When a Windows 11 upgrade refuses to finish, the experience is equal parts opaque and infuriating: cryptic error codes, a rollback that restores your old desktop, and little explanation of what went wrong or how to fix it. These four troubleshooting “secrets” — polished through hundreds of...
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PowerToys quietly hides a few genuinely time-saving features behind its polished dashboard — tools for backing up your entire configuration, automatic diagnostic logs you can read yourself, and an easy plugin system that turns the launcher into a Swiss Army knife. These three capabilities alone...
Microsoft has quietly put a new tool on the 2026 roadmap that promises to change how IT teams manage quality updates for Windows on corporate PCs: Windows Quality Update management policies in Microsoft Intune will let administrators approve and roll out individual quality updates — including...
Repair Corrupted System Files with SFC and DISM in Windows 10/11
Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 20 minutes
Introduction
Corrupted system files can cause crashes, slowdowns, driver issues, or Windows features failing to start. Windows includes two built‑in tools—System File Checker...
If you've ever experienced a crash or system hiccup in Windows 11, only to be left scratching your head about what went wrong, fear not! The Event Viewer is your trustworthy companion in uncovering the hidden stories behind system events. This powerful tool is packed into Windows 11 and can be a...
OK this is an obscure question-
So, on my tv I have the VLC app. When I try to get VLC to connect to my windows 11 share it says:
"Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL smb://WINDOWSDELL. Check the log for details."
Your instinct is to say it's a problem with the VLC app...
Since the upgrade from 21H2 to 22H2 , in Windows11, Im getting 20 times , ID=1108 in the eventviewer .
After each reboot they appear again , 10 times ; id=1108 , errorcode 15005 , eventid=0
and ;10 times ; id=1108 , errorcode 15003 ...
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I leave my Desktop on before leaving my room. Than I remotely login. However today I noticed the Desktop was restarted as I wasn't remoted on for 3 hours!! Is it someone entering my locked room to restart the PC?? Is it the electricity turning off ? Or is it some windows update doing all this...
Hello,
Is there any computer person on Earth able to answer this question.
How to find logon / access logs that go back 2 years ? Vs the event logs on the pc itself that go only 6 months?
In other words, how to see who and when people in our large company logged on and off etc of the...
11:51:09 [Apache] Error: Apache shutdown unexpectedly.
11:51:09 [Apache] This may be due to a blocked port, missing dependencies,
11:51:09 [Apache] improper privileges, a crash, or a shutdown by another method.
11:51:09 [Apache] Press the Logs button to view error logs and...
Hi,
There was a little updating done a few days ago, a couple of hundred megs, however since then the computer has cut out three times. Does these mean anything? I don't use bluez so will disable that but not sure what these logs are saying? Windows 10 crashed the other day so might not be just...
Error: MySQL shutdown unexpectedly.
10:33:24 [mysql] This may be due to a blocked port, missing dependencies,
10:33:24 [mysql] improper privileges, a crash, or a shutdown by another method.
10:33:24 [mysql] Press the Logs button to view error logs and check
10:33:24 [mysql]...
Hi all,
When looking at the logs after the HPC console add-in fails to start I get the following (HPC scheduler):
Exception: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException (0x80131904): The datediff function resulted in an overflow. The number of dateparts separating two date/time instances is too large...
Dear all,
A program crashed and I wanted to see if there were any crash reports made of it. However, when I looked in event view, despite donig a lot of browsing, I could not find the application name listed, although potentially I am looking in the wrong section. Is there anyway to see in one...
Hello, I have been having some problems with Windows X Pro. If I post some Event Group Policy logs would anyone take a look and tell me if there are any problems?
I appreciate any help.
Aruga
Tried numerous time and ways, but in the end, I always get the same result.. when Windows tried to apply the changes, I get the same error message (mentioned in the subject line). All my drivers are up to date, I stop anti virus app during download & install, .... There must be an install log...
Prior post -
https://windowsforum.com/threads/bsod-help-win-10-please.247482/#post-734114
Essentially just need to know is the new BSOD also caused by the new GPU? Thats a head scratcher if so.
Here's the new log - BEAST-(2020-01-04_11-32-34).zip
around 2 days ago i saw a file on my desktop (debug.log). i didnt know anything about it so i did a little research and found out that it is most likely made by google chrome due to some error. i tried to delete it but failed. i didnt notice any problems so i ignored it.
today 2 times i got a...