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Windows 11 April Update Fiasco: Installation Failures and Windows Hello Woes Unveiled Microsoft’s April update for Windows 11, labeled KB5055523, was meant to bolster security and stability across devices. Instead, it has delivered an unwelcome mix of installation headaches and a major...

Windows Hello Login Issues After Windows 11 Reset: Bug Breakdown, Impacts, and Workarounds Windows 11 users relying on the convenience of Windows Hello for facial recognition or PIN login have recently encountered a frustrating hiccup after performing system resets. This unexpected bug emerged...

Microsoft’s Windows Hello Faces a Glitch in the Latest Windows 11 Update Microsoft's latest Windows 11 update, KB5055523, rolled out on April 8, 2025, with the goal of enhancing system security, has instead stirred up user frustration by causing notable issues with Windows Hello, the biometric...

Windows 11’s latest cumulative update KB5055523 is proving to be a double-edged sword. While it brings necessary security fixes, many users are now facing annoying—and potentially unsafe—issues with Windows Hello. If you’re one of those who rely on facial recognition or PIN logins, you might be...

The Case for a Clean Install Ladies and gentlemen of the digital age, let's talk about one of the grandest rites of passage for a PC enthusiast: the clean install. You're not just doing a bit of spring cleaning; you're rolling up the sleeves and giving your system the full Marie Kondo treatment...

I am getting consistent blue screens on certain games and the error codes I am getting on the blue screens keep changing the last one was DCP Watchdog violation but I've also had Page Fault in the non page area and Unexpected Kernnel Mode Trap. This seems to be happening mostly in Call of...

Hey guys, I have a strange behavior on my system: I manually select date format to be dd.mm.yy and after every reboot, or even randomly while using the computer it resets itself to dd/mm/yy. This is driving me crazy. I even tried to edit the registry key manually but it's not helping it...

NET: 1)I have an older Thinkpad T500 which came with Windows 7 and I later upgraded to Windows 10. 2)I had given it to my sister; she no longer uses it, and I am planning on: A) Doing a Reset and reloading Windows 10 B) Possibly change the hard Drive and reload Windows 10, etc, via USB Tool...

Dear all, I just did an update of windows 11, I have a monitor connected, after restart my surface pro 7 stays black and monitor is working. Important info, when I touch my surface screen, it moves things on minotor screen, as if the sytem is considering my monitor as the computer screen. How...

So this morning I awoke started my computer, cat ripped out power cord, so I plugged it back in and restarted. Crashed within an hour after that However after over 18 hours of crashes, BSOD, and black screens I'm huffed, I've done the sfc check, system restores/ system reset, reformatted my HDD...

so today I discovered something majorly wrong with my win10 PC. I tried something simple like accessing Task Manager from the task bar only to receive the following message - " turns out I cant access anyting but the folders and the internet....any administrative function, device manager...

OK so a few weeks ago my PC screen would go off and the oc would reboot. There is no rhyme or reason to it. I am not watching videos or doing anything that would cause it to crash. I am getting an event error 10016 The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation...

Today i had to do an OS Factory default reset becaus of some issues i was having starting services needed to run a server i had for personal use, the reset worked but then it was too late to notice my mistake, this laptop had a Windows 8.1 rom as Factory and now i'm stuck with Windows 8.1...

Hello all. I am in quite a predicament here. I recently installed Win 10 because it was time to reformat and I figured that an upgrade from win 7 was a good idea. After installing and using win 10 for a few days I decided it was not for me and used the system reset function on win 10 to wipe...

I have a Toshiba Satellite E45DW-C4210 (came preinstalled with Windows 10 so no disc obviously) & it came with some bloatware from Toshiba. I have no idea what other junk is on this machine. How can I do a "fresh" wipe or whatever you want to call it so only Windows 10 is on the laptop, I don't...

Hi, My computer is having several bsod since quite a long time. But i'm really tired of trying to solve it myself. So I post. My computer configuration : OS : Windows 10 family 64-bits CPU : Intel Core i7 2600 @ 3.40GHz RAM : 8,00 Go Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 665MHz Graphics : SyncMaster...

Ok here is my problem, my internet connection works for a certain amount of time then without warning the connection dies showing the yellow triangle with a ! on it, showing no connection when I try to use shortcut keys nothing works I can get Run to work but when I try to load like cmd, it does...

Fyi after much stuffing about… and a system reset to flush non Microsoft apps, it is possible to have Cortana and still block unwanted calls on a Nokia 520, Windows 8.1 phone. The issue appears to be network related so having 3rd party apps that add flight modes or look for Wi-Fi/ Bluetooth may...

So, I have an HP laptop, I'm not sure which kind, and it has Windows 8.1 Installed on it. When I start it up, it shows me the HP logo, and under that it says Preparing Automatic Repair. After about 30 seconds, it shows a blue screen saying Error Code: 0xc0000185 and says Recovery didn't work or...

Laptop Keyboard and Mouse is not working properly now. Last time this occurred which was about 3 months ago, I reset-ed Windows 8 and it was all working again. When this occurs, in both incidents, I can't go to bios, can't enter password to login, can't open on-screen keyboard(except sometimes)...