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I recently bought a new Lenovo Thinkpad E15 with the cheapest HDD available. I swapped it for a SATA SSD that I already had, formatted, and did a clean install of Windows 10 onto it. Then, I decided that I wanted to add an NVMe SSD and put Windows on that drive instead to take advantage of the...

Search button on taskbar, and typing in start menu/start screen no longer works. It does nothing. At the same time, Timeline history does not show up. (even if it's enabled on settings) I tried searching online methods such as windows troubleshooter, resetting index, sfc command, powershell...

Hello, hoping someone can help diagnose the cause of recent BSODs. I suspect it is a driver issue as my computer crashes within minutes of running driver verifier. I've tried updating all drivers and bios from the manufacturer's website and a clean install of Windows 10. Let me know if you...

Hi. Been struggeling with this for weeks. Device manager do not detect new devices. I'm also not able to uninstall any of the universal USB controllers. Have tried to boot without any USB devies exept keyboard and mouse, but usb is still not working correctly. I have win10 with latest update...

Hi 1st time poster here and having an issuse that started about july of last year. In the meantime I have found a momentary Solution to my problem but it may last 5min sometimes longer or till the next reboot. So in July I was still running my Amd 2600x on my Asus rog strix x470 f gaming bios...

Hey everyone. I am new to this forum. First, I want to say that I am not sure if this is the right place to ask, so if that's the case, sorry in advance. The story: I have bought a laptop about 4 years ago, and with it, I got Windows 8 installed built-in (With no CD). My laptop is Lenovo Yoga 3...

Hello! When windows 10 first came out, I upgraded and started using it. Every update seemed to really slow down my pc, and give me many performance issues. My system is a home build (Gigabyte H67A-UDH3 motherboard, Intel Core i3-2100T and 8 gigs of GSkill RAM). I had to pull that hdd go back...

After the system goes to sleep once I awake it it hangs at the Windows screen (where time is shown left corner). After a bit I'm greeted with BSOD stating... DPC WATCHDOG VIOLATION This is a clean install of Windows 10 Pro 1909 18363.535. When I hit the power button (after the diagnostic runs...

Dear all, Thank you for reading this. Recently I've been getting a lot of BSOD's. To be more specific the "critical_process_died" one stuck at 0% so no dump file. I did my fair amount of searching on the internet and i tried just about everything and still can't seem to fix the problem. I have 2...

Since I did a clean re-install of Windows 10, on July first, I have not been able to re-install my Okidata Microline 590C printer, I keep getting the following message "Unable to install Oki ML 590C Elite, Type 3 - User Mode, x64 Driver." I have tried other Oki models with the same result. I...

I have bought a 500GB SSD to be the system disk on my old PC. The HDD that is now the C: drive will hold user files, not windows system files in future. I have read up on installing Windows on a new drive and I have one question: at what stage in the installation of Windows does the new SSD...

Need a little help. I Have a usb created via Rufus that I now want to use to do a fresh install on my Del Inspirion 3543. As far as I can understand I need to set the boot priority to that of USB. BUT for UEFI mode there is no usb option. Only Legacy has this option. So what now? How to I do...

I have a brand new clean install of Windows 10 Pro, I had recently installed Office 2019 from an ISO which was downloaded to the download folder, I installed from it's current location and all went well, activated product etc. Next time I went into "My PC" I saw my C drive (SSD), my D drive...

Before reinstalling windows, my laptop's monitor would turnoff whenever I set the brightness to 0. Now with a clean install of windows, 0 brightness is just very dim. I would like to know if there is a way to get this feature back, as it was very useful. Any help would be appreciated.

I have a Ceton Infinity 4 TV tuner card in my computer. I recently moved and had to get a new Cable Card but I was unable to pair it to the Ceton card due to not being able to get the Host ID of the Ceton card. Windows Media Center usually displays a page with this information but after 15 or so...

Hi I posted about having issues doing a clean install on my old computer, that I'm going to pass on to my nephew. Neemobeer and nmsuk gave me some help getting around the issue with running the install do to a formatting conflict. Once I got past that the install went smoothly and Windows...

I have been battling random BSODs for over 5 years. I built my PC in 2011. They occur only in certain games, and seems to have no correlation with graphical intensity (I can run loads of high end games with no issues). It's almost as if the games causing the issues are just poorly optimized (7...

I'm almost certain it has something to do with my hardware but I can't make heads or tails of the information in the dump files. I've recently reinstalled Windows, clean install, because of the BSOD's to no avail My computer is approx. 3 years old & I recently upgraded my graphics card. If any...

I need help, I have W10 installed Update 1709 and have not had any problems with updates until 1803 came out the update from Hell. It has downloaded 32 times and every time it failed. I contacted Microsoft Desk and they told me that I needed to do a clean install. I went and backed up...

I cannot reset my computer as the attempt always fails. I believe I am missing some system files. The restore application also fails. Windows 10 was upgraded from Windows 8 via download. So I do not have the registration key or whatever. So what solutions are available before taking it in for...