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    Windows 10 The second monitor cannot display

    My computer has dual boot with Windows 7 and Windows 10, and is connected to two monitors. Both monitors display normally on Windows 7, but on Windows 10 only one monitor is working. Although both monitors are listed in the display settings, the second monitor cannot display. What should I do?
  2. Multiple EFI partitions on c drive

    Hi All Been trying to do a dual boot with windows 11 & 10 on my c drive. It didnt work, windows 10 failing to create a boot setup and i`m left with lots of small 100MB partitions on my c drive. Any idea which i can remove, i`m trying to extend my C to use that unallocated 487gb of space. THanks...
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    Minimum processor state not working in Power Settings

    Minimum processor state in advanced power settings does not make any difference in Windows 10/11 no matter what I set it to or what plan is active. Changing the Maximum processor state works just fine. I'm currently running Windows 11, but I had the same issue when using 10, so I imagine the...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 installed with dual boot manjaro linux

    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...
  5. Windows 10 Can't startup

    I've made a mistake on a cpu that has both windows 10 and 7 in different partitions. I was moving files between partitions and ended up moving windows operation system's files. Now I can't startup neither with windows 10 or 7 Is there a way to chose with windows to startup by using the dos system?
  6. Windows 10 Windows10 não reproduz áudio via HDMI

    Olá pessoal, fiz um dual boot na minha maquina, linux mint e windows10, e gostei muito do windows10 e acabei comprando uma licença. Eu utilizo, uma tv da philco, como monitor, gosto dela, porque diferente de outro monitor que tenho, com e ela o som e imagem já vem junto. O problema, é que no...
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    Windows 11 Moving the Boot partition

    I know that as long as the system partition and boot partition are on the same drive, I can use a clone-tool to migrate Windows 11 to another hard drive with simple clicks. As I had some problems with Windows 11 (c-disk), I installed another version of Windows 11 on another drive (d-disk). It...
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    Windows 10 Power on Gives Two Windows 10 Options

    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...
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    Windows XP 32 Bit on Windows 10 64 Bit

    My favorite Windows is Windows XP. I have the license key for the organization that I used to support for back in 2001-2006 which is for Windows XP Pro, and it is for unlimited number of clients. I am feeling Nostalgic and want to install it on my Old Laptop which is designed for Windows 7 but...
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    Windows 7 Message Banner sez "New Updates are available" even though 'net is disconnected'

    So am retiring my 12 yr old windows 7 laptop as the pile of quirks builds. As a quick side note- replaced it with an HP AIO dual drive now set up for Linux/Windows 11 dual boot. Seems ok so far. Anyhow- took one of the final steps toward retiring the old laptop a few days ago by disconnecting...
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    Windows 10 windows 10 no longer boots at all

    I have dual OS installed one linux manjaro and windows 10 and it uses grub v2.02 bootloader. It shows windows 10 in the list to boot but when selected it goes to a dark screen with text saying cannot detect any OS on device. Make sure to unplug any device that's connected that has no OS then...
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    Windows 10 Long delay during bootup?

    After the windows splash screen during boot up, all the USB devices turn off... there is a roughly 60 second delay, they come back on, and it boots into Windows fine. Ideas? I dual booted into Ubuntu and USB stays on the entire time and there is no delay. I also tried booting from a live...
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    Windows 10 Install 2nd instance of Win 10 temporarily

    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...
  14. Windows 10 im tired please help me(problem with my ssd)

    So basically I think I ducked something up with my ssd. I basically dual booted ubuntu for a while and for some reason when I deleted ubuntu It fully deleted. Now I have 2 partitions on my D drive (1 which is windows 1 which was ubuntu) and the ubuntu one sometimes . I need to fully delete...
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    Windows 10 unable to reset Dual Boot

    Hi, In the beginning I had XP installed and then Win7 in dual boot. Dual boot I could not undo and upgraded Win7 to Win10. After a Win10 crash, I couldn't do any repair. I reinstalled Win10 on another partition. My question is if I can just delete the older versions and just keep working with...
  16. Windows not appearing in Boot Manager

    Hello I am Rahul Due to this pandemic doing work from home for Akai metal so I have a dual boot system, both on the same drive. I have Pop OS! And Windows 10. The problem I have is that I unplugged the C: drive which contained Windows and Pop OS! And plugged it back in and now Windows is not...
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    Windows 10 Windows 10 doesn't boot after dual boot: Not even an image appears

    Hello everyone. Hope you are doing ok. I have an Asus Laptop X407UB with 4 Intel® Core™ i3-6006U CPU @ 2.00GHz processors, 12 GB RAM and 1 TB of disk storage. Today, I decided to dual boot Ubuntu 20.04 LTS with Windows 10, but, since I installed Ubuntu to my computer, my Windows doesn't even...
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    Windows 10 Two W10 Systems with Bitlocker

    Hi, I am struggling with this installation and looking for help from somebody that already did it. I am using Lenovo ThinkCentre with my TV as primary "Internet" computer. Because I have almoust empty 1 TB Nvme drive I had the idea that I will shrink my boot volume (the only one on disk) and...
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    Windows 10 Dual boot 10 with 8.1 separate drive

    Hi I have installed Windows 8.1 on a separate drive. Windows 10 already installed on mt Dell desktop I have two questions : 1. Does or should I disable fast boot and secure boot in Bios? 2. I am using easy bcd to set up the dual boot option screen. Which bootloader should I use as default 10 or...
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    Windows 10 Restricting Network Access on Win10/Linux Dual Boot

    Hello, I have a PC with Windows 10 and Kubuntu Linux dual boot. The machine is connected to my DSL router via LAN cable. No Wifi hardware installed. I like Windows to have no internet connection at all. Linux should be able to connect without any restrictions. How can I prevent Windows from...