and it still wouldn't work despite working on my mac. Then I realised the N key doesn't even work when I click on it on the on screen keyboard!

Has anyone come across thid before or could speculate a fix? I've tried resetting the keyboard drivers but no luck. Could it have been remapped somehow?

Thanks for any help/ideas.

I'm on Windows 11 Home. the computer is a PC de Bureau Gamer MEDION Erazer Engineer P10 MD35352 - RTX 3060Ti 8 GB - Intel Core i5-12400 - RAM 16Go - 1To SSD

I uninstalled all the updates that were installed on that day (12th of december).
Unfortunately, Windows also proposed me to install the new Nvidia driver, which I did. In retrospect I shouldn't have because now I cannot see if it's the Windows update which is problematic, or if it's the Nvidia driver.

Uninstalling the Windows updates didn't change a thing.

I read something about disabling the overlay in the Geforce Experience app, which I did already. It didn't solve the problem though.

The PC crashes on Helldivers 2 (which is considered a buggy game I think) and it was stuttering like crazy on Marvel Rivals.

edit : I tried to launch a game (PC didn't crash) and when I left it, my screen was like this - https://puu.sh/KkKtK/a50bd652f9.png

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

I'm attempting to upgrade my surface pro 7 to windows 11. There was a BIOS update that removed the option to enable my TPM chip, which is required by windows 11 to be enabled. I have looked at multiple threads where people have asked Microsoft support about this to no avail. Apparently, firmware cannot be rolled back, and it appears there's no interest in "fixing" the problem. I haven't had any luck at all with getting Microsoft support on the phone or online. I did seem to find a solution the only problem is, I am not sure how to do the steps outlined:

Microsoft didn't have a clue what to do as their bios upgrade in 2020 should have only removed the TPM enable/disable option in the bios (as in permanently enabled), so I solved the issue myself.

I just used the PowerShell script to create a Demo certificate. This allowed me to take control of UEFI (Using the UEFI configurator, as the configurator won't work without a certificate) as if I was a SEMM sysadmin, and then I revoked all the configurable bios menu options. Rebooted to make sure it was active. I then invoked all the options again and removed the control back to local bios login.

Whilst this did not reenable the TPM option in the bios security menu, did flag up for tpm.msc in Windows 10 Pro that TPM 2.0 chip existed and was fully functional.

Windows Update still failed to recognise this as a fully capable Win 11 system. Thus it did not automatically offer the upgrade.

This was easily resolved by downloading the Win 11 installation manager and manually upgrading.

Thread quoted above

Thank you for taking the time to read my post.

OS Build: 19045.5247

I have a new windows 11 laptop and when i try to add my work account I get a 80192EE7 error. My companies IT department have checked it meets all of the necessary requirements and i have tried everything i can think of in that respect.

On the companys end the laptop is registering and then immediately unregistering itself. Others have had this issue when being signed into various windows services with a personal account, which i did do when i inititally installed windows. I have tried to sign out of evrything and have made a local account but with no luck. Does anyone have any ideas?

I can no longer set my windows lock screen. Settings won't let me choose any file and manually right clicking and setting an image as a lock screen does nothing.

I have already reset my windows update, not sure what precipitated this. The normal desktop backgrounds are functioning fine and these are normal pngs.

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