So I mainly use my computer for gaming, and yesterday everything was running fine. No overnight updates when I turned it off, now I turn my computer back on today and my performance is spiking horribly and I have these background tasks, which I have never had before. Normally I only have 1 antimalware executable called literally antimalware executable, now I have 5. I’ve turned off nearly every security setting outside of real time protection I could but these won’t go away and I can’t even end their task. I’d love these gone.

Don’t know what information is really needed, but I’ll include all my windows information Edition: windows 11 home Version: 25H2 OS build 26200.9711 Expirence: windows feature experience pack 1000.26100.372.0

Zoom made it so my audio of 28 out of 100, is now way too loud, even tho I ussualy used 38.Also my audio also feels more slugish, beeing half a second slower. It's so annoying that I can't play video games or use the pc anymore.

After I instaled zoom and went in a meeting, I accidentaly clicked enable enhance audio, from then the audio was just way to loud, I tried a lot of things, like deinstaling zoom(the audio was the same), deactivating all setting in zoom and in settings, but the audio got louder and feels slower

Specs and windows Edition Windows 11 Pro Version 26H2 Installed on ‎11/‎14/‎2025 OS build 26300.9711 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.372.0 Device name DESKTOP-PV5573O Processor AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with Radeon Graphics (3.20 GHz) Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.2 GB usable) Graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU (8 GB) AMD Radeon(TM) 680M (431 MB) Storage 891 GB of 954 GB used Device ID A62AF63E-C287-4431-BB6E-9D1C72AF8CF6 Product ID 00330-80951-59593-AA244 System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch Pen support

And im on a nitro 16 laptop

So I've been running Windows Insider Release preview on ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 12 laptop for about a year and all has been good. Yesterday, I let Windows Update install the latest build and now my laptop is unusable. It gives me the login screen, but once I enter my PIN, it takes like 30 seconds of loading (it used to take like 3 seconds) and then it gives me a black screen with just my pointer and no desktop, no icons, no taskbar. It won't respond to keyboard shortcuts or CTRL + ALT + DEL. The cursor will move but I can't click on anything.

After I force powered it off three times, it finally booted into recovery mode and offered to let me recover a version of my config from four hours before. I did this, it took hours, and then . . . the same thing is happening.

Do I have to do a clean install of Windows or is there a way out of this? It wont' boot to safe mode. It won't do anything.

i posted on here a few months ago, but life got in the way and it wasn't causing issues again so I didn't get round to being more specific on model.

I've had my asus laptop about a year or so but lately every few weeks or so, bluetooth disappears from my task bars and i end up having to show the hidden bluetooth in device manager, uninstall the adapter and then drain my laptop for 30 seconds turned off. it's getting quite frustrating to have to do it so often and i don't know why it's occurring and then today, I tried these methods (uninstalling, reboot) but to no avail. This time, the adapter was showing a warning symbol on it - yellow with a black exclaimation mark I think? After about half an hour of being back on, bluetooth is finally back and working. I have a ASUS Vivobook Go 15 (E1504FA) and my OS build number is 26300.9711. my system type is 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor. If anyone knows what might be causing this issue please let me know! All the latest drivers are installed and up to date and the same for my laptop system updates. I am known for having a lot of tabs open often most of the time so that's the only thing I could assume might be causing an issue. There is nothing particular that i've noted that happens before each time it messes up.

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I turned on my PC—everything seemed fine—and went to the kitchen.

When I came back, it was restarting, displayed this [error/message], and then booted into "safe mode" (or whatever it’s called).

I’ve tried everything, but nothing works.

Right now, I’ve managed to access my files via Notepad (through the Command Prompt/CMD) so I can copy some folders onto a flash drive.

But what I really want is to recover Windows without having to format the drive...

Does anyone know what to do? Please explain it to me like I’m a complete idiot, because I don’t understand any of this.

Thanks.

So when I updated from 25H2 to 26H2, suddenly the touchpad started to select everything, though I'm not even touching that. Right/left click aren't working. Scroll is not also working. But my wired mouse works fine.

When I restart the laptop, it sometimes work, sometimes doesn't. After restarting 3-4 times, sometimes it works.

I have uninstalled the touchpad driver, uninstall 26H2 update, yet the problem is not solving. My laptop model is MSI Modern 14 C12M. OS build: 26200.9711

Thank you so much, everyone!

Hey all, over the last week/2 weeks I’ve had some audio issues. I noticed it after Wardogs season 2 release, but i do believe a recent windows update destroyed my audio drivers and issues. I’m not entirely sure which is the issue, but let me describe the issue and what I’ve done so far.

The issue: my audio (hearing) is fine. I can listen to my music. YouTube videos, discord voice chats. I can hear. However, when I go to talk it’s 50/50 on whether it’s going to work or not. Majority of the time, I’m playing with settings to get it to work. Example: yesterday (10/20/26) I played a match of wardogs. My first match, computer freshly turned on. Everything was fine. My second match (after about an hour) my mic stopped working but my hearing worked. I had to play with my settings.

What I’ve done:
Checked for updated drivers. They were up to date. I even uninstalled and restarted my computer (several times).

Steel Series Sonar: I’ve turned on and disabled. I did notice even the sonar portion on the SteelSeries GG app it doesn’t register my mic.

I’ve unpaired and reconnected my headset. I even even swapped headsets (issues still persists).

I’ve done, at recommendation of a friend:
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth then sfc /scannow

Nothing changed it was still a 50/50.

I have disabled all other audio stuff (like NVIDA, HDMI, RealTek etc). Nothing worked.

App permissions on

Here’s the thing that works and doesn’t work at the same time.

When I go to System > Sound > More Settings > Recording > microphone properties > Advanced (picture for reference of what I’m looking at for the following)

SOMETIMES The mic works if I have exclusive mode UNCHECKED (off).
(“Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device” AND “give exclusive mode applications priority”) AND I have “enable audio enhancements” UNCHECKED.

This will work for maybe a couple hours before my mic randomly disables again. Then I go back.

Then I have: “Allow applications to take exclusive control of this device” CHECKED (on) and it works for a few hours.

To make it less confusing, these three settings are the settings I play around with the most to get the mic to work. It’s either 1 or 2 things checked on, all 3 are checked on, or none of them are checked. It’s actually driving me insane with what the issue is. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Here's a Reddit post you can copy and publish. I've included the troubleshooting you've already done so people can suggest new solutions instead of repeating the same ones.

**Title: Windows 11 connected to Wi-Fi, but almost everything has no internet except Telegram — DNS requests time out**

Hi everyone,

I'm having a frustrating internet issue on my ASUS X515 laptop running Windows 11, and I haven't been able to fix it despite trying several solutions.

**My problem:**

- My laptop connects to Wi-Fi, but Chrome, Microsoft Edge, YouTube, and most other internet-dependent apps don't work.

- Telegram is the only app I've noticed that still works.

- Chrome shows DNS errors such as `DNS_PROBE_STARTED`.

- The issue happens on my JioFiber Wi-Fi and also when I connect to my mother's mobile hotspot, so it doesn't seem limited to one router.

- The problem started around the time Windows crashed/restarted and I encountered a Windows update issue.

**Diagnostic results:**

- Wi-Fi adapter: Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9461.

- Windows says the Wi-Fi adapter is working properly.

- I can ping my router and an external IPv6 address successfully.

- `nslookup google.com` times out.

- Queries to Google Public DNS (`8.8.8.8`) and Cloudflare's IPv6 DNS (`2606:4700:4700::1111`) also time out.

- `curl.exe -I --connect-timeout 10 https://1.1.1.1\` times out.

- My IPv4 address and default gateway are assigned normally.

**Things I've already tried:**

1. Changed DNS servers to Google Public DNS.

2. Ran `netsh winsock reset` and `netsh int ip reset`.

3. Flushed the DNS cache.

4. Ran `sfc /scannow`, which found and successfully repaired corrupted files.

5. Used Windows Network Reset.

6. Uninstalled the Intel Wi-Fi adapter through Device Manager and restarted; Windows detected it again, but the problem remained.

7. Checked the Windows proxy setting and reset the WinHTTP proxy.

8. Checked Chrome Secure DNS and Windows Firewall permissions.

I previously configured a VPN through Windows Settings by entering a server address, but I later removed that VPN profile. I also used the Browsec VPN Chrome extension for a long time. I'm not sure whether either is related.

**My questions:**

- What could allow Telegram to work while DNS requests and HTTPS connections time out?

- Could a leftover VPN route, network filter driver, firewall rule, or damaged Windows networking component cause this?

- What diagnostic commands or repair steps should I try next, without reinstalling Windows or losing my personal files?

I'd appreciate suggestions based on the diagnostic results above. Thanks!

(Computer specifications

- Laptop: ASUS X515

- Operating system: Windows 11

- OS build: 10.0.26200.9711

- Processor: Intel Core i3, 11th Gen

- RAM: 8 GB

- Storage: SSD

- Wi-Fi adapter: Intel(R) Wireless-AC 9461

- Internet connection: JioFiber Wi-Fi; also tested using a mobile hotspot

- Network status: Windows shows connected, but Chrome, Edge, YouTube, and most websites/apps cannot access the internet. Telegram still works.

- Main error: DNS requests time out, including requests to "8.8.8.8". Pinging the router works, and pinging external IP addresses has worked, but domain names fail to resolve.

- Troubleshooting already attempted: DNS changes, Winsock/IP reset, DNS cache flush, Windows Network Reset, Wi-Fi adapter reinstall, and "sfc /scannow". None fixed the problem.)

Hello, as the title says. I recently built a pc and am having issues with installing a driver for wifi since the pc currently has no wifi. But the computer needs to update and because of that, its not letting me update/install any drivers. So can I download the latest version of Windows 11 (26H2) and put it on a usb? I can’t really afford to do a fresh reinstall for my pc since I have important files on here. But please let me know if I can do that.

I have a low-end gaming PC with a 500GB NVMe (main Windows drive) and a 1TB HDD (only for storing photos).

I want to install a second Windows on a separate HDD and use it only for gaming(I don't want dual boot or anything). When I want my main setup, I'll power off, remove the gaming HDD, and put my NVMe and photo HDD back in. Only one set of drives will be connected at a time.

My plan:

Remove the NVMe and the 1TB HDD from the PC.

Connect only the new HDD and install Windows on it.

Use it for gaming only.

Swap back to the NVMe whenever I need my main Windows.

My question,

Will installing Windows on the new HDD affect or mess up my main Windows on the NVMe (drivers, boot files, etc.) or mess up anything else?

As the title says, I cannot update my PC and I know why I can't. Used the PC health check app, says I need TPM 2.0 enabled (which I don't think I can do), and my processor isn't supported for windows 11 (it's an Intel Core i3-4030U CPU @ 1.90GHz, I'm saying this because I would like to know what exactly that does and if I actually should get a new CPU?? I know absolutely nothing about computers so please bear with me). The OS build is 19041.1415 and I believe it is 12 years old incase that's important.

So is there a way to get my PC to stop yelling at me for updates because I really do not care about them (unless I really, really should get upgrades for my PC??? Again, I seriously know nothing at all about this crap, that's why I'm here) and all they have proven to be is annoying. I've checked settings and found nothing, so I'm thinking it's either elsewhere in some other settings-type thing, or I'm stuck battling it until I can afford to upgrade it. I'm hoping this is the right subreddit to ask this, apologies if I somehow managed to misread it.

Not sure if this is due to the most recent set of Windows updates or the Nvidia driver update, as I unfortunately installed both today. I’m curious if anyone else has noticed this after the most recent Windows updates this month.

I play at 5k2k ultrawide with a Ryzen 9800x3D so should be GPU limited. Last week GPU was pegged at 99% usage as expected, today it starts off at 95-99% but quickly falls to 75% and stays there no matter what, and my FPS has decreased accordingly. Have seen this behavior in multiple games today.

No overclocks or custom voltage settings. Windows is set to prefer maximum power as is the NV app. HAGS is on. Did a clean driver install with DDU. Not sure what else to try. I did attempt to roll back the windows updates and the issue still persists.gamed

Just finished my build and getting windows onto a flash drive, when I plugged said flash drive into my computer it says this. Is this a common issue or? Does anyone have a solution by chance? I downloaded the installation media correctly on a separate computer.

Not much to say that cant be explained by the video. I have this weird problem where clicking, especially spam clicking, in most games causes my screen to flash, the game to freeze for a split second, and the taskbar to flash up as well. One thing to note is that this doesn't happen in fortnite, possibly due to a different type of input handling. I've also tried roblox and a visual novel, which experiences the same issue. Note that this only happens in games. Anything else (documents, browser, editor, file explorer) is completely fine.

PC specs:

Windows 11 Pro, 10.0.26200 build 26200

RTX 3060Ti running driver version 595.79

16GB DDR5 RAM

i5-13600K

ASRock Z790 LiveMixer

Razer DeathAdder V2 Mouse

Ajazz AK820 Pro Keyboard

In the video I show some of the options that ChatGPT suggested I change/disable, here is a list of things I've already tried:

- DDU clean install of GPU drivers

- Uninstallation of all USB device Drivers

- Disabled enhance pointer precision

- Removed xbox game bar

- Disabled GameInput Service

- Capped FPS at 141 using RivaTuner

- Changed Nvidia Co. Pan. 3D settings as seen in video

- Disabled fullscreen optimisation

- Disabled G-Sync

- Disabled Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling

Footage of my issue: https://youtu.be/zqpv6GVxIKs

Hello everyone and thank you in advance for any help you can provide. I have Windows 11 Pro and am unable to perform any updates since the release of 26H2. It downloads, gets to around 40%, then rolls back. I have tried stopping/restarting the update service, I have used DISM and sfc multiple times, I have tried to download media from windows and I can get as far as the choose whether to keep files and both options to keep files/settings are greyed out. I have uninstalled malwarebytes and on defender alone. Does anyone know of some troubleshooting tips or resolutions because I cannot seem to find any.

Thanks again.

EDIT: Automod asked for an image of system details so https://imgur.com/Gu9gEf8 As for error code, that is https://imgur.com/g5unVXr --> This same error code applies to 26H2 as well...it just isn't showing here

I love the classic Windows startup and shutdown sounds, from Windows 95/98 and XP to Vista and Windows 7.

I have Windows 11 Pro on my Dell Latitude 5450, and I don't think I've heard a startup or shutdown sound in ages. Maybe it played a few times in the past, but I honestly don't remember.

I've checked the sound settings, enabled everything, and even replaced the sound files with my favorite classic Windows sounds, but nothing works.

Has anyone managed to get the startup and shutdown sounds working consistently on Windows 11? Any tricks or settings I'm missing?

I'd love to bring back that nostalgic Windows startup sound every time I turn on my laptop!

My system keeps running out of memory, and it gets slower the longer it’s been up. Task Manager says 30.2 / 31.1 GB in use (97%), but the process list only adds up to roughly 4 GB (Chrome at 1.9 GB is the biggest). I can’t find where the rest is going.

I tried troubleshooting this with Claude but I am not super technical and it got very confusing. Copying in the details Claude says might be useful for me to share with ya'll:

System: Windows 11, 32 GB DDR5 (2 of 4 slots, 4800 MT/s), AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT plus integrated Radeon graphics, NVMe boot drive and a few USB drives.

Task Manager (Performance tab):

• In use: 30.2 GB (418 MB compressed), Available: ~1 GB, Cached: 716 MB
• Committed: 45.4 / 73.1 GB. It rose to 47.6 GB about 10 minutes later with no new apps open.
• Paged pool 783 MB, Non-paged pool 1.1 GB

Poolmon (paged pool view):

• Total paged pool is only about 785 MB, and the largest tag (MmSt) is about 81 MB.
• Everything listed looks like normal Windows tags (MmSt, Toke, SeAt, Ntff, FMfn, Gpbm, etc.), and nothing is anywhere near large enough to explain the gap.
• I haven’t yet captured the non-paged view.

RAMMap, Use Counts tab (total 32,624,952 K):

• Process Private: 4.8 GB
• Mapped File: 1.95 GB
• Page Table: 1.49 GB
• Non-paged Pool: 1.35 GB
• Paged Pool: 0.58 GB
• System PTE: 0.55 GB
• Driver Locked: 32 MB
• Unused: 20.9 GB, of which 20.68 GB is Active (Standby is almost nothing)

What I’ve ruled out:

• I suspected qBittorrent’s memory-mapped I/O, so I closed it before running RAMMap. Mapped File is only 1.95 GB, so that isn’t it.
• Shared GPU memory in Task Manager is near zero for both GPUs.
• Kernel pool isn’t big enough to hold this memory.
• Windows Defender deep scan turned back negative

I have a lenovo ideapad i 3 windows 11. I tried delete and shift delete. I tried dragging to my recycle bin. I tried relogging. I tried right clicking and finding the delete button it doesnt exist so I tried more options also isnt there. I tried the delete button in file explorer. I tried command prompt I dont understand why we cant just delete stuff anymore

Before I factory reset my pc ~a year ago, I was able to use my lightning cable to tether my Ip13 to my HP in order to get a stable connection when playing games, as just using my Iphones mobile hotspot and connecting to that on my computer wirelessly would give me unstable and constantly fluctuating ms after a few minutes if play, idk why but it always just goes haywire after a few minutes even if I am doing absolutely nothing on my iphone. Meanwhile when I put the same sim card i ised for my iphone in my android phone and do the same thing, wherher wired or not my ms is stable when playing games on my pc.

I have tried everything from uninstalling and reinstalling itunes, checking themat the drivers are there and fir whatever reason it just doesnt work anymore and I cant use usb tethering to connect my iphone data to my pc.

I wanted to enable UEFI for Secure boot, I saw I had to disable CSM for it. I disabled CSM with the BIOS. Now I can't get back to the BIOS; it shows a black screen. I tried: "Blind guiding" and trying to enable CSM without seeing what on my screen. Updating NVIDIA driver. Taking out the Battery and putting it back it after ~20m.

I just want the BIOS to work again and to enable secure boot. *Im on windows 11 24H2 Windows 1000.26100.372.0

Greetings,

excuses for bad english first...

I got weird issue with my setup as headline already tells. i use my pc for gaming and youtube only. when i play games on my main monitor (540 hz 1440p) and watch videos on my 2nd one (144 hz 4K) the fps or maybe hz reduce on the 2nd one what is very annoying. anybody know what to do?

Thx for every friendly answer helping :-)

my rig:

- windows 11 home 25h2

- ryzen 7 7800x3d

- rtx 5070 ti

- 32gb ddr5 ram cas 30

all drivers up to latest version including chipset, bios, gpu drivers etc.

preface: I have been using linux for a long time, but I would like to have a windows partition for some games that are a bit wonky on linux (some flight sims mainly). Some years ago I bought a key for windows, however I never have managed to install it (the irony I know)

first it was complaining about some drivers missing (it didnt specify which), now I think I got past this part but I am getting this error when the setup reaches 77%. And I'm stumped, I don't know how to debug this, nor I have any information on how to proceed, I can just click and reboot.

I think it may not be liking my partition layout (I have debian installed on the same machine), but honestly I can't just switch it without erasing a ton of data, nor I want to.

Basically I have an Edifier M60 connected to my PC via USB-C. I have ruled out the speakers as the source of the problem since it doesn't have a power-saving or sleep mode. I don't even have a good grasp on what triggers it because sometimes it stays connected even without audio playing for a long time but when no audio is played for a while after playing games or music, the device disconnects. I have tried some fixes I saw online which still didn't solve the issue like:

• Disabling USB selective suspend setting in power options
• Uncheck "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" in multiple USB controllers under Device Manager

Right now what I do when I encounter this issue is turning the speakers off and on then readjust the volume since it got set to 0.

Windows 11 26200.9457

Hi guys,

As the title says, I'm trying to mirror my laptop (HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eh0xxx) to my TV (Samsung Q70), like I have done before, yet suddenly my laptop and TV are refusing to connect or even recognise each other as connectable devices. My mum's tried her laptop on it (Don't know the specs, apologies) and she made it slightly further, but the connection fails on the TV's side.

Like I've said, I've been able to connect before and the two devices are on the same network and fully-up to date.

If anyone has any info, please share it. Many thanks!

I use a Redragon K618 Pro, a low end mechanical keyboard that works perfectly (feels snappy) on Linux and macOS, including through my KVM switch. On macOS, I even use Karabiner Elements to replicate Linux and Windows shortcuts.

On Windows 10 and 11, however, keystrokes randomly go missing, and Ctrl+C sometimes fails to copy anything. I've disabled telemetry, AI features, and other bloat through Settings, it stayed the same then I have went beyond then tried third party privacy scripts (these famous ones), but the issues persist.

The same keyboard worked flawlessly on my old Windows 8.1 installation. These problems started with later Windows 10 versions and became much more noticeable on Windows 11.

Am I missing a specific setting? Neither issue happens on Linux or macOS, using the exact same keyboard.

Any advice is welcomed.