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Hi all, This happened on my dad's Acer 5 A515 laptop. as far as I can tell - he just opened the laptop one day and was locked out of his PC with the Bitlocker screen on. He never enabled it or set up a recovery key, let alone saved the key somewhere. perhaps some rogue update behavior or...

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 everyone... I upgraded my laptop, and it was easy, everything went smoothly, and now I'm thinking of updating my PC as well. Has anyone who has tried to update run into any problems with the process? If not, I may update my PC this week after I hear how it went for others, I really do...

Hello all I keep my work files on a USB stick that is attached to my laptop. Several times a day a window pops up, showing me the content of the drive, as i had just connected it. Why is this happening? It's a new laptop. Yes, i could turn off autoplay to "not do anything" when a pendrive is...

Hello everyone and apologies for this question that will disturb your time on the forum. I have a college laptop and I am going to save for a £400 laptop because mine doesn't work too well, Roblox - the game moves on its own, Discord - Blocked and all apps I may need are also blocked. I was...

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Hello, I use my Android phone as a hotspot for my Windows 10 laptop. I have NordVPN connected to my Android phone, should I also have it connected to my laptop? Thank you

Hello there, Windows community. Back in August, I bought and received a Dell Inspiron 15 3000, and I've had excellent work done on it. It's high speed, it connects fluidly to other devices and networks, and it's been a good experience up to this point. However, my camera hasn't been working...

I have a Windows 10 S laptop purchased this year. Today I checked the Windows Defender settings - Firewall and Anti-Virus is turned on but Web Protection shows "No Providers". There does not seem to be a provision to select or add any service provision to “defend” the Web. I am thinking that as...

Hi, my laptop slows down a lot when it's plugged in and stutters on games it should easily be able to play. The rated charger for it is 45w, I am currently using a 65w charger and still the same issue. I've tried everything but to no use. My brother has the exact same type of laptop but doesn't...

Windows has always been a platform for the world’s innovation – a place for anyone to create, connect, learn and achieve. As Windows reshaped computing experiences, new hardware products have helped more and more people interact with them. From the first mouse that unlocked point and click...

So one day I was playing a game, hoi4, and I paused it shut my computer off, and left for a few hours. I come back my computer shut but it's still running, I open it and my screen and computer is frozen, so I hard shut down. When the computer is on next thing I know none of my USBs will work...

Hello. I do a lot of cloning on all my machines, so far so good. I recently planned ahead and got a new laptop, to be able to go to W-11. Of course, I got one with Secure Boot. I am unable to do a clone any more as Acronis tries to boot from its USB media disk. I succeeded in getting rid of...

Hi, I have a new laptop, but instead of a ctrl key next to the alt button, I have this second "|\" key, but I really want that to be a ctrl key. Switching out the physical key I know isn't such a big deal if I get my hands on the same thing, but is it possible to tell all my software to pretend...

windows 10 stuck on 100% on UNNEXPECTED STORE EXEPTION laptop windows 10

Hello there, I want to install Windows 8.1 on my laptop (which already has Linux installed) for work purposes. So I discovered WIN7 and WIN10 drivers for my laptop model on the official Dell site, as well as Intel Graphics drivers. I looked for drivers for Windows 8.1. However, some drivers are...

I had problems with my computer and ended uo needing a clean reset. My tech loaded windows 10 Pro which wo7n0't work then he loaded windows 10 home. The isn't correct either. Is there a difference between Windows 10 and Home version? My computer is a Dell Insprion 5570 laptop

Hello everyone, My HP pavillion dv6 laptop keeps shutting down after I installed windows 10. It was working fine for a while, but then windows started logging me out everytime I tried to log in. I tried to reset my pc but windows kept logging me out and eventually just started shutting down all...

Hi, I have a new HP laptop with Windows 10 (Home). Cortana works via text and voice. I'm trying to make it play music. I do have Spotify which I understand is the only main streaming service available. In all explanations how to enable Spotify I have to get to Cortana Notebook via search or via...

My laptop shuts down when the battery charge is above 40%. Is the battery dying? Here are some details about the battery from the app "batterycare": -current battery capacity: 100% -battery remaining time: 3h58minutes -battery status: full charge -discharge cycle progress: 7/30 -Designed...