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Failure to boot - No Media Present
Hi, I have a 3yr old PC from yourselves. Been absolutely trouble-free, but yesterday failed to boot, and on trying to start up, it does a "Checking Media Presence" to which it comes up with "No Media Present" result. The PC has a 1TB SSD installed. That morning some of my open windows had closed, so I think there may have been an auto-update/restart overnight. On starting, It offers some options for Windows auto repair, but nothing I've tried has changed anything: In command line, I used Diskpart to list disk, and it showed just the headings but no entry. Tried 'rescan' and it found nothing. I can get into the BIOS, and saw that the Boot order didn't have the "Windows Boot Manager (1TB SSD)" as the top option, so I changed that. Same result, although the screen is now a better resolution in the windows repair mode. I tried uninstalling the latest update, and I think it did that. It starting doing something and then the PC restarted, but still with the same failures. I can get into the BIOS so I can see lots of interesting stuff I don't understand, but nothing as straightforward as showing me a failed bit of hardware...
How to check Windows 10 key error code online?
I'm experiencing an issue with my Windows 10 activation and want to verify the error code related to my product key online. I need guidance on how to check the specific error code associated with my Windows 10 key using online tools or Microsoft resources, so I can understand the problem better and find an appropriate solution.Windows 10 forced update broke my computer
I don't know what to do. I can't reformat this laptop. I have a piece of software on it that is the only copy I have, & only works because I was logged in when they got rid of it and forced everyone to go with the newer version I don't want. Not to mention it has all of my info on it in offline mode. 1. I didn't realize the update affected my external HD which has all of my files on it until I tried to play some music & it kept spinning. Then I started to get a popup saying it needs to be formatted. OMG. I plugged it into my desktop that has Win 7 on it & it also wants me to reformat it. WHY??? What did Windows do to it? 2. I had to restart my laptop 5 times before the Open shell would load & it takes forever to load. 3. It broke my Thunderbird, but now I know why my emails never loaded, it's because it can't get access to my external HD. I can't believe this. I don't know what to do & no, I don't have a thumb drive with the restore point thingy on it. I needed that, didn't I? But how would that fix the external HD?Any free tool available to remove text from image or picture?
Hi, I have dozens of images where I need to cleanly remove some text from the pictures. The text is overlaid on a relatively simple background, but I'm struggling to get a good result without it looking obviously edited. I've tried a few basic online free tools, but they leave behind a blurry or mismatched patch. Could you please suggest the most effective method to remove text from image? I'm comfortable using anything user friendly and quick.However, not the complex and expensive ones like Adobe Photoshop.
Wie öffne ich HEIC-Dateien auf Windows?
Ich habe ein kleines Problem und hoffe, jemand kann mir helfen. Ich habe einige Fotos auf meinem iPhone gemacht, und die Dateien haben das Format .heic. Warum unterstützt Windows immer noch nicht das HEIC-Format? Ich kann HEIC-Dateien weder auf meinem Windows 10-PC noch auf meinem Windows 11-Laptop öffnen. Es kommt nur eine Fehlermeldung und die Bilder bleiben schwarz. Ich kenne mich damit ehrlich gesagt nicht so gut aus und weiß nicht, ob ich etwas installieren muss oder ob es eine Einstellung gibt. Wie öffne ich HEIC-Dateien auf Windows? Braucht man da ein extra Programm oder gibt es irgendwas von Microsoft? Ich möchte die Fotos ganz normal ansehen und vielleicht auch in JPG umwandeln. Wäre super dankbar für Tipps, die auch für jemanden wie mich verständlich sind. Danke!
How to Clean up a Windows 10 Pro system
I'm looking for effective ways to clean up and optimize my Windows 10 Pro system to improve performance and free up disk space. I want to know the best methods to remove unnecessary files, manage startup programs, and ensure my system runs smoothly without risking important data or functionality.How to increase edge and corner grabbing zone for resizing a Window?
My new monitor is 2560 x 1440 and for productivity reasons I like to be able to move my mouse cursor fully from side to side and top to bottom of the screen primarily with finger and wrist movement only. So my mouse cursor speed/sensitivity is set to maximum. The trade-off is it makes it harder to land the pointer accurately on extremely small target areas of the screen. For me, the only time this trade-off is too high is when trying to land on the very narrow edges of desktop windows so I can resize them on the fly. I’ve been living with this for months and finally got frustrated enough to take action. I couldn’t find any settings in “Windows Settings” or in Control Panel to change the width of the zones for grabbing the edges or corners. Let me know if I’m missing some setting somewhere! Searching the web was mostly a dead end until I found the following registry edit: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics Double click on BorderWidth. (Mine was set at “-15” which I think ends up being only 1 or 2 pixels wide?) Change it to a larger negative number, close regedit and restart the computer to apply the change. After some testing, I settled on “-160”. The fiddle-factor to grab a window edge has been resolved. And, no, it didn’t change the visual thickness of the windows borders – only the width of the drag zones.
ESU admin account
I have enrolled my Windows 10 for ESU by changing my account to administrator and non-local account. This synced by settings and I didn't need to backup my other files to Onedrive. My update screen confirms I'm enrolled so all good so far. My question is do I need to keep my account as an Administrator now that I am enrolled? I'm a little nervous about leaving it so, as I also have a separate local admin account for installng stuff, and prefer to keep permissions separate from day to day browsing. Thanks, PaulUnable to open Download file in Win 10
I can’t open the Download file in Windows 10. Using Windows 10 latest patches. I’ve tried to open the Download file and it hangs with “Not Responding.” I’ve waited for up to an hour with no change. I’ve rebooted and run DISM and SFC and used a system restore point. All with no success. I’m able to open all other files.
