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PC powers off after DRIPS warning
This started to happen about 10 days ago, on most days, but not all. My PC, a Dell XPS 8960, running Windows 11, shutdowns on its own while in suspension. To resume working, I just need to press he power button to turn it back on. Looking at event viewer, at the time of the power on, I see the error: The system shutdown at xx:xx:xx on xx/xx/xx was unexpected Previous to the shutdown I see these warnings: USB device draining system power when system is idle. USB Device: VID: 0x424 PID: 0x7260 REV: 0x625 Removal action failed: QueryRemovalInitiated And another identical for VID: 0x424 PID: 0x7240 REV: 0x207 Then come another 2, one for each of these two devices, saying: Enumerating a DRIPS blocking device that was previously removed when exiting low power epoch. IsPortCycle: false The devices under device manager with these IDs are both listed as USB2 Controller Hub: USB\VID_0424&PID_7260&REV_0625&MI_00 USB\VID_0424&PID_7240&REV_0207 Which are both related to my Dell U3223QE Monitor. If I unplug the USB-C cable from the monitor to the PC, both USB2 Controller Hub disappear from Device Manager. So, clearly, the PC shutting down on its own when it goes into suspension has something to do with these warnings. Since there are more USB devices connected to the monitor: a Dell soundbar AC511M, a fingerprint reader, a Logitech mouse USB wireless transmitter and a Yubikey physical security key (identity device), I can't be sure if the error is related to the monitor itself or one of the connected devices. The monitor only has a 2022 driver published by Dell and that is the one installed. The soundbar has no driver from Dell and runs on a Microsoft 2024 driver. The mouse is running a 2006 Microsoft driver. The Yubikey is also on a Microsoft 2006 driver. Same for the fingerprint reader, listed as HID-compliant fido. So no recent driver changes to any of them. At this point, I don't know why it shutdowns or how to fix it. Any help would be appreciated.How can I upgrade Windows 11 24H2 to 25H2 without losing data?
Hi all, My HP EliteBook 820 G3 laptop is powered by Windows 11 24H2 and I heard a few folks managing to install Windows 11 25H2 on their devices. However, there is no upgrade notice on my laptop yet. How can I upgrade windows 11 24h2 to 25h2 without losing data? The hardware specs: CPU: Intel Core i5 (6th Gen) 6200U RAM: 8GB DDR4 TPM: Trusted Platform Module (TPM 1.2) Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 520
Taskbar multi-line
Hello, I switched from Windows 10 to Windows 11 24H2. As a programmer, I had many programs open simultaneously on Windows 10. My taskbar had two rows, allowing me to quickly switch between programs. Microsoft always talks about making everything faster. The fact that you can't even make the taskbar two-row is a complete step backward. I'll go back to Windows 10 for now and hope Microsoft improves this. Or is there a way to enlarge the taskbar? Wolfgang Saul
Windows 11 PC Display Won't Turn On After Sleep Or Shutdown
After I shutdown my pc and then boot it back up again I hear the fans spin and my pc's power light go on, but my display remains off. After I sleep my computer and turn it back on (either from the power button or from my keyboard) it does the same thing. My current only fix is to scoot my computer out from it's little alcove and click the power supply button and turn it off and back on again and then the display will turn on. I know this is unhealthy for the pc, but it's the current only way for me to get it to work. Can I get some help? p.s. : I checked and reset my BIOS settings and it still won't turn back on
Windows11 remote desktop does not work with non ascii chars in username
After updating my system from Windows10 to Windows11 I am unable to login via remote desktop into another computer where the login contains a non ascii character. It always displays that provided credentials do not work despite providing the correct ones. That another computer has 2 accounts on it, where one of those contains non ascii character and the other one does not. I am only not able to login on the one with non ascii character. The other one works seamlessly. Couple years ago on that other computer I changes the username to not contain non ascii character, but unfortunately Windows lies about changing username because it only changes the displayed name. Couple weeks ago I tried to change all the registry keys which contain the username with non ascii char (while being logged on the other account), but after restart Windows always changes them back. Two questions: 1. What shell I do to be able to use RDP on Windows 11 and be able to login to a computer with non ascii char in a username? 2. Or what shell I do to force Windows10 (the other computer) to change the username to not contain the non-asci char?
Windows 11 system requirements
I have never yearned for Linux this much, ending support for windows 10 is the most silly thing they couldve done. So about a year ago my pc decided to just update to windows 11, I reverted the update back to windows 10. Somehow, this update disabled TPM without any input on my side and then proceeded to tell me i cant update. Now i went into the BIOS, enabled it again and im still not allowed to update for some reason... As soon as Im able to get Arch Linux running im never using this garbage again.
Windows Hello for Business - PIN Reset Flow
Hi all, I'm a bit confused on the PIN reset flow for Windows Hello for Business from the login/lock screen. We are testing this with two Entra Joined devices with two accounts that are Entra Joined When one device starts the PIN reset/I forgot my PIN from the logon screen, they are prompted to use MFA credentials, this is what I want With another user, they are asked to "veryify it's them" and they need to enter a password. I'm not sure what's casuing the difference and why one is being asked for a Password and the other is following the correct MFA flow. Just to note, if I assigned TAP to the account I'm having an issue with, they are prompted for the TAP and can reset the PIN, no password required. I'm not sure why the process is asking for a password in one instance and MFA in another. ThanksPreparing Windows 11 for the end of Windows 10?
Windows 10 is going end of life this year. So I was wondering if we’ve settled on a standard method for cleaning up Windows 11. I’ve heard lots of horror stories about ads in the start menu, telemetry, search history scraping, and worst of all undoing and removing methods of blocking the garbage. Has the brave souls who’ve ventured into Windows 11 discovered the top 10 tips and tricks to making it not garbage?Permanently disable hands free telephony windows 11?
Whenever I play a game that uses a mic I get the annoying quieting/distortion of sound when hands free telephony turns on, and disabling it fixes the issue. However it turns on again every time I disconnect and reconnect my headphones (any including bose and beats buds +). My headphone mic wouldn’t work without hands free on so I bought a mic (first desktop, never had these issues on laptops). Is there some way to permanently disable this setting and/or get the headphone mics to work?AMD RAID1 in Windows 11 does not create EFI
I prepared Win11 Pro OS on USB installation media, set up AMD RAID1 mode in BIOS, loaded AMD RAID drivers before OS installation and it still does not work properly. To create RAID1 array in BIOS, it will ask you to wipe the drives beforehand. I followed all detailed instructions from the video below: Two problems with the above approach: Windows 11 Pro (24H2) USB installation media does not seem to automatically create recovery partition for the OS, so future troubleshooting is not possible. There is only EFI partition and OS partition on disk 0. Once the RAID1 is up and running, EFI partition is not copied to disk 1, and the second drive does not have recovery partition either Questions: Is it possible to prepare those partitions beforehand and reject BIOS prompt to wipe everything during the creation of RAID1 array? My issue was that if one drive was undetectable, the OS would not boot from the second drive because it did not have EFI partition, despite having all other data on it. Has anyone noticed this? One drive disappearing and reappearing forced me to rebuild the array almost daily. This confuses me. It should be that difficult.
