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In a blog post today, Microsoft that it will be rolling out "Windows Diagnostic Data Viewer" with the April feature update. The tool is available to insiders now, allows you to see and search all Windows diagnostic data that’s in the cloud related to your specific device. Good move on...

Newbie here for cloning disk drives. I currently bought a new Samsung EVO 850 1TB SSD to replace my manufactured (C) SSD 250 GB in my 2017 Dell Laptop with Windows 10. At first I assumed this process will be simple, but after dealing with it for multiple days I seem to not to get it working...

Hi all, I've got a strange situation here. I reinstalled Win 10 with all the updates and a couple of days ago I got a blue screen saying that an efi file can not be found and reinstallation is required. When I shut the machine down and switch on again I get the same blue screens and Win can't...

I know a lot of people have been playing or have played Ark: Survival Evolved so it's worth noting that you can now get it for Windows 10 and crossplay with your Xbox friends. However, if you're like me and purchased this title on Steam then you aren't getting crossplay capability. Whether...

Hi all, I posted this on the AMD forums, but there's been no reply in 3 days. I was a member here 15 years ago, and am hoping a new g can help out an old g :) Note: since these screenshots were taken, there was an AMD graphics driver update that I did install, however, it did not make a...

So I'm having a problem with a bit of a stutter after upgrading to Windows 10 v.1709 OS Build 16299.19. I don't recall what build I had last, but I believe it was the Windows 10 Creator's Update. Unfortunately, I can't roll back anything because I deleted the Windows.old file, because I had no...

Betanews reports that testers installing update KB4046355 removes Windows Media Player on WIndows 10 Fall Creators Update. This could possibly be one of the many features that the company plans to "remove" and "deprecate." Although the company has yet to respond officially, Microsoft still plans...

These licenses are 'single use' or 'OEM' licenses. The PCs that they arrived on have never been online, never activated, and are scheduled to be re-imaged with our volume license. Presently I only have Windows 8.1 PRO and Windows 10 PRO. Windows 8.1 licenses will allow for an easy upgrade to...

Windows has been BSODing on me recently. I've had Memory Management twice, and Invalid Push Lock Flag and PFN List Corrupt BSODs once each, perhaps one crash every other day. This should point to RAM but I've tested the RAM and it passes just fine. CPU temperatures are fine. There appears to...

This is 3 months old, but this is the first time I saw it. A developer for the DirectX team replied in a Reddit thread for Skyrim that the 4GB VRAM limit that was holding modded Bethesda games back is being addressed and we may see the fix in the forthcoming 1710 feature update. He claims that...

I have three 3007WFP's hooked up to a XFX R9 290. Motherboard is a P9x79 WS if that makes any difference. Two of the 3007WFPS are on Dual Link DVI cables directly to the card, the third has to use the Dell Active DP to Dual Link DVI adapter. OS is Win 10 x64 Now as some background, I had all...

Microsoft is claiming that seven out of ten Windows 10 users have opted for the full telemetry settings since the Creators Update. What the blog post from Marisa Rogers, Windows Privacy officer fails to notice, is that means 29%, or 145 million people didn't just click through the default...

Hi, my current system is equipped with a Gigabyte GV-N670OC-2GD (with two monitors) and an Intel i5-3750K, running Windows 10 Pro and Linux Mint 18.2 Cinnamon in dual boot. I've been sighting graphical glitches for the past few days, sometimes one of my screens flashes black for a few frames...

Since upgrading to Windows 10, my surround sound has not worked. My audio receiver has 2 inputs, optical & stereo phono, so my only option is using the optical for surround sound. What I don't get is that Dolby Digital tests fine (see below). This has dogged me for a long time and I cannot...

Recently after trying desktop Linux for about the umpteenth time and still being unimpressed, someone said "...how this is different then trying to install Windows 10 and fully patching it on 12 year old hardware and then throwing your hands up when it runs like garbage." Which made me think...

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I remember reading you could download the install media from MS, and install Windows 10 without a key and it would work for some time. Is this still the case? I am just interested in getting some first hand impressions instead of all the second hand ones I have been reading. But I have no...

Ordinarily I ran Windows 10 as an admin. I had forgotten why. After the Wannacrypt thing, I decided to try Windows 10 as a user again. It was not pretty. The right-click menus kept getting corrupt - something to do with having different levels of scaling on different monitors apparently...

Today at Build 2017, Microsoft's developer conference, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Windows 10 has reached a new milestone, with 500 million monthly active installations. Of course, this is about half the billion installations they had targeted reaching by now, and they reached...

While I can very much get into the spirit of having something like this downloadable Windows 10 Creators Update Bloatware Free Edition Read at Major Geeks, there are certainly more than few dangers that go along with it even if it is does allow "legal" activation of the operating system. I...

Microsoft ended the free upgrade period for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 users to migrate to the Windows 10 platform in the middle of last year. But it seems that the company still wants those older OS users to come aboard the Windows 10 train as it has failed to block a simple upgrading method during...

I have an EVGA GTX 780 SC ACX and it kinda doesn't work but also does. On one hand, the card displays nothing until it gets into windows, and then the Monitor turns on. Still doesn't display anything, but the monitor turns on and stays on. On the other hand, I can still use nvflash, things like...

Recently Netflix started allowing their customers to download shows to be played offline. This is particularly useful for long plane trips or to keep the kids quiet on a road trip. The savvy techs over at Into Windows have discovered where Netflix stores the downloads on Windows 10 for those...

As we have reported on in the past, Microsoft has new privacy controls in the works in response to a lot of people being unhappy about the combination of Microsoft not letting people disable data collection in Windows 10 completely, and also not being transparent about what, exactly, they...

Hi, on my laptop (Win10), I have set up the WiFi connection to assign specific IP. Whenever I go to a place with WiFi, I need to change the settings to "automatic" and then, when back home, I have to re-enter all the IP settings again. Is there a way to have multiple WiFi settings (like the...

8K TV's available worldwide in 2018? "CES in January 2018 will see the first 8K TVs go on sale around the world. If we’re right, the countdown to 8K TVs for the home has already begun. We must be ready." Is it possible to buy an 8K TV now? Yes – Sharp sells its 85-inch LV-85001 for...

Only in Windows 10, is of course used in the same way as "new CPU's will only work in Windows 10." In other words, Windows 10 is the only Windows OS to get mGPU support in Vulkan, due to this feature depending on WDDM 2.0, available in Windows 10 only. Linux and potentially other open source...

One of the things that irked me when I first installed Windows 10, was the number of ways Microsoft was seemingly trying to funnel me in to their cloud eco-system. Anyone who knows me knows that I absolutely hate being sold to, at any time, for any reason. Even when I walk into a store or a...

So, I have decided my stepson needs some additional oversight when it comes to his computer usage. In Windows 7 and 8 there were built in parental controls I could use to prevent use outside of hours I disapproved of. This was a great feature. Apparently now, you need to have several...

A few sites out there have been running with this alarmist headline today, and boy does it sound scary, right? Could windows 10 be going on full device-style lockdown, requiring you to use apps from the Windows Store? Well, not so fast. First off, as Beta News reports, this is only an...

Microsoft has hit a home run with the Windows File History backup tool. Hardware Secrets delves into the good and the idiosyncrasies of using the tool to make file backups. The tool checks often to see how files in the monitored folders have changed and saves copies of them based on the...

Phoronix has an article up today comparing gaming performance between Windows 10 and Ubuntu Linux on Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060 and 1080 GPU's. It seems like not so long ago we were hearing from Valve, that they anticipated their Source engine based games to, in many cases, perform better under...

What the actual fuck? My wife's computer updated to windows 10 1607 today.... Needless to to say its like she got a virus. Her background was changed. Her task bar had new programs pinned (edge, file explorer) and removed pinned programs. It has now installed a few new programs as well...

Carnegie Mellon's Vulnerability Notes Database has a new alert up for an exploit that can allow a remote attacker to crash a Windows 10 machine. This exploit apparently works by taking advantage of a bug in how Windows 10 handles the SMB file sharing protocol. The only currently known...

As we reported last week Windows 10's new "Game Mode" is supposed to give you a free boost of a few percent in games. Well, early tests of the feature in the Windows Insider preview are looking to be a bit of a disappointment. In PCGamesN's tests, performance actually appears to be lower rather...

ghacks.net has passed along that Windows 10 v1507 is going End of Servicing on January 26th. This was the first official RTM version that customers could purchase or upgrade to. For those of you "cold dead hands" folks, you might look at getting your OS bumped up so you are getting needed...

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2017/01/09/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-15002-pc/#YrhD9j2yYcjL84P7.97 Interesting build, it's got the most new features of any build to date in the Creators Update path and probably close to feature complete. The big thing that most...

I'm looking at my TRCA list to guard against man-in-the-middle attacks. It's too large to post here, of course, and mostly they look legit, but are there any rogue CAs for which I should look out? Ones that have caught my eye are 'NO LIABILITY ACCEPTED (c)97 Verisign' and a couple which start...

Happy New Year! And new month which brings the same argument on the 1st of the month as usual. Whatever issues Windows 10 is having, the Steam Hardware Survey hasn't been one of them: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey.

I've searched deviantart, googled, but all I find are either: - Washed-out gray themes. They look dark on the screenshot, but they are not dark enough. Eespecially if your wallpaper is pitch black. - Awful pitch black themes Basically I just want the most basic idea of a dark theme: Windows 10...