windows issues

Hello. My dad gave me his laptop just to check an issue. His Laptop when first given to me check was constantly running high CPU when checking task manager with it running 100% and I couldn't identify what was making it do this. So a quick restart (off and back on) the laptop was doing the same...

I'm trying to play farmville but since flash is gone, you have to install a farmville launcher. Except that it doesn't work. I click the installer, and the blue window with the suitcase picture shows up for less than a second, but then nothing happens. I can't figure out any other way to install...

Windows Server Backup has been running for a couple of years. I see my current backups. It shows the oldest backup date being back in 2018. However, when I click on "Restore" it only shows dates since January 1. Are those backups just gone? Where are they? Perhaps they just don't show up...

i cant get into any drive of my mine as there is no security to change settings i linked screenshot below Link Removed

Fixes an issue in which the logon process hangs at the "Welcome" screen or the "Please wait for the User Profile Service" error message window. Continue reading...

These are not the two blue arrows regarding compression=properties >adv>compression and untick. I was transferring files from a lash drive to documents in file explorer and all of a sudden two blue arrows appeared on top and bottom of each folder. All attempts to resolve this referred to...

I keep getting random BSOD with the stop code: UNEXPECTED_KERNAL_MODE-TRAP. I have done some digging around it says that this means that there is a driver/hardware error. All of my drivers are up-to-date, so i am not sure what the problem is. Please help.

Below in my screenshot I have marked the W10 installation, W10 bootloader, and Linux install. For some reason, every time I install W10 it decides to install the bootloader on a seperate drive. When I boot into the linux drive grub shows W10 but I am unable to boot into it. I am able to boot...

Hi. I am having a problem playing videos in full screen. No matter what player I use they will freeze. They play fine if they're not in full screen. They will play in full screen if I move the mouse constantly. But if I stop moving the mouse the screen freezes. The audio will still play. I have...

As of the last few days windows defender will not open or start up and has turned off spyware and virus protection. In the bottom corner of the screen is a flag saying i have 2 PC issues to be solved, which is turning on virus and spyware protection. When i click on it to turn them on an error...

Last year I obtained a free Windows 8 laptop from my neighbor (can't complain about that!). It has worked very well for me until recent months. For whatever reason, the file explorer will randomly stop showing all folders in the side bar and (often) the main window. All I can see is little...

I decided to install RdWeb Client on my Windows Server 2016. When I try to connect to an app from RDWeb Client it shows:

I'm having issues seeing the text in the Administrative Command Prompt. I haven't messed with it on my pc. The regular Command Prompt looks fine. In my screenshot of both the regular Command Prompt is on the left side and the Administrative Comman Prompt is on the right side. Thanks for any help...

WTF I got the latest update and it made my desktop background black. Whose idea is that? Ought to be staked out on a fire ant mound.

Hey guys, I'm back here again for some help, seems like I have some sort of issue every few months. I have a 500Gb Samsung 860 EVO, and randomly (2-10) times an hour it will be at 100% usage and my computer freezes (anywhere from 15 seconds to 2 minutes). When I say freezes, I mean I can still...

ive recentlydone a full reset of my pc. However, its unable to complete it. The pc says it has an issue and needs to update, but when i try to update it the thing just resets and does it again. I cannot access anything other than info on my location, is there a way to fix this

I was not sure where to post this, but I have tried all the methods that I have been able to find online to fix this issue to no avail. I am able to watch videos in my browser because Chrome allowed me to disable hardware acceleration, but I cannot watch videos through the Twitch app or videos...

I have a few movie files with the .mov designation. When I offload from Nikon camera to old laptop, they do not show up in Picasa or "my pictures" file. When I access "my pictures" file on my desktop, they show up. What is up???

I have 2 (sometimes more) rundll32 processes shown in my taskmanager and one of them repeatedly opens and closes, while the loading icon is flickering next to my cursor. I've already tried restarting the system, Malwarebytes didn't find anything and I couldn't find anything helpful on the...

When I tied to run this with 1803 t said the probable cause was an a/v interfering. I only have MBAM so I disabled it by right clicking and selecting "quit". When I ran system restore again the same thing happened. Can Windows be working against itself so I should disable ransomware etc.? I...