windows issues

Hi guys, I need some help! I have win 8.1. I was watching a 14 sec video on BBC, with Facebook and a handful of other windows open when I got a screen (picture attached) that said Aptio setup utility. I wasn't sure what it was so I powered off my computer. I turned it back on and rather than...

I cannot open PDF files in Foxit Reader because of apparently a problem with file ODBC32.dll in the Windows System folder, error 0xc000012f. I tried uninstalling and re-installing the program but the same result. I tried installing Adobe Acrobat Reader but it will not install. I thought I could...

Recently I ran into a BSOD loop which made me restart my computer many many times by hand because sometimes my computer froze instead of showing BSOD, now after I managed to fix it my computer is REALLY REALLY slow, tried so many things chkdsk /f sfc /scannow removed hiberfil.sys (to clear...

I am playing a Microsoft game and every time I go away for a few min the screen would turn off but then the PC hangs when I move the mouse or from keyboard. So I am trying to edit the power plan so that it won't do that anymore with the below request but it is not working. POWERCFG...

Hi all, When I try to print things in various programs, the print dialog box no longer pops up. It seems to be only the old version of the print dialog box, as trying to print something in apps such as the photo app causes the new version of print dialog box to pop up. It is when I try to print...

Hello, I am in great need of help. 4 years ago I got a gaming pc with very good components, I was just blown away by the speed of it, however over time it became extremely slow, just the startup took about 15 minutes. I lived with it for about 1 year before rebooting it. After that, it was very...

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...

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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.

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...

have purchased a new HP printer, and I use the event logs to track how many pages we have printed, however that's the problem. If a user prints 99 pages of the same document, the printer will print 99 pages, but the print log will show only 1 copy printed, which is a bit useless for us. It's...

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...