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windows 10

  1. droscoe

    Help with Freezing & Restarting PC

    My PC randomly freezes and restarts. The chances of it freezing/restarting seems to increase when I'm putting a load on my system (such as gaming). Only a few minutes of heavy gaming and it restarts. On the flip side, when I'm doing nothing at all (sitting on desktop) or doing minimal activity...
  2. miqi222

    Can’t start laptop.

    So I was updating my device drivers using an app on steam and had it automatically restart my computer. I was downloading a game while it restarted. When it restarted, there was a message saying that my computer will be restarted and gave me the error code : SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED...
  3. D

    Solved Is it possible to recover/restore this file?

    Hello, a while back I had to restore windows 10 on my laptop because of a virus. I couldn't make a back-up of the files because the virus was doing it's work I guess... There were some pictures and videos that I didn't want to lose and those pictures/videos turned into "mxpchyvl" files because...
  4. danielelii

    SSD and HDD space optimization

    I as a music producer recently switched to PC from Mac. And I am wondering if it's possible to install Windows 10 on my SSD and my programs, plugins, music packs and such on my HDD. Since my SSD is only 250GB and my HDD is 1TB, I want to store most of my music stuff on the HDD, so that it...
  5. maoeei

    Ghost system.

    Guys, I have a huge doubt. I left the lid of my notebook (Lenovo Ideapad touch screen) open, but over time the lock screen was activated and automatically went into standby, but a few hours later it turned on by itself, without my touching it. Not to mention that there was access to the internet...
  6. F

    Truthfully don’t know the root of the issue. Error code 43 related to graphics card.

    So, I’ve built a pc from scratch, everything is factory and new except the GPU. I bought it from a reputable Facebook marketplace seller with a high rating who has been helpful and willing to refund the money if the card is faulty. I want to make sure the card isn’t the problem before I take it...
  7. Tomb

    Help !

    Hi so basically I went to reset my pc and once it started the pc froze and and shut off and now when I turn it on There is a black screen and I can’t do anything, and help would be very appreciated
  8. F

    Issue with Nvidia/Win 10 Display driver

    Hi Im having 3 big problems just trying to install whats necesary for my graphic card... The first one is this: i tought i just needed to use the compatibility mode but it dindt worked... then i tried to use Windows Update to get the last version of win and this happend I said "never mind...
  9. donaldduck1010001010

    Question GPU Upgrade boot loop and unable to get to safe mode

    OS: Windows 10 (an old version) Cpu: Ryzen 5 2600 Motherboard: ga-ab350-gaming (rev. 1.x) Old GPU: rx 550 New GPU: rx 580 OC 4gb Storage: crucial mx500 PSU: corsair cx450 (450 watts) Maybe it is important to mention the PSU is 450W and it has only one 6 pin connector (a 6+2 connector). I...
  10. Brandon Byrnes

    Solved Keyboard Backlight issue HP Probook 450 G3

    So it looks like (stupidly) the only way to change the timer on my keyboard backlight is to go into the BIOS, I do have a keyboard shortcut but it only works for the brightness, not how long to keep the backlight on. Does anyone know of a program that I can install that would take care of this...
  11. Pedio

    I can't get rid of a virus

    Hello community Last month i tried to download Mario 64 , but sadly it turned out to be some dangerous virus , i had read every forum and watched every video and downloaded every antivirus or antimalware for this problem but nothing helped me . I tried to delete the virus files manually with...
  12. M

    Solved How to reset windows 10 to original

    My windows 10 seems to be infected with pop ups etc. My pc performance utility informs me that my disk is fragmented and cluttered. I have in the past downloaded software etc. I wish to simply do a complete reinstall of windows. How can i go about doing this?
  13. I

    Switching from 32bit to 64bit Windows 10

    As stated in the title, I am currently running windows10 32bit and would like to install 64bit. Several days ago I upgraded my windows 8.1 32bit to 10 32 bit and have been searching for a way to move to 64bit since then. I have both the 32 and 64bit versions saved to a USB stick using the media...
  14. P

    Cloning my system OS from an internal M.2 Sata to M.2 NVME

    Hello Everyone! So here is what I plan to do: I want to exchange my current M.2 Sata SSD (500MB) to a bigger and faster M.2 NVME SSD. I want to achieve this by putting the new (2TB) NVME into an external enclosure, then cloning the Smaller system disk to that new one. After that, I want to...
  15. Epictaco6

    Solved Newly built PC won't connect to the internet

    So I just finished building my first PC this weekend and everything is working great except the internet I've installed the most recent drivers from the motherboard website (MSI Z390-A PRO) and the device manager says they are working. I've tried it on several networks so I know it's not the...
  16. gezkfir

    Cant start windows after ssd replacement

    Hey guys, so I have this desktop "hp 280 g1 mt business pc" and I decided to switch its ram and add an SSD, all was in working order until I tried to move windows from the HDD to the new SSD by fresh windows install. I made a boot flash drive and went through the process, it all looked good but...
  17. Brandon Byrnes

    Solved VideoPad Taking Forever to Load

    I just built an awesome video editing rig. I was using my underpowered laptop to edit video using VideoPad, it took seconds for VideoPad to load, but now on my new awesome rig it is taking over a minute for it to load. I don't get it, I have a better CPU, an actual graphics card now, faster RAM...
  18. D

    Countdown timer stuck

    any one know what this is it counts down to 00.00 then flashes red and dont know how i got it on my screen. Doesnt show up in task manager. Im kinda new to pc
  19. Brandon Byrnes

    Solved Wireless Keyboard lagging after Windows clean install

    I recently did a clean install of Windows 10 and since then i have been having a problem with my wireless keyboard. It has been lagging sporadically pretty badly. The keyboard is a Logitech MK550 Wireless Wave Keyboard and Mouse. i have then connected wirelessly to my laptop via the 2.4Ghz usb...
  20. Brandon Byrnes

    Solved WSAPPW process throttling CPU?

    So I was watching a YouTube video and suddenly it started going all twitchy, and the audio was going all staticy, and I noticed my taskbar glitching. So I went to task manager and my CPU was at 100% ( i have a core i7) and my memory was at 90% (I have 16GB or DDR4 RAM, and the primary process...