Windows 11

I was recently hacked and had to wipe all of my computers and reinstalled windows 11. One thing I noticed there is a small (about 24-333 KB) of "UNALLOCATED SPACE" besides the System, MSR (reserved), Primary and Recovery partitions.I've installed reinstalled windows 11 many times before, I don't remember seeing something like this. I checked all of my computers in the house, and they all have the same issue.Is this common? or the hacker left something in these drives that I can't wipe it, even after I formatted the C drives many times and it kept coming back.Thanks!SD View the full article

i got my laptop with a built in microphone. the only issue with it is that it captures my voice but doesnt capture ANY other background noise. any fixes?View the full article

I just upgraded to Windows 11 and while I'm already annoyed at the ugly rounded edges for my windowed programs, but for me the bigger issue is that I seemingly can't place windowed programs at the very top of the screen. Even if I line it up perfectly (on any of my displays, so that's not the issue), Windows shoves it down so there's a visible line above the program. Is there a way to fix this or is this just more buffoonery?View the full article

Since this morning, after I woke up I restarted my pc and after being able to post. The screen would go black with the cursor infinitely loading, unable to get to the lock screenI assumed something was wrong in the bios, I check and its trying to boot off the Windows boot manager from my hard drive (My SSD is where my Windows install is, even if that hard drive used to be my c drive a few years back), I looked and it still detects my SSD I unplugged my hard drive to attempt to have the pc boot off the SSD and I get this fun little errorIve tried to boot it into automatic repair where I would hView the full article

I recently bought a new graphics card, everything was fine until a few days after installing it, my computer started showing the blue screen with the following error: WHEA_UNCORRECTABLE_ERROR. This happens constantly, with practically an hour and a half difference between each blue screen, sometimes this process is accelerated by opening certaView the full article

When I boot up my pc my Mouse settings always reset to 10 sensitivity with enhanced pointer precision turned on, I do not like or want this, I am much more comfortable with 7 sensitivity and enhanced precision turned off but without fail every single time my pc is shut down or restarted windows reverts this and other settings back to default, how can I make windows remember my preferences? And before you ask, Yes remember my preferences is turned on in windows backup settings, this setting from what I can tell is pointless and does nothing.View the full article

windows cannot access the specified device path or file you may not have appropriate permissions. look at he image i added. how do i fix this ive tried asking the game about the question they said to contact you guysView the full article

i am trying to set up multiple different models of laptops and i keep getting greeted with the same issue: at the screen that says:Who's going to use this device?You'll use this name to sign in to your device.Enter your nameName:Even better, use an online accountevery time i click the link at the bottom the page just refreshes then I'm back to it again. this has been going on for days. what should we do? View the full article

To be specific and explicit - I am talking about Visual Studio PROFESSIONAL 2022, and not the community version.I have installed VS Pro 2022. I have successfully applied the product key. VS Pro 2022 shows as being fully and properly registered (see 1st screenshot below). However, said registration is not being properly recognized under the Dev Essentials site under my Microsoft Account.Whenever I go to the Product Keys section, I can see prior product keys for things like MSSQL 2000 and VS Express 2010, but the VS Pro 2022 still shows the “Claim Key” entry (2nd screenshot) that only tells me tView the full article

I want to be able to access desktops without opening the task viewer to switch between them. E.g. I want to press something like Ctrl+Win+3 and move to desktop 3, Ctrl+Win+4 to move to desktop 4, etc. I am familiar with Ctrl+Win+Left/Right, but having to laterally through multiple desktops is slow and barely better than using alt+Tab. Even having a Ctrl+Win+H to move to the first desktop (Home) would be helpful. View the full article

Hi everyone,I recently updated my Lenovo Slim 6i (i5-1240P) laptop to Windows 11 (24H2 update - 2024), and since then, I’ve been having issues with my touchpad:The cursor movement is laggy and stutters, making it difficult to use smoothly.Double-tap to open files or folders is not working, so I have to use the physical button every time.I’ve already tried:✔ Updating the touchpad driver✔ Uninstalling and reinstalling the driver✔ Making sure Windows and all apps are fully updatedBut the issue still persists. Everything was working perfectly before the update.Has anyone else faced this after the View the full article

My laptop is stuck on the “lets connect to a network” screen during startup. No networks showing(blank)and not a wifi issue. Can’t seem to get past this page.View the full article

Hi everyone,I've got a Windows 11 PC with an NVMe m2 SSD, on 23H2. (Previously tried 24H2 but it's not compatible with some games.)About half of the time it would take only milliseconds to rename/delete/move a file. However, for the remaining half of the time, it would take minutes to do the same (the progress bar halting at 0%). I wonder if anyone has any idea what could be the root cause of this and how can it be fixed? Please let me know if you need more information, not sure what to include here.Thanks ahead!HowardView the full article

I am facing the same issue as presented here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-reactivate-windows-after-bios-update/7499ec55-4545-4072-9572-a6b54965450fAfter a bios/drive update, my windows started to show as inactive.I know that my desktop computer was properly connected to my account because when I go devices page in my Microsoft account, I can see there my secondary laptop and my desktop computer.But when I follow the solution using the troubleshooter described here it does not work: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/reactivating-windows-after-a-hardwarView the full article

Hi, i go into display setting windows 11, don't see "display to arrange them" i want to setup 2 monitors for my pc. This is what is seeBrightness and colorScale and layout Related setting Please help and thank youView the full article

Hi. I have a few PCs running W11 in the household but one seems to be blocked from updating to 24H2. The GatedBlockID is 54379386 but I can find no reference to this ID anywhere online including on the Microsoft website.It's specs are:W11Pro currently 23H2Aorus Elite AX V2 1.2 MoboProcessor AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor 3.80 GHz Installed RAM 64.0 GB Crucial P3+ M.2 SSD 4TBNVidia GTX1080 GPUThe spec doesn't appear to throw up any red flags so I'm assuming the block is software related(?).My question is, does anyone know what this code is or where to find it?View the full article

A few days ago I created a backup, and despite the backup taking nearly 8 hours to complete, it successfully backed up to my external drive and is listed in the "Backup and Restore (Windows 7)" software. Today however, I created another backup, and it was relatively fast to get to 97%, but stalled at that point for almost 4 hours before completing. Once it was done I checked my backups, and only the one from a few days ago was there. When I checked in the software itself, through Manage space > View backups, it only shows I have the backup I made a few days ago. How come the backup completeView the full article

Although I had set the default language and the welcome page language as Simplified Chinese, but when I open the Settings, the interface is still in English. View the full article

If I change windows 11 defender to 256 encryption, when I install bitdefender antivirus, will that encryption level be used by bitdefender?View the full article

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Hello, I have issue that my PC crashes while gaming, it's not happening in any periodical order, sometimes is running fine for 2–3 days, but then there are days that it crashes like 2 times in one hour. The crash is sometimes just a reboot with no black screen or BSOD. Just solid restart PC will boot fine, but my audio devices aren't recognized, so I need to restart it from Windows so they load properly. But sometimes after the crash PC can't boot and its just stuck in sort of boot loop, so I need to turn of and turn on the PSU and then it boots. I tried to update the BIOS, drivers even reinstView the full article

Hi! I am kc, I just want to ask if what can I do if my laptop are so lag and the sound was so blast. I fell down in the floor last week. Can I ask what can do, I’m worried. Thank youView the full article

I'm unable to use Live Captions on any Windows 11 PCs running in the Korean, Chinese, or Japanese languages. Whenever I try to start Live Captions while using these languages, the feature immediately terminates.View the full article

I have had a problem with Windows 11 for a dozen or so days. Every time I turn on my computer, after the Windows Desktop loads and I try to run any application, exploer.exe hangs.This manifests itself in the fact that the screen goes black for a few seconds, then exploer.exe restarts in the background and the Windows Desktop loads again.When this process is finished, the computer works without a problem for several hours. I try:DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth SFC /ScannowNo result. In event viewer:explView the full article

I want to use my laptop with an external monitor, with an external wireless keyboard. When I connect my new windows 11 laptop to my external monitor, following choices in "display," the image does switch to the external, but when I close the cover, it still puts the laptop to sleep. How can I use the laptop with the monitor, and close the cover without putting the computer to sleep?View the full article