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A few days ago, I noticed my Win10 taskbar had added a new feature to the left of the system-tray, which when moused over, displays news and weather and whatnot. At that location in the taskbar, it was showing me the weather. Mostly it showed the current temperature, and a particular symbol...

Of late, I have been getting random hangs, followed sometimes by a BSOD telling me Synthetic Watchdog Timeout. I have done just about everything I can think of to fix it. Far as I understand it, the ONLY thing that can be causing this is virtual-machines related, Hyper-V and the like. I HAD...

Okay, for some reason, Task Manager is telling me I have 100% disk activity, and its going on all day long. This suddenly showed up a couple days ago and I have no idea why. I have not changed anything significant, like installing or updating any programs. Tonight I did do an optional...

I have been getting BSODs since at least December of last year. They'll just suddenly show up out of the blue when I'm in the middle of something. Sometimes it is a few days between bluescreens, occasionally its a few hours between bluescreens. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for...

A couple of weeks ago, Windows updated itself, and then a couple days after that I started noticing an issue where at random intervals, I'd start having trouble loading webpages. It would insist there was No Internet, and this was even though my connection to the Internet was still working fine...

Okay, yesterday Windows updated my machine to version 17763.437, and after that I have had an issue where it will suddenly lock up the entire machine and go to a loud electronic-buzzing noise from the speakers, forcing me to hit the Reset button on my case. When it did this yesterday, I figured...

I've run into a really, really annoying problem. There are a handful of Twitter desktop apps I installed ages ago because Twitter borked the web-interface at one point... I was never satisfied with any of the apps, and Twitter fixed what they'd broken in the Web interface, so I eventually went...

I have a KVM switch, one of those newer ones that switch both the PS/2-style keyboard and mouse connectors and also the USB keyboard and mouse connectors, and switches the VGA monitor connection. I had a really old KVM switch that was from back when PS/2 connectors where the norm, but for some...

Okay, I am having an issue that has been plaguing me for years, and that I have been having since I was back on Windows 7, and which didn't go away when I moved to windows 10, which I did ages ago. I turn my machine on, and certain foreground tasks tend to be a little sluggish, and I look over...

I am having an issue where none of the built in jacks are working for me. I have a mic plugged into the jack at the back, but I get no audio from it at all, and when I plugged another mic into the jack in the front, it got detected but I still got no indication of any sound coming in from that...

This has been driving me insane for several weeks. I turn the machine on, and (after a really long time of it launching lots of things) I get the I-have-successfully-launched sounds, and then immediately after that the sound completely stops working. When the machine is still launching stuff...

Lately my elderly dad's machine has been taking a really, really long time to get started, and everything runs slow for a good while after startup. This is on an HP Pavilion HPE, model h8-1114, which originally had Win7 on it but that he let update itself to Win10. What should I be looking...

I have been having an intermittent problem with my Win7 machine. I have several programs that automatically launch at startup, but sometimes it gets stuck partway through this process and leaves only some of the programs launch, with some of them apparently having hung, and never launches the...

Okay, I recently replaced the power supply on my desktop machine. This was after, this last Sunday, I went to turn the machine on and the power button wouldn't do anything. It was dead as a Dalek. I replaced the power supply with a Thermaltake TR2 600W ATX PS, and the machine powered on fine...

My elderly dad's machine got updated from Win7 to Win10 without me anticipating it, and it brought a raft of issues that I'm having to deal with, but I'm just going to focus on one of them for this thread: I had TWO user accounts set up on the machine under Win7, the one that was originally...

Okay, lately I have been having a real hassle dealing with my Twitter feed. I recieve a LOT of tweets in it every day, to the point that on weekdays I actually can't get back to the point where I left off last night because Twitter just stops loading any older tweets than, say, 8 hours ago. I...

Okay, this past day I have repeatedly had BSOD at startup. I let it try to do a repair/restore, but it tells me it can't repair. Attached are the W7F and CPU-Z output. (RAMMon gave error: Unable to load DirectIO driver.)

I have an NAS (Network Attached Storage) but I recently set up. (It replaces the old NAS I left turned off for three years. The drive is unchanged from the old machine, it simply has a new machine around it.) There are a lot of zip files I have stored on it. Every one of them, if I dry to...

Okay, this is a weird one. Today I noticed that one of the desktop gadgets on my machine didn't seem to be launching, or maybe I only thought it didn't, but there's a gap now where my vague memory says there should be one, but I can't remember which if any it was. In any event, I decided to go...

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum for this, though this one seems to be the closest to a general-hardware forum on this site. A couple of months back, I was having an issue with my CPU heatsink/fan not spinning at the correct speed. Upon examination, it was fairly clear the fan itself...