1,686 questions with Windows Hardware Performance tags

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Microsoft Symbol Server cannot find explorer.exe, Taskbar.dll and Taskbar.View.dll's pdb files

I noticed that the pdb file of explorer.exe could not be retrieved from the Microsoft server. When I looked at the dlls it used, I noticed that files such as Taskbar.dll and Taskbar.View.dll's pdb files could not be imported. I would like to point out…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2024-05-03T11:19:09.84+00:00
said sawan 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-05-16T11:43:50.0433333+00:00
Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart 6 Reputation points
0 answers

How to fix windows startup issue ?(Windows 7 , and it is not opening , startup repair also could'nt fix the issue)

I ran a startup repair in my windows 7 laptop , but it showed it couldnt fix the problem automatically (Root cause found : Boot Critical file C:\Windows\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe is corrupt ) .

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2025-05-16T04:55:40.91+00:00
SRIHARI SIVASANKAR 0 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

windows11+intel BT5.3 bluetooth SCO remote connect Failure

brb = (struct _BRB_SCO_OPEN_CHANNEL*) &(connection->ConnectDisconnectBrb); devCtx->ProfileDrvInterface.BthReuseBrb((PBRB)brb, BRB_SCO_OPEN_CHANNEL_RESPONSE); brb->Hdr.ClientContext[0] = connectionObject; brb->BtAddress =…

C++
C++
A high-level, general-purpose programming language, created as an extension of the C programming language, that has object-oriented, generic, and functional features in addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation.
3,936 questions
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
Windows 11
Windows 11
A Microsoft operating system designed for productivity, creativity, and ease of use.
11,532 questions
asked 2023-07-04T02:31:51.6633333+00:00
小钧 唐 25 Reputation points
commented 2025-05-13T09:04:47.9333333+00:00
Sibert 0 Reputation points
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i7-6820HK CPU support for Windows 11

Like many others I have a Gaming Laptop with a still powerful i7-6820HK; however whilst Microsoft windows 11 supports a vast list of Intel processors the list is missing the i7 6xxx and 7xxx series. will this be addressed in future updates?

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
Windows 11
Windows 11
A Microsoft operating system designed for productivity, creativity, and ease of use.
11,532 questions
asked 2021-10-24T11:07:16.923+00:00
A H 56 Reputation points
commented 2025-05-12T15:55:59.55+00:00
john watkins 0 Reputation points
1 answer

How to support user customize page in Print Support APP?

I am working on the Print Support APP. We need the printer support user customized paper size. Unfortunately, the Microsoft's Print-support-app-design-guide documentation do not mention how to implementation this function. Followed by the document…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2023-03-17T09:38:24.09+00:00
piggy lazy 5 Reputation points
commented 2025-05-12T08:02:45.01+00:00
Chau Dang Ba 40 Reputation points
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Why is there no generic eSCL image/document Scanner driver for Windows?

I know that Windows typically uses WSD scanners which is okay, but the rest of the world, MacOS (Native), ChromeOS (Mopria Scan), Android (Mopria Scan) and iOS (Air Scanner app) can all use eSCL scanners . I developed an app that shares a Windows…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2022-02-13T11:07:51.063+00:00
Mark DM 6 Reputation points
answered 2025-05-09T06:10:43.7466667+00:00
Riccardo Quercetti 0 Reputation points
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NDIS Driver Performance and allocation of Net Buffer Lists (NBL) and NB In the Send and Receive Path

Gooday, I am writing an NDIS filter driver and I would Like to know if it is very efficient to allocate NBL, or NBL Context from receive and send path, without affecting performance. I would like to know if functions like NdisAllocateNetBuffer(),…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2025-05-03T12:35:51.9566667+00:00
DaveSC 20 Reputation points
answered 2025-05-03T14:18:30.1766667+00:00
Wagner Silva 80 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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NPU almost always active after bootup. Copilot+ pc with Qualcom processor

Microsoft Copilot + PC. Task manager shows NPU cycling between 0 and 80% usage on a 50% square wave cycle after bootup with no applications running. CPU usage 1%, memory usage 1%. Cannot find any reason for the NPU to be running so much. Any…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2025-04-20T12:50:28.9566667+00:00
Mark Stubkjaer 0 Reputation points
edited a comment 2025-04-24T09:42:40.0933333+00:00
jing 0 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

HLK DF-PNP test item failed, WDTF_EDT: EDT filter driver not installed HRESULT=0x80004005

When I performed the DF-PNP test item of the HLK test, I encountered the following error  - DF - PNP Cancel Remove Device Test (Reliability)  - DF - PNP Cancel Stop Device Test (Reliability) etc.  - WDTF_EDT: EDT filter driver not installed…

Windows 10
Windows 10
A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.
12,074 questions
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2023-04-20T02:24:05.2333333+00:00
mumuxi 20 Reputation points
commented 2025-04-08T12:42:31.78+00:00
zhang yijie 0 Reputation points
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WHLK [System - PNP (disable and enable) with IO Before and After (Reliability)] fail -WDTF_PNP : Result: Successful , but device not started

Hi, A failed item occurred after running WHLK [System - PNP (disable and enable) with IO Before and After (Reliability)] It looks like enable device fail, however, I can not see any abnormal symptom after the HLK test finished. Also can not see any…

Windows Performance Toolkit
Windows Performance Toolkit
A collection of Microsoft performance monitoring tools that produce in-depth performance profiles of Windows operating systems and applications.
114 questions
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
A collection of Microsoft tools and documentation for automating desktop and server deployment. Previously known as Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD).
938 questions
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
155 questions
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2024-05-15T01:50:18.7333333+00:00
TY Yang 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-04-08T08:17:17.97+00:00
zhang yijie 0 Reputation points
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Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Application development

Hi Community, I would like to write an application to test memory transfers for my UFS device using WINAPI UFS host controller. Are there any sample application or guidelines provided by Microsoft on how to implement the drivers/ applications…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2022-07-01T10:39:48.65+00:00
Satyavolu 1 Reputation point
commented 2025-04-07T01:47:42.1933333+00:00
Ma Ronie 0 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Understanding more about NDIS header split in send and receive path

Good day all. I just want more clarification on the NDIS Header split on send and receive. The first thing I have noticed is that the header split rules apply to receive Path and that one NET_BUFFER_LIST pointing to one NET_BUFFER also pointing to one…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2025-04-02T20:48:41.8733333+00:00
DaveSC 20 Reputation points
accepted 2025-04-03T09:25:34.98+00:00
DaveSC 20 Reputation points
1 answer

How to fix Perflib errors on Event Viewer : Event ID - 1008 and 1023

Hello folks. I'm getting these on my Event Viewer... Could you explain why this error was throwing and give a way to solve this... The Open Procedure for service "BITS" in DLL "C:\Windows\System32\bitsperf.dll" failed. Performance…

Windows 10
Windows 10
A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.
12,074 questions
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Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2023-02-21T02:23:23.9+00:00
tony strak 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-04-03T06:43:15.0433333+00:00
Ana 0 Reputation points
1 answer

Windows Error Reporting

I have a desktop tower that is 6 years old and the 4 or 5 months it is so slow that it can take Windows 11 5-10 minutes to come up and then the applications and programs are very slow. However, it seems after it warms up, it moves faster. Dell told me,…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2025-03-28T18:11:08.4+00:00
Cathy B 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-04-01T01:57:36.78+00:00
Anonymous
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Why does 24h2/2025 host give only RDP over TCP?

After upgrading to 24h2, the ability to connect to RDP via UDP disappeared everywhere. However, on previous versions everything is fine, configuring policies and substituting mstsc.exe etc. does not solve the problem. This problem itself was still in…

Windows Server
Windows Server
A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
13,726 questions
Remote Desktop
Remote Desktop
A Microsoft app that connects remotely to computers and to virtual apps and desktops.
4,778 questions
Windows Network
Windows Network
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Network: A group of devices that communicate either wirelessly or via a physical connection.
866 questions
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
Windows 11
Windows 11
A Microsoft operating system designed for productivity, creativity, and ease of use.
11,532 questions
asked 2024-12-16T01:03:16.0833333+00:00
funker wolf 0 Reputation points
commented 2025-03-31T15:58:50.06+00:00
username 0 Reputation points
1 answer

how to configure a gpd file for V4 printer driver to add customized features ?

how to configure a gpd file for V4 printer driver to add customized features ? simple code

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2025-03-27T11:01:15.6533333+00:00
LOB BOUTIOT Louis 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-31T09:33:07.25+00:00
Anonymous
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Geforce video driver won't update

I've been updating my Nvidia geforce 1060 6g video drivers about every 6 months. Recently when updating the Nvidia app responds with driver failed and the card does not show up in device manager, does anyone know what could be happening. The pc is…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2025-03-26T13:44:52.06+00:00
Steven Maguire 356 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-31T01:22:18.2066667+00:00
Anonymous
1 answer

WASAPI exclusive mode: audio becomes distorted at low buffer sizes

I'm using a native WASAPI exclusive mode application, that outputs a sine tone to a generic USB speaker. When the latency is set to the minimum allowed (3 msecs), the application can connect to the USB speaker and the output audio sounds correct, and the…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2022-05-01T09:06:46.647+00:00
Kotisi Fakalata 26 Reputation points
commented 2025-03-30T21:03:29.55+00:00
Kotisi Fakalata 26 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

Cannot see the corresponding COM PORTs for SIM8200EA-M2 5G HAT Waveshare

I can communicate with the 5G module from a Raspberry Pi running the latest Raspberry Pi OS via the serial interface without any issues. However, when I attempted the same on my Windows 11 laptop, I encountered problems. Despite installing the required…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2025-03-23T09:45:35.54+00:00
Paul-Cristian Banu-Țăran 20 Reputation points
commented 2025-03-24T13:43:45.13+00:00
Paul-Cristian Banu-Țăran 20 Reputation points
1 answer

I have windows 7, I have system sound but no media player sound. How can I resolve this issue?

I reinstalled Windows 7 on my desktop and my systems audio works but not my media player does not. Is this a flaw with my media player or is this a driver issue?

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,686 questions
asked 2025-03-20T13:01:12.49+00:00
Jerry Green 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-24T01:40:26.96+00:00
Anonymous