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PC goes to sleep, but won't fully wake up (3rd time in 3 years)
Greetings, friends, For some reason, every year I seem to get this problem where I can put my PC to sleep, but it won't wake up from sleep state properly. The CPU lights up and fans power up but keyboard, mouse and monitor are all unresponsive. The only way to recover is to hard reboot PC. I have changed my card to an NVIDIA instead of Radeon in the previous profile of my PC. I am attaching the event viewer logs of "System" to help with any early troubleshooting or tips for further information. Kindly let me know if you have any suggestions for me, or any other information. Windows 25H2, version 26200.8457
DESIGNER only mkes 1 design not 4
I use ms ai image designer to make images and i makew ai videos ,, but for a week now it only makes 1 image not 4,, and it doesnt follow the propsat as per usual,. and it makes images in 3:2 not 16:9. I updateed my subscription for this tool and depend onm it.. SO please help me fix this
Keyboard not working on HP Laptop-can't even Log In!
So I've got this HP-15-dw0037wm laptop that has got a bad keyboard problem. I use an external keyboard on it, I prefer the keys larger and closer to me. Anyway, it won't type anything so I can't log in and I couldn't even get the onscreen keyboard to work with the mouse! I tried the external keyboard I'm using on my backup right now and it wouldn't work either. The ENTER keys worked with both keyboards by the way. I even tried the actual keyboard on the laptop and THAT wouldn't even work. Checked the sticky and filter keys settings and they are off. Tried to do a hard reset and that also didn't work. I also tried the esc button after reading it could turn off the keyboard potentially. It didn't help. Could it be a driver issue? So what can I do to fix this? Appreciate your help in advance. Thanks!
Someone requested a single use code from Microsoft
I just received an email from Microsoft. "We received your request for a single-use code to use with your Microsoft account" I did not request a code. I went to the Microsoft website and changed my password. I was sent a code after I reset my password and it did come from the same no reply email address, the codes are in the same email. Is there anything else I need to do to protecy my account?Boots into Safe Mode - not Wins 10
Think I made a boo boo Fiddled with efi or UEFI stuff Now won't boot into Wins 10 normal mode See pic for partitions - Windows seems to be in the D drive now There is a FAT32 which when given a drive letter in Diskpart actually has an efi directory Computer is set to secure boot Any advice appreciated !!Major Enhancements to Windows Updates - How to do that?
I have mixed feelings about being able to pause updates indefinitely, or potentially, forever! Again. I have not personally had an issue with an update that I needed to postpone installing it more than a week. Typically it is just a couple days and that was because I did not want to reboot - yet. So Item 3 fixes that problem. I personally have never, not once, had an update break any of my computers beyond what a simple reboot could fix. I really don't think I am the exception here, based on my own experience with my computers, or the many other computers belonging to family, friends and clients whose computers I am responsible for.Can not unlock laptops after meeting, when laptop is offline then it works.
Users can sometimes not unlock laptop after break. Since a few weeks we have this ugly problem in our company domain. Users who went in a meeting or go for lunch can sometimes not unlock their laptops when they come back. Windows often says "Password incorrect" or "your password have been changed on an other device" but the password is not wrong. There are users they had this issue a few times in the last weeks, other users never had it since we know about this issue. People work in the same team with the same group policies there are no differences but some people in the team have it, other never had it. When we plug out the network cable and also Wi-Fi on these computers the users then can log in, then the stored credentials are used. We already checked the power settings so that the laptop does not shutdown the network adapters but that does not fix the problem. Domain controllers are always reachable there are no replication errors, or network timeouts. We use Windows 11 25H2 in our company network.Microsoft bricks Help features in MS-Office 2019? Seriously?
I rarely use Help, but Office 2019 is still relatively unexplored for me... so when I needed to do something I hadn't before, I clicked on the Help option. Imagine my surprise when I found that when they ended support in Oct 2025 they actually deleted the on-line Help data. Gone. The only Help you can get is help on how to upgrade to a newer version of Office. Wow. I've always preferred local Help files, but I can see the advantage to a company putting them on-line in terms of updates for changes, etc. However, I never expected that they'd kill it when they ended support. That's just downright nasty. I'm not an MS basher by any means, but this certainly doesn't make me like them more.SCCM MDM Issue on Windows 11 computer
Hi. Does anyone know how to bypass/skip the registering your device for mobile management when using sccm? Everything was working fine but now the process won't complete at it fails on this screen. It does the securing and joining to AD find but then the rest just fails. In SCCM the agent is yet to NO for automatically enroll. We're not using Intune or MDM so just want it to continue working locally for now? Anyone else had this and why its just suddenly happened? I'm assuming when the device checks for updates its pulling something down to do this.
Create a custom keyboard layout / language in WIN11
Problem: I would like to create a custom keyboard layout / language. Long explanation: Laptop. I have a physical US keyboard layout. I type 90% in english, occasionally in German and Russian, grew up on a QWERTZ. I would like the option to have a custom keyboard layout where Z and Y is switched, the $ is moved from "4" to "|" and where Alt+: shortcut gives out Ä (and Ö and Ü respectively with " and {). This would allow me to type in English on QWERTZ how I'm used to, and easily type in Germany using Ä, Ö, Ü withouth needing to switch layout. For Russian I'd still need to switch. Attempted fixes: MSCKLC v1.4: Doesn't work on WIN11 natively. Needs .NET3.5. I install .NET3.5 which gets blocked by WIN installer. I put a script in powershell to enable the .NET3.5 installation but it doesn't work. PowerToys: Doesn't allow to create a custom keyboard layout. If I remap the keys to how I want to, the Ä shortcut still doesn't work on US layout furthermore due to the Y <-> Z switch, if I switch to Russian it's all messed up.Lock Screen Timeout Settings on Windows PC
Not sure if I have forgotten to set something or if I have not set something right but looking at some Windows 11 devices we have, I can see via Control Panel power settings that the monitor is set to go to sleep after 25 minutes but I wonder if this only applies when left open on desktop because from lock screen, monitors are going blank after a minute or so. It doesn't look like the devices (Intel NUCs) are going to sleep themselves because the power light is still a solid blue, mouse laser still on etc. but sometimes users cannot wake the devices up through mouse, keyboard or power button input and end up restarting from the plug. Have not tested but will try to see if being connected to projector\SMART board makes any difference.
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