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The sudden disappearance of reliable emoji search functionality on Windows 10 has left users frustrated and uncertain about the platform’s future support, particularly in the wake of the KB5062554 Patch Tuesday update. Across online forums and tech communities, numerous users have reported that...

This week, a curious case of nostalgia swept through the Windows Insider community as Microsoft inadvertently replaced the familiar Windows 11 startup chime with the iconic Windows Vista boot sound—a move that momentarily transported users back to the mid-2000s. The unexpected audio swap...

Here's a summary of Microsoft's recent blunder involving the Windows 11 Dev Channel build 26200.5651: What happened? In the Dev Channel preview build released around June 16, 2025, Microsoft accidentally replaced Windows 11's startup sound with the iconic chime from Windows Vista. This was not...

A sweeping software glitch reverberated through the globe in mid-July 2024, touching off what would become one of the most disruptive airline outages in recent history. As airports buzzed with confusion and screens across continents flickered with the cold blue of Windows device crashes, the...

The most recent cumulative update for Windows 10 has ignited an unexpectedly heated debate within the Windows community, owing to a subtle yet powerful disruption: a core feature of the beloved Start menu has suddenly stopped working for many users. In what feels like an increasingly familiar...

It started, as these things so often do, with a little pop-up. For thousands of enterprise users—minding their own business, dutifully clicking through spreadsheets, crafting presentations, or maybe just hunting for that illusive TPS report—a sudden, unprovoked invitation lit up their screens...

Very irritating issue here. I tried running a game "Assassin's creed:Syndicate" on my Asus ROG G551VW at a resolution of 1600x900 and it runs on partial screen even when I have fullscreen option checked. It will only occupy full screen if I run the game in 3840x2160 resolution but that's not...

Hello everyone, I've been trying to figure out a fix (along with looking around in the forums) for a few hours now, but I'm worried about my computer. I have a Lenovo with 8.1 installed and today I got a notification that my computer was going to restart and update, which it did without any...

Today when I was doing nothing really at all on my computer I decided to go on speedfan, after I clicked it on my desktop a black screen appeared which looked like my monitor wasn't plugged in (even though it was) and stayed like that for about 5 minutes before I manually shut it down. After I...

Hi Today I updated my Windows 8 install to Windows 8.1. For the most part it went smoothly but I'm having a weird problem with my text to speech files. But when I hit speak the voice is very distorted and the volume is low, it's the same for all the voices including the Microsoft ones. I...

Hi Today I updated my Windows 8 install to Windows 8.1. For the most part it went smoothly but I'm having a weird problem with my text to speech files. But when I hit speak the voice is very distorted and the volume is low, it's the same for all the voices including the Microsoft ones. I...

Hello, this may seem a little lame so I apologize but I hope for some help. When I bought this computer I received the free trial of microsoft 2007 office trial blabla. That ran out obviously and I have been missing it for a while now. Recently I found the old office XP discs and decided to DL...

I have had this issue with two computer in the past. I had an HP Pavilion TX1000 for a while and had the issue on the Vista OS. Now I have an IBM Thinkpad T43 with Windows 7 32-bit installed and it has been fantastic up until just today. I've looked through a lot of documentation on this...

I've got a fair amount of computer savvy. But when I migrated to 7 last month I guess all that was useless. Anyway, I'm running a newer HP with enough power to handle anything, so far. I installed 7 and then put my apps on and about a week later upon rebooting I get the message that I can't...