Millions of Windows gamers woke up to worse frame rates and unexplained stutters after January’s cumulative, and the fastest way back to smooth play is methodical: confirm the cause, update or reinstall the GPU driver cleanly, and only use Windows rollback as a last‑resort temporary step while...
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Last month’s Windows 11 patch KB5063878 triggered a flurry of alarm among power users and IT pros after a narrow set of SSDs began disappearing under heavy write conditions — a regression serious enough that some users experienced irrecoverable data loss. This feature walks through a practical...
Went to use my laptop today and keyboard, Bluetooth and wifi were all broken.
Tried a few things including a number of restarts but nothing worked. Noticed kb5063878 had been installed a few days ago, uninstalled it and everything started working again. Decided not to leave it switched on...
Windows updates are a fact of life—even if sometimes they feel as intrusive as that persistent ad in your favorite app. Whether you're running Windows 10 or Windows 11, Microsoft’s regular patches aim to boost performance, fix bugs, and seal security holes. Yet when those changes lead to a...
Microsoft’s February 2025 security update, KB5051987, was meant to fortify Windows 11 against emerging threats. Instead, Windows users are now facing unexpected disruptions—including a broken File Explorer and malfunctioning peripheral devices. In today’s article, we explore the issue, offer a...
Keeping your Windows operating system up-to-date is essential for security, stability, and access to the latest features. However, as most Windows users might agree, the occasional update can bring more headaches than improvements—cue bugs, performance hits, or even those dreaded system crashes...
Hi, everyone,
In search of a problem that was causing Win 10 to lock up on my XPS13 9343, I enabled driver verifier. Predictably, this is now generating BSODs. This is the expected diagnostic behavior, I gather. The problem is, I have not been able to to get into Windows in any mode that will...
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This is a strange one to explain.
I would like to install the Microsoft downloads for other products other than windows 10 e.g. for Word 16 pro and others but when I untick the box to allow the installations’ am hit with a flood of updates and one of them has an adverse effect on my Word and...
Hi, i have recently power on my notebook after a week only to discover that start button and application toolbar is not responding, so i have to run programs using cmd R, i read that this is an issue with an update, how can i revert it? Im not able to uninstall updates or restoring from a point...
Hello !
About two weeks ago, my girlfriend's laptop (Dell Inspiron 1721) running 7 x64 had the mouse poorly responding. Right after the boot, swiping on the touchpad barely moved it on the screen...just inch by inch...:confused:
The system loads fine, if I press the Windows key for example it...
Sorry if this is a n00b question, but I'd really appreciate it if someone could help me.
First of all, it's relevant that I tell you that I have a Western Digital (WD) My Book World Edition Network Storage external hard drive which is working perfectly right now.
I have Windows 7 Ultimate...
For those of you out there that are experiencing some slow downs in Outlook 2007 from MS recent updates here are two possible solutions.
First: Run Outlook 2007 as administrator, open outlook 2007, click tools, click trust center, click add-ins in left pane, click go at bottom of page. A pop...
Not sure which optional update I installed is problematic. My notebook now takes longer to load files
1- Which update caused the problem
2- Can the the be solved by uninstalling the problematic update
Thanks,
will