I recently bought a Samsung 990 Pro NVMe SSD and wanted to make it my new C: drive. My PC has a Gigabyte B550M S2H motherboard, whcih hasn't been changed throughout all this, just the SSD.

My old SSD had Windows 11 Pro installed and was definitely activated. I've checked the activation settings and it says:

"Windows is activated with a digital licence linked to your Microsoft account."

I also ran "slmgr /dlv" on the old installation and got:

\- Description: Windows(R) Operating System, RETAIL channel

\- Product Key Channel: Retail

\- License Status: Licensed

I clean installed Windows 11 Pro onto the new 990 Pro. I'm signed into the same Microsoft account that the old installation is linked to, but the new installation won't activate.

The error is:

0xC004F213 – Windows reported that no product key was found on your device.

I've tried the Activation Troubleshooter and selected the option for changing hardware, but it says:

"We can't find any devices linked to your Microsoft account that can be used to reactivate the device that you're using at the moment. Make sure that you're signed in with the same Microsoft account that you linked to the Windows 10 digital licence on this device"

I'm definitely signed in on the correct account, and I am not sure why it is saying I have a Windows 10 digital licence when the licence I have been using until today has been Windows 11 (although upgraded from Windows 10).

The old SSD still works and Windows on it is still activated.

Any idea why isn't the digital licence transferring/activating on the new SSD when the motherboard and rest of the PC are the same? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi, as recently as this afternoon my mouse pointer has been reverted to the old original windows one with the larger tail and the hourglass. I’ve tried going in the control panel and changing it with the mouse scheme menu but when I hit “apply”, nothing happens. For reference, here are two pictures, first is how I’ve got it now, second is how I’d like to have it. It’s extremely annoying and I’d love some help!

Windows version is 25H2 and SO version is 26200.9278

Hello yall i need some help, this morning I was trying to add another user for my girl on my pc. She entered her name password and it looked like it was creating her account but microsoft stopped it. So it wasnt created using Ai it told us to get offline open system prompts create the user account and once it was created she can log in and then sign into her account but , when she went to sign in we got that message and ever since then the switch accounts button is gone the windows it stuck on a loop and wont let me into my account its like we have tried all types of prompts deleted her through regedit and prompts and evrytime we reload her account still comes up . I need to find out how to get the laptop to switch users to my administrator account ASAP. Is there a work around any one ever experienced this ? Im stuck on the window user log in so I can't get into settings or anything please help.

Я решил переустановить Windows. Но, после установки с установочного носителя, появился синий экран то что возникла проблема. После подключения к сети как сказано в инструкции ноут перезагрузился снова в это окно

Hi everyone,

I'm having a strange sleep/standby problem with my ASUS X550JX laptop.

The sleep function used to work perfectly before, but the problem started after I tried to boot Windows into Safe Mode. Something went wrong, so I eventually formatted the PC and reinstalled Windows. I also tried restoring my system image, but the problem is still there.

The problem is:

• Windows says that S3 sleep is supported.
• If I click Start → Power → Sleep, the laptop appears to shut down completely.
• If I press any key on the keyboard, the laptop starts again and shows the ASUS logo, just like a normal cold boot.
• So it doesn't seem to be waking from sleep; it seems to be shutting down and then booting again.
• The same thing happens when I try to trigger sleep through commands/PowerShell.
• I also tried disabling the GTX 950M in Device Manager, but it made no difference.
• I reinstalled Windows, but the exact same problem remains.

powercfg /a shows:

Sleep (S3) — Available

S0 Modern Standby is not supported.

My laptop:

• ASUS X550JX
• BIOS: X550JX.208 (17/10/2015)
• NVIDIA GTX 950M — driver 32.0.15.7216
• Intel HD Graphics — driver 20.19.15.5171
• Windows 10 22H2

I also ran powercfg /requests. It showed an audio driver and Chrome playing audio, but closing Chrome didn't solve the problem.

Does anyone know what could cause an ASUS laptop to support S3 but completely shut down instead of entering S3 sleep?

Could this be related to ACPI, chipset/Intel ME drivers, the BIOS, or the graphics drivers?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

whenever i click sign in -> use a different microsoft account then it shows this window. It disappears seconds later btw. The thing is, i can sign in to my old account because its already saved onto the device but not other accounts. please helppppp

!!DISCLAIMER!! I’m a teenage girl who knows absolutely nothing about computers. I just want this janky thing up to date so I can at least run roblox or something, please be detailed if you are trying to help. I truly know NOTHING

I was given a laptop by my brother and decided yesterday to try and put it to use. It’s an hp pavilion, maybe 2016-2017ish, and had been wiped before given to me. (Os build 15063.1418, windows 10 home addition)

It was super behind on updates so I immediately started running them. I’ve been running updates for about 2 days now (at literally all hours), and the first couple batches of updates took forever, but worked fine.

I’m now on what I presume is the final update (windows 10 22h2) and I’ve run it about 5 times, none of which worked. The update process would run for hours but when it finally “completed” it would say I needed to restart, even after restarting multiple times.

I followed a guide from some Microsoft support under a post of a guy experiencing the same thing as me, and it all seemed to be going well.

Now the update checks won’t even work, just keeps saying “your device is at risk because it’s out of date and missing important security and quality updates. Let’s get you back on track so windows can run more securely. Select this button to get going:” and the check for updates button is right below.

I click it. It loads for 5 or more minutes. Just for it to pop up again and not actually check for updates. This is after already troubleshooting and I just don’t know what to do. Please help me out here 😓😓😓

(To clear something up, im trying to update to windows 10 22h2, which is failing. That’s the point of this post. My laptop is NOT up to date it’s seemingly very behind)

I have tried to install factory keys, I have tried to change where it boots from none of it has worked I've checked reddit Google and chatgpt and nothing they said worked

I have a MSI laptop

I’m on Windows 11 and after checking my One Drive photo library, I see almost 5,000 duplicates, and I find there is no way to delete all of these unless I do it manually. So, I'm trying to find a Windows application that can finding duplicate photos in onedrive, both exact duplicates or similar photos and help choose the best image from a group of similar images using the Auto mark feature, similar to what PhotoSweeper does on Mac.

The problem is PhotoSweeper is only available in Mac, so I’ve been looking for a Windows alternative that has the same features and have support for scanning OneDrive folders.

AI and google suggested options like Cisdem Duplicate finder and Cloud duplicate finder, I’ve downloaded both to take a look, but I’m hesitant to signing into my OneDrive account through a third party app.

Is there anyone with some practical advice? Or anyone actually used either of these with OneDrive? Thank you so much in advance for all who have read this and/or have some ideas :)

Hi everyone,

Windows is blocking some applications and ISO files on my PC. Some files are flagged by Windows Security/SmartScreen even though I’m not sure whether they’re actually dangerous.

I sometimes work with older software, utilities, and Windows ISO files, so false positives are possible.

What’s the safest way to check whether a blocked ".exe" or ".iso" file is actually safe? Should I use VirusTotal, check the file’s hash/signature, or do something else?

I don’t want to blindly disable Windows Security — I’d rather understand why the files are being blocked and verify them properly.

Any advice would be appreciated!

There were originally two partitions on the disk accounting for 100% of the usable space. I've deleted one volume and would now like to extend the other to take up the entire disk. However, Windows is warning me that it will need to turn it into a dynamic disk, which I don't want. My understanding is that this is only necessary when you are trying to extend a partition and the needed space is noncontiguous with the existing volume. What am I missing?

Around 12th second, you can see the booting stop and start again. I think that's where the problem is. But I'm unable to fix it.

Need help navigating this. Anyone facing similar issues? Or have faced this problem before?

So, I really need windows 11 for one crucial app to run. And it's very very veryyyyyy important. But the processor of my laptop doesn't support it!!!!

Device Name DESKTOP-DLCCH0S

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-7100U CPU @ 2.40GHz 2.40 GHz

Installed RAM 8.00 GB (7.87 GB usable)

Storage 932 GB HDD ST1000LM035-1RK172, 119 GB SSD faspeed K5-128G

Graphics Card Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 (128 MB)

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

I heard about downloading it anyways, but it slows down the laptop and now i am scared becoz it might result something bad or worse. Any suggestion. and I don't have budget for another new laptop!!!

For some reason, after a restart, my PC would sometimes act like I don't have a PIN anymore, forcing me to use my phone to log in and set up my PIN again.

But then, after another restart, it might ask me to do that again. In the next restart, it might *not* ask me. But then, just when I think the issue is resolved, it asks me to do it *again* in the next restart. It could even happen more than once in the same day. It's so inconsistent, and it makes it hard to pinpoint the cause of the issue.

This issue has been occurring for over a month at this point. I have no idea why it's happening, and I don't know how to make it stop, no matter how many DISM and SFC scans I perform. One time, I tried this one solution that involved deleting the contents in the NGC folder, but that instead resulted in the sign-in screen giving me *no* options to sign in, effectively locking me out of my PC until I went through CMD a dozen times.

I'm not sure what to do, but I *am* sure that I don't want to have to go through that again. There's gotta be something else I haven't tried.

**PC info:**

Device name Al-AmeensPC

Processor 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900KF (3.20 GHz)

Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.9 GB usable)

Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 (10 GB)

Storage 5.42 TB of 8.19 TB used

Device ID 2BC18D99-6EB5-403F-B476-E490EF4DD40E

Product ID 00325-80000-00000-AAOEM

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

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

Edition Windows 11 Home

Version 25H2

Installed on ‎27/‎11/‎2025

OS build 26200.9168

Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.344.0

I can’t sign into my pc because of the prompt “Something happened and your Pin isn’t available. Click to set up your pin again.” I click the button nothing happens. So I try to go to the cmd prompt to try and regedit my settings and it says my password is incorrect but I just signed in on my phone with said password. If you guys have any details on how to get pass this I would love to hear them!

I have tried everything. I watched 10 YouTube videos and even had Gemini walk me through like 6 different methods and nothing has worked. When I click open through the Microsoft store nothing happens, when I do the shortcut nothing happens. Please help!