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Setting Up Windows 11 for the First Time 15 Things You Should Do
Getting a new PC or upgrading to Windows 11 is exciting — Microsoft’s latest operating system offers a sleek design, improved performance, and lots of customization options. But before you dive in, there are a few important steps to take to make sure your system runs smoothly, securely, and just the way you like it. https://dellenny.com/setting-up-windows-11-for-the-first-time-15-things-you-should-do/How to Create and Manage Local vs Microsoft Accounts in Windows 11
When you set up Windows 11, one of the first decisions you’ll face is whether to use a local account or a Microsoft account to sign in. Each option has benefits and drawbacks depending on your usage, privacy preferences, and how much you rely on Microsoft’s ecosystem. In this post we’ll walk you through: https://dellenny.com/how-to-create-manage-local-vs-microsoft-account-windows-11/
Windows Defender Service Crashing with 0xc0000374 on Windows 11 24H2 Lenovo X13 Laptops
Environment: Devices: Lenovo ThinkPad X13 laptops OS: Windows 11 24H2 Management: Microsoft Intune/Entra ID managed Started: Approximately 1 month ago Symptoms: Intermittent system freezing - devices become unresponsive requiring hard reboot Windows Defender service stops and cannot be restarted manually Event Viewer errors: Event ID 7031 (Service Control Manager): "The Microsoft Defender Antivirus Service service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 7 time(s). The following corrective action will be taken in 60000 milliseconds: Restart the service." Application Error Event ID 1000: MsMpEng.exe crashing with exception code 0xc0000374 (heap corruption) Pattern: Issue affects devices from only 1 of multiple Intune/Defender tenants we manage Not all X13 laptops affected - only random subset Other tenants with identical hardware models not experiencing issues Started approximately 1 month ago across multiple devices Current Status: MsMpEng.exe keeps crashing repeatedly Real-time protection cannot stay running Service recovery attempts fail Has anyone else experienced this specific error on 24H2? Any known issues with recent Defender platform/definition updates causing heap corruption?
smart card (yubikey ) lock every 60 seconds
Hello, we have some strange problem after upgrade to win 11 24h2. When we connect to remote destop using password everything is ok but when we use first time yubikey it works fine to but when we close remote desktop connection using "X" close button and connect again to this session then remote desktop i locking (WIN + L) every 60 secons. We are obsering this behavior only in office (LAN), when we connect via VPN everything is ok. Can You advise where is the problem ? When we use mstsc.exe with remoteguard switch then everything is ok even in office (LAN)
Problem connecting 2 monitors to my laptop
Hi guys, for my laptop ASUS VivoBook with Windows 11, I purchased two MSI monitors. I'm having trouble extending the display to both of them. Only one monitor works. Here my setup: Monitor 1: direct HDMI cable. Connection is made via an HDMI cable from Monitor 1 to my laptop Monitor 2: since no more HDMI entries are available, I'm using an HDMI to USB adapter. This officially supports Windows 11. When I identity the monitors, only the one directly linked is correclty available. The other one is off. To troubleshoot monitors and setup, I switch monitors and connection with all possible combinations: no matter what, only one monitor, that one which is correctly linked is available. Do you have any ideas
Updating from Win11 Home to Win11 Pro - Device not registered online
I have recently updated my laptop from Win11 Home to Win11 Pro. The newly installed Win11 Pro showed Win11 activation as active. The laptop (with a new name) showed up in the device list in Win11 Pro under my MS account. However, when I logged in online, the device did not show up in the registered device list under my MS account. ----------- I tried doing the following: Clean Install from downloaded WIN11 ISO from MS. Clean install using Win11 (multi-edition) FAT32 USB using downloaded MediaCreation tool. Also tried with including PID.txt with Win11 Pro product key (purchase). Clean Install from USB created from Win11 ISO from MS. Added PID.txt as well. (all old partitions removed) It's perplexing, as whichever way I installed Win11 Pro, the device won't show up under my MS account device list. already spent 20 hrs in this. I used chatgpt, and it suggested to check CloudExperienceHost Service. I did not find that service in Win11 services. It suggested the OEM Win11 Home (in the firmware) was still affecting the Win11 Pro install, so some Win11 components were still missing (e.g. CloudExperienceHost). Chatgpt suggested changing to NTFS USB, so won't need to use a split swm file set. I haven't tried this way yet. Currently, Windows 11 Pro Version is 25H2 (Build 26200.6584). Thx.
Problem With Snipping Tool
I've encountered a problem when using the Snipping Tool that seems to be related to either my Windows profile or the OS itself. To be clear, the problem manifests itself when using the Snipping Tool, but I don't believe that the Snipping Tool is actually the root cause of the issue. Here's what's happening. I use the Windows+Shift+S shortcut to do the screenshot. About half the time the screenshot is successfully saved to the Screenshots folder, and about half the time I get a 0-byte file in the Screenshots folder, but the screenshot is on the clipboard, and a good copy gets saved to the following location: C:\Users\<User_ID>\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.ScreenSketch_8wekyb3d8bbwe\TempState\Snips When the screenshot saves successfully to the Screenshots folder it never hits that Snips folder. When the screenshot fails to save to the Screenshots folder, the 0-byte file hits the Screenshots folder essentially at the same instant as the good copy of the file hits the Snips folder. At least with folders open side-by-side my eyes could not discern a meaningful difference. From this, I gather that the screenshot only gets save in the Snips folder if saving to the Screenshots folder failed, so it would appear that it tries to save to Screenshots first, and Snips is just the backup plan. I've done research online and here are the things that I've tried: Settings > Apps > Installed Apps > Snipping Tool > Three Dots > Advanced Options > Repair Settings > Apps > Installed Apps > Snipping Tool > Three Dots > Advanced Options > Reset Launch Snipping Tool > Three Dots > Settings Automatically Save Original Screenshots = On Screenshots are saved to C:\<User_ID>\CRB005\Pictures\Screenshots View diagnostics data Requires a viewer available from the Microsoft Store, which is blocked Confirmed no sync'ing with OneDrive Get-AppxPackage *Microsoft.ScreenSketch* | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\\AppXManifest.xml"} sfc /scannow Found and fixed corruption Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth Found and fixed corruption (Confirmed by running /CheckHealth and /ScanHealth again) This actually made things a LOT worse until I re-registered the Appx apps with the Get-AppxPackage command above Remove-AppxPackage -Package Microsoft.ScreenSketch_11.2508.29.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe -allusers Not 100% about the syntax on this one. A co-worker ran it on my machine remote and says he thinks this is the command he used Those are basically all of the recommendations I've found online save one--Windows profile reset. I work in IT and have done Windows profile resets before, so it's something that I certainly can do, but I regard it as something of a nuclear option. I am trying to find a more finely targeted solution. Great thanks in advance for any thoughts and suggestions that you may offer! I will be in the office tomorrow, but then out until the end of the month and most likely not checking on responses, so please understand that if you reply, I may not reply until early November. --Tom
Microsoft App Store issue
So, I went to log into the Microsoft App Store and download windows defender and it asked for my pin and it worked but then it asked for a code that it sent to an email I didn’t recognize. It was like S****@163.com and I know that email is not mine. I’m not sure what to do. I know a whole back I had malware on my pc and I cleaned it out but it seems there is leftover issues. Long story short I now can’t download anything off the App Store and want to figure out how to get that email off. please and thank you for any help.
