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For many Windows 11 users, signing into your PC can be as simple as looking at your camera or tapping your finger on a sleek scanner - thanks to Windows Hello. This game-changing feature allows biometric access, freeing users from remembering and typing passwords. However, recent updates have...

the bios screen is not loaded while start up / Resting the PC unresponsive screen when loading windows from external device if you are using a monitor with high specs the bios screen doesnt match the resolution and fail to display solution : lower the resolution of the monitor or use a...

Dear sirs, I am using Windows 8.1 in my laptop. Working with wireless external Keyboard and mouse with separate dongles. If I want to restart Windows on My laptop the booting procedure will start only after pressing any one of the button on the keyboard of the laptop (Not on external key...

Hi! Lately, my PC has been freezing and crashing to black-- no BSOD, power LED on case stays on-- just black, no signal to monitor, while gaming. Sometimes it can make it an hour into gaming without happening, sometimes for less than 15 minutes. Twice now, this has also happened while just...

I am currently trying to overwrite my old PC to hand it to my girlfriend with a clean slate. It's currently a win7 home premium. I changed boot priority to DVD over HDD, insert Win10 disc, start PC. When prompted to press any key the win10 logo comes up and after a few minutes I am told that a...

Hi Today I discovered that my printer, and my camera weren't working, they just weren't being recognized by the computer. Both had been working since my final install of Windows 10. After a lot of messing around reinstalling drivers, etc, I discoverer that they worked when plugged into...

Hello there. I bought my laptop with Windows 8 pre-installed and when the 8.1 was out, I successfully upgraded to it. Then I read about the Windows Technical Preview, I installed it and saw that it is a very very buggy version, so I tried to return back to Windows 8.1. I have attempted to...

Hi friends I have dell with Windows 8.1, my system crashed, it's not starting, after dell logo, black screen is coming after some time error saying unexpected error due disconnection of external device, tried to boot through USB flash drive, it's not installing, what to do now? Pls help Sent...

Today I've bought one powered USB Hub that I was hoping to solve my low number of USB ports. It has 10 ports but when I connect anything on it (my phone, my external hard disk, flash disk, etc.) it doesn't recognize it. All of them are working conected directly. No unknown device under Device...

Fixes an issue in which a Windows 7-based or Windows Server 2008 R2-based computer does not automatically connect to a mobile broadband network after you unblock the PIN-based mobile broadband device. This issue affects both external and embedded devices. Link Removed

Hi guys, First of all, I'm new. The reason why I've joined this forum is simply: I have got some real issues with my Windows 7 pc. Since the purchase of my MOTU external soundcard, the MOTU UltraLite mk3 hybrid USB/Firewire. My PC keeps crashing all the time. But the last week, it even crashed...

Does anyone know of a good Webcam? Logitech gave my computer the Blue screen of death because Ihave WD Hard drives and could not take out the WD programs to install Logitech’ssoftware with the help of Logitech’s tech support. Microsoft has the worst tech support I’ve seen in a longtime. I...

Ever since installing Windows 7 (64 bits) my mouse stutters. Skipping every now and then, staying in one position while I move the mouse, etc. I do a lot of photo editing and it's really annoying and makes my work almost impossible. Hope someone can help me out. I already tried some stuff on...

running windows 7 ultimate 64 bitthe system keeps crashing/freezing, no BSOD, nothing in the event log, just complete system freeze. sometimes it may crash several times a day, sometimes it may go for several days without crashing. Some things I have found which regularly cause a crash. Trying...

I just bought a brand new Dell Optiplex 390 running windows 7 64bit. I plugged in an external USB hub with 3 devices attached (2 cameras and 1 stepper motor controller). At first the computer recognized the three devices and I can communicate with them just fine. After a few minutes, they stop...

Both USB ports at my laptop (Toshiba Satellite C650, Windows 7 home premium, SP1, x64) stopped working after plugging in and unplugging several Garmin Forerunner 305 watches in a row. Everything looks all right in the device manage (no exclamations marks). I have reinstalled everything that...

OK, I have an external sound card that is plugged in via a USB port and had been working just fine. Windows recognized it as an Audio CODEC and labeled it as a microphone. Suddenly the audio from it went low almost to the point where it is unusable. I have checked and double checked all the...

Fixes a problem in which the transfer of a large file between a computer and an external IEEE 1394 device is very slow. This problem occurs on a computer that is running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 and that has at least 4GB of RAM. Link Removed

I've been to tons of other sites for my problem and I can't find a solution. The kernel Power errors happen when ever I play a rather large game, such as Left 4 Dead, Left 4 Dead 2, Dead Rising 2, Assassins Creed Series, and Battlefield Bad Company 2. I've tried unplugging all my external...

[SOLVED] Apple wired keyboard with USB Hub on Windows 7 issue. 1st- the Apple keyboard (model # MB110LL/A) isn't listed as compatible with Windows 7. But I like it very much & had an extra one & decided to make use if it on my Windows 7 PC. The only issue I have using it on my PC is that the...