One day I was shutting down my old Windows ME computer. I clicked "shut down" several times, but each time it simply played the startup sound and did nothing else. Then I accidentally pulled the power cable, forcing a shutdown. When I turned it on again, I had to use Safe Mode. After successfully booting into Safe Mode, I restarted the computer. It had no issues until it came to a screen that had the Windows ME icon and froze there, eventually forcing me to pull the power cable, after which it boots into Safe Mode and repeats the process.

All this is most likely my fault, but if possible, help would still be greatly appreciated.

version/build number is 4.90.3000

didn't get a picture of it, but it says "warning: windows did not finish booting on last attempt, default configuration used" when it is plugged in

Hardware specifications shown in first photo

Windows 11. For whatever reason, Windows Update wants to install Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Driver Update (32.0.21030.2001) which looks like a really old AMD Driver. I have a 9070 XT GPU and I'm running the most recent AMD driver. I don't want to overwrite the existing driver with this older driver. I can't shut my PC down or restart it without installing this update.

I've already tried to block these driver updates in regedit. See screenshots.

What do I do? Why is Windows doing this to me? Relevant screenshots attached.

I’m on windows 11 home

Win11 Beelink SER8 mini computer

Started having a DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION that would reboot the computer multiple times for the first hour the computer was on. Then would run fine rest of the day. Figured some sort of AMD driver problem, might or might not be releated.

I went to turn it on 2 days into this happening and at the log in it says something is wrong with the pin and can't use it. So I try the password. It tells me incorrect password. I reset my password on microsoft, made sure the computer was in my profile (also gave the computer internet to make sure it could check for the "new" password)

Nothing, still says wrong password and you still can't enter a pin. I'm at a loss of what to do.

Happy to wipe and reset the whole thing. But wanted to see if I was missing something before heading that way that may be a simple fix.

When using Win Key + K (Cast / Connect) to use my laptop as a 2nd screen, I consistently having this issue EVERY FIRST TIME I connect, my mouse cursor wont show on 2nd screen (laptop). I can drag a window over but the cursor never appears. A disconnect and reconnect will fixes it. But it is still very annoying and make no sense to me. This has been an ongoing issue for months, throughout several updates.

Anyone else experience this? Or know a fix?

Device name Nostromo

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D 8-Core Processor (4.70 GHz)

Installed RAM 32,0 GB (31,7 GB usable)

Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 (16 GB)

Storage 1,44 TB of 1,82 TB used

Device ID 917DB03E-5CBF-4F06-BA61-68CBAFA0C6CB

Product ID 00342-22004-68019-AAOEM

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display

I recently did all the updates on my Dell latitude 3350 and now many of my apps are bugged I can't use the windows key anymore or the settings app as well also I can't pop up the notifications or the internet settings if there's something I could do to fix this I'll appreciate my specs are

Intel i5 5200

Intel HD 5000 *not too sure

8gb ram

Windows 10

And HDD 512 gb

I have…

•switched from automatic to manual and back to automatic
•reset my whole pc
•switched time to automatic
•forgot my internet twice
•updated everything
•tried to redownload steam
•Turned firewall off
•Turned firewall on
Edit: Adding onto this list…
•uninstalled all of my launchers and reinstall them
•restarted my whole laptop again
•waited 24 hours for it to work
•charged it to 100% and still nothing
•tried calling T-Mobile for assistance and had no assistance at all
•tried looking deeper into my hotspot’s settings and found nothing besides the screen freezing on me
•cried

And still it is not working.

OS is 19045.6466
Version 22H2
Edition Windows 10 Pro
16 GB ram (15.9 gb available)
238 GB storage (51 used)
Speed 1867 MHz

I can watch videos, search things up, go to different websites, download files, etc. My Steam launcher just does not work.

Please help me, this is my third time trying to get help about this. I can’t upgrade to 11 even if I wanted to.

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 7445HS w/ Radeon 740M Graphics (3.20 GHz)

Installed RAM 8,00 GB (7,26 GB usable)

Graphics card Microsoft Basic Render Driver

Storage 386 GB of 477 GB used

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

OS Build 26200.9711

Ive tried everything and i still dont know whats wrong

• ive tried looking at task manager for whats taking alot of ram
• scanned mutiple times for viruses
• close all applications

idk if my ram just gave up or smth but ive tried everything and i only use a little ram as seen in the second pic but it isnt showing me what is using my other 4gb

pls help me

For some context, I had to completely wipe my whole laptop because of how old it was (haven’t opened it since 2025) and updated everything.

I can’t update to 11 due to my laptop not having support for it.

I have a thinkpad x1 converse(?) if that helps?

Both before and after wiping my laptop and resetting everything, I still cannot get any of my launchers to work.

At first I could open Steam, but now Steam just won’t open at all and will instead give me “Steam needs to be online to update. Please confirm your network connection and try again.” Despite being hooked up to my hotspot.

Now I do have this hotspot from the library, however it has had no problems working with my VR headset & my other devices.

The hot spot is right next to the laptop too so I’m unsure of what the problem is.

This is happening with all of my launchers, happened with my discord, voice mod, Roblox, even my EA app.

I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong and I simply just want it to get working again so I can play the sims 4.

I haven’t gotten any error messages besides “fatal error” from Steam.

All steps I have taken so far are also seen in this video here except for the last part he does. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyENw3Lm/

I would like to also note that it is connected to the internet as I am able to search things up and download stuff, I just can’t get the launchers to work.

OS build is 19045.6466 if that helps?

Please explain this to me as if I’m 5 btw, thank you.

Pretty much what it says, it can be any video not just from youtube, but as soon as any sort of video player is behind (not minimized) another window the video player itself turns off while maintaining audio. Its fine if im listening to music however whenever i try to stream videos to other people they cant see the stream whenever i put the video under another tab. To be clear, I am NOT minimizing the tab, i am just putting it behind another tab. Thanks in advance :D

I'll start off by saying i'm not very tech savvy regarding pc's. I updated to the most recent windows update, and my wifi has become super spotty to downright not working. I tried uninstalling the update, update drivers, resetting adapters, and NOTHING is working! I run a 3080 and an intel 7 chip with 32 gigs ram 1 tb ssd. I genuinely need a laymans-style explanation on what to do, because i'm starting to feel like I will have to replace my entire pc Edit: Skytech prebuild

Hi everyone,

I work in Poland, and my company provided me with a Windows 11 laptop originally configured for Poland, but with English as the display language.

I'm Spanish and work with both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking clients, so I regularly switch between English and Spanish.

I have both languages installed in Windows, and I switch keyboard layouts using Win + Space. Everything works perfectly in terms of typing, including Spanish characters like ñ and accents.

The problem is spell checking.

Whenever I write in Spanish, EVERY word gets underlined in red as incorrect. This happens across multiple applications, including Outlook, Teams, Word, ChatGPT, Trello, internet forums and other web-based tools.

For example, I can be using Outlook in English, switch my keyboard to Spanish and start writing an email in Spanish, but the spell checker still treats everything as English.

It's incredibly annoying because the entire email becomes covered in red underlines, making it difficult to identify actual spelling mistakes. I've even sent emails containing typos because they were practically impossible to distinguish.

What I've already tried:

• Installed the Spanish language pack through Windows Settings.
• Checked and changed the Windows language, typing, spelling and autocorrect settings.
• Installed an additional Spanish language package provided by my company's Microsoft Software Center. (My whole laptop changed to Spanish now...)
• Switched between English and Spanish using Win + Space.

Nothing has fixed the problem globally.

I managed to fix Outlook by manually changing its proofing language, but the same problem remains in other applications.
Interestingly, I also use a MacBook with English and Spanish, and I don't have this problem there.

My question: Is there a way to configure Windows 11 to recognise both English and Spanish automatically when typing, across applications?

Or do I seriously have to configure the spell checker individually in every application I use?

I don't mind keeping Windows and my applications in English. I just want to write in both languages without everything being marked as incorrect.

I spent 2 hours with ChatGPT and it couldn't figure it out.

Thanks!

I tryed dell wifi driver installer but it doesnt work beacuse it doesnt compatible on windows 8.1 pro does anyone have wifi driver???? specs: hp stream 11 ak0xxx intel celeron n4020 4gb of ddr4 ram runs windows 8.1 pro wifi chip name called realtek rtl8822ce

Am I the only one having this problem? Idk what the heck Windows or Microsoft or whoever the heck does these freaking updates but they botched up BIG TIME. After the most recent update of my computer last night, suddenly my computer is BUGGY AS HELL! My first daily dose of Youtube become unwatchable for 20-30 minutes, my computers bugging all over the place, and you know the famous game of hearthstone? That infamous game that usually never has problems besides what people rage about when losing? ITS LAGGING LEFT AND RIGHT EVERY SEVERAL SECONDS! IT HAS NEVER LAGGED ONCE FOR ME BEFORE THE UPDATE T_T! If anyone knows how to fix this issue lemme know, and for anyone who has yet to download this update, DONT DO IT. Just force shutdown the computer manually if you can or whatever. Honest to god have no idea what the heck they did but it's made my computer awful.

1.

so my windows update disappeared, I searched internet and the only solution which people are talking about is registory editor

What the solution people are telling

1. battery saver feature has also disappeared

1. This is how apps is supposed to look in windows settings.
   

below is how my "apps" looks like. Installed apps missing and many more.

for now this is all but who knows what more problem lies ahead of this.😥
Also my windows is genuine(version 25H2(OS Build 26200.9457) ) and updated also is a Samsung Galaxy Book 5 Pro. Guys solution pleaseeeeeee. 🙏🏻🙏🏻

So basically i was one of the latee joiners of windows 11, a month ago I recieved a message that the security support expired so I finally decided to leave windows 10 behind and update to 11

Problem is, now my battery, who was usually lasting up to 5-6 hours while performing everyday tasks (surfing online, rewatching recorded lessons, taking notes on Drive while listening to podcasts, or music in the background) can't go more than 3 hours now, and the moment I turn on windows 11, the cooling fan starts running fast, making a pretty high noise which is difficult to not notice, and it doesn't stop until I turn it off. With windows 10 instead, this only happened while performing high resource tasks such as playing games, as usual.

PC INFORMATION

acer Aspire 3-15, with ryzen 7 5700 series with integrated Radeon TM graphics with 496 MB. 16 GB of RAM. Windows 11 version is 25H2, build number 26200.9711, installed on september 28th

The PC is currently less then 2 years old (will be 2 at the end of november) and when I bought it I had all my storage from previous computer cloned here in a new SSD M2.

I've already tried all the suggestion they give you make the battery last longer (turn on battery saving, lower luminosity etc, those 7 steps W11 tells you to do).

Keep in mind that before this, I've never had to use it while recharging because the battery was just more than enough, unless I was playing games online basically. Now this happens wuite more often, as you may have immagined.

Did anyone else experienced this? and how did you solved this problem? or is my battery just fucked?

Processor: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11390H @ 3.40GHz 2.92 GHz

Installed RAM: 16.0 GB (usable: 15.7 GB)

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch Pen support

Windows 11 Home Single Language Edition

Version 23H2

OS Build 22631.6199

Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22700.1108.0

Yesterday, I ran into an issue: when I turn on the computer normally, it gets stuck in an infinite boot loop. At the same time, all USB ports become inactive, which prevents me from accessing the BIOS. However, if I completely cut power to the PC and then restore it, the POST screen appears—at that point, I can enter the BIOS and select the boot drive. The strange thing is that the correct drive is already set as the primary boot device (boot priority #1), and there is no Windows installation on any of the other drives. Both the BIOS and the drive firmware are up to date. On my ASUS Prime Z690 D4 motherboard, I’ve already tried resetting the CMOS, moving the NVMe drive to a different slot, and updating the chipset drivers—I’ve exhausted every solution I could find online, including suggestions from AI. Also disabled fast start in BIOS and Windows. It’s odd that this problem started immediately after I replaced the thermal paste and installation of the PC speaker; I didn’t change anything else. My troubleshooting revealed that the system only boots after a "hard start" (holding down the power button for 5–10 seconds), and even then, it doesn't always work. A standard restart via the Start menu just leads to an infinite boot loop and a black screen. Has anyone encountered something like this? If so, how did you manage to fix it? Thanks in advance.

Asus Prime Z690-P D4 Wifi with i7-12700K. Drive Samsung 980 NVMe

A few days ago i have try to install Riot Client but its appear an error: " secure boot disabled" So i unabled the secure boot option in bios menu, but after save & exit, the screen:  "Default Boot Device Missing or Boot Failed. Insert Recovery Media and Hit Any Key. Then Select Boot Manager to choose a new Boot Device or to Boot Recovery Media" appeared

1. I choose the only boot on the list

2. Then hit Enter, the screen change to: Windows Boot Manager has been blocked by the current security policy.

3. Hit the enter again with the same boot, a loop started and i stucked with that screen: Windows Boot Manager has been blocked by the current security policy

And i disabled secure boot, everything back to normal. But i want to try Valorant so much, this error is kinda complicated to solve alone, because i'm not a computer expert.

My laptop is: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 14ACN6 ( I just bought this laptop at a secondhand store)

Hey everyone, looking for some validation on a hardware failure that just happened today.

My system was working perfectly fine this morning while playing War Thunder. Before leaving, a standard Windows update popped up, so I hit "Update and Shut Down" and left.

When I came back at 6:00 PM tonight, the PC was completely unresponsive.

The front case power button did absolutely nothing. Strangely, my keyboard and USB accessories (Elgato, Arzopa portable monitor) were lighting up via standby power, but the actual PC internals (CPU fan, case fans, motherboard lights) were completely dead.

I spent tonight troubleshooting and ruled out a soft-brick/sleep loop:

Done a full CMOS clear/battery reset.

Attempted a deep capacitor power drain (holding the power button while unplugged).

Removed my **RX 7900 XT** GPU to get clear access to the **Asus PRIME B650M-A AX II**motherboard front panel headers.
Attempted to jump-start the PC by manually bridging the PWR_SW pins on the F_PANEL header with a flathead screwdriver (with wall power verified active).

**Result:** Absolute silence, no fan spin.

**The Smoking Gun:**
I finally pulled the main **24-pin motherboard power cable** and performed a paperclip jump test on pins 4 and 5 (PS_ON and Ground) with the wall outlet plugged in and the PSU switch turned ON.

**The fan inside the power supply box stayed completely still and did not spin at all.**

It looks like the sudden drop in voltage when Windows forced the shutdown at noon completely killed the main 12V rail on my PSU, though it managed to keep a tiny bit of 5V standby power flowing to the USBs before dying completely.

Thankfully, it looks like the PSU sacrificed itself and saved my GPU and motherboard.

Anyone else experiencing this?

PC Specs:

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Raphael AM5 4.2GHz 8-Core

RAM: TeamGroup T-FORCE DELTA RGB 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5-6000 PC5-48000 CL30

SSD: WD Black SN770 2TB SSD

Motherboard: Asus PRIME B650M-A AX II

Power Supply: Corsair RM850 850 Watt 80 Plus Gold ATX Fully Modular Power Supply - White

Cooling / Fans: DeepCool AK620 High-Performance

CPU Cooler - White w/ Lian Li UNI Fan SL Infinity Fluid Dynamic Bearing 120mm Case Fan - 3

Exhaust: Lian Li UNI Fan SL Infinity Fluid Dynamic Bearing 120mm Case Fan - White - 2 

I recently got an old monitor as a second screen and it appears as 'monitor 1' in the Windows display settings while my 'main display' is monitor 2. This works fine in all but one situation, playing a game in windowed fullscreen mode. The normal taskbar behavior for games in windowed fullscreen is the taskbar disappearing until the Windows key or ALT+TAB is pressed, or if another app is over the game, however with both monitors connected, the taskbar stays over the game.

I need my games in fullscreen windowed mode as I mod a number of games (singleplayer) and a lot of mods using cheat engine for example need me to be able to see the game and the mod menu/list at the same time. The taskbar blocks important information on the bottom of the game, as some mods use the bottom of the game to show "mod: enabled"-like text.

As far as I know switching my main monitor to 'monitor 1' fixes the taskbar issue, but 'monitor 1' is my second monitor and it's 1024 x 768 and tiny, meaning the taskbar icons won't appear properly (I have a lot of pinned apps). I can't switch the order of the cables in my GPU as it only has 1 HDMI port (my main monitor) and 3 'Display Port' connections. The HDMI is considered the 3rd connection in the display order with 1,2, & 4 being Display Port, however connecting my second monitor to the 4th port still displays it as 'monitor 1'. My second monitor uses a VGA to Display Port converter to connect to my GPU (RTX 3050). Also my CPU can't use the motherboard display ports. I had this problem about 5-6 years ago, and fixed it but Idk how and I've since changed PCs and monitors.

Things I've tried:

Reinstalling the display drivers
Deleting/Resetting the display settings in the registry

If there's a way to switch what Windows considers to be 'monitor 1' through Windows itself, I think that would fix my issue.

Image to show the size difference between my monitors:

PC Information important to this issue:
OS: Windows 10 Pro (Build 19045)
GPU: RTX 3050 (Zotac Gaming)
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5500 (No Graphics Support)

I am at my wit's end with this issue and I don't know where else to turn. As the title states, my notifications for Windows 10 (19045.6466) last for 25 full seconds, when in my settings it is set to only last for 5 seconds. This has been going on for years and I'm finally fed up with it. I have tried every fix I've found online (most of which just direct you back to the settings page) and none of them work. I've looked through every notification related setting and even tried forcing the notification length in the Registry Editor and that had 0 effect one way or the other. I was just wondering if anyone else had any ideas or explanation. Thank you in advance.

Last time I posted this, it got removed for not including my PC specs. I don't see how that's relevant to the issue I'm having, but here they are anyway.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800x

RAM: 32GB G.skill Ripjaws V DDR4 3600 MT/s CL18

GPU: Asus Dual GTX 1660 Ti 6GB

MOBO: MSI Pro B550-VC

SSD: Crucial P3 Plus 4TB

when I was younger, my dad's microsoft account was connected to my laptop and i remember (at least on windows 10) that i could change the profile's name to my name just on my laptop and it didn't affect his account.
a few years ago, i upgraded to windows 11 (and i still use his account since ive bought stuff etc) and i can't seem to be able to do that, if i did change it on my laptop it would also change his microsoft account's name. now, this doesnt really bother me that much but it's a bit weird bc i'm a girl and it shows up with a man's name lol so is it possible at all on windows 11?

AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS with Radeon 780M Graphics (3.80 GHz)

Windows 11 Home

25H2

11/‎07/‎2026

SO 26200.9711

1000.26100.372.0

Hi all, I am not well versed in windows technicals, but I have an HTPC I want to restart weekly in the early hours of Sunday. I would like for it to be hands off, meaning after restart, it auto logs in to start my services and immediately locks for safety.

I set the Windows group policy to log me in after a restart. This works upon manual restart. Under Administrative Templates/Windows Components/Windows Logon Options, I have enabled the Sign-in and lock last interactive user automatically and the Configure the mode of automatically signing in options both. These work on manual restart.

I have also set a Windows task scheduler restart task that looks like the screenshot.

The problem is, when I run the task to restart, the pc stays at the login screen and does not run the group policy.

How do I allow/prioritize/trigger the group policy upon this automatic restart?

Thank you!!

Dell Optiplex micro 7010, i5-13500t, 32Gb Ram, 512Gb NVMe, OS build: 26200.9711

Over the last few days, I've turned on advanced searching, I've toggled on the "allow devices to find my computer" option in the advanced settings, I've unpaired the headphones with other similar devices, I've done all sorts of restarts, updated to the latest version, and none of it has worked. My headphones simply do not appear in the menu for the computer. Intel core i5-14600K, 16GB RAM, 8GB graphics card, 932GB internal storage with about 800GB left.

So, last month, I went on vacation and left my laptop with my younger brother. Unfortunately, he downloaded some suspicious files, and afterward, the icons of most of my applications changed to the same blue icon (I'm on win 11).

I ran a Microsoft Defender Offline scan. The scan itself took about 10 minutes and it took almost the entire day to finish dealing with the detected threats. When it was done, my laptop rebooted I discovered that the .exe files for almost all the programs I had installed myself, including Steam, WinRAR, VLC, PowerISO, and Chrome, had been removed.

I tried reinstalling the programs, but every time I shut down and restarted my laptop, Windows Security flagged them as viruses and quarantined or deleted their executable files again.

Thinking my system was seriously compromised, I wiped my drive and performed a clean installation of Windows 10. Everything seemed fine initially, but the problem returned the next day. I then upgraded to Windows 11, hoping it would resolve the issue, but the same thing happened again.

At this point, I'm not sure what to do. What could be causing this problem, and how can I permanently fix it? Could it be malware that survives a Windows reinstall, or is there another possible explanation?

System specs

Device name Dave

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz (2.21 GHz)

Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.3 GB usable)

Graphics card NVIDIA Quadro P1000 (4 GB)

Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (128 MB)

Storage 403 GB of 477 GB used