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Occasionally Win 10 downloads silently in background some security updates (on my v1903 system) and prepares them for installation on next reboot. When I click on START Button (for shutdown or restart action) I can see an additional entry "Update and restart" with a red dot in the lower left...

What is the file path to find out the current IP Addresses stored within a Windows 10 machine? I’m using Autopsy for practice purposes

I just saw in System Information that my Desktop Laptop Platform Role is Mobile. Turned on the other two laptops in the home network and they also are mobile. This is a newly reset computer with no connection with a mobile phone whatsoever. To confirm my suspicions, in autoruns I get multiple...

I just purchased an HP laptop with a 128 GB M.2 SSD Hard Drive. Besides the original setup and adding some basic programs, I've done very little in a week. But my C: Drive has already used 42% (only 69GB free) A further disk analysis shows that, of the total used, Windows has used 30%...

Assume I am sitting in front of an unknown/new computer which has a Wifi-chip on his motherboard. How can I find out (from within Windows 7; not from manual) from which manufacturer this Wifi chip is (e.g.Intel)? Is there a built-in info or do I need a 3rd party diagnostic tool? Peter

Describes the MSINFO tool and lists the switches that are supported by the MSINFO32 command-line tool in Windows 7, in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Continue reading...

Working on a new Windows Forum Diagnostic Tool and would like to know what features you guys would like to see. Basically right now the goal is just to duplicate what it already did. The current planned features are as follows. Grab the following information and zip it up: DXDiag information...

Good morning! My name is Tamara. I just joined this Forum because I figured it would be a lot of help to me since I am in the process of taking my A+ certification. So I won't bore you with the boring details! But hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. Now, I don't know...

Assume I updated oocasionally my Win 7 system. How can I find out which of the many Win 7 Spectre, Meltdown and Spectre NG updates are currently locally installed? Peter

Hello everyone, I have recently experienced a large number of BSODs on a Samsung notebook running Windows 10. I cannot specify the cause of the problem, but the most recent one had Firefox as the ONLY "active" window. Tried using WINDBG, but have zero experience. Can anybody help?: -) I...

Very simple question, with a very simple answer I hope. Where can I find out if my windows 7 is 32 bit or 64? thanks.

Original release date: November 14, 2017 Systems Affected Network systems Overview This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Working with U.S. government partners, DHS...

Pardon the length; I'll try hard to keep it short as possible. I know there is a lot on the internet concerning genuine Windows 7 64 OS suddenly being flagged as not valid. I tried a number of ideas postulated on the web but I still can't get it to work. Now to be honest this issue has been...

Apologies, I am not very good with computers, but I am in desperate need of help. Under device managers, it appears that these devices need up-to-date drivers, otherwise I can't connect to the internet. :( I have provided as much information as I possibly can. I will also include a couple of...

I had a computer built for one of my clients and it has been crashing ever since it was put in. It is running a fire alarm monitoring program called focalpoint but I have this same program running on almost one hundred computers that all have not had this problem. I have some dump files but I...

That's what my grandson calls it. He's got 8GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive in an Asus PC. System info is attached here as a .pdf file. 95% of his activity is Minecraft, but even before that comes into play, the OS is slow to load and if he should enter an erroneous password at the start...

I hope I don't come across as horibly spammy on my third post here but I would like to share some info on a project that I've been working on. I know when it comes to free monitoring solutions we're all basically stuck with Nagios or some sort of Linux based product that is typically ugly and...

Here is a powershell script that collects roughly the same info for BSOD analysis. Simply run it from an elevated powershell prompt. It creates a folder on the desktop called SYSTEMREPORT and a SYSTEMREPORT.zip. It will also prompt you and enable crash dumps if you don't have them enabled...

I has a bsod earlier that I need help with. I've slready run the following. sfc/ scannow DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Scanhealth DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth None of them found any issues. For about 2 2 1/2 weeks now my pc has frequently been turning itself off. I know...

Hi, I have been getting frequent blue screens lately .. Like whenever laptop goes to sleep and appication gets stuck. I am attaching dump and sysdata with this. PLs help. -Madan