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Snipping Tool
I have Windows 11 Home. I've been using Snipping Tool since Windows 10 came out and it had been working very well with Windows 11 since I installed it when it first came out. All of a sudden, this week, it stopped working for some unknown reason so I uninstalled the app and tried to download a new .exe Snipping Tool file from Microsoft but it wouldn't download. I waited and waited but it kept telling me that it was still downloading. After about 15 minutes, I stopped it because I knew that it shouldn't take anywhere near that long to download. I ran several anti-malware programs, an online scanner, and MS Malicious Software Removal Tool and they all found 0 infected files. Is there anything that I can try to get the Snipping Tool to download and install? DeniseWhat is the best duplicate image finder for Windows 11?
The free space on my Windows 11 laptop becomes much less and only 5GB is available. As far as I know, there are many duplicate files especially the photos imported from my Android phone. I guess it is quite effective way to get more free storage by removing the photo duplicates. However, it is impossible for doing this manually. Does anyone know a good duplicate image finder that works on Windows 11? I tried 2 free ones but only dozens of duplicate photos are found and this doesn't do any help for my situation. Best Regards, Natalie
Windows 11 visual c++ 2008 update issue
So , it's been a while , I was unable to install visual c++ 2008 redistributable for some reason in 2023 on my laptop , But since it wasn't causing any issues , i just let it go , after that i recieved many windows updates where the visual cpp 2008 security update would fail to install , i did not pay attention ! Now it's been about two years , that update is still not able to complete (how can security update install when the main software isn't even installed) , whenever i press update or install , it says retry , Not an issue currently but i would like to know the reason behind this (the issue while installing vis cpp 2008 redist ) , please note that i had windows 11 clean installed few months ago , but the problem still persists , i still cannot install it
Remove "Start backup" from File Explorer
Latest Windows 11 update shows this very annoying button, and can't find a way to remove it (I don't want to use this backup feature): Any PS script to disable this? Hope MS is working on solution for this, even tho it looks like OneDrive upsell, another ad in OS...
Windows 11 keyboard doesn't work on boot up on restarts after latest update
Windows 11 versions ending 25, After security update when I power on the PC (from a shut down) the keyboard doesn't turn on after windows starts to load to the windows login screen, so I restart the pc from the login screen and the keyboard then works. Important notes - - This only seems to happen when I turn on the pc from a shut down. If its restarted it works every time. - Right when I boot up the pc I can access bios and the keyboard works fine if i shut down or restart. - I swapped out 3 keyboards all the same issue. - tired different USB ports - uninstall reinstalled the drivers etc many times. - This seems to be a big issue with a lot of others in recent forums around fall of 2025 from what I am reading.
A app called 't' always tries to prevent reboots and shut downs. What is it?
Whenever I try to reboot or shut down my laptop, for a few seconds I see this message: t This app is preventing you from restarting. I've looked on the task manager but I can't find any apps named 't' running on the background, I've also done a full scan for viruses, nothing. Any ideas? Thank you.
Massive Battery Drain Overnight With Windows Shut Down
I've had this issue a few times, but the latest one was the impetus to post here. About 95% of the time, I run the laptop on battery power only. If I'm using Davince Resolve, I'll run from the mains, but that only accounts for about 0.5% of the time. I fully charge it when it drops below the 20% mark, so that would account for the other 4.5%, as I'll be using it at the time, and want to finish what I'm doing. Yesterday morning, I switched on the laptop, and was immediately greeted with the message to charge the battery. The battery level was showing 0%. The previous day, I had powered down the laptop at 14:52 and it was showing at 26%. This is what Windows shows. Another curious one is the graph is for the 'Last 24 hours', yet the 'Screen on' value is over 21 hours! This is despite me shutting the laptop down at around 3:00pm. I also ran the battery report, and this the excerpt from that for the same day. As you can see, when the laptop is initially switched on, the battery level was 22% (so a 4% loss overnight), and by the time it displayed the message, and I switched on the power supply (at arms length from me), the battery level was showing '-'. I used HWinFO and it shows the battery having 0% wear level and a cycle count of 60, although I don't understand that one. I might switch the laptop on 3-4 times a day at most, and always power it down, so if the cycle count was every time the laptop was powered down, I could have reached that in less than a month, and yet I've had the laptop for over 2.5 years. Fast Startup is also disabled. So is Windows 'shut down' not shutting down completely? If not, is there a way to make it shut down fully.
Windows 11 Create Recovery Drive
I recently upgraded to Win11 24H2 and when I went to create a recovery drive I ran into problems. After telling Windows that I would like to Create a Recovery Drive including system files Windows went off in search of media and came back and told me i needed a 32GB thumb drive. Tried it without system files and no luck either. No matter what kind of thumb drive 32GB, 64GB, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, Formatted NTFS, FAT32, exFAT. Whether I formatted the drive using the file explorer utility, or using DISKPART and cleaning the drive and restoring the partition and reformatting. Nothing worked. sfc /scannow and DISM did't show any problems either. I know I can and i did, use a third party application to create a recovery disk, I would like to use the built in Microsoft tool. Any suggestions??Save the date: Windows Office Hours - November 20, 2025
Save the date for our next monthly Windows Office Hours, on November 20 from 8:00-9:00a PT! We will have a broad group of product experts, servicing experts, and engineers representing Windows, Microsoft Intune, Configuration Manager, Windows 365, Windows Autopilot, security, public sector, FastTrack, and more. They will be standing by -- in chat -- to provide guidance, discuss strategies and tactics, and, of course, answer any specific questions you may have. For more details about how Windows Office Hours works, go to our Windows IT Pro Blog. If you can't make it at 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time, post your questions on the Windows Office Hours: November 20th event page, up to 48 hours in advance.Delivery Optimisation No longer working
Delivery Optimisation is not working as intended, I have set the relevant limits within the settings however all downloads that happen always exceed what I have set. This causes a real issue as we don't have the best internet and it completely choles the entire household of any internet to try and feed the download. Is there any fix for this, is this a bug, it used to work perfectly fine? I have tried all the tips to fix but to no avail, task manager clearly shows all the internet being used.
