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For many users, Windows Action Center is a helpful notification hub, offering quick access to alerts, system status, app messages, and shortcuts to essential features. Yet, for a significant segment of PC users, particularly those on Windows 10 and Windows 11, the Action Center can become more...

When a Windows system fails to recognize newly connected devices or exhibits problems with existing hardware, many users rightly turn to the familiar "Scan for hardware changes" option within Device Manager. This function is intended as a quick diagnostic and troubleshooting step: it prompts...

When encountering the Windows error "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc00004ac)," users often face significant frustration as this issue blocks an application from launching, pointing to system or security-related interference. This error commonly arises in Windows 10 and 11...

We all know that moment—you're ready for a virtual meeting, you click on your camera app, and nothing happens. Perhaps you've seen the dreaded error messages like 0xA00F4244 or 0x200F4244. If your camera is playing hard to get in Windows 10 or 11, fear not! Microsoft has a handy guide aimed at...

Windows 11 (and Windows 10) systems can sometimes act like overzealous security guards—suddenly powering down when they think nothing’s happening. If your PC shuts down automatically after periods of inactivity, it could be due to several causes ranging from hardware issues like overheating to...

Ah, Windows updates. We all know they’re essential for keeping our machines secure, speedy, and up-to-date with the latest features. But what happens when that little "Checking for updates..." spinner turns into a big, red error code, like 0x800f0835? If you've encountered this frustrating...

Ever looked at your computer acting funky and thought, "If only I could put you in some kind of diagnostic timeout!" Well, dear Windows user, that exact troubleshooting gem exists, and it’s called a clean boot. Microsoft Support recently refreshed their guide on how to perform a clean boot in...

Copying files is a basic yet essential task that every computer user performs, but what do you do when the process unexpectedly stops halfway? It can be frustrating, especially if you're copying large files or important documents. Various factors can cause this disruption, and knowing how to...

My computer has been behaving strangely and in general feels pretty sluggish compared to a few weeks ago when I bought it. I have factory reset it a few times, reinstalled windows, did clean boot but nothing seemed to "unlock" it back to its full potential. I noticed how my memory just...

I was going to perform a clean boot and typed msconfig only to find my settings already at selective not normal. I changed it but after a reboot it again was selective.

So hey guys, I'm in a bit of a sticky situation here. So I booted up my computer on Monday, loaded fine and everything seemed to work until i tried opening the file explorer, when boom error message. Being an Com Sci major and having some experience with viruses and windows misbehaving, I...

So I have an older machine using a core 2 duo 8500 processor with 3.18mhz. I use this maching mostly for social media and email and it has worked fine until microsoft stopped supporting vista. I even upgraded the drive to a nice ssd and the machine boots up pretty fast. But as time goes on, I am...

Everything was going well until about a month ago when for some reason it decided to start freezing...kernel power issue, so I tried a clean boot and that hasn't worked and nor has running in safe mode. I'm running win 7 64bit ultimate, motherboard Gigabyte GA 990FX UD5, GTX 750i gpu, 4 sticks...

Hello, I'm new here I just wanted to ask for some help and assistance over the issues I've faced with my laptop. Specs: Processor: Intel Core i5-6220U Ram: 8gb Graphics: Intel HD Graphics Here's my Diagnostic-Performance Events: Boot Performance Monitoring This application took longer than...

Hey guys Ive been going crazy trying to get Windows 10 to work on my girlfriends computer. Ive done it 2 times successfully on mine with 0 issue and have been working on hers for 3 days now and am no closer than I was at the start First off - I have windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit and it is...

Trying to upgrade from Wondows 7 Pro to Windows 10. This process has crashed about 10 times, have been going back to Windows 7 working on drivers. I did a "clean boot" and did get Windows 10 to install. But then I went back to a normal startup, which killed it on reboot. I'm trying to boot...

For some time now run a dual boot pc for some time now with Win 7 and Win 10 tech preview. I have upgraded to Win 10. So now what I want to do is uninstall the tech preview and the boot menu. I could just format the tech preview drive but would that leave my boot up clean with just the Win 10...

Hi Guys, I really need help on this one, HP laptop with Win 8.1, when cold booting or restarting the laptop it does not get past the HP splash screen until I press any random key, then it loads fine, tried strating in safe mode also a clean boot, I have to manually press a key at the HP splash...

I am trying to update newly installed Win. 8 so I can install Win 8.1. Up[grade will not take, upon rebooting it has a failure to update and reverting changes(takes forever). I have had this problem before and usually doing a "troubleshoot updates" and a clean boot worked, even did a...

I've recently been having problems with setting my account picture. It will come up with an error every time I try to change it. I haven't changed my account picture in 6 days nor been on my computer in 6 days (which I doubt affects it). I actually had this problem before (a month and a week ago...