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Windows 11 Intermittent Wi-Fi Issues in Windows 11 on HP ProBook 4540s After Ethernet Disconnect
Hello, My wifi symbol dissapears or in wifi option airplane mode apperas and wifi not working in windows 11, this happens when starting up or unplugging my ethernet cable. So I can't connect to wifi anymore a restart doesn't work but turning the computer off and rebooting it, then wifi reapears...- acessmesse3456
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- airplane mode connectivity drivers ethernet feedback hp pavilion internet network issues problem reboot settings startup symbol issues tech support troubleshooting update wifi windows 11 wireless
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 11 How to stop file expolorer from opening on boot
I have an iSCSI drive mounted on D: for steam library from my TrueNAS server. Every time I reboot my computer this drive pops up in file explorer. How can I disable this? I have checked the following settings: Apps/startup - nothing here about file explorer. Task manager/startup apps - nothing...- erkke
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- boot issues file explorer help iscsi drive reboot startup steam library task manager truenas windows settings
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Windows 10 Home - can't update the OS
Hello, I'm wanting to upgrade from Win10 Home to Pro, so I went to the start area and entered Update, then clicked "Check for updates". The screen that popped up had a few icons in the upper right-hand corner, one being Windows Update. Below those words I see Attention needed. When I click...- hikerguy
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- action needed home edition issue fix os issues reboot registry settings troubleshooter troubleshooting update upgrade windows 10 windows home windows pro windows update
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Check Disk for secondary Drive Stuck at stage 3
Hey guys, I connected my Old Laptops 500GB HDD to my gaming pc to use it as a secondary drive, I ran the clean all command on the diskpart in cmd and then used disk management to allocate memory for windows and everything went fine, I rebooted my system and the disk check started happening from...- poorvish
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- chkdsk command prompt data transfer disk check disk management diskpart file recovery hard drive hdd issues reboot secondary drive stuck process windows
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 11 Windows 11 - Regular "not responding" message in all apps.
In Windows 10, it all worked fine for 2-3 days, then I get a "not responding" message at the top, then all apps fail taking sometime to close down, before I can reboot. I have to reboot 3-4 times in a row else it runs slow. And these are long reboots ~5 minutes each. I can understand one...- sidr
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- app drivers not responding performance reboot sfc troubleshooting update windows 11
- Replies: 23
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 8 Removing contents of Favorites Bar
My wife uses an old Windows 8 computer, mostly for browsing, and came to me the other day complaining that she was having issues. Internet Explorer would start and display her normal Favorites Bar contents, but then apparently was being re-directed and displaying a ton of favorites she did not...- MikeFromArizona
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- browser issues browser settings caching problems data reset entry removal favorites folder favorites management hardware support internet explorer manual removal old computer reboot redirect tech support user preferences user settings windows 8 windows settings
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 10 Is there an inherent problem in Windows 10 basic typing?
When using the on-screen keyboard, if I type a capital letter immediately after an opening quotation mark, it screws up the computer so badly that I have to trick the computer into allowing me to save my work, and then reboot the computer. It appears to be a windows 10 problem because it has...- hamsimp
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- capital letters computer issues on-screen keyboard quora quotations reboot save work software bugs typing windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 remove drives and press any key to reboot,
Windows 10 remove drives and press any key to reboot, but when I press any key and it boots straight away into windows with no restart, my question is, how do i get rid of the "press any key... e.t.c" when i boot, as it's annoying and i cant just press the power button and come back in 1 min and...- Hidden Soup
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- boot issues login press any key reboot remove drives startup troubleshooting windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Software
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Windows 11 Mystery faint box in Win 11
Win11 works fine for a day or so, then it becomes unstable, with a mystery faint box in lower centre of screen (refer 2 attached). I also have a video clip showing this, but it is 15MB and this forum doesn't seem to allow it to be added (if someone provides an email address I can send it). If I...- sidr
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- admin prompt cursor drivers mystery box reboot screen issue troubleshooting unstable video clip windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 11 I have a caution for everyone rebooting in Safe Mode!
Hi everyone! I don't know how many times over the years I've booted in safe mode, but I don't remember ever running into this before. In an effort to delete my Video Card folder (do to another problem posted here), I went to msconfig and clicked the button to reboot in safe mode. I then...- MikeHawthorne
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- graphics card login issues password reset reboot safe mode serial number system image tech tips user experience windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Slow data copy between iscsi drives
Hi All, I have a windows 2012 r2 server with iscsi drives configured. Server is experiencing slowness during data copy between iscsi drives after server reboot . In order to fix the issue , I need to disable and enable iscsi configured NIC card after server reboot . It looks server is not able...- jimab2611
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- data copy iscsi launch issues network nic performance reboot virtualization vmware windows server
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- Forum: Windows Server Forums
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Windows 11 Left click problems in Windows 11.
I upgraded to Windows 11. All was fine except after ~1 day, the mouse left-click becomes unstable. The mouse's left-click only works some of the time, else no response. eg when 2 apps minimised in taskbar at bottom, clicking on them doesn't maxmise. After a further hour, there is also the...- sidr
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- drivers left click mouse issues reboot sfc scan system stability upgrade user experience windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 11 Stop Windows 11 from reupgrading
I upgraded to Windows 11 and found it to be pretty annoying. I rolled back to Windows 10 using the "go back" function. It reverted, but immediately downloaded Windows 11 and now wants to reboot to upgrade to 11 again. I cannot find any way to prevent this. I paused windows update while I search...- rathje40
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- annoyance reboot rollback system settings update management upgrade user experience windows 10 windows 11 windows update
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Can't reach main c:drive
When i start the pc i get reboot & select proper boot device , which has been happening quite often lately . I restart and keep the sata cable in to help i load , it works today all i get is reboot & select proper boot device . I tried my other hard drive which s where i am now , i tried...- NettleWarbler
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- boot drive c drive computer issues disk recognition hard drive reboot sata cable settings troubleshooting
- Replies: 47
- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 11 What does this blue box mean?
I noticed this box on some files on the desktop only, then I did a full scan of the device and there are no viruses and I did a reboot, but to no avail. It is still there. I just want to know what it is? And is it harmful?- VARMOTH
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- blue box desktop files harmful icons notifications reboot scan virus
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Windows 10 home freezes after update 21H1 ver. 19043.1288
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...- shadows
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- blue screen bootable usb crash error freezes gaming home edition loading screen media creation tool pc maintenance performance reboot repair software conflict system issues tech support troubleshooting update windows 10
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 Seeking Solutions for My Slowly Declining Gaming PC Performance
Hello, I am in great need of help. 4 years ago I got a gaming pc with very good components, I was just blown away by the speed of it, however over time it became extremely slow, just the startup took about 15 minutes. I lived with it for about 1 year before rebooting it. After that, it was very...- JohnnyBigpocket
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- component upgrade gaming pc maintenance performance reboot slow pc startup issues tech support troubleshooting windows issues
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 7 reboots - usually no BSOD (with BSOD history) win 7
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...- gahb
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- asus bsod clean install cpu error testing gtx 1070 hardware memory microsoft office office pc maintenance power supply reboot sata security ssd tech support troubleshooting windows 7
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- Forum: Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)
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Windows 11 Windows Explorer repeatedly crashing
I am running the latest preview build of Windows 11. My system is Intel i7, 16GB ram; 1 500MB SSD, 1 4TB HDD. When I try to copy a few small files (100,000 MB) to my HDD I open the destination folder, right click (to show the options - I want to "paste" the files) and wait for it to appear. It...- MurraySobol
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- crash explorer file copy hdd intel i7 performance preview build reboot ssd windows 11
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- Forum: Windows Help and Support
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Windows 10 bought wifi extender, but laptop won't connect
my phone and surface connect to the extended wifi network just fine, but my work laptop cannot...i tried to connect then the password field briefly appears then it suddenly says "cannot connect to network"....tried rebooting to no avail note that this is a work PC and therefore my admin rights...- dwight895
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- admin rights connection extender laptop network password reboot troubleshooting wifi work pc
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Windows Networking