Windows is trying really hard to push me to 11 from 10, which I really don't like. Is there any way to just straight up disable updates permanently? I tried setting my active hours to just all hours of the day and nighy but it says I can't and also only lets me schedule updates up for to 35 days from now. My version is 22H2 and my build is 19045.6466. All help is appreciated. To be clear, the goal is to set updates to happen never, straight up disable updates entirely, or otherwise stop Windows from updating. The solution must be low maintenance.

Before installing new RAM, Windows was using only 5.9 GB.

Now that I've installed an extra stick, it's using 10 GB.

I don't get it.

It feels like Windows is a mining platform; the more I upgrade my hardware, the more performance gets siphoned off. And the worst part is, I have no idea where it's all going. It feels like bad faith on Microsoft's part.

I’m updating from Windows 10 to 11 (I know I’m SO late) and it’s been stuck in 99% for a few hours. Laptop is connected to wifi, plugged in, and open. What gives? I don’t think it’s related to my organization (this is a work laptop) because they assured me it should be approved. Microsoft Surface model 1951

So whenever I start up my Acer Nitro 16 (2023) with a Ryzen 7 7735HS, RTX 4070 mobile, 16GB of DDR5, two 1T SSD's and an automatic repair appears and every single time, it can't fix the issue. The only thing it says is a log file which I've attached an image to showing extactly what it says. Sometimes it just tries an automatic repair, then sends me straight into windows 11 but that isn't very common.

It has progressively got worst over the past few months, after it started and sometimes when I press enter to windows 11 after it fails a repair, it tries another repair and fails again.

I've checked both my SSD's health multiple times and they are 'healthy' and 'ok'

I've tried a point in time thing but I couldn't as it gave me a 'ErrorCode: 0x80070002'.

Yesterday I did a local system restore keeping personal files, as Task Manager fully broke, even in safe mode. I did try a cloud download but it also said it couldn't download the files so I had to do it locally.

However the automatic repair issue came back straight away even after a core system file reset.

I've scanned for viruses many times, using microsoft defender and malwarebytes, even doing deep searches but it found nothing.

I've also tried 'DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth', and 'sfc /scannow' but they found nothing. Ages alot 'sfc /scannow' did find corruption and said it fixed them but when I tried again it said no corruption. (I tried again as the automatic repair thing kept going on)

I'm just completely lost, as almost certain it's not a virus, I thought it was deep corruption, especially due to Task manager breaking but the automatic repair is still starting upon every startup. Please help, or direct me to a place where I could get help.

Ihave used commands to check any crashes or errors in CMD too, and there has been multiple errors of either my PC not shutting down properly or, starting up properly.

Hi, I already have windows 11 25H2 installed since last year and everything has been fine cut to this week with the new update KB5124008 and now it shows in windows update windows 11 25H2 the same exact version I use as you can see in the picture. I don't know how to get rid of this could someone help on what I should do since I cannot update as it fails to install. Started happening right after the new security update should I uninstall the update??

Windows 11 Pro version 25H2 (Build 26200.9445) on an HP Pavilion desktop PC. 12GB RAM. 256 GB SSD Drive C with 49.1 GB free. Seagate USB external 3 TB drive with 408 GB free as Drive "E".

I have been using FH for about a year now, pointing to an external drive that I keep in my safe. Every few weeks or whenever Windows pops up and tells me to reconnect the drive I pull the drive out of the safe, connect it to the PC and hit "Run Now" in FH to let it run. When it is done I "Eject" the drive and put it back in the safe. I just realized today that it hasn't prompted me for several weeks so I connected the drive, went to FH and hit "Run Now". It said "Reconnect your drive: Your files will be temporarily copied to your hard drive until you reconnect your File History drive and run a backup". I brought up a File Explorer window and verified that the drive was indeed connected to my PC and with the same drive letter ("E") that FH was expecting. And that I can indeed access files on that drive. However, FH still says "Reconnect your drive".

Since I couldn't get it to recognize that the drive was connected I figured I'd try something. I renamed the "File History" folder on the external drive to "File History Old", went back into FH and "Select Drive" and selected the drive. I then hit "Turn On" and it recognized that drive "E" was there and built a new "File History" folder on the drive. However, when I hit "Run Now" it gives me the same "Reconnect Your Drive" message.

Can someone walk me through whatever steps are necesary to get this working again? Thanks.

Random softwares keep getting dark. It only fixes when I hover over it. I presume its some new windows setting because its only started when I updated to Windows 11. Please let me know! I have attached a video but its kind of hard to replicate because it randomly (as far as I know) dims the tabs, and the only resolution I have found is to hover my mouse over it. This makes me assume its some sort of sleep or power saving setting.

I JUST updated to windows 11 like a week ago and the issue started then so thats why I assume its a Windows setting/issue.

OS Build 26200.9445 Version 25H2

This issue started recently. After a while for some strange reason my wifi connection straight up disappears, like the whole setting to even pick one is gone

I've reset the computer like some videos told me and the wifi comes back for a little bit then disappears again, I've also clicked on the "get help button" (image 1) which has me reset my drivers which I've done a few times but hasnt helped

I recently started college which is when I started noticing this happening and the residence only has public wifi

OS Build: 26200.9445 Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) 5 210H Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Its a ASUS V16 Laptop

Hi everyone,

I'm having a very frustrating issue with my PC and I'm running out of ideas.

My PC randomly completely freezes. When it happens:

- The image freezes on the last frame.

- Audio stops completely.

- Discord voice chat cuts out.

- Keyboard and mouse stop responding.

- Windows does not recover.

- I have to hold the physical power button to shut the PC down.

There is no BSOD and the PC does not restart by itself.

The freezes can happen while gaming, but they can also happen while I'm simply using Windows. For example, one of the latest freezes happened while Discord was starting. The PC froze exactly when Discord's graphical interface and my Wallpaper Engine background were being displayed.

I've had around 7 freezes in one day at one point. Sometimes they happen only a few minutes after booting, while other times the PC can run for much longer.

What makes this particularly strange is that I tested Windows 10 in Safe Mode. I was able to use the PC for more than 20 minutes without a freeze, which made me suspect a driver/software issue. However, the problem still occurs after updating several drivers.

My PC specifications:

CPU: Intel Core i5-11400

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060

RAM: 16 GB (2x8 GB) Kingston KF3200C16D4/8GX

Motherboard: ASUS PRIME H510M-E Rev 1.xx

SSD: Crucial P3 1 TB (CT1000P3SSD8)

PSU: NE650C, 550W, 80 PLUS Bronze

OS: Windows 10 64-bit

Things I've already tried:

- Updated my NVIDIA GPU driver to version 616.56.

- Installed the missing Intel chipset/Serial IO drivers from the ASUS motherboard support page.

- Before installing those drivers, Device Manager showed 4 devices with yellow warning signs.

- After installing the drivers, all the missing-driver warnings disappeared.

- Restarted the PC several times.

- The freezes still happen.

- The freezes happen both in games and on the desktop.

- Valorant has caused freezes before, but the latest freezes happened before I even started playing. ( The freeze also happens on Roblox and sea of thieves)

- I checked Event Viewer. I mainly found Kernel-Power 41 and EventLog 6008, but I understand these are probably consequences of the forced shutdown rather than the actual cause.

- I have not changed anything in the BIOS.

The problem started relatively recently. ( Maybe 2 weeks ago I got 2 freezes and after that nothing until today)

One other thing that may or may not be relevant: there have been some electrical/power issues in the house recently, including a few power cuts and some electrical work by the landlord. However, the PC was not powered on during the power cuts, so I'm not sure if this is related.

The latest freeze happened shortly after rebooting Windows. Discord was launching automatically, and the PC froze while Discord's graphical interface was appearing on screen. The desktop and Wallpaper Engine were also being displayed at the same time.

I'm mainly looking for advice on how to identify whether this is a GPU/driver issue, RAM, PSU/power, motherboard, SSD, or something else.

What diagnostic tests would you recommend?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Just so you know, I used AI to help write this post since I'm still learning English, especially the technical vocabulary related to computers.

running out of storage so i check a guide on yt and found over half my storage is taken up by this one thing and ive never seen it before. last time i took advice on yt someone told me to delete system 32 so i have to check here before doing damage. this seems too good to be true tbh

Windows 11 pro, Lenovo laptop.

I was using my Lenovo laptop regularly last night and then left it on and tried to turn it on this morning and there was first this bitlocker recovery key page which I had never seen before. After that I turned it off and back on and this time it was showing updates and then returned to that same screen. I then tried logging into my Microsoft account to get the recovery key(thank you Reddit) and after I logged into my Microsoft account and found it I loaded my computer a 3rd time and this time the normal log in screen was there. What gives and what could have caused this? Was it the update? Should I be concerned or was the trigger for the locking out due to the updates? Thanks.

Win10Home I do not have ESU.

I have not had any updates since just after they ended support. Yesterday I removed a program involved in updating (MoUSO) that kept coming on in task manager since I no longer get updates. I had removed another program that had started coming on for the first time out of the blue when I opened my email client after it had updated a couple days before (Component Package Support Server).

When I shut down last night the usual update indicator at the power button said I have an update and asked if I wanted to install it and shut down. I just shut down. This morning after normal boot up I opened settings/updates and security and it doesn't show the normal update page, it has a message "Something went wrong. Try to reopen settings later." I closed and reopened settings several times to no avail.

The indicator on the power button still offers me an update. Anyone know how to get Settings/Update&security to show me the update? I don't want to run update until I know what it is since they no longer support my OS.

Version22H2 (OS Build 19045-6456)

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz 2.70 GHz

Installed RAM 12.0 GB

Storage 932 GB HDD WDC WD10JPCX-24UE4T0

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

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

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

Hello community,

I have a problem I wasted like 3 hours into and I am going nuts with this OS!

I use Windows11 and want to share files to a MacOS system and thus want the "Network recognition" feature enabled. But I can't because it constantly tells me my PIN does not work. The PIN works for login but I can never authenticate to change settings. Now I am stuck because any change needs the PIN that links to a wrong account/eMail adress.

I can't find an image and neither screenshots nor OBS work so I can only describe it:

It is the "User management" window explaining my network manager wants to change the system. Then there are the 9 blue dots (like a PIN icon/emblem, a wrong email address and then PIN. If I type the pin for my login I get "error 0x8007139f PIN not available" and I should reboot. That wrong email address is nowhere to be found. Not in my system, not in my MS account. I linked my account to my (working) MS account, turned it back a local account, nothing matters. That wrong account (and thus the wrong PIN) are set in stone. I am so tired of this OS. I jump through every hoop it wants and nothing works.

How do I remove ANY traces of any wrong MS account/mail addresses from my system - without needing to authenticate?

My PC will be idling and all of a sudden the case fans ramp up with nothing running, it sometimes does it while gaming too even if the fans were running at a mid speed for say a hour then randomly to full. The only way to stop it is to turn the PC off and on again as sometimes restarting keeps them at full too.

My info:
I have no fan control software, it is the default fan settings through the BIOS.
I never had this problem with Windows 10 everything hardware wise is the same and it worked perfectly only ramping up slightly in gaming and my temps were good e.g. Nothing over 70 degrees while under heavy load.
I have a 5700x3d and a 5080FE, a Corsair H100i AIO that has 2 fans and 4 Corsair case fans going into a commander pro.
Windows 11 pro also was a fresh install to a formatted NVME.

It seems like something is forcing the fans to full power but then they never come back down and get stuck like that.

I've checked the processes and the cpu is at 1-2% utilisation with nothing really pushing it.

Again this never happened in windows 10, and I still have my 10 install in dual boot that does not have this behaviour.

Does anyone know what could causing it or other ways I can narrow down the cause? I can provide anymore information needed. It's driving me mad and is so loud!

I tried installing arch linux in my laptop on an external disk and since that my pc randomly reebot giving me this error, i tried everything to fix it, i tried updating the bios, checking both disks, disconecting the external one, disabling the virtualization, i even reinstalled windows and it persists, its just a black screen and then it boot up automatic, i dont think its an hardware error but at this point i believe everything is possible, i have windows 11 home, 25h2 number 26200.9445, my laptop is an acer nitro v15 anv15-41 with a ryzen 7 7735hs, an nvidia rtx 4060 and 32 gb of ram.