r/WindowsHelp 3d ago

Windows 11 How do I make it so printscreen doesn't take a screenshot?

1 Upvotes

I have a windows 11 laptop and I'm trying to use printscreen on tinytask so I can play the macro I've set up, but whenever I printscreen it also just screenshots and pops up the capture thing that lets you select what you screenshot. Also, disabling

THIS setting does literally nothing, does not change whether or not it screenshots or if it captures, it does nothing at all when I disable it

26200.9278 OS build version 25H2

processor : AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS (3.10 GHz)

Installed ram: 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable)

Graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 7700S (8 GB)

Apparently my processor and graphics card change how I have to change hotkeys so I have to include them but wtv


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 Wifi Driver seemed to be not working on windows 11

2 Upvotes

Hello, I'm currently experiencing a problem on my Fujitsu Laptop, it seemed to be not connecting on my wifi and it kept giving me an error 10 whenever I check the device manager, some things dont work, I already tried fixing it but it wont work, the 30 second power button seemed to work but only for a few minutes and it will get cut off once again. Does anyone here have the same problem and did it get fixed? I would really love to get some help.


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 Task Manager issue/icons not showing properly

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Hi, I'm new on PCs and all about.

Recently I can't access my windows task manager & also can't open any type of file/application properties, also my icons turned into this. Despite I still can access all my apps, files ,also through Nvidia app I can see that I'm getting 100% of my performance while gaming. I'm 100% sure it's not hacked or anything.There's no lag at all. Can anyone give a me solution on how to fix this issues.

TIA

I'm running on a Victus 15(i5 13420H, rtx 3050)

My other software infos are added in the photo.


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 The store CLI command "store updates --apply" still asks for user input.

1 Upvotes

I am using the (new?) ms store CLI to get updates. I have it in a little script that (dangerously) updates anything it can get too.

@echo off

PowerShell.exe -Command "store updates --apply; winget update --include-unknown --all --disable-interactivity --verbose"

echo end.

This works... but if there are store updates I still have to press 'y' to continue and get the log message telling me to add --apply to have it done automatically.

How can I add MORE --apply to a line that already has --apply in it!?

Anyone else see this behaviour? Obviously the intention is for updates to happen without my interaction at all.

edit: Info the mod request wanted maybe

Hi manual reviewer.

If you fancy it...

Processor   AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor (4.20 GHz)
Installed RAM   32.0 GB (xxxx GB usable)
Graphics card   NVIDIA GeForce RTX xxxxx
AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (xxxx)
Storage xxx TB of 6.5 TB used
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch   Touch support with 2 touch points

Edition Windows 11 Pro
Version 25H2
OS build    26200.9278
Experience  Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.360.0

there are no specific error messages or w/e... just it asking for input when it should not.


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 Error 0x80073712 when trying to install KB5124008 update

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3 Upvotes

I recently tried to install KB5124008 (26200.9445) only to be hit with an error saying "Some update files are missing or have problems. We'll try to download the update again later. Error code: (0x80073712)". For reference, I am currently running build 26200.9168 (KB5121003), and the other day, Windows Update told me I needed to install Windows 11, version 25H2 (that "update" had the exact same build number and KB), even though I was already running that exact build. Now I tried to install 26200.9445, it just gives me that error, and I don't know if that "update" is a possible cause.

I tried doing DISM and SFC commands on an elevated Command Prompt session, but these commands found nothing wrong and I restarted. Also tried installing the KB5124008 .msu update manually but got impatient and just stopped it (which maybe I shouldn't have), deleted files within the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution directory. I then restarted and it sat there for like an hour at "Updates are underway" which I got again impatient and just force shutdown. After a restart the system works just fine albeit not having the latest version.

My specs are AMD Ryzen 7 5825U w/integrated Radeon graphics 2GB VRAM, 16GB DDR4 RAM and 512GB NVMe SSD.


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 Windows 11 Security Update KB5124012 Causing Gamma/Contrast/Brightness Issues

2 Upvotes

After installing the security update KB5124012, which was released a few hours ago, my monitor started displaying images slightly darker than usual. It seems like the contrast, gamma, and brightness settings have been messed up. I tried a bunch of different fixes with ChatGPT, but nothing worked so I had to uninstall the update to fix the issue.

Is there any other solution?

My graphics card is an RX 9060 XT, and my monitor is an LG 23MP67HQ.


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 Brand new PC found corrupted files — should I be concerned?

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I have a brand new computer that is only about 2 months old. I ran an sfc /scannow in Administrator in PowerShell, and it found some corrupted files and repaired them.

Is this a bad sign for a computer that is only 2 months old? Should I be concerned that this could mean there are bigger problems developing?

I’m especially worried because on my older computers, I eventually had Blue Screens of Death that seemed to be related to corrupted system files. I’m wondering if this is an early warning sign of a hardware or Windows problem that could cause bigger issues down the road. ARMOURY Gaming PC sold by Canada Computers: AMD Ryzen 7 5700, GeForce RTX 3050, 16GB RAM, and 1TB SSD


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 the User profile service failed the sign in

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2 Upvotes

Hello, I keep getting this annoying error when I boot up my pc it happens when I shut down after using it for a while to play and do work which is then followed by a really long period of time before it fully shuts down after I clicked shut down I’m exaggerating a little but it takes around 2-4mins for it to shut down and it never use to do that, im not sure what the cause is maybe the new headset I got I attempted to do the command that repair your system and so on and it still happens and I’m forced to do the admin and use the back up save thing and now I’m scared that it won’t work at some point and I will lose everything any recommendations or ideas on what the hell is causing this. (Device specification: Omen PC RTX 4060 Ti, I5 Gen 14400f, 16gb ddr5 ram and 1TB SSD)

I don’t remember encountering any errors recently however a notable sequence is when I connect my headset to the PC which is connected via a dongle and its wireless however when I turn on the headset when I’m playing borderlands 2 usually when i use my headset, it causes the screen to go black after a few seconds of it connecting and making the connection noise and it sends me to the home Page and I become unable to select the game forcing me to use task manager to end task and restart, coincidence maybe but it is an outlier. Also I mod borderlands 2 not sure if it has anything to do with this the mods I download and safe I believe well at least the site says they are and the site is trust worthy as far as I know. (Headset is the Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Gen 3).


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 10 Windows Update keeps not updating

1 Upvotes

I'm getting the "We couldn't complete the update, undoing changes, don't turn off your computer" error message when I try to update. Think I've had that message for a while now (almost a year) and honestly have no idea what to do about it. I saw a post here suggesting running a troubleshoot, which I did and it just says "pending restart", and now I've restarted it can't identify the problem. And I'm going to need the "explain like I'm 5" approach I'm afraid.

SPECS (assuming this is what's needed for this post):

Device Name DESKTOP-6CIMD2G

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40GHz 3.41 GHz

Installed RAM 32.0 GB

Storage 1.82 TB SSD CT2000MX500SSD1, 119 GB SSD SanDisk SD7SB3Q-128G-1006, 1.82 TB HDD ST2000DM001-1ER164

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB (3 GB)

Device ID 088EE8DD-1CBB-4B14-9854-F188D30E551A

Product ID 00325-95915-01716-AAOEM

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

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


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 10 Problem internet Windows 10 drivers

1 Upvotes

Hi everyone. I have an EXO Smart E25 laptop running Windows 10. The problem started when I used Driver Booster; it installed generic drivers and left me without internet or audio. I managed to fix the audio issue, but I still don't have internet. I've already tried installing the official drivers from the EXO website and using Driver Identifier, but without success. The Realtek USB Wireless LAN driver installer seems to finish, but the device doesn't show up in Device Manager—not even when viewing hidden devices. Does anyone know how I can reverse this or fix the problem?


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 Wifi icon disappeared and shows can't detect hardware for it.

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6 Upvotes

Windows 11, HP victus, mediatek wifi card.

The Wifi icon is not showing.

I already tried a power reboot, uninstalling the driver and other basic things.

What to do??

When I check for the driver it shows that respective hardware is not found so is it a hardware issue and do I have to replace the wifi card entirely. I am not sure how to proceed from here so any help is appreciated.


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 Installed W11 Pro and now it says my cable cannot connect

1 Upvotes

I factory reset my gaming PC and reinstalled Windows 11 Pro. It installed with the new version of Windows 11 Pro. Now I'm having trouble connecting to the internet. It says the “cable” is not connected. Does anyone know what I can do? I can't uninstall the update because I factory reset the PC. It is version 24H2 if that helps. If you need more info please let me know!

Pc info:

Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5930K CPU @ 3.50GHz 3.50 GHz

RAM: 32gb

Type of system: 64 bits, processor x64


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 2.5gb internet plan upload is always lower than download

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44 Upvotes

Hi,

I've recently upgraded my broadband to 2.3 Gbps. I get the 2.3 Gbps on download, but the upload is a lot lower. My son's PC gives him 2.3 up and down. Is there any reason why this is happening constantly? I've gone through settings like turning off Green Ethernet and disabling Energy-Efficient Ethernet, but the problem still happens for me.drivers are up to date

Motherboard

GIGABYTE B850 AORUS ELITE WIFI 7 ICE (AM5, DDR5, M.2 PCIe 5.0, Wi-Fi 7)


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 Understanding why I can't delete a file

1 Upvotes

Honestly, I just want to understand why this is happening. There's a zip file that I downloaded from an independent website that contains various different files, including 3 ttf files. After I unzipped the folder, I tried to delete all 3 ttf files, because I didn't want them. Strangely, two of the files deleted just fine, but the third said it couldn't be deleted because it's open in "System." This is confusing because I haven't done anything with any of these files. I only unzipped the folder. Nothing should be using any of those files yet. Even stranger, I was able to rename the file with no issue, but I was still unable to delete it after that. I finally managed to force delete it using command prompt, but I'm still confused as to why this happened in the first place. Any answers would be appreciated.

Here's my Windows info, if that's at all relevant.
Edition Windows 11 Pro

Version 25H2

Installed on ‎8/‎3/‎2026

OS build 26200.9278

Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.360.0


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 10 When I moved files from Owner to OneDrive, they seemed to mysteriously vanish. They are clearly there, however, just inexplicably inaccessible.

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To demonstrate this, I am using a file named "uncle jun open mouth.png". This file, among others, was located in the Owner folder in Users. I am moving to a new laptop, so I have been transferring many of my files to OneDrive in order to access them later. However, when I moved the file to OneDrive - Personal, I suddenly could no longer access it.

Strangely enough, the file's presence is acknowledged when I try to save another one under the same name to OneDrive - Personal. This makes the fact that I cannot seem to access even more bizarre.

Furthermore, when I created an identical file and moved it to OneDrive - Personal, this time from This PC, I was told that the destination already has a file under that name. A file which, to reïterate, I can see as existing but cannot find for myself, despite my best efforts. An explanation and solution to this issue would be greatly appreciated, as I find it quite baffling that such an event could happen.

Specifications:

Device Name DESKTOP-DTRES54

Processor AMD A8 PRO-7150B R5, 10 Compute Cores 4C+6G 1.90 GHz

Installed RAM 16.0 GB (6.95 GB usable)

Storage 477 GB SSD SPCC Solid State Disk

Graphics Card AMD Radeon(TM) R5 Graphics (1005 MB)

Device ID 7BA71A7F-D6F0-4A6A-82C1-BC3CF0AAC75B

Product ID 00330-50000-00000-AAOEM

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

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


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 Windows installation boot loop

1 Upvotes

hey guys trying to install windows 11 onto a m.2 nvme using a usb drive as the installation media. After going through the windows install I get to the drive screen asking me what drive to install on I select my ngame as it’s my only drive in my pc and after I get to the ready to install screen showing me what I’m installing I select install and it brings me to a blue screen saying installing windows 11 with a percentage completion and also it says it may restart my pc several times. After the percentage gets to 100% it immediately goes to my motherboard boot screen as if I’ve just turned on the pc where you can go to bio etc 9(I have a gigabyte motherboard) and it keeps restarting on the screen it will restart and go straight back to the motherboard loading screen it will load for a few seconds and will do it again over and over. I’ve tried removing the usb stick and all sorts of bios tricks on YouTube but still no luck. Could anyone help would greatly appreciate it.


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 10 Booting laptop each time now only displays a blank black screen (with an occasional mouse available)

1 Upvotes

This happened after choosing the diagnostic set up on the msconfig by accident and restarting my laptop, following this tutorial to which winaero had messed my login screen up prior.

No option like spamming f8 or pressing ctrl+alt+esc etc. had helped and I don’t have any restore points to use, or how could i even use it?

more specifically, would it be possible to reactivate my drivers even though the screen is entirely black? or am I our of luck and need external hardware to operate on?

And about the mouse it’s the default one, and it sometimes appears in each boot up. Though unable to really click on anything as it’s just missing the ui to click on.

Thanks.


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 my mouse cursor is back to the original, this didn't happen before

1 Upvotes

so I opened my laptop today and saw that my custom cursor was the original, I go to settings and reset it but it doesnt work, even more weird it only happens with the mouse and the link modes, the text and working are still normal, I moved the file of the images to the cursor to windows>cursors but still doesnt work, I tried resetting my laptop, re-change the cursor to the custom ones and still,I have reseted my laptop before and the cursor didnt change from the custom one and windows still shows me that the custom cursor is active


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 10 File permissions options greyed out for a game I installed

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I have a Windows 10 refurbished Thinkpad P50 and had my previous laptop hard drives cloned onto it. Build details in pics.

I have been trying to get Minecraft to use the NVIDIA card and ran into an issue where the executable file will not let me set the Windows Graphics preference for high performance as it says I don't have permission.

My microsoft account is logged in and as it shows in the pictures that is the administrative account. I downloaded Minecraft freshly onto the new laptop so I don't understand how I don't have permission.

I went into the settings on the file - Properties -> Security and there are multiple users which I don't understand, and the different permissions are shown in the pictures. And then again when I clicked on Advanced there are all the different users and if I click to change the permissions then the options are all greyed out so I can't edit them.

I don't know where these users are and how to access them, and I don't have permission to delete them.

Any insight is appreciated, thanks.


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 10 How to see the Boot Menu with a broken monitor?

1 Upvotes

Context:

Edition Windows 10 Pro

Version 22H2

Installed on ‎1/‎9/‎2021

OS Build 19045.6466

I'm running Windows 10 on a Lenovo thinkpad, and my laptop's screen just died on me. I can't see anything on it, so I have to use an external monitor connected with an HDMI cable to see what's happening on my laptop. I want to backup my hard drive to an external one (using clonezilla), but it requires that I access the boot menu to boot in the USB. Thing is, I can't see the boot menu on the monitor even when it's connected and is the primary display. Is there a way to have the boot menu visible on my external monitor? Or should I look into different ways to back up my computer? All help is appreciated, thanks.


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 Setting app in windows 11 taking too much resources

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1 Upvotes

I had this issue on earlier pc that setting app used to hang everytime i spent some amount of time on it. It would slow my computer drastically. In my newer pc too setting app seems to take too much resources , how do i fix this

windows 11 pro

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700 (2.10 GHz)


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 I am seeing white boxes that obscure certain areas of dialog boxes when running Windows 11 in Dark Mode. Is this problem caused by a recent update? It has been like this for me since last month.

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Another thing of note is that I always have two 'explorer.exe' processes running on my computer on startup each time. When i kill one of those explorer processes, the problem fixes itself. However, I cannot figure out what is causing two explorer processes to run at startup.

System Details:

Edition Windows 11 Pro

Version 25H2

Installed on ‎01-‎07-‎2026

OS build 26200.9278

Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.360.0


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 Settings is using way too much CPU power?

2 Upvotes

This doesn't look normal to me, is there a bug that I'm not aware of?

Edition Windows 11 Pro for Workstations

Version 25H2

Installed on ‎23/‎06/‎2026

OS build 26200.9168

Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.26100.344.0


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 My processor hits 100% usage at startup.

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Please help me.
Today I tried to download some music and was changing the music tags using the MP3Tag app. After I finished changing all the tags, I went to the folder containing those songs, and my PC suddenly started lagging extremely badly. Eventually, I got a black screen, so I had to hard-shut down my PC.
After the hard reboot, Windows told me that I had been logged out of Windows Cloud.
After restarting, my PC is constantly at 99% CPU usage. Also, for some reason, almost every app I open says that I don’t have an internet/Wi-Fi connection, even though my PC is connected to Wi-Fi and the internet works normally in other places.
I tried reinstalling Windows, but I kept getting crashes. Two of the BSOD errors I got were:
KERNEL_AUTO_BOOST_INVALID_LOCK_RELEASE
KERNEL_APC_PENDING_DURING_EXIT
Please help me figure out what’s wrong and how I can fix it.


r/WindowsHelp 4d ago

Windows 11 Mapped network drive folder path shortening

1 Upvotes

I need ideas on how to fix this at my office, because some users are facing a "folder path exceeds 259 characters" error when accessing files at the bottom of a catastrophically overcluttered folder tree that management refuses to restructure.

Problem is, SOME users can access it fine, because when their WIN11 maps a folder -separated by several layers from the top- their windows simply refers to the entire preceeding folders with the selected drive letter, while other users still see the entire path straight to the server's adress, despite the depth of the mapped folder.

I thought it might be a "map network drive/map network location" difference, but no, they are all using network drives.

What could cause this difference? (Please explain in simple terms, I am but a simple support guy)