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Win 11 Boot Sequence
I could / would appreciate some help on a problem I first noticed several weeks ago. I'm using a year old Windows 11 (24H2) laptop. When the system boots the UEFI (BIOS) name (Style Note) appears on the screen then the screen goes black; the command prompt screen with flash on for about a second then the screen goes black. But, after about 5 to 8 seconds the UEFI name (Style Note) appears again and the system completes the start-up process normally. Any idea why it appears to start the boot process twice? Where can I check in the system to see what's happening? Any thought would be appreciated.New computer - errors on boot up
I bought a new computer (ASUS NUC 14 Pro+) and moved my M.2 drive to the new computer. The computer doesn't come with a drive so I put in my existing drive running Windows 11 23H2. On boot up I get 2 boxes of the following error boxes. "AI Suite3" - error box title "Access violation at address 004D 1945 in module read of address 001A56FC" "Dipawaymode" - error box title "The remote procedure call failed" Tried looking on-line but couldn't get a site for those error codes. Would like to keep the computer but need to fix these.
How to stop getting preview builds
when windows 11 was announced, i wanted to get it asap for some reason, so i joined this insider thing, i dont remember how i signed up for it, but id like to leave so i can get the stable versions of windows. it wont let me do it on anything for some reason. i have no idea why im in the dev channel. any help is appreciated. thanksThumbnails in File Explorer only for images/videos
Over the weekend I set up my father's new PC, with Windows 11. I'm getting some unwanted behavior, that differs from my own devices. It concerns thumbnails versus file icons in file explorer. On my own devices: Always show icons, never thumbnails is OFF. I see thumbnails for images/videos/music files, but NOT for other files types like Word documents and PDF's. Which is what I want. On my father's new PC: Always show icons, never thumbnails is OFF. I see thumbnails for everything, which is not what we want. Why is it behaving like that on my devices? What did I do to make it behave like that? I did many web searches, but I haven't run into a solution yet. I do have K-Lite Mega Codec Pack installed on PC, which comes with Icaros thumbnail provider. Could that be breaking thumbs for non images/video/music files? Which would be a nice side effect. But it is not installed on my laptop, so... Why can't Microsoft just gives us more control. Why would anyone want thumbnails for pdf and docx files.Force app to open centered on the screen
There are certain programs that open off to one corner of the screen every time (e.g. Device Manager). Is there any way to force the program to open centered on the screen? Google shows some solutions (background programs with hot keys), but none of these work in Windows 11. Here are two I tried. The first one crashes on load. The second one loads okay, but does not work. Windows 11 Dev 25126 Thanks.Search taskbar is blue? i deleted translucenttb and it’s still here
i decided i didn’t want the transparent taskbar anymore so i uninstalled the app but this thing is still here? i tried everything i can but it doesn’t want to go away. i have created a new user profile and everything is normal there. so i guess the issue is with this profile…what to do
