Windows NT 4.0 not booting after disk cloning due to "Inaccessible_Boot_Device" ?
Hi, I'm in a quite desperate situation, I feel like the problem is stupid and quite simple but it's such a mess considering the old hardware and the fact that I'm not sure it's possible to format and reinstall Windows 4.0 from scratch). I've tried to backup an HDD from a very old PC (a '98 Dell with Windows NT 4.0). The main HDD is a simple Seagate IDE, so I've connected it to another PC, created an image with Macrium, copied the image to a new drive, and tested it. Well, the new drive didn't work (gave me an error screen), so I've plugged back the original drive, but the problem is that now the original drive also gives the the same error. Both drives appear to be working since they behave the same way, they reach the bootloader screen which gives me the option of booting NT 4.0 or NT 4.0 in VGA mode, but after it shows the processor and the RAM available it shows the this error message. What could be the cause? I'm lost, I did absolutely nothing that I'm aware of to the original drive.
Curse of the blank Icons
I've been routinely experiencing an issue where, upon startup, my desktop icons from the Xbox app from the Microsoft Store remove their images and display only blank, white, dog-eared icons. I have manually restored these icons by using the Xbox application and re-shortcutting them to the desktop. This action fixes the issue for a couple of days. However, I end up with the same problem again. I have tried deleting the IconCache in C:\Users\user\AppData\Local. I have attempted the Run / Terminal instructions to do the same. I am still experiencing this issue. Any guidance on a resolution to this would be greatly appreciated. I can only assume that I'm not the only person experiencing this, and I hope that smarter individuals than I have come up with a solution and are in the right place to share. Thank you in advance for any assistance you provide.Users are urging Microsoft to launch a UI customization tool specifically for Windows 10/11
If we are more familiar with the behavioral characteristics of Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and Windows XP, I hope that Microsoft will release a system UI customization tool specially built for Windows 10 and Windows 11 as soon as possible, called Windows UI Tweaker, to give Microsoft developers an explanation. Before upgrading to Windows 11, please open Windows UI Tweaker and back up the layout of the Windows 10 Start menu tiles.Save the date: Windows Office Hours - June 19, 2025
Join us for our next monthly Windows Office Hours, on June 19th 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 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time doesn't work for you, post your questions on the Windows Office Hours: June 19th event page, up to 48 hours in advance. Hope you to see you there!
"e-sim plans" nt showing in Windows 11
Hello, I have Dell Precision 7730 and upgraded with a module DW 5930e Snapdragon X55 5G. Standard sim is working fine, but after switching to esim i cannot chose "esim profiles" option because there is no such option in my windows 11 PRO. What should i do to enable esim?
Windows Defender keeps closing some apps after a few seconds
I already reinstalled windows 5 or 6 times, 23H2 and 24H2, installed the latest updates, both of them behaved the same way. The first problem is actually that windows defender keeps identifying almost everything as a threat! And when I add an exclusion on the main drive itself like on D drive, then apps keep getting closed! Then I stopped adding exclusions, I removed them, now after finding so many threats, it is now closing the apps again! I even tried removing Windows Defender using https://github.com/ionuttbara/windows-defender-remover but even after that, some apps just get closed automatically after a few seconds. I'm sure Windows Defender is closing them somehow, I just don't know how and why. I once reinstalled my windows and I visibly saw that the moment I added those exclusions to windows defender, it immediatelly closes a certain app. I'm sure it's windows defender doing this. I was just working with my PC then it kept finding threats, I restarted my PC, hoping to get it fixed, then apps started to close!Clipboard History does not recognize the Delete key on Windows 11
I recently moved to Windows 11 (installed from scratch), and as soon as it was ready I activated the Clipboard History with the Win+V shortcut, since I really liked this feature on Windows 10. But after a short while I noticed the Windows 11 Clipboard History does not recognize the Delete key anymore. On Windows 10 this works: - Invoke the Clipboard History with Win+V - Scroll to the entry you want to delete with your arrow keys - Hit Delete on your keyboard and that entry will be removed from the history. Clipboard History remains open so you can repeat this for as many entries as you like. On Windows 11: - Invoke the Clipboard History with Win+V - Scroll to the entry you want to delete with your arrow keys - Hit Delete on your keyboard, then the Clipboard History closes with no error or message. If you invoke the Clipboard History again, the entry is still there. So apparently there are only two options on Windows 11 now, use the "Clear all" button to remove all the entries from the history. Or click the 3 dots next to each entry you want to remove and then click Delete, which is... annoying if compared to Windows 10. Is there a way to make the Delete key work again?
Win11 file explorer keeps resetting to the top at random moments
(If you see me trying to post multiple threads, its because the forum software keeps bugging out and refusing to post, this should be the correct version of the thread) Win version : Win11 23H2 Ever since i upgraded from win10 to win11, i have had this extremely annoying problem where win explorer will suddenly reset to the top of the folder. E.G. If i scroll halfway down, win explorer will suddenly reset to the top of the folder, as if i had scrolled all the way up. See : https://www.elevenforum.com/attachments/win-explorer-webp.135194/ for a screenshot. It does not manually scroll up by itself...its not like my mouse is broken and causing it to scroll up. It just instantly jumps all the way to the top. Its like something has reset the folder view. Importantly, this folder view reset happens even when i am not using win explorer, so it happens in the background, at random intervals. I cannot reproduce this consistently. It seems to mainly happen shortly after i resume from hibernation, and at random intervals throughout the day. It has nothing to do with icons and thumbnails as far as i can tell. The folder view reset happens in ALL explorer windows that i have open, at the same time, even if the folder is a bunch of files set to "details" view mode. When it triggers, no errors or anything are logged in event viewer->windows logs->system or application. There are no error popups or anything, the folder view just resets to the top silently in the background, even when i am not using explorer. I have tried a ton of things to fix it : Uninstalled OneDrive and purged the registry and policies of everything OneDrive related that i could find. I saw some posts saying that OneDrive was responsible because win explorer keeps trying to connect to OneDrive, but this has not fixed it for me. I am not using any network drives, cloud drives, or anything of that nature. Set explorer to "launch folder windows in a seperate process" Set "FolderType" to "NotSpecified" in Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags\AllFolders\Shell. This was meant to disable the feature where windows tries to automatically set the folder type Cleared the thumbnails cache Cleared the folder view cache in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\BagMRU and HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\Bags Disabled "allow files in this folder to have contents indexed" in properties Set NoSimpleNetIDList, NoRemoteChangeNotify and NoSimpleNetIDList to 1 in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer. I think this has prevented the folder view reset from occuring on logon, but it has not prevented it from occuring at random intervals throughout the day. Disabled "show recently used files", "show frequently used folders" and "show files from office.com" in view options Disabled everything under Options -> View -> Navigation Pane except for "Show this PC" Made sure i am not running any kind of network drive, cloud sync, etc, software or services. Unchecked "Automatically pick an accent color from my background option" in display personalization. Made sure slideshow was disabled for the windows screensaver Set explorer to default to "This PC" instead of "Home" Used ShellExView to see if i had any network or cloud sync stuff affecting the shell...nothing that i could see. Ran sfc /scannow and DISM, then rebooted Enabled group policies for user config -> admin templates -> windows components -> file explorer, "no computers near me in network locations", "remove map network drive and disconnect network drive", "turn off caching of thumbnail pictures", "turn off the caching of thumbnails in hidden thumbs.db files" and "turn off windows key hotkeys" Set NoActiveDesktopChanges in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer E Made sure focus assist was off Set NoNetCrawling, NoRemoteRecursiveEvents, NoRemoteRecursiveEventsEx, NoResolveTrack and NoPinnedSiteSync in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Checked there was nothing process related in power options (this is a PC, there is no battery) Checked for any optional updates that might fix this (there were none) Set file explorer to "show icons only, never thumbnails" Disabled refresh cache for onesettings in task scheduler Reset all folder view options to defaults and then restarting Those are the only the ones i can remember off hand. I also tried using process monitor to see if anything might be causing it...but it eventually closed by itself after running for a few hours, presumably because it was logging too much stuff. And since the folder view reset happens randomly, i cannot check the log at a certain time anyway, because i have no idea what time to check the log at. I found an old post talking about what seems to be a similar issue : Windows 11 File Explorer jumps to top when scrolling - Microsoft Q&A, except that it jumps to the top when i am not using explorer. It never jumps to the top when i am actively using explorer. None of the solutions posted in the thread worked for me. I found an old post talking about what seems to be a similar issue : Windows 11 File Explorer jumps to top when scrolling - Microsoft Q&A, except that it jumps to the top when i am not using explorer. It never jumps to the top when i am actively using explorer. None of the solutions posted in the thread worked for me. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? Its very obviously something related to win11 because it was not present in win10, but i cant narrow it down and windows wont tell me what is causing it. It just seems to be some kind of folder/UI refresh that keeps triggering but i cant tell what is triggering it, when it triggers or how to turn it off.EndFragment I tried using an alternative to file explorer, called the "Files" app, and i can confirm the "folder jumps to the top" bug does not happen there...so whatever is causing it, only affects win11's file explorer. I was able to find someone else who confirmed that this folder view reset bug happens for them as well on win11, but he did not know why it was happening either. His best guess was that the changes that win11 made to file explorer have introduced this bug.
