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Mouse problem
I have been using a logitech g5 mouse for almost 20 years and i think the button pad is about to break because it feels very thin. I purchased a steel series rival 3 i plugged it in and saw the message new hardware detected and i then opened a browser and something very strange happened. After about 5 minutes the mouse pointer just froze on screen , i used the same usb as i had used my old one on , i had to use my old one to shut my pc down as i did not want to do a hard shut down with the power button. I tried it several times on usb2 and 3 with the same results , i never got chance to see if their was any drivers for it but my reliability monitor said driver was installed ??? .Checking the UEFI boot sector
Is there any way to check integrity of the boot sector other than booting into recovery mode and running bootrec.exe? Can anything be done from within Windows computer? I just changed NVMe drives on a couple of PCs and ran into boot problems on both even though I had cloned the system drive including boot sector to each. Things finally got worked out when I could boot into safe mode. From there, booting normally worked. But it's still slow. While any remaining problems would likely get fixed with a repair install, I'd like to know if the boot sector really needs that before doing it.Windows 11 takes long to boot
My PC takes between 60-80 seconds before the Windows logo comes up. I created a Process Monitor logfile and in there were a dozen entries with Result=CANCELLED which had duration of 3 to 17 seconds. The one taking 17.8 seconds was trying to access a file, "C:\Users\Public\AccountPictures\S-1-5-21-3415986207-50523673-2978598619-1001\{F0230BAE-7D60-44C0-B949-B0EF3DE3E0FF}-Image192.jpg" which does not exist. It does exist in "C:\Users\Public\Public AccountPictures\" so there is a mismatch in my system. I clean installed Windows 11 two years ago and have installed all upgrades and that's what's be done to the system. As for the other long duration entries they all exist i the C:\windows\system32\config folder. What's the problem with my system and what can I do to fix it? I searched the registry for one of the file names and found Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\AccountPicture\Users\S-1-5-21-3415986207-50523673-2978598619-1001 so the registry points to the wrong folder. Folder AccountPicture dos not exist in my system, it's called Public AccountPictures.
My computer monitor keeps going on black screen
I have connected a laptop Asus TUF gaming, an HP G5 docking station and two LG Ultragear QHD Gaming monitors via Displayport cables. Everything is only a couple months old. It worked fine at first and now it doesn't work at all. As soon as I close the laptop, while nothing should happen when I close the lid, 1 monitor goes black. As soon as I start a game, the other monitor also goes black or the screen of my laptop goes black. When I connect my gf's laptop, all monitors work just fine, even when the laptop is closed.Windows CMD shell and variable expansion with substring (~)
Hi. I am trying to learn about Windows batch files and I am looking for some more complete documentation. I have found coding examples for pulling substrings out of longer strings and saving them in environment variables. See below example which demonstrates the substring syntax to extract the year, day, and month from the date. set my_year=%date:~0,4% set my_day=%date:~8,2% set my_month=%date:~5,2% While this is useful I would like to read and learn more about this syntax but I can't seem to find anything that more fully describes (i.e. what else can is possible with this syntax). Can anyone point me towards a book or Microsoft documentation that goes into more detail about this substring syntax?
Any safe youtube mp3 download tool available for Windows or Mac?
This is quite common issue among users as we need to pull off the background music from youtube videos. Unfortunately, there is no official way to do this even I have an active youtube premium subscription. I tried a few free youtube mp3 download tools on my Windows 10 laptop and MacBook Pro but always got an parsing error on the screen. I need your help for recommending a working and safe youtube downloader software for PC or Mac. ThanksWindows Media Controls always shows the app name as "Unknown app"
I recently did a Windows Update Repair Install but it did not fix it. Image with the text "Ocean Waves.mp3" is supposed to say MPC-HC and it shouldn't have that green thumbnail. Image with the "GTX 1650 video" is supposed to say Microsoft Edge.Windows 11 Insider Preview Update failing
I am currently on Windows 11 Insider Preview, Version 24H2 (OS Build 26120.4250). While attempting to install the cumulative update KB5060816 (Build 26120.4441), the update fails with the following error: Some update files are missing or have problems. We'll try to download the update again later. Error code: 0x80073712. I have tried restarting the PC and re-attempting the update, but the issue persists. The Windows Update Troubleshooter did not resolve the problem.
