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I have used Dell laptops and desktops since the 1980s and have been mostly satisfied with them. However, in mid-2022, I bought an Insprion 3510, because it was fast and had Windows 11 (yes, the best free windows). It turned out to be the fastest and most efficient laptop I ever owned, but the...

Tried to repair Windows 11 from within ISO mount - so I do not lose any apps and data. I get a message - Your files, apps and settings cannot be kept because your current version of windows is might be installed in an unsupported directory or you're trying to install an older version of...

The Dell Inspiron N7110. Yes, it's an old laptop, and I left for 2 weeks, and it rained and it was humid and now the laptop's display doesn't work - there's backlight but its all grey. Occasionally some faded image will peep through from behind. secondary display works fine. How do I fix it...

New member here, first post. Would like some help/advice with the above. The update downloads, and installs to the restart required. Restart first displays the "working on updates" blue-screen, but at 6% progress, commences to close and reboot. (Normally this reaches the 30% progress point??)...

Hello all, I'm new to the forum and I was hoping if someone could help. I have a user who's windows 10 machine's SSD has gone bad. Because of that parts of Windows 10 is not working such as windows update and start menu. I would love to just clone him over to a new SSD and just be done with it...

Hello all! The backgrounf to my problem is as follows: I had some problems with my windows 10, and wanted to dual boot windows with Ubuntu. Thus I thought that I was gone move all of my files to an external HDD, then factory reset my computer, and then proceed with the dual boot setup...

An "unclean file system" or "unclean volume" occurs when a data storage device (e.g. USB stick) is disconnected without being safely unmounted. At the next connection, Windows asks the user to "repair" the volume, meaning running CHKDSK. From experience, I know that Windows 7 does not allow...

My issue is very strange and complicated and I was looking for a second opinion. For starters, hardware: ASUS TUF Z590 Motherboard Intel i9 10900K CPU Corsair Vengeance RAM 4x16GB overclocked at 3600MHz RTX 3090 FE 1000W EVGA PSU Firstly Ill say I have a custom water loop, in part to handle the...

Good evening, recently I have deleted the wow6432node folder in my registry [win11 professional] what caused a bootloop as I noticed later. Thanks to another windows-installation I still got access to the system; is there a way to repair the registry without re-installing windows? Thank you...

Hello everyone, Lately while I was working on linux, I wanted to extend the linux partition and accidently the windows recovery tool partition got deleted. The windows were running normaly for 3 days and suddenly this morning something occured (picture below). So apparently, I can't run as you...

I have installed windows 10 on three different drives and windows 11 on one drive. To install windows on each I had to remove the other drives from the PC. However this has created a bootloader on each drive and my system is now totally confused. I select the drive on sata port one as the main...

Hey everyone. So I was playing around with some linux distros installed on the same disk (I know, I know, not ideal, but I only have on SSD on my laptop) and now Windows update fails, and I think it's because of the changes the linux installations made to the bootloader, since major Windows...

Hi Guys It seems that when I use online conference applications like Zoom and Teams my audio device is not working properly. But until last week it worked very well. Frequently the other party cannot hear what I say clearly and sometimes they can’t hear me at all. But when I use those...

I had to repair windows. The process was successful, but I am not able to install the Scrabble Champion Edition. I found a solution that said to ensure compatibility mode is enabled, but the compatibility options end with Windows 8. What happens is that I get a popup message stating "Please...

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I can't connect to the internet. In device manager there is a exclamation on intel gigabit network connection & Under device status it says windows cannot initialize the device driver for this hardware (code 37). I tried disable device, Uninstall then restart pc, the sfc scannow and changing...

Hello, I have an Acer Predator Helios 300 laptop that's suffered fluid damage that I've gotten diagnosed. The SSD is okay, but the motherboard needs to be repaired or replaced, and some other parts may also be damaged. IIRC, Windows is built in to the computer. Thankfully, I can easily afford...

Hi Everyone... I ran sfc /scannow a few minutes ago and after starting the process I got the message your computer needs to restart to complete process. I've never seen that before, it always just started counting down the process. I restarted and then ran it again, it gave my the message...

Hello, This drive is giving me poor performance. When I insert a blank disc to make a copy of some music, I can hear the music being skipped and the drive also makes a sound that sounds like it's not inserted correctly. But after checking, it looks ok. So I think I may need a new drive. I...