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As Windows users, we all know that sometimes our trusty PCs act up. Whether it’s failing to load properly or launching in a state that feels more like a bad dream than a reliable operating system, the need to adjust startup behaviors can be crucial. Microsoft’s guide on changing Windows startup...

Intel© Core™ i7-10700K CPU @ 3.80GHz × 8 32.0 GiB RAM Windows 11 Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon PM991a NVMe Samsung 512GB KINGSTON SA400S37480G Seagate BarraCuda 120 SSD ZA1000CM10003 I have a 2 yr old Dell Desktop PC. Windows 11 is installed on the Samsung 512 M.2 NVE drive, Linux Mint 21.3 is...

I am multibooting 3 drives (1 Win10 and 2 Win11) the boot manager on one win11 drive is selected in bios. It works but in addition to the named drives it also lists the three efi partitions which are unbootable -of course. I am not sure why they are there and they are a nuisance. How can I...

I have three drives two with win 11 and one with win 10. One of the drives is older and two are newer which were installed after the older drive. I cannot seem to change the bootmanager. Wwwindows was installed on each drive independently but when I put them together the boot manager on drive c...

Hi, I have a windows 10 machine installed with a dual boot of manjaro linux. I have grub installed as the boot loader. Now, the issue is that my windows 10 updates doesn't complete. I wanted to try and start up in safe mode but there's no options at all. Windows 10 boots normally and fine but...

I had to do a re-install of Windows 10 on my older laptop (HP X360). I used the Windows Media Creation Tool to install a basic system. Everything seems to be working and I have installed most of the programs, address book and Favorites that I need. BUT, one thing that I don't understand is when...

How do I turn on Secure Boot State in my System Information? I might need this on to play Valorant on Windows 11.

I have a system with dual Nvidia GTX 780 Ti GPUs that is set up for dual boot (ubuntu 20.04 & Win10 v21H1 build 19043.1288).When I boot into ubuntu, both monitors are immediately recognized and the desktop extends across both monitors. ... so no hardware or cabling problems. But when I boot into...

I have Windows 10 Pro (just shy of licensed) installed on a 970 Plus M.2 drive (see all specs in signature). The PC is not running at the speed I would have expected (for instance my Random Read/Write values are pitiful (see attachment). I either have my BIOS incorrectly set up, too much junk...

Hi, I want to reinstall a fresh Windows 10 OS for the first time, years after using Windows 8.1 I take out the old OS drive, and put in a clean formatted drive for the new OS. Dell sent me a Windows 10 USB stick with this computer, so I'll use that. But now the puzzle of getting everything...

Hi, I reinstalled recently Windows 10, but before I have installed Linux on another internal SSD, before every time I boot I have the options to choose on what to boot, now it boots directly to Windows 10. How can I have back the boot option when I turn on the PC?

My Dell Inpiron 7250 has been working on updates at 90% for days now. I recently as a last resort tried to turn it off to boot into safe mode or see what my options were. However, pressing or holding the power button puts the pc into sleep at the slightest touch and upon waking up, it resumes...

Assume I bought or got a desktop/notebook with a pre-installed Windows 10 system. The hard disk is either MBR or GPT based and contains the typical partition scheme with Windows Recovery partition, Efi System partition, Microsoft reserved and Windows 10 main partition. Now I want to...

Hello everyone. So couple of days ago I was given college project that needs to be done in Linux OS. I googled it a bit and decided to do dual boot on my Windows 10. I found some youtube tutorial and did everything (?) correctly. However, after restarting my PC, no Windows option is shown. Only...

Tried installing Lubuntu on my D: drive which contains only files, no OS! But when i selected this drive in the boot options got message "Bootmgr is missing". Lubuntu gives the option to select which partition should contain the "Bootmgr", and i selected the same partition for the OS to be...

UEFI legacy disabled - Operating system not found Hi , well I'm trying to install remix os It says I should disable secure boot then I go to advance startup option to get into boot menu shift+restart then i change something called uefi to lagacy to disable secure boot Then I save n restart boom...

When I boot the computer in Windows 7 and press F8, it shows options to boot in various modes... I choose "Safe mode with Command prompt". But instead of displaying me the command prompt on the login screen it shows me the normal login screen.... What should I do to resolve the issue? I want...

Sooooo I've reformatted a number of hard drives in my time, and never encountered an issue like this one, and it's stopping me cold. First, a little background: my lady friend is out of the country for a few months and desperately wants to come back to a reformatted laptop. Her Dell laptop...

*I am not sure if this is the right spot for this* Hello. I have a laptop with an SSD and a hard drive. I already have windows 10 installed on the ssd and I want windows XP on there as well. First of all, how much space does windows XP need? I have about 100gb of space on the ssd for XP. Is...

hi, I went to msconfig and boot and advanced option, I find I have 1 processors enabled. I have Pentium dual core e-6300, so I should have two cores. I also checked my CPU in task manager. It's showing I only have 1 cores. What happened to my second core. (Sorry for the Chinese, if you don't...