So, my dumbass tried to debloat windows 11 and i ran an update on it…. As a result, it just crashed and now i got an infinite loading screen
Heres the following error messages i ran through:

-your device ran into a problem and must reboot

-everything didnt go as expected, no need to worry, cancelling the modifications

If you guys can help me fix it 🙏🙏🙏
Im lowkey stressed because im scared of losing it or having to reinstall windows

I am currently on a Nitro ANV15-51 currently on version 23H2. Last night, I noticed it was downloading 25H2, but it was stuck at 0%. I verified the connection to the Windows services, and everything seemed fine. I verified the integrity of my Windows installation, and everything was ok. I flushed my DNS and cleared my cache, but it still wasn't working. I ran the Windows Update Troubleshooter, and it acknowledged that there was an issue that it claimed to fix, but the update still wasn't pushing, and when I would run the troubleshooter again, it would say the exact same thing.

Next, I downloaded the Windows 11 Installation Assistant and tried a fresh install. It got about 78% through before it froze and stopped. I did some more digging and discovered my Intel drivers were a year and a half out of date, so I updated them and tried again. It got to about 60% before it gave me a pop-up stating that Voidemeeter drivers were blocking the install, so I removed them. It completed the install and got to the point where it restarts. It restarted roughly 3 times before force-aborting, giving me the failure code 0XC1900101.

I went ahead and manually updated my BIOS and tried the Windows 11 Installation Assistant again. Same issue.

I discovered a chunk of my drivers were roughly 2 - 3 years old, so i updated all of them manually using the downloads from the Acer website and ran the installation assistant again, but after waiting, it did the same thing as the first time.

Between all of the waiting and searching, I've put about 12 hours into bug-fixing this computer, and im genuinely at my wits' end trying to solve this. The only thing I can think of doing now is installing Windows onto a thumb drive and factory resetting my pc, but Im a student and I have tons of important files saved, and it would take ages to back it all up, so I would prefer to avoid that. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I’ve been trying to install windows 11 but no matter what I do I can’t get the official iso from Microsoft to work.

I would use the media creation tool however that won’t work as I need Rufus to disable tpm 2.0. I’ve been at this for hours with little to no luck. My laptop supports everything except the tpm 2.0 since it is a Dell Latitude E6530

It has 8 gigabytes of ram
250 gigabytes sata ssd
Secure boot enabled
Intel core i7-3520MCPU

I’ve tried AHCI, ATA, and RAID On sata operations as well.

I’ve remade the USB 5 times, redownloaded the iso twice from the official Microsoft website.

I’ve also used the media creation tool to create an iso and that did not work ether.

Hi there, im having issues with a new update as its stuck at 0%, thats weird for me since usually all the updates download fast since i also have quick wifi speed, i tried the most basic thing such as restarting my computer hoping it would fix the problem but to no help...
What else can i do in this case? The red dot on the update icon bothers me a lot lol
Edit; I made sure to leave it downloading for hours, thinking its a big file but still 0% :,) Also adding specs

Alright, well, since it's back for the millionth time, and I've never been able to fix it, here we go. Over many years on many different devices, on both Windows 10 and 11, the File Explorer app on almost every install I've ever had has eventually begun seemingly self-destructing. Issues with the Explorer program include, but are not limited to:

• Thumbnails and metadata information loading very slow or simply being unable to load at all
• Random freezes and crashes
• Loading nothing at all, not even the most basic of information (see top image)
• Right click / context menu triggering freezes
• Issues with other features relating to File Explorer, such as visual bugs with the taskbar like previews which stay open even after the mouse is no longer hovering over the icon
• Properties editor does not always actually save changes when clicking "OK" or "Apply"

It feels almost as if there's some unknown trigger built into every install of Windows that will randomly set off a chain of severe File Explorer issues. Sometimes, it takes months to begin unraveling. Sometimes, it's already a severe problem from the moment it's installed from a complete clean install.

Solutions tried for this:

• Restarting computer: Temporary solution, issue reoccurs very quickly. Once the issue first occurs, it never goes away for the rest of the lifetime of that copy of Windows.
• Restarting explorer.exe: Temporary solution, issue reoccurs very quickly. While this helps in the short term, it almost seems to make the issue worse in the long term.
• Chkdsk / sfc-scannow: Not only does this never help, it almost never even finds anything at all. Every installation with this issue has been squeaky clean according to these commands.
• Antivirus on and scanning: Never found an issue.
• Antivirus off: Does not change anything.
• Reinstall Windows: Issue still reoccurs.
• Use a different computer: Issue occurs on multiple devices.
• Use Windows 11: Same
• Use Windows 10: Same
• Check drives for issues: SMART reports consistently good on all drives every time.
• Memory test: Never found an issue.
• Updating Windows: Never resolved the issue.

Current install and device information:

• Windows 10 Pro (22H2, build 19045.6466)
• Intel Core i3 12100F
• Intel Arc B570
• 32 GB DDR4
• NVMe 1 TB (C:) + SATA SSD 1 TB + SATA HDD 500 GB

Device has a known power delivery reliability issue, however it is unrelated and the File Explorer issue predates this issue.

This issue has been driving me crazy for several years. I'd like to actually be able to use the in-built program for browsing files, and this issue can be so severe as to make doing so actually impossible. Any theories or known solutions would be much appreciated.

Hi okay so my ex boyfriend got me a pc like months ago and we broke up. All of the computer stuff is in my name my email everything it has absolutely NO ties to him anymore. The thing is though today I was trying to boot up my sims game and I see this????? I’m so confused and scared because I don’t know what it’s doing on my computer and what he’s doing. I’m it tech savvy so if anyone has any answers please tell me what is going on

So i just basically deleted every file with the word "Valorant" or "Riot" in it, so now i can't delete the game (i am kinda dumb, i know)

This is the error when i try to uninstall

Windows can't find C:\Riot Games\Riot Client\RiotClientServices.exe. Check that you entered the right name, then retry.

I can't properly reinstall the game because i only have like 17go of storage left (the game is 50go)

OS build : 26200.9550
OS : Windows 11 pro

Hope you're gonna be able to help me !

So, this pops up on screen every time i slightly move my laptop which happens quite often since i use it on my lap with no error messages or anything of the sort.

I think it's an hardware issue at this point (likely a loose cable) since i've tried anything i could find about the camera softwarewise and i have no apps using the camera.

Since i don't use the camera i was wondering if there was a way to simply remove the "camera on/off" popup to appear on screen without actually fixing the issue or if I just have to go to tech support (no the registry editor didn't cut it).

PC specs if needed:

Processor 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13450HX (2.40 GHz)

Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable)

Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU (8 GB)

Intel(R) UHD Graphics (128 MB)

Storage 415 GB of 477 GB used

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display

Hi all,

I hope you all have a fantastic weekend!

I'm trying to get an original M-Audio M-Track working on Windows 11.

Hardware ID:

USB\VID_0763&PID_4000

Windows detects the interface and it appears in Device Manager as "M-Track", but the native M-Audio driver won't load correctly and reports Code 39.

Things I've tried:

- Uninstalled and reinstalled the M-Audio driver multiple times

- Removed old drivers and cleaned up driver installs

- Disabled Core Isolation / Memory Integrity

- Checked Code Integrity related settings

- Looked through Event Viewer logs

- Tried ASIO4ALL

- Tried FlexASIO

Current situation:

- The interface is detected by Windows

- FlexASIO works, so audio can pass through the device

- The native M-Audio ASIO driver does not work

- FlexASIO reports around 21.3 ms input latency, which is too much for comfortable live monitoring

What's throwing me is that I also have an older PreSonus AudioBox USB that still works fine on Windows 11, but I can't get this M-Track's native driver running.

Has anyone successfully got the original PID_4000 M-Track working on Windows 11 recently?

If so:

- Which driver version are you using?

- Did you need any special workaround?

- Did you have to modify driver signing or install an older package?

Any help would be appreciated.

It's been several days that I have updated my Asus ROG Strix laptop to 26H2, and suddenly this morning, some of the keys like S, W, 2, and some others stopped working. I have tested a lot of solution, but nothing worked so far. I can confirm that the issue is not related to the hardware, since I have used an external keyboard, and these keys are working fine and windows can process them.
I remember about a year ago, I updated to 25H2, and I got into the same problem, with keys like Spacebar, S, and some others. I took a while that Asus provided an update to the BIOS, so the problem got completely resolved, almost 5 months.
This is so disappointing that always these update releases are not trusted and tested in an extensive test with different manufacturers.
Detail Specification:

Edition Windows 11 Pro

Version 26H2

OS build 26300.9711

Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.372.0

Hello all. I attempted to do a dual boot system because I have some programs that only work on windows 10. (I run windows 11). My goal was to have my PC boot into W11 and if I needed to go into windows 10 I could just do it by entering the bios and selecting the boot drive. (I don't want it to automatically boot into windows 10.

I installed a new drive then installed windows on it via usb boot media. After installing, this window came up. It sometimes boots into the new drive, sometimes goes to this screen, sometimes boots on the old drive. I cannot boot into the recovery environment from this page. If I restart it enough times, I eventually am able to boot into windows and use advanced startup to get into the troubleshooting environment. I am able to get to command prompt and attempted to fix using bootrec. (it failed)

Commands used:

bootrec /rebuildbcd - (zero windows installations found)

bcdedit /export C:\bcdbackup - (completes sucessfully)

attrib c:\boot\bcd -h -r -s - (does not complete, it cannot find the C drive)

Some notes:

In bios, only the old drive (w11) shows up as a bootable device. However it boots either w11 or w10 randomly

Attached photos are of the drive info from the partition utility from both w11 and w10. It renames the drives letter depending on which os is booted. (they are captioned, second pic is w11 third is w10)

The windows 11 main drive is on an NVME SSD behind watercooling components and cant be removed. The new drive (w10) is easily accessible.

Both windows systems are as up to date as possible.

Please help me out! Treat me like I'm new when answering because this is my first time trying to do something like this. I've tried to include as much info as possible. Thanks.

I've been trying to set this up for about a week. At first I WAS able to connect my phone through this app and was able to send texts, but all audio from phone calls were deep and corrupted, incoming and outgoing. No fix I saw online worked, so I tried to disconnect everything and reconnect. Now when I open phone link, the android option just doesn't work. The option for iphone does, but I can't seem to get anywhere with that. Connecting my phone again through bluetooth doesn't get me any further. The repair function in settings didn't fix it. Reinstalling phone link on both devices does nothing. I allowed windows to do an update which also did nothing. I have exhausted every avenue I can think of to fix it. I'd be glad to hear any ideas if you have them.

Windows update is stuck like this. It keeps working on updates. It has been like this for days. How can i solve this issue?

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-Core Processor (3.80 GHz)

Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.6 GB usable)

Graphics card AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT (16 GB)

Storage 466 GB of 932 GB used

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Edition Windows 11 Pro

Version 25H2

Installed on ‎03-‎Jun-‎25

OS build 26200.9168

Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.344.0

Hi. I have a Lenovo V15 ADA and since I upgraded to windows 11, the touchpad settings are missing.

I remember in win 10 that there were settings for the touchpad, but it seems that after the update, they disappeared.

I tried multiple reboots, latest windows updates, driver updates (in the official Lenovo website for my specific laptop shows only windows 10 drivers), check in the BIOS, going in device manager to see if there are any warnings or problems but everything seems ok.

The current touchpad behavior it's trash, no two finger tap for right click, randomly moves away when i use the physical button (if I have the pointer on specific point, if I click the pointer moves like half centimeter away) weird feeling overall and limited gestures, comparing to Windows 10.

Is there anything else I can do? Thanks

Windows 11 Pro, build version: 26200.9711

My pc is an Acer Aspire Go 15, my os build number is 26200.9457, recently i have been attacked by a trojan who keeps disabling my task manager, i have no idea how to deal with it as its disguised by a windows folder, the built-in windows defender does not detect it. I dont know what to do!!

acer laptop [Aspire A315-24PT], pretty beat up but idk why it's doing this specifically --- i can use the laptop find for a few minutes or even for quite a while but it'll randomly crash or freeze or restart, it's been going on a while but sometimes the screen flashes too quick for me to tell what the error was

it's a headache trying to sift through all the tutorials and forums and stuff covering the individual errors and even more annoying when it freezes and restarts while im searching stuff up blegh

At the title says. I don't know if it was triggered by a recent Windows 11 update or not (my guess is yes, it was), but I receive this message every time I restart my laptop and need to reset my PIN each time. There was no behavior that triggered it, as one morning it was working and despite doing only working in Blender that day, the next morning this issue occured.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS w/ Radeon 780M Graphics (4.00 GHz)

RAM: 32.0 GB

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU (8 GB) AMD Radeon 780M Graphics (418 MB)

64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

ive summarized most of what ive tried in this gemini thread

https://share.gemini.google/eO8RwkhmU6Cd

essentially, my computer has an MBR on disk 1, my primary drive is disk 6, the bootloader on this drive isn't used and is somehow not even seen by windows boot manager anymore. trying to repair it from command prompt is not working with various errors, whenever secure boot is enabled, no bootloader is found

i am at a complete loss on what to do at this point, im happy i got it to start booting again, but startup repair isnt working either on a usb drive due to a missing driver??

if anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated thanks!!

Windows 11. For whatever reason, Windows Update wants to install Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Driver Update (32.0.21030.2001) which looks like a really old AMD Driver. I have a 9070 XT GPU and I'm running the most recent AMD driver. I don't want to overwrite the existing driver with this older driver. I can't shut my PC down or restart it without installing this update.

I've already tried to block these driver updates in regedit. See screenshots.

What do I do? Why is Windows doing this to me? Relevant screenshots attached.

I’m on windows 11 home

A few months back, I noticed that my IPv6 is off for some reason. I turned it back on a few days later, it is off again. The thing has been constantly turned off by itself for the past months now. I thought it was due to VPN (I use 1.1.1.1 and Proton regularly) so I tried not using any VPN for a week and it is still happen. Does anyone has the same problem and know why?

Winver: 25H2
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with Radeon Graphics (3.20 GHz)
Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Laptop GPU (8 GB), AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (483 MB)
RAM: 16GB
OS build: 26200.9711

I recently entered the wrong password several times.

The system makes me enter 'A1B2C3' when booting up the computer, before entering my password.

There is some information online on how to get rid of this, but they say to go to the location C:\Windows\ServiceProfiles\LocalService\AppData\Local\Microsoft and open the NGC folder.

I can find this folder, but I can't open it. I get the message "you have been denied permission to access this folder / To gain access to this folder you will need to use the security tab".

Here's a screenshot:

It's not clear to me what I'm supposed to do from there.

I am using a Lenovo laptop running Windows 11, version 10.0.22631

Running on windows 11 pro v10.0.26300

My laptop randomly stopped to output to my monitor via the hdmi port, and it seems to have this issue on monitors it was always connected to.

Though the port was dead/fried but I've connected it to a different monitor it never used, and the hdmi port works fine. Thought the cable might be the issue, but the cable works fine on every other device it's connected to. Tried swapping cables the laptop uses to make sure, and that didn't work

I've tried cleaning the drivers with ddu in safe mode and reinstalling the drivers, re-updating the bios, still nothing. My online search finds a few others with a similar issue but no solution that works.

I suspect an update may have triggered the failure cause it was very random and out of nowhere.

Has anyone come across or dealt with a similar issue? Any assistance or ideas I can look into would be greatly appreciated

I don't normally search files within my PC but noticed that the search bar has indexing turned off. I am not able to turn it on from indexing option by selecting rebuild as it literally does not do anything. Also per event Viewer, windows search cycles between error 7034 and 7024.

Actions taken:

- I already run restore health and SFC scan shows no integrity violations.

- Troubleshooted windows search && indexing and its not fixed.

- Tried selecting Advance Indexing Options and i met an error in the last pic.

System

• OS- Windows 11 26H2
• CPU- Ryzen 5 7600x
• GPU - 5060ti
• RAM- 32gb

Processor AMD Ryzen 7 7445HS w/ Radeon 740M Graphics (3.20 GHz)

Installed RAM 8,00 GB (7,26 GB usable)

Graphics card Microsoft Basic Render Driver

Storage 386 GB of 477 GB used

System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

OS Build 26200.9711

Ive tried everything and i still dont know whats wrong

• ive tried looking at task manager for whats taking alot of ram
• scanned mutiple times for viruses
• close all applications

idk if my ram just gave up or smth but ive tried everything and i only use a little ram as seen in the second pic but it isnt showing me what is using my other 4gb

pls help me

Hey! I posted this on [r/techsupport](r/techsupport) a year ago but it got removed because I was “trying to install on unsupported hardware”, figured I’d try again here

So this is a bizarre laptop I got because it was $90 and has a touch screen. Little did I know how much of a headache it would be due to having an arm64 chipset…

This laptop runs Windows 10 fine (surprisingly snappy, too!), but there’s an issue: Windows 10 ARM64 native apps are relatively rare. You can get 32bit apps running through Win10’s native ARM emulation, but 64-bit is completely unsupported. With Prism in Windows 11, 64-bit apps are not just supported but are allegedly emulated much better as well. 64gb emmc drive isn’t ideal for Windows 11, but I figured with some potential tweaking, it could be worth a shot to just run a simple browser like Vivaldi and small 64_bit exclusive apps.

Here’s where all the problems start.

1. Windows standard update flat out doesn’t work. I’ve ran it 3 times under different parameters and it always bugged out on the reset.

2. Windows 11 has a 64arm compatible ISO. Great! But when booting it on a USB, I run into the issue of having no drivers, so I’m unable to do much of anything. It asks for me to select a drive with the drivers, but it appears the keyboard and mouse aren’t read by the machine at this point.

I googled the solution to this, and ended up learning how to use DISM to extract my current drivers, then patch the iso with them through editing of the install.Wim file.

After doing this, It doesn’t ask for drivers on the next attempt to install, reaching the next step where it asks “it appears you have a windows 10 install which you are trying to upgrade. Select Yes if you want to proceed with the upgrade, or no if you want to do a fresh install “

New problem: the keyboard and mouse drivers STILL aren’t working at this stage, so I’m unable to select anything! After googling and combing Reddit for help, I find out that this is actually a common issue on specifically Surface laptops, which you guessed it, mostly run on ARM64 chipsets. It appears the solution is to plug in an external keyboard or mouse to continue.

Plugging in a generic mouse into either the USB 3.0 slot or the USB-C slot at this stage also doesn’t seem to read properly. Neither the backlight in the mouse nor the laser on the bottom seem to turn on when plugged in. Plugging in an external keyboard into either slot doesn’t let me do anything either, despite it working in the Bios.

Because of this, I’m inclined to believe that the USB ports on the laptop require a driver to do ANYTHING.

Speaking of the Bios: it’s VERY barebones. It’s called a BDS menu and There’s a whopping 5 options used to either:

Exit the menu
Enable secure boot
Disable Secure boot
Allow boot from USB
Allow network boot

How do I know this is the BIOS? Because booting from clicking “change UEFI settings in firmware” in Advanced boot options in Windows takes me to the BDS menu!

At this point I’m just trying to get Windows 11 to run out of spite for this abandoned chipset.

The issue with Snapdragon on Surfaces was so bad that Windows made special “recovery images” that have the surface drivers built in to avoid such an issue.

And Linux ARM64 support is in its MAJOR infancy, so that’s not an option either. Ubuntu barely picked up support very recently with the new Snapdragon X processors, but I tried those images and they aren’t reverse compatible with 7c.

If anyone could give me some forbidden windows knowledge or literally anything else that could bypass this stupid screen, it would be greatly appreciated.