Windows 11 Home - Update - Bitlocker
Lenovo laptop Windows 11 Home Around November 15 my Lenovo laptop installed a update. When the laptop rebooted it asked for a Bitlocker key. Logging onto the Windows recovery website it wanted to send a validation code to a phone I no longer have. I did the 30 day wait for a Bitlocker recovery key to be emailed. When it arrived I entered the Bitlocker key. On restart it now states 'The application or operating system couldn't be loaded... File: \windows\system32\winload.efi. Error code: 0xc0000225'. Have I lost all the data on the hard drive? Should I disable anything in BIOS - Secure Boot? Windows Boot Manager? Intel Platform Trust Technology? Clear Intel PTT Key? Thanks for the help. DHWindows 11 frequently prompts to restart the computer during startup.
When booting up, the computer frequently prompts “Restart required” (despite no prior updates or other operations). After performing a forced shutdown and restarting, the system boots normally. This issue has recurred twice with identical symptoms. Please identify the root cause and provide a permanent solution.
How to restore an entire drive with file history
My computer is running on Windows 11, with file history backing up to an external SSD drive. I had a problem with the computer not booting up. Took it to a shop and they said windows needed to be reinstalled. They made a copy of all data on C drive, where Windows is located. They were told to not touch D drive as it contained thousands of pictures. Apparently they reinstalled Windows on the C drive and reinstalled the data. However they completely wiped the D drive! Computer is running good and all data is present on C drive. I attempted to restore D drive from the external drive using file history. I could not get it to restore the drive. The note “There isn’t any history of your files, folders, or libraries.” comes up. If I open the D drive, I can find all the pictures along with several copies. How can I get file history to work? I can copy and paste them but that is a lot of work, considering multiple copies in different places.
Windows 11 24H2 breaks the .exe and .com file associations
Hello world, Recently updated to 24H2 feature update on my Dell Latitude 7450 laptop. Update took hours to complete. However, after login in, we found all the exe and com file extensions are broken. From notepad, task manager to Command prompt are not working. Tried all possible ways to restore the file associations thorough the recovery startup page, but did not help, until completely uninstall all quality and feature updates. 24H2 is still matured till this day, i believe. Please let me know if there is a workaround on this issue or a patch is available addressing this issue. Thank you.
Can we rename a User profile in Windows 11 Pro?
I bought a new HP laptop with Win 11 Pro and Microsoft created a user profile, named with the first 5 letters of my e-mail address ("medfa"). In File Explorer, I see six profiles with redundant accounts: C:\Users ~ Administrator ~ All Users ~ Default ~ Default User ~ medfa ~ Public I tried renaming medfa to my first name in Settings, ran Microsoft's Management Console (lusrmgr.msc), used the accounts tool (netplzwiz), also tried the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) to change the profile name; but I still have C:\Users\medfa in File Explorer. Is there no way to rename the profile "medfa"?Windows 11 24H2 ISO Download? I can't find it from Microsoft
The display text was wrong and non-readable after my PC was upgraded to Windows 11 25H2. It was working fine with 24H2. So I went to the Windows 11 download page and only 25H2 ISO is available for download. I need to downgrade the OS to 24H2 but unable to find a safe place for Windows 11 24H2 ISO download. Home or Pro version are fine. By the way, I need the download for Windows 11 24H2 64-bit for x64.
Downsides of using UTC time by setting RealTimeIsUniversal
Hi, I have a dual-boot machine where I use both Windows 11 and Linux. To fix a minor annoyance with the hardware RTC clock always being set to the wrong time zone whenever I switch to the other OS, I know I can make Windows use UTC time by adding the RealTimeIsUniversal entry to the registry: reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation" /v RealTimeIsUniversal /t REG_DWORD /d 1 What are the downsides of making this change? Are there any known issues, other than the usual caveats about using undocumented and unsupported registry keys?Windows 11 25H2 custom group does not see in Users or Built-in security principals
ITNOA Hi, I have Windows 11 25H2 Enterprise and I want to have a custom group with multiple local users, that every users in this group can remote login to this Windows, But I cannot add this group into Remote Desktop Users (System->Remote Desktop) And another problem, that is when I add my custom group to Remote Desktop Users group in lusrmgr.msc , my users in custom group, does not have any rights to remote loginUnwanted profile changes
From time to time Microsoft adds new features to Windows 11, separately from the regular upgrades. When these new features appear, my computer is unaffected but on my wife's computer her user profile changes to my profile and her Favorites are replaced with mine. Twice in the last few months I have had to switch my settings back to hers on her computer. How do I stop this from happening again?Save the date: Windows Office Hours - January 15, 2026
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