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Windows 10 Keyboard and mouse stopped working.
Hi This happened to me this evening. I booted my computer and neither the keyboard of mouse was detected, I had to hard shutdown the computer because I had no way to interact with it. I did this 3 times and the same thing happened. Then pulled the plugs out for both the mouse and keyboard...- MikeHawthorne
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- boot detected drivers hardware keyboard mouse reboot shutdown troubleshooting usb
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Problem with bootloader (I think)
So I had Linux mint installed on my Laptop, dual booting with Windows 10, and decided I wanted to get rid of it. So without research I just deleted the partition and extended the windows partition. I was then left with GRUB, the Ubuntu bootloader. I spend some time trying to get rid of this: I...- Sausage
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- advise boot bootloader bootsect cmd grub help restore windows windows 10
- Replies: 8
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Screen does not work anymore; windows dumps when booting, so I have to use safe mode
Hi forum, The screen of my laptop does not work anymore, despite suffering no physical damage. Therefore, from now on I am using an external monitor and safe mode with networking. When booting, the windows symbol appears normally, yet before showing the desktop a crash dump pops. Launch startup...- bsoddumps
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- boot crash dump external monitor laptop network safe mode screen startup repair troubleshooting windows issues
- Replies: 39
- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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I have a question about a Windows system
My brother brought a computer here that has older Windows version on it and I am not sure which version it is and he said it doesn't boot up and one of the hard drives went out how to start Windows when I put a new hard drive in the computer- Cooltwou
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- boot computer hard drive installation repair system troubleshooting upgrade version windows
- Replies: 3
- Forum: General Computing
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Windows 7 Virus removal device
Does anyone know if the " Fixme Stick" really works? It is advertised on Amazon as well as other computer sites. It is supposed to work before you boot up windows. Thank you in advance for your input.- DogFD
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- amazon boot devices fixme stick input malware removal security virus windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 MsMpEng running all my apps at once on boot
Since installing the Windows 10 Anniversary update, booting has been slow and the PC is sluggish for a while. As soon as I could get Task Manager open I saw C: had 100% utilisation. I ran Resource Monitor and saw that MsMpEng apparently had a long list of my installed programs running at the...- ontodva
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- 100 percent anniversary app management boot cpu usage diagnostics high utilisation msmpeng performance program usage resource monitor slow boot slow pc software conflict system performance system resources task manager troubleshooting update issues windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Windows 8.1 boot stuck running chkdsk
I scheduled a 'chkdsk /f /r c:' for my C drive under Windows 8.1. When I next booted the check disk started running, reached 13%, then never got beyond that point. I can leave it running for hours and the screen shows 13% completion and the check disk never completes. This has the effect of...- eldiener
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- boot chkdsk hanging
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Windows 7 32-bit Fails To Boot Up, If Not, Freezes In Use
Windows 7 Professional 32-bit Intel(R) Core(TM) 2 CPU 6320 @ 1.86 GHz x2 4GB RAM My Win7 started to freeze while I'm using the computer about a week ago. It accepts no input (no cursor movement, cannot type etc.). After a while it began to freeze up on boot up, at the same certain point (when 4...- WKFO
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- 32-bit boot recovery win7 windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Boot Issues After Fedora Installation: Unable to Access Windows or Linux
Last night I tried reinstalling fedora on a partition on my computer but after the installation was completed and it was restarted I couldnt boot on windiws or linux. I have a discrecovery but none of the options seem to be doing anything, even the reset pc and keep files didnt help. And after...- Luisda95
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- boot linux recovery windows 10 windows 10 64-bit
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Start doesn't doesn't want to work on bootup?
How come everytime I boot up my pc my start menu doesn't work as well as my windows keys?- Age
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- boot computer issues keyboard system settings troubleshooting user interface windows 10 windows 11 windows key
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Won't boot after windows update
This is on a six-core system, 8GB ram, win 8.1 64bit. Yesterday everything was fine. I went to shut down at the end of the day and selected 'update and shut down.' Then in the morning windows would not boot up. After some digging around it looks like the update moved my entire windows folder...- rpahl13
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- 64-bit backup boot boot issues c drive e drive error help ram repair six-core system restore tech support troubleshooting update update issues windows 8.1 windows folder windows update
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Programs slow until restart.
For some odd reason, when I boot up my computer, all programs will be slow (for example, video games might have low framerate or typing into the internet bar is delayed) until I restart the computer. Then it's fine until the next day. Programs I recently installed include AutoCAD, but I tried...- jaypaul978
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- autocad boot computer delay frame rate gaming optimization performance issues process programs restart software support system task manager troubleshooting user experience windows
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Blue screen, windows and other programs lag.
Hello this is the second time that it has happened where my computer will start lagging on all programs. I notice it will take a while to go to another page while browsing the internet, so i try to open task manager see if anything is off, but then suddenly task manager is also taking a while to...- Miu miu
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- blue screen boot computer issues dump files error freezing internet lagging latency performance programs system task manager troubleshooting user experience windows
- Replies: 6
- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 7 Reboot and Select Proper Boot device issue
I built my first rig a few years ago and haven't had too many major issues with it until last week. I used it as usual and shutdown before going to bed. When I woke up the next morning and turned it on, I was met with "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot...- nicktorres1992
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- boot boot issues reboot loop windows 7 64
- Replies: 7
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Updates Failing then looping and rebooting
Hi Everyone, I am having a problem on my laptop with the updates failing. When I boot the laptop it will start loading updates. It will get to 63% and then reboot. Then it goes so far and automatically reboots, then it says that the updates have failed. It then says that it is undoing the...- TerryLP
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- boot change error failed help issues laptop loop maintenance performance reboot recovery repair support system troubleshooting undo update windows
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 Removing or resetting windows log password when don't know password
Hi I purchased 2 all in one msi pcs from big w late 2014. My sons was used straight away in box no issues. My daughter was too young at the time and I stored at risk of not testing. It was the display. Since setting up had no power cord, company said too bad. I brought one. However it has a...- Paula lee jones
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- account recovery all-in-one autism boot dvd boot external drive instructions login msi password remove reset safe mode tech support troubleshooting tutorial usb user guide windows 7
- Replies: 10
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 How to force windows to boot to screen saver
I have a computer that runs a security program that records my video cameras. I have it set to bypass the login screen and auto start my security program. I am wanting it to boot to.the screen saver since I have it set to ask for password on resume. That way if someone restarts the computer...- billkater
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- autostart boot camera computer login password resume screensaver security windows
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Open WebMartix3 on Windows Startup
Please advise me how to setup WebMartix3 open when Windows Server 2012 R2 bootup. I want it to start the program (WebMartix3) before I login my account. (meaning it will start the program before I keying my password in the login screen of Windows Server 2012 R2) I had tried Task Scheduler but...- Jin Chua
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- application launch automation boot configuration login server 2012 startup task scheduler webmartix3 windows
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Server Forums
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Windows 7 Can't get to windows, always boot up to chkdsk even after completing it
Last night my pc was fine, until I booted it up this morning, after the windows logo it brings me to chkdsk (drive C, system partition), ran it and it took hours to complete, there are so much unreadable file error, minor name or what it is, after it finished my pc reboots itself, back into the...- hafidzg
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- bad sectors boot disk issues hard drive hdd windows 7
- Replies: 12
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Windows 10 Startup Glitching
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad W510 and whenever I try to boot it up, it shows the blue Windows 10 logo like normal, but before I get to the sign in screen, the white loading screen shows and the screen turns black for a split second, then it loads a tiny bit more, then the screen turns black for a...- Maxxcomedy
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- boot boot issues glitch lenovo safe mode windows 10
- Replies: 19
- Forum: Windows Help and Support