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If you’ve found yourself staring at a sluggish computer, haunted by the specters of failed applications and error messages that pop up more often than your relatives during the holidays, it may be time to consider reinstalling Windows. Luckily, Microsoft has put together a treasure trove of...

Are you tired of experiencing that dreaded sluggishness on your Windows PC? You’re not alone! For many users, maintaining a smooth-running machine meant relying on third-party utilities like CCleaner—a tool that's become almost synonymous with PC upkeep over the years. However, in a recent...

Unfortunately, Windows 10 is on borrowed time as the clock ticks down to its support ending in 2025. With an estimated 240 million PCs unable to upgrade to Windows 11, many users are left grappling with what to do next. Tossing out these devices isn’t the only option on the table—there are...

Introduction Have you ever wondered what happens if you leave your Windows PC running continuously for an extended period? Is it a good idea, or are there unintended consequences? Recently, an experiment was conducted by a user at How-To Geek to explore the effects of not shutting down a Windows...

BLinitializateLibrary failed 0xc0000001 Error 0135: CPU fan failure Lenovo custom built gaming PC 2021 UEFI-nonCSM Legion T5 32GB DDR4 AMD Ryzen. PC worked well for 2 years, but now has 2 errors. Both errors happen when hard drive is connected or not. Reset CMOS with jumper, had no effect...

ok, so i have a Z87M MSI board with 16gb of gddr 3 ram with a 4690k cpu. i also have tested with different cpu, ram and gpu with exact same results. Anytime i hit restart via the windows menu, it never restarts. it goes black and just sits there. the onboard troubleshot number says 00 and there...

Recently I ran into a BSOD loop which made me restart my computer many many times by hand because sometimes my computer froze instead of showing BSOD, now after I managed to fix it my computer is REALLY REALLY slow, tried so many things chkdsk /f sfc /scannow removed hiberfil.sys (to clear...

Hi Windows Forum I have been experiencing some rather annoying issues with my WIndows 10 Home Edition. At random times it either gives me a blue screen where it says "Your PC closed unexpected, please restart" or just this evening after opening Battlefield 3 while having a administrating program...

i have a pc that reboots itself sometimes, up to 3-4 times a day - usually no BSOD used for office - MS office / outlook / plus runs a monitor with security cams (no gaming) win 7 pro I7 6700k Asus strix z270g gaming gSkill 16gb f4-3200 gtx 1070 ti 8gb 1tb ssd 2tb sata 8gb sata done basic...

My PC has a 2TB hard drive, and I currently only have 866GB free. When I go into Settings and go to storage, it shows that my 'Apps and Features' take up around 890GB, which seems extremely high. All the other categories seem fine, only taking up around 20GB. I went into Steam/Uplay/Origin and...

My downloads file is growing. Any rules on deleting everything in the file? Does deleting a download also delete the program once it is installed?

My W10 Pro PC is running good at the moment. I decided to run system file checker, and got these results: Windows Resource Protection found corrupt files but was unable to fix some of them. For online repairs, details are included in the CBS log file located at windir\logs\CBS\CBS.log. For...

I'm trying to do perform a system image backup on another pc. I upgraded to Pro a while ago. Is there a way to check the ver of Windows on the system image backup file I have? Thanks! :D

I used "AOMEI partition assistant" to shrink a partition, during this "Memory Dump" appeared, when I restarted the PC I found that this partition became locked, I deleted it, and it became free space... 1 - When I try to create a partition in that free space: -It says "not enough space"... 2...

I have duplicate transferred files from another computer , along with duplicate data from my WM6.5 phone and duplicate photos from my camera my hard drive. I am running Windows 7, and looking for a way to compile, sort out the many duplicate files I have created over time, by making numerous...

hi, i have a 8GB ram 1TB hard disk hp pc with graphics memory of 512mb. i have been using my pc for gaming and it worked well on almost all games i have tried. but recently most of the games started to lag and some of them even have a cutting frames. even the game with the lowest quality and...

Hello. I have an question. My case is Fractal Design R5. I have pc few months and of course which is normal many dust on case on up panel on moduvent cover. Screen from internet case and panel moduvent( not mine screen etc ). Case panel from screen is clean without dust but it is only for show...

Does anyone know if we can uninstall Windows Sonic special sound and Dolby Atmos for for headphones ? A; I don't use headphones and most likely never will. B: I have 5.1 speakers hooked to my PC. C; My motherboards Asus Sonic Studio & Sonic Radar have me covered even if I got headphones and...

Recently my laptop can't connect to wifi nteworks, there aren't any network shown and i know there are since my phone connects properly. So i checked the adapter window and there isn't a wifi adapter, only an ethernet one. I check device manager and there's only a Realtek PCIE family...

Hello everyone, this will be a rather lengthy post. Please bear with me, as I don't know what information is pertinent to my problem and what isn't. I have a Dell Latitude E6410 laptop which has been running 64-bits Windows 10 satisfactorily for quite some time now. However, its original 250 GB...