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I lost my Windows 11 Pro after reinstallation.
Hello. I had an issue with my monitors, so I had to reinstall Windows several times. I bought a new computer a few months ago. I purchased a Windows 11 Pro key on G2A, installed it, and my system successfully upgraded to Windows 11 Pro. However, after…
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How to fix error 0xc0e90002 winload.efi on windows 11?
I am running windows 11 on HP laptop. Recently I changed the BIOS "Secure boot" setting to disabled. After exiting BIOS, I got a Bitlocker screen. Even after entering the key, it failed. Whenever I try to boot, the laptop stays on the HP…
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How to fix DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION blue screen
I get this blue screen randomly at various times. It does not happen when virtualization is off in BIOS, but as soon as I enable it again, it occurs randomly. I tried to update the graphics driver, but it didn't help.
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Bitlocker recovery key not working
Hi, I've been trying to unlock my computer with my Bitlocker recovery key but it says that the key is incorrect. I've tried all email accounts I have but to no avail. Is there any way I can fix this without needing to format my computer?
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Window 11 "Choose an option blue screen" can't boot into safe mode
Blue screened on July 1st, 2025. Tried every option I could including moving windows and resetting the pc. The pc (laptop) couldn't do any recovery options, any resetting options, nothing worked. Need help recovering files and google passwords (won't…
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Windows 11 USB boot black screen
My Windows 11 boot somehow got corrupted, I'm trying to reinstall from USB flash drive using the Media Creation Tool but it goes black screen when I boot from it. My motherboard is an MSI PRO B650-A WIFI, BIOS version is 7D75vA6. I tried switching USB…
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Cómo arreglo el error 0xc000007b al iniciar mi laptop hp?
Ayer por la noche al apagar mi laptop empezó a actualizarse, por desesperado forcé el apagado y hoy por la mañana, al iniciar mi laptop, me salió el error. Ayuda, por favor :(
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Tab History doesn't fully load
For 3 days my tab history in Google Chrome hasn’t fully loaded no matter what I do. The first day it showed only a small number of the tabs in my history but then after a while the missing ones appeared again. But for the past 2 days the missing tabs…
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Help my pc stuck in safe mode
My pc was put into safe mode was trying to safe mode scan it but now I'm unable to boot normally and due to no internet in safe mode I can't login to my microsoft account that's finding an error with the pin and can't change the pin due to no internet…
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How Do I Create a System Image in Windows 11?
I noticed this question was migrated from the Microsoft Support Community. In the Microsoft Community there is a very complete answer under the title "Windows 11 backup and restore using Windows 7 backup and restore option" from Dec. 2 , 2024.…
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Downgrade from Windows 11 to Windows 10 - ARTICLE
Technical Level: Intermediate. Applies to: All Windows 11 editions. Revision: 1.0. Summary Windows 11 is the modern operating system from Microsoft released on October 5th, 2021. If your Windows 10 running system meets minimum hardware requirements for…
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HELP!!! I forgot my password and I can't reset it because I am not getting recovery key on my alternate email ID
I have a Laptop which is facing Blue Screen of Death. Now when I try to restore it, it asks me for a BitLocker Recovery Key. To generate the Recovery Key, I need to login to my account, which I am unable to, as I have forgotten my password (I use a PIN…
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Rolling back to windows 10 using media creation tool
When I first upgraded to windows11 it didn't seem to bad and I liked it. and then after a few days after the 10 days roll back window I realized how better windows 10 was and how much I liked it more than windows 11. So I downloaded the media creation…
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I can't get into my new computer
I have just gotten a new computer and when it was doing it initial startup I had a brown out and now I have a defaultuser0 and no way to log in. I tried to do a full window restart with a complete wipe, but the defaultuser0 account error still appears. I…
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Windows 11 Backups
Back ups to external drive won't complete and I get this message - " A shadow copy could not be created. Please check VSS and SPP application event logs for more information. Insufficient storage available to create either the shadow copy storage…
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Can't read from source file or disk when copying files between OS and external hard drive
Hello community services, I cannot transfer my files from my computer (Windows 11 Acer Aspire E15) to my easystore 5 TB external hard drive because I have been experiencing the error (Can't read from source file or disk) even though the file I am copying…
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go back to windows 10
i want to go back from windows 11 to windows 10 after 10 days. How can I go back? can someone explain me?
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Trying to get Bit Locker Recovery Keys.
Greetings Ladies and Gentlemen, The laptop device name that you have listed in my account is not the same that I see on my computer. What computer is that device name referring to ? I only have laptops. What computer is desktop referring to in my…
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Restoring windows 10 backup on windows 11
Recently I had to bring in my windows 10 laptop for repair. I decided to back it up on an external hard drive using the backup method in settings, in case they had to do a factory reset. When I got the laptop back I checked everything and it was all okay…
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I can't backup on an external driver on Windows 11
Hello, I am new to windows 11 and wanted to do the monthly backup as I always did on windows 10. After a long time searching for where the new backup setting is, I found out, I only have the option to backup my data on the Open drive. I searched…