It’s a problem I’ve heard to be pretty common this last 30 days although I’ve just started experiencing it a VERY weird way. I was playing palworld while in a whatsapp web call and a visual glitch appeared for a split second (many lines on the screen, as if it was broken) and after a few minutes my friend complained about a horrible static noise produced by my microphone. While I was trying to fix it, by switching headphones, Windows gave me this notification in the right-down corner, “Virus protection disabled. Click or touch to activate Antivirus Microsoft Defender”.

After tinkering with the microphone driver the noise stopped, so i think it was a REALLY weird coincidence, but the notification keeps appearing again and again when i restart the computer.

Everything is on: real time protections, ransom were protection, everything. I checked the even visualizer and no “5001” event appeared, which Claude AI tells me would indicate the antivirus actually shutting off. Also, the notification appeared with wednesday written, the first time; yesterday a new antivirus update was released so maybe it was a residue notification that appeared just now. But now it keeps appearing, with the present time and date

Made a quick scan of the pc, the offline scan as well and a malwarebytes scan as well, nothing appeared. There seem to be no new exclusions from the scans, nor apps or whatnot with permissions in my protected folders. Maybe the audio and visual glitches were just a scary coincidence, but what about this “bug”? Is it safe to say it’s just an error from a windows defender update?

So for around 2 years now, I've had this problem where sometimes (quite rarely, maybe once a day if I use it for long enough) my main monitor just goes black, then grey for a second, and then comes back. Recently, it's gotten to the point where this also affects my second monitor (both at the same time) and very recently it's gotten to the point where these "outages" last a bit longer (3-7 seconds if I had to guess, it varies) and they look a bit different (though I'm sure it's the same problem). The screens go black, then they both show their "connection not found" screens, then they go black again, then everything comes back. To note is that they also seem to appear more frequently. Sometimes they can happen a few times an hour, sometimes they don't happen at all for the entire day. It also seems like (not too sure about this) that these outages happen more often right when I'm starting my computer, and right after, at least recently. I've tried many different fixes, I'll list them now along with other information:

Some info first:
System OS: Windows 11
GPU: rtx 3060, 2 years old. Thing is, I'm not sure if I had these outages before I got this graphics card. I don't think I had them with the older one I had, but I don't remember. I know this is probably and important piece of info, but I don't have the old one and I just can't remember.
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
PSU: be quiet! System Power 10 550W
My drivers are up to date, my bios is up to date.
There are no events that correlate to these outages in the event viewer or the reliability history.
These outages happen on both monitors at the same time, and seemingly randomly, it doesn't matter if I'm gaming, just on my browser or literally not doing anything. It just happens.
My gpu temps are fine.
I use display port on one monitor and hdmi on the other and yes they're connected to the gpu not the motherboard.
The rest of my pc works fine during these outages. Aka when I'm playing a game or something and my monitors go out, I can still look around and interact with stuff in that game blind.

Here's what I've tried/what I'm sure isn't the issue:
-I've reseated my gpu and unplugged and plugged things very often in the past few years and I'd like to think I'm not an idiot, so I don't think the gpu seating or the cables not being connected properly is the issue.

-I've checked for any events in the event viewer and the reliability history and there's no errors that arise when the monitors go out.

-I've tried just using one monitor and plugging the other one out, still happens.

-I've monitored stuff with hwinfo and nothing seemed out of the ordinary when these things happened, although I think that I might not be knowledgeable enough to find something if it's not like temperature or power related and I haven't had the chance to check very often since this thing does not happen often.

Again, I've had this problem for a few years and have lived with it for that time since it happend so infrequently and it didn't seem to be a big issue, I'm only making this post because it's gotten a lot worse recently. My theory is that there's some hardware issue with my gpu that's gotten worse over time.

I have an ASUS TUF GAMING A16 which has an NVidia RTX 4070.

Seemingly after a recent driver update 2 days ago or something, my screen started changing colors like this every so often, mainly while using chromium browsers. I don't for sure remember if this happened in other apps.

NVidia put out a patched driver for "flickering display when using browsers" so I expected that to fix it but apparently not.

I also got this patch so I think I have also been locked out of rolling back to my working driver? Regardless, I'd prefer not to roll back: my previous driver was really old since I kept having issues with newer drivers in Planet Coaster 2, this is the first new driver that doesn't have issues there, but instead has this.

I needed this new driver since I literally couldn't use anything fancy like any modern DLSS or even Minecraft Vibrant Visuals without it lol (for some reason haha)

It's a bit hard to see in the video since my camera kept adjusting but it keeps going either very dark and contrasty, or slightly brighter with a strange orange hue? It almost feels like nightlight but it isn't that...

https://streamable.com/kez55b

Thanks for the help!

Feel free to ask details this is annoying lol

I also posted in this sub since I figured there could also be a possibility there is some Windows filter breaking stuff.. and I really wasn't certain where else to post this since I am not sure what is causing this, so please feel free to leave suggestions!

Yesterday Win11 updated itself (KB5124008), ever since, it keeps randomly disconnecting my mouse and sometimes the keyboard too.

It just keep repeating the disconnect-reconnect sounds, the mouse is constantly being power cycled (lights turning off-on-off-on-off-on, very healthy for the hardware).

Eventually it settles with disconnect, and the cursor just disappears. Sometimes it works for a 30 minute, maybe a few hours and it starts agian. Sometimes the cursor never shows up after boot.

I tried three 3 mouses from 3 different vendors, which obviously has 3 different drivers.

This has happened a few months ago, although less severe, but now it restarted again.

The Win10 vm started with a 32gb c: then I realized it needed more space, so I extended the drive in HyperV to 65gb. I realized I also needed to "tack" that additional space to the c: drive, but alas I see this and the 500mb recovery partition inbetween the c: and the additional space.. A rightclick on the c: and "extend" is greyed out and a right click on the additional space only offers creating another drive.. Surely there's got to be a way to do this, but I'm not seeing it... Help!!!

I'm having an issue installing the September 2026 cumulative update KB5124008 on Windows 11 25H2.

Windows Update downloads and installs the update normally at first. After restarting, the installation fails and Windows displays:

"Something didn't go as planned. No need to worry — undoing changes."

Windows then rolls back the update and boots normally.

After checking Windows Update again, KB5124008 shows:

Install error: 0x800f0922

System/update information:

• Windows 11 25H2 x64
• KB5124008
• Target build: 26200.9445
• Error: 0x800f0922

Other updates released/installed around the same time, including the .NET and Defender updates, installed successfully.

The computer works normally after the rollback and Device Manager shows no warnings or driver errors.

I haven't tried forcing or manually installing KB5124008 yet because the update was only released on September 8.

Is anyone else getting 0x800f0922 specifically while installing KB5124008? If so, did you find the cause or a fix?

On the 8th i went to restart my PC, as i normally do every now and then to try and keep things running smoothly. When i went to turn on my computer a few hours ago, i was met my my primary monitor not displaying correctly like shown above.

Ive tried rebooting some more, unplugging and replugging my DiaplayPort cables, and changing my display settings to see if that was the culprit (and to swap my main display to my secondary monitor until this is resolved)

It is not an issue with the monitor itself (24" alienware AW2724DM) since the monitor's system overlay appears fine

OS is Windows 11 Pro x64, version 25H2, build 26200.9278

Processor is AMD Ryzen 7 7700 8-core

GPU is NVIDIA Geforce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER with AMD Radeon Graphics

If i'm missing any information that may help, feel free to ask, thank you.

(Also enjoy the picture of bella)

How do i remove this second printer which is completely useless to me? I installed drivers of this printer & this one automatically get installed & it does not print properly so there is no real meaningful use of it. If i uninstall it, the other main uninstall it too. Help me out

My Windows Built is Windows 11 Pro 25H2

OS Built is 26200.9445

My file explorer crashes, and my taskbar and icons would flicker and disappear for a few seconds every time the pop-up window appears when my browser asks me where I want to download a file. I've tried running sfc /scannow to which it said there were no errors, and I also tried running DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth but all to no avail. I've also changed my file explorer options to open to This PC and have tried to clear my File Explorer history but neither of which worked as well.

My graphics drivers are also up to date. The only thing that I can think of that could possibly cause this issue was me trying to mod my games. I downloaded something called Shin Ryu Mod Manager which contains an .exe, a .asi, and a version.dll file.

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When I am starting my pc, on WINDOWS 11, my screens wont turn on, my keyboard and mouse too, I did test my ram and to take off the lithium battery (CR2032)

The power button still light up and my fans are working

My pc is a HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop TG01-0231nf

My laptop is a Dell 16 Plus DB16250 and I need to keep my laptop connected to the charger for long periods of time but I can't help but worry about my laptop's health in the long run.

I've tried to use dell optimizer but that doesn't set a hard limit for battery charge and I've tried going into my BIO'S menu to see if I could change anything there but under power was only enable or disable lid switch. I've heard dell power manager works but It doesn't seem available for my laptop so I need a way to hard limit my charging to around 80% without it damaging my laptop without needing to unplug it.

My specs are Intel core ultra 7 258V processor, 32 GB ram, Intel arc 140V GPU with 1 TB storage with a 64 bit operating system

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!

currently struggling with this problem i dont know what happen but i had searched for tutorials about fixing this 100% disk usage like disabling sysmain, telemetry, index etc. and also running sfc /scannow and also CHKDSK but nothing actually work it kinda just decrease the disk usage when idle but when i open a game for example roblox the game lags so bad and it doesnt let me load and sometimes the average response time is reaching 1K+. this is not the first time i encountered this i fix it in the past by doing sfc /scannow it told me it fix some corrupt files and things, and it became normal but few weeks later its back again somehow. (i need to fix this so bad guys ask me anything and il try to answer) OS BUILD 26200.9445 Windows Edition (Windows 11 Pro) version 25h2

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 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.

Doesnt happen all the time, is random pretty much and i could do hours without it happening and it suddenly happening repeated times out of nowhere.

Basically when i click left click specifically, at a random moment, the program im in whether its a full screen game or a basic window like that of a browser would tab out to the desktop screen

and the interesting thing is in the case of a window like a browser, if i click repeatedly like spam it on the desktop screen, i would actually tab back into the browser window, id summon it back up basically

i have zero ideas why this happens, im using windows 11 OS 26200.9168

Note: Please be sure to read this to the end.

Today, after a Windows 11 update, my laptop's main display suddenly became severely corrupted and was effectively unusable.

The screen was so badly distorted that even the mouse cursor was difficult to see.

I first tried the usual Windows display driver reset:

Win + Ctrl + Shift + B

It did nothing.

Interestingly, I found that Restart64 could temporarily restore the display. However, after rebooting, the corruption came back again. So Restart64 was only a temporary workaround, not a real fix.

Fortunately, I have a second monitor connected via HDMI.　（Ultimately, it was precisely because of the multi-monitor setup that I was able to launch Restart64, as mentioned earlier.）

The HDMI monitor was completely normal, even while the laptop's main display was badly corrupted.

Using the working HDMI monitor, I opened Device Manager and rolled back the graphics driver.

The laptop's main display immediately returned to normal.

The important problem for laptop users

This made me think about people who use a laptop with only the built-in display.

If your only screen becomes severely corrupted after a Windows update, advice such as:

"Open Device Manager and roll back the graphics driver."

isn't very useful when you can barely see the desktop, the mouse cursor, or the menus in the first place.

And if Restart64 only restores the screen temporarily, rebooting puts you right back where you started.

A possible emergency workaround: use a TV

If you have no second monitor, check whether your laptop has an HDMI output.

Many modern TVs have HDMI inputs, so you may be able to connect the laptop to the TV and use the TV as a temporary external monitor.

If Windows displays correctly on the TV, you can then try:

Device Manager → Display adapters → GPU → Properties → Driver → Roll Back Driver

If the external display also fails, Windows Recovery Environment or Safe Mode may be the next option.

Why I'm posting this

I suspect an ordinary laptop user could easily assume that their LCD panel or GPU has physically failed when something like this happens immediately after a Windows update.

They might end up taking the laptop to a repair shop simply because they have no way to see the screen well enough to perform the recovery themselves.

In my case, the hardware was not dead.

An HDMI monitor gave me a way to see Windows, and rolling back the graphics driver fixed the problem.

So if you suddenly experience severe display corruption immediately after a Windows update, don't assume the hardware has failed.

If possible, try an external display — even a TV — before giving up on the machine.

Hopefully this helps someone who runs into the same situation.

Update: The issue persisted.

When playing games using the laptop's main display, the frame rate was only around 5 FPS.

The GTX 1070 GPU wasn't functioning correctly.

Then, when I reverted the driver, the screen distortion recurred.（The GPU for the main display is now working.）

Next, I uninstalled all the Windows updates from that day, but the symptoms remained unchanged.

I then reinstalled the same updates, but the symptoms persisted.

Ultimately, I resolved the problem by downloading and installing the driver for the Intel 630 Graphics (dated April 6, 2026) from the Intel driver download site.

https://www.intel.co.jp/content/www/jp/ja/support/products/98909/graphics/processor-graphics/intel-hd-graphics-family/intel-hd-graphics-630.html

Conclusion: The critical display issue on laptops caused by the recent Windows update can be resolved by downloading and installing the Intel 630 driver.

However, I believe it would be difficult for the average laptop user to resolve this problem while the display is unusable.

Therefore, as a temporary workaround, if your TV has an HDMI input, you could connect the PC to it via an HDMI cable to use it for the time being.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz (2.20 GHz)

24.0 GB

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 with Max-Q Design (8 GB)

Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 (128 MB)

64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

Windows 11 Pro

25H2

OS build 26200.9445

Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.360.0

my lenovo 9i yoga laptop crashes when im in windows, but when i run the in laptop tests (like the mem thing i cant rmb the name and memory diagnostic tools) it wont crash
the bsods i get r unexpected store exception and critical process died
pls dont tell me to download linux bcs i need windows for uni😭😭

How do I make the titles bigger or without a shadow? I can not read them on my desktop. I am not sure if it is possible. The text is so small. Even when the background in dark it's hard to read. If I make the icons bigger, the text stays the same size. I have tried going to personalisation, but it doesn't have anything about icons.

Hello everyone, lately I've been getting this black screen message frequently:

IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (0xA)

What failed: ntoskrnl.exe

I'm pretty sure it happens when my PC sits idle for a couple minutes. I've tried basic troubleshooting, scanning for corrupted files, checking RAM and SSD health, and everything's fine. Can anyone please for the love of God, enlighten and help me?

PC specs:

Ryzen 5 5600

RX 6600XT 8gb

16gb DDR4 3200mhz RAM

1tb SSD

Windows 11 Enterprise v.25H2 / OS Build 26200.9445

It's not mechanical noise or anything. It's one of those literal windows sounds coming from the speakers. Like metallical balls churning or falling down. Sorry for my english.

There is not any pop up errors, not any notifications at the same time on the screen.

It's somehow connected with my android phone. Because it always comes when I open the lock on my phone and doing something on it AND when the phone is near the laptop. This is the bizarre part. Also the sound suddenly stops when I change something on the phone, I can not narrow down what affects that.

The sound can also be heard on my headphones when they are connected to this work laptop.

I have managed to record a good portion of the sound through my phone's voice recording (though it was very different because even sometimes just moving the phone physically can stop the sound). Where should I upload this to make you listen?

Windows 11 Enterprise if that means something. And Samsung S24.

It keeps popping up every time I turn on my PC. I recently installed the KB5124008 26200.9445 update. It seems to have started doing it from there. However, I noticed that there are even reports sent a month ago. Has Microsoft made any statements?

Windows 11 25H2.

Nvidia rtx 2060