Suspicious activity in Security Log - requesting a review
All, Over a period of 42 seconds tonight my Security Log shows events: 6416 - new USB device recognized (HID compliant mouse) - twice 4624/4672 - SYSTEM/advapi logging on "myhostname$" and assigning a looong list of privileges 4624/4672 -…
Windows 11 Disable web search results from start menu
How can I disable web search recommendations from the start menu search bar? There is no need for web search results there. That search should return local files and applications. This appears to be nothing more than Microsoft trying to force traffic…
Windows 11 Incompatible with i5 7200U Processor
PC Health Check is reporting my laptop to be incompatible with Windows 11 due to my processor being 'unsupported', but it's listed as a supported processor on Microsoft's list. It is the Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.71 GHz processor. …
Computers using M365 authentication only, will not recognize Admin accounts for permission approvals
I hope the subject makes sense, but we have started transitioning computer users in our company to M365 logins instead of maintaining a separate AD for it. So, they are now authenticating against the default Azure AD used by M365. On a new computer, the…
Invoke-WebRequest -URI options
powershell comman Invoke-WebRequest -URI "atos-cov-remote.gpcloudservice.com" returns Invoke-WebRequest : The remote server returned an error: (504) Gateway Timeout. At line:1 char:1 Invoke-WebRequest -URI…
Alt Tab Preview Not Working
After the 24H2 update, there's a bug where if I press ALT+TAB while running certain game like League of Legends, the preview window list doesn't show up and it just jumps straight to the next window. How can I fix this? I already tried regedit thing /…
Microsoft Photos doesn't seem to want to open a photo, it thinks I don't have any
I just want to navigate to a photo anywhere on my PC and edit it and see what the editor looks like, see what it can do. Like you can do in any other photo editing program in the world. Microsoft Photos (non-legacy) doesn't seem to want to do that. When…
Documentation/help understadning Enhance Pointer Precision (EPP) behaviour
Hello and thanks for reading. I am developing a body-worn mouse, and am having some interesting behavior and some challenges related to EPP. We are using windows 10 pro 64 bit. Imagine a sequence in which the mouse movement is idle, followed by a sudden…
CRITICAL-PROCESS-DIED blue screen need help!
I've just reinstalled windows 11 around 2 days ago, everything was running smoothly until now, had a crash about 30 mins ago,I had an update yesterday and just installed the most recent update for Windows 11 2 minutes after the crash, the blues screen…
Uninstall Phone link
Phone link uninstall is greyed out. How do I uninstall?
Problem opening spreadsheets in Excel 2016 since Win 11 24H2 upgrade
We have just updated to Win 11 24H2 and use stand alone Office 2016 Standard. We are experiencing problems with opening Excel spreadsheets from hyperlinks and File Explorer where a ~$ temp file pre-exists against the file we are trying to open. Excel…
Windows 10/11 - Registry keys that affect Screen Lock
Hi guys, i have a question about the configuration of screen lock in Windows 10/11. I'd like to know which are the registry keys involved into the lock screen because i've an issue with my customer where i've applied the "device lock" setting…
Microsoft Office 2021 Professional Plus 1PC
Hello, I am planning to purchase an Office 2021 Professional Plus license for only 1 computer and I would like to know if it can be installed on 2 PCs (My laptop and my desktop computer) but only use it on one computer and never simultaneously. Thanks in…
how to recognize WD external USB drive Windows 11 - drive letter not showing under PC
how to recognize WD external USB drive Windows 11 - drive letter not showing under PC File Explorer Open go to This PC Network and C Drive Shows no other drive is displayed
How can I get passphrase to unlock my drives when I am in a OS other than windows (dual-boot system of Linux+Windows) ?
I bought my laptop 4 months back and don't remember having any 'passphrase'. I am sure that I was not provided anything when I bought it. I have pre-installed windows 11(Home). I installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS version (as I need to learn Linux for my…
Why Windows 11 does not support Intel Core i7-6500U CPU @ 2.5Ghz Processer ?
I have Dell Inspiration 5559 laptop with Intel Core i7-6500U CPU @ 2.5Ghz,PC Health Check showing error 'The processer isn't supported for Windows 11 Regards Naveen kumar
Windows 11 upgrade patch issue (23H2)
We are looking to upgrade our machines from Windows 10 to Windows 11 (23H2), using a patch management tool. a few laptops have been selected to test the upgrade but wasn't successful it generated an error message preventing us from pushing the upgrade.…
about WSUS update
WSUS update,only the update patch of qin 10 can be searched,and the pach of win 11 can't be searched。
Usb devices with the same name get mixed up/Renaming Usb device
Hi there, I have built myself a “button box” and used a “zero delay joystick encoder”, which is connected via USB. I also have another USB device that is listed under the same name as my button box. Both devices are recognized as ''Generic Game…
Universal Print - not sending jobs to cloud and cannot install printers
Hi Two issues with Universal Print in the last couple of days 1 - when printing for some users the client machine says the job has been sent to the printer but the job never appears in the print queue for Universal Print (ie…