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Unable to reset my PC
Hi Insider Community, Hope y'all doing great! I am currently facing an issue while trying to reset my PC. After clicking on the reset my PC button from the recovery menu, I am redirected to the system permission dialogue box. After clicking yes on it, I choose the keep my files option but it shows an error right after that saying someone could be controlling/modifying my files. It seems really odd to me after seeing this error here so I am reaching out for a solution now. Thanks & Regards Siddhartha Sharma
Task Manager doesn't show my dGPU temperature
I'm running Windows build 26100.6584 Home with an i7 13700K UHD 770 and Arc A770LE graphics devices. Drivers 7076 and 8132 respectively, installed fresh after DDUing previous drivers. When I open the Windows Task Manager, the Arc dGPU's temperature is not shown on the performance details page at all. The sidebar only shows the temperature if I set the Task Manager to not open on the performance tab. In the past year, there were short periods where the details page did show the temperature, but only if the Arc dGPU was assigned as #1, not #0. Does anyone else experience this issue? Is this a bug with the Task Manager or with the Arc drivers? Note that I posted the issue on the https://github.com/IGCIT/Intel-GPU-Community-Issue-Tracker-IGCIT/issues/1237#issuecomment-3330315844 and they suggested the forums. Thank you.
Slow virtual desktop switching on windows 11
Hi, I recently joined the windows insider program and installed Windows 11. But since then, I am facing a significantly slow virtual desktop switching, compared to windows 10 (4 fingers slide gesture on trackpad). I am on the beta channel, but I have been facing this problem since the very first release of windows 11, when I was on the dev channel. These are my hardware specs : Is there any solution to speed this up ? Thanks in advance.
Error removing Rule at logoff
Hello folks. during user logoff Fslogix is trying to remove some rules but get an exception [ERROR:80070490] Error removing Rule: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\CrashDumps (Element not found.) As a result it removes "users profile" and "local_username" folder correctly with no issues, but sends Error to the logs. It's spamming the logs because it will put error one every excluded folder from redirection. We don't use any FSLogixAppsRuleEditor or something else, checked by ."\frx.exe list-rules -verbose" it returns - "No rules" The redections.xml looks like [...] <Exclude Copy="0">AppData\Local\CrashDumps</Exclude> [...] Is this an known issue ? Thinking it came around with 3.25.202.4223. Thx Jens
How can I convert m4a to mp3 on my Windows 11 PC?
Recently, I found that the audio files recorded with voice memos on my phone are all in .m4a format, although they can be played normally, but I encountered a lot of trouble when sharing them among my friends - some devices don't support direct playback, and uploading them on some platforms is also restricted. I've heard that MP3 is the most versatile audio format, and I'd like to ask you computer experts how to batch convert M4A files to MP3 format. I need to balance the ease of operation and conversion efficiency and worried that the sound quality will be drastically reduced. Is there a recommended safe and reliable conversion way to convert m4a to mp3 on Windows 11? Online tools are convenient, but I don't dare to transfer private files. Lastly, there are multiple files (about 50), is there a shortcut for batch processing?Windows Pro, BIOS, licensing
I have a business PC that's on Windows 10 Pro. We are putting a new NVMe drive into it and want to put Win 11 Pro onto it. No matter what we do Win 11 won't give the choice to put Pro onto it then activate the Pro key. Thought we'd be clever and put a fresh copy of Win 10 Pro onto it then upgrade to Win 11 Pro. Same deal. The Win 10 ISO no longer gives us the option to choose versions. Instead it simply throws and activated Home version onto it. We put the Pro key that we extracted from the working Win 10 Pro NVMe drive but it never switches to Win 10 Pro on the new NVMe drive. How do we get around this? I haven't found anything that works.
since KB5065426 or KB5064081 my old 32 bit app doesn't launch
hi, on windows 11, after one of the two KBs installation (in the title), my exe 32 bits files from 2001 doesn't launch anymore. i don't know where to look for explanation. there is nothing in the event observer. the exe just quits. if i remove the KB, everything is working fine . but sometimes i just can remove them anymore. Has anyone had a similar problem? how to investigate further Thank you in advance for your insights DavidCan I install Windows 11 on non UEFI?
I have an old Dell N7110 laptop. It has the latest BIOS, but does not have UEFI or support GPT. It supports only MBR. I'm pretty sure I can install 11 on a fresh install using Rufus that will bypass the UEFI, TPM, and CPU requirement, but can I do an upgrade from 10 to 11 on this same machine with Rufus by running the setup.exe file?
Should I use Windows 7?
Hi, I am fed up with the rubbish on Win11 and (less) on Win10 especially with telemetry and broken windoes images. So, I am really considering installing Win 7 on a PC I use as a file server. I know Win 7 does not receive any security updated but I was wondering if a good antivirus with firewall should be enough.Windows 10 failing to check for updates. any way to update manually?
Ranning some cab file that was supposed to fix things but all it does it make windows check for updates again, it tries for a while then goes back to a warning message about there not having been any updates installed for "some time". restarted win update service etc and no joy. when it came to the creators update there was a little exe you could run to update. is there no program like this i can run?Windows Security won't open on Windows 11
I have tried everything I can think of, I've had two friends who deal with IT problems look at my computer via shared screen with no luck. Since updating to Windows 11 I never noticed Windows Security would not open until recently, it's active and running in the background in Task Manager. I've tried the Powershell and CMD hotfixes, I've reset my PC locally and cloud but I have no restore or recovery points prior to the Windows 11 update. My PC is up to date on all firmware from Microsoft but Windows Security still will not open. Windows Security nor Windows Defender is not listed under my "Installed Apps" or "Default Apps" so I can't try a drop down repair on it. It does show within my Task Manager that there is Windows Defender engine running and in the hidden icons tab it shows Windows Security active. How do you fix this without having to lug your whole PC to a shop?Xbox Game Pass - White Desktop icons?
Hi guys, Anyone having issues with white Windows icon of their Xbox Game Pass games appearing on their desktop? It appears to happen after a game update through the Xbox app or an Xbox app update via the Store. https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxGamePass/comments/o1igez/how_to_add_xbox_desktop_app_as_a_desktop_shortcut/ but it's annoying to keep having to do it... Thanks.Win11: Suggestion - only update when on the "home base" network
Note that this would be separate from "Public" and "Private" network settings, which primarily affect the firewall setting defaults. Instead, setting a network as a "Home Base" network, would record the MAC of the AP or router, and Windows Update would ONLY update when connected to this Home Base network. Therefore, just because you're on Wifi at Starbucks or McD's, Windows 11 wouldn't decide that it's time to download an entire Windows Upgrade over their wifi. The user/owner/admin could of course, designate multiple networks as "Home Base" networks, if they so chose. (Could update, at work or at home, or at multiple relative's home wifi, etc. Not to mention, if you take the PC into a shop, they could designate their shop's network as a Home Base, in order to do updates on it.)Best OS for home NAS? QNAP's custom QTS os looks great
I am thinking of building a new home NAS to replace my old CentOs one. One of shortcoming of my old setup is amount of tinkering and CMD usage needed to get everything setup. Looking at the best OS system for home NAS let me to QNAP's custom QTS os for their NASes. The review and other features from snapshots, backup, Plex media server all sounds great and seem very easy to setup! Any idea if I should ditch the idea of building my own NAS with CentOs/FreeNAS and go with QNAP just because of its operating system? Anyone know if QTS os really is as good as it seems?Replacing Primary Drive and Migrating to Windows 11
I have two planned tasks Install an M.2 and clone it from my current SSD to become the primary disk (both Samsung so use the Samsung Data Migration application) Migrate from Windows 10 to Windows 11 I'm thinking it doesn't matter, the end result is the same, just wondering if there is anything that I have missed.Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported on this platform.
I purchase the new laptop Samsung Galaxy Book4 with win11 home edition single language version. I tried to install the VMware workstation with eve-ng. When I tried to run the application It gave me an error" Virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT is not supported on this platform. Continue without virtualized Intel VT-x/EPT? I tried everything every solution on youtube. like disable hyper V and window virtual systems, core isoloation etc. but unable to find the solution. It would be great if you can help me to resolve this issue. I am preparing for an exam and this is very urgent. Thank you
Reformat PC?
Hello! I have a question. I have windows 11 cd that I bought and usually when I reformat my pc by inserting the cd and there will be a page showing all my hard drive and solid state drive and I reformat them one by one and they will be unallocated. This time when I inserted the Windows 11 cd got the blue screen saying need the key Bitlocker and after few restarts I got the option to install the windows but the page showed all my hard drives and solid state were automatically reformatted. Is that something normal? Because I never seen it before which they are automatically reformatted thanks.
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