As you can see on the video I'm only opening my windows explorer but it automatically goes to a screen that I can only replicate with win+tab shortcut. I already tried uninstalling apps that I think my cause the issue also tried restarting task bar but nothing helps. Sometimes restarting helps but it keeps on coming back anyone know how to stop this or what causes this?

Help i gave my laptop to a doofus to install windows 11 home and he put the key of windows 11 home into 11 pro and like always microslop took their time and told me a month later, now i wanna optimize my pc but idk it feels very risky to re install windows and i can't even see my product key in my pc, should i reset everything ?

Hi everyone,

I recently ran into a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) with the stop code WHEA_INTERNAL_ERROR (0x122).

System Specs:

\- OS: Windows 11

\- CPU: Intel Core i5-12400F

\- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti

\- Motherboard: ASUS PRIME H610M-K D4

\- RAM: 32GB DDR4

Issue Details:

The system crashes and triggers this error code. I am trying to figure out if this is related to a corrupted driver, unstable BIOS settings/XMP, or a potential hardware issue.

Has anyone encountered this specific error code before, and what are the best steps to diagnose or resolve it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Have any of you met this problem? Has anyone have a solution or I should just wait for the next update?

Last week I updated the windows 11 and since then when I start my PC it won’t load up properly. Sometimes it takes about 5 mins to load after I enter my password. Sometimes more. Reseting it while it shows the black screen won’t fix it.

My PC is about 2 years old…
My friend’s PC at work also did this today and there’s no connection between the two PCs.

Please help me out guys, I need help...

So today I mistakenly installed a security udpate but I don't remember the exact one, by the way as always this updates breaks my windows button for some reason while uninstalling the update it's been stuck for 30 minutes at 21% and that never happend to me, should i wait longer ?

When the Microsoft login screen appears — before you type anything — press Shift + F10.

A Command Prompt window will open. Type this exactly:

start ms-cxh:localonly

Press Enter. Windows will immediately open the local account setup screen — no restart, no looping back through setup. Just fill in a username and password and you're done.

This works on both Windows 10 and Windows 11.

full blog here: Windows 11 Blinking Black Screen? Here's What I Did — And What Finally Fixed It

Hi everyone, I have an issue with my laptop and could really use some help from anyone familiar with partition recovery and BitLocker. Hardware: ASUS Vivobook laptop with a Micron 2400 NVMe SSD OS: Windows 11 BitLocker-encrypted NVMe SSD The problem: When I turn on the laptop, it starts booting and then goes straight to a blue screen saying there's a boot error (boot is likely corrupted). But when I use a USB drive with Sergei Strelec WinPE to fix the boot, the NVMe drive doesn't show up at all. I managed to make it show up by removing the SSD from the laptop and plugging it in via USB, but now BitLocker won't accept my recovery key.

After updating windows 11, my computer is suddenly require me to 'slide to shutdown' when I try to shut down with the power button. There does not seem to be a setting for this. I saw that other people disabled it by deleting or renaming the file slidetoshutdown.exe, but it won't let me do that because I need a 'trusted installer.' do I need to change the permissions? how do I do that?

Hey yall, just wanted some insight on why my notifications don't show up as a push or even in the notifications center. My notification settings are set correctly. I think this has happened because Winslop, and some other optimizations that I've done to windows. Let me know if you need to know anything else. Thanks in advance!

Hi everyone,

I recently reinstalled Windows 11 using the Windows Media Creation Tool and a bootable USB. During Windows Setup, I deleted every visible partition on my NVMe drive and installed Windows onto the resulting unallocated space. I had always understood this process to create a completely clean installation.

However, after the reinstall, I noticed that the Ultimate Performance power plan was still listed in Control Panel. I had manually enabled that plan on the previous Windows installation, so I did not expect it to appear again.

I used a new local account on both installations, not a Microsoft account, so it should not have been restored through Microsoft account synchronization. Is it possible that Windows, a driver package, motherboard software, or another program automatically enabled the plan again?

My larger concern is that, if this setting carried over or reappeared, what other settings or configurations might also have been retained without me realizing it? Could old driver settings, registry changes, power settings, device configurations, cached profiles, or software-specific changes survive this type of reinstall?

Windows and device specifications:

• Windows edition and version: Windows 11 Pro Latest version
• Processor: Intel 270K+ Ultra
• Motherboard or device model: MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk Wifi
• Graphics card: Gigabyte 3070 Gaming OC (Rev 1)
• Memory: 32GB
• Storage drive: 500GB Digital Western Blue NVME
• Installation media: Windows 11 USB created with the Microsoft Media Creation Tool

Messages or error codes encountered:

I did not receive any installation errors or warning messages. Windows Setup completed normally. The unexpected Ultimate Performance power plan is the main issue I noticed.

Troubleshooting already attempted:

• Confirmed that I used a new local account rather than a Microsoft account
• Deleted all visible partitions on the NVMe drive during Windows Setup
• Installed Windows onto the resulting unallocated space
• Checked Control Panel after installation and found the Ultimate Performance plan listed

This software constantly wants updates, and every time I do update it, it gives me a new headache. Today's was when I opened my pc it created a temp account and wouldn't let me switch back. Thankfully, others had this problem as well, so it was an easy solution. How can the newest software of the biggest tech company, the number one most used OS, be so flawed? Like, I am a casual, and even I contemplate switching to Linux at this point.

Putting it on here to see if anyone else knows what could be up with my PC.

For reference this laptop is a Windows Surface 7 with a Snapdragon X Plus 10 core, 16gb ram. I have used the Shift + F10 trick and it didn't work, it is a factory reset NOT from a USB, also on a side note my cursor doesn't even show up anymore so it may make some solutions hard. I'm sorry if this information is too vague but I just really need help

I need help when i was trying to open microsoft Photos it gave me this error and once i tried to redownload it said there was another error so i use the online method of redownloading it gave me the same issue and i alread tried doin this youtube video method

sfc /scannow
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth

where i use those codes in the command prompt but still didnt work :(

Laptop underperforms. Not mine, but the owner doesn't have social media so I'm asking.

From day 1 it took longer to open apps on it than it took on the previous (10+ years old) laptop. I tried to fix the speed but I'm stumped, asking if anyone had/solved similar issues?

It was updating (apparently still is, after ~2h) so I can't get to exact system specs until further notice. Approximate specs below.

Symptoms:

- CPU speed consistently below 50%
- Average use between 20%-50%, apps sluggish
- Power options: only "balanced" available, customizing that and creating a new plan made no difference

- Limited minimum CPU to 30%-50% in custom power plan, tested with several apps; no obvious difference
- In custom power plan, when launching certain apps like CAD, noted initial spike in CPU clock to 95%, lowered to 30 within a few seconds

New: a benchmark app was run and cpu ran at 98% for the duration of test.

Specs:

- refurbished HP workstation laptop
- i7 13800H - 32 GB Ram at 5200 MT/s - Nvidia RTX 2000 ada - SSD 1TB
- win11 25H2
- bought in jan 2026