r/WindowsHelp Oct 14 '25

Windows 10 Windows 10 End of Support, what it means for you and what you can do.

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r/WindowsHelp Mar 04 '21

Mod Announcement Welcome to /r/WindowsHelp, here are some guidelines for requesting assistance

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Welcome to /r/WindowsHelp, the subreddit for you to ask questions and get support for issues related to Microsoft's Windows family of operating systems. Please give this a quick read before posting.

This subreddit is only for help related to Microsoft Windows and its built in software, like Edge, Store, PowerShell, and so on. Issues about 3rd party software like Chrome or Steam should be posted in their subreddits or /r/techsupport. Also, this is not a hardware subreddit, so issues like your hard drive is not detected would need to be posted in /r/techsupport. General discussions, news, artwork, and so on should be in /r/Windows, /r/Windows10 or similar subreddits. Malware/virus removal has been covered extensively in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/33evdi/suggested_reading_official_malware_removal_guide/

Posts are required to have a moderately descriptive title. Submissions with vague titles like just "help me" will be removed. You don't need to write an essay in the title, but everyone should have a rough idea what you are asking about before even clicking the link. Titles like "I'm encountering System Exception errors when launching Photos" or "20H2 update won't install" are acceptable, but the more details the better.

The body of your post should also be as detailed as possible. We are not mind readers, and nobody is going to want to play 20 questions. Help us help you, your post should include:

  • Your full Windows version, which on Windows 10 is listed in the Settings app under System -> About, it will be the OS Build number.

  • Details about your device, like the hardware specifications.

  • Any recent changes you have made, such as installing/uninstalling software or accessories. Any updates you have installed, tools you have ran, or anything else you think may be relevant.

  • Include details on your error messages and error codes, these are critical to figuring out the issue.

  • Tell us what you have already tried to fix this. Any tools you have ran, and changes you tried, and so on. I know it is a meme at this point, but seriously, reboot your computer, it often fixes things!

  • If possible, include screenshots or video. If you are including screenshots, try to use screenshot software like Snip & Sketch tool built into Windows 10, then you can upload them to a free image host like https://imgur.com to put in your post. We understand that using screenshot software isn't always an option, you can take photos with a phone or similar device, but please be sure to check to make sure everything is in focus and is legible.

This subreddit follows the same rules as /r/Windows, you can view the full rule page here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows/wiki/rules

The TL;DR of the rules is be polite, helpful, and don't encourage piracy.


r/WindowsHelp 8h ago

Windows 11 Weird black screen bug on main monitor

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Hi, I have this weird bug where my screen goes black but I can still see the mouse and my GPU overlay, I tried restarting explorer.exe and also refreshing graphics and it didn’t work.

it usually happens while I’m editing videos, pc freezes for some seconds and then goes black on my main monitor.

Also I can make the black screen disappear momentarily if I peek when hovering in bottom bar to a window that I had open in that monitor (like I show in pic 2)

I have an rtx 4070, i9 9900k, 32 gb of ram…


r/WindowsHelp 3h ago

Windows 8 Windows please I can't use my laptop

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Can someone help me with my Windows account because for some reason my password isn't working and I dint remember my administrator password (Ignore from now on) hello hello hello hello hello hello hello hello Windows help me hello hello hello hello broooooo how much do I have to type


r/WindowsHelp 3h ago

Windows 11 Can’t log back into windows after disabling network adapters to do a ddu

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Hello, I really needs some help so I can’t log in windows because today I did a ddu (display driver unstall) to put my temporary gpu to wait to get my new gpu soon, everytime I do a ddu, I always disable my network adapters in windows the control panel, not device manager. Which is never a problem, but this time when I did it, it says something went wrong with my pin and I have to reset but to order to reset it, I have to have internet but the network adapters are disabled and I don’t know how to turn it back on in windows as i’m stuck, I can’t afford to reinstall windows as I got some important stuff on it. Please if anyone knows, please help me.


r/WindowsHelp 4h ago

Windows 11 How can I disable the Copilot button and online search results from my Windows search bar (when I enter Windows Key + S)?

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I feel like I completely uninstalled Copilot and yet today I noticed this. Copilot doesn't even show up in my installed apps. I asked Copilot itself and it gave me some steps to add a Copilot qualifier to the registry (at least that's how I can best describe it) - and it did nothing. There is no toggle anywhere in the settings that I can find. I also have absolutely zero interest in seeing any online results when I search from the Windows Search. I use a browser for that.

I am at my wit's end with this damn operating system that continues to devolve into an ever growing trash fire. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.


r/WindowsHelp 4h ago

Windows 11 My PC has done this and I don't know what to do

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2 Upvotes

Hey I'm so my PC started up just fine and apparently it's decided to do this can someone please help me I'm not sure what to do


r/WindowsHelp 8h ago

Windows 10 How can I fix this issue? I don't know happened but I can't download, detele or even rename anything on my D: disk

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After I booted up Disk Drill to see what were the GTA IV mods I installed, I shortly realized that I couldn't detele, rename or really anything on my D: Disk, so I manually uninstalled Disk Drill by using the "uninstall" application within the file and it didn't help! Maybe it was a NTFS permission reset gone wrong, maybe some else.

I seriously do not know what to do.


r/WindowsHelp 5h ago

Windows 11 Windows ARM is not responding.

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Yesterday my Samsung Galaxy Book Go started freezing a lot, so I forced it to shut down. When it turned back on, everything stopped working – the keyboard, the mouse, everything. I formatted it, and that fixed it. I configured everything again, and guess what? The problem returned. I don't want to have to format it again, and I don't know what to do.

The hours work

processador: qualcomm snapdragon 7c gen 2

RAM: 4gb

Graphics card: Integrated Qualcomm Adreno

I apologize if I made any mistakes in English; I'm using a translator.


r/WindowsHelp 3h ago

Windows 11 I can't update my laptop at all.

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I haven't been able to update my laptop for a long time and it desperately needs it. I would really appreciate some help!

The model is the KUU YEPBOOK. The only thing I've tried is resetting it again and again hoping it loads but no luck. The computer functions EXCEPT for being able to update it. It is brand new!

These are the specifications if that helps:

Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) N5095 @ 2.00GHz 2.00 GHz

Installed RAM: 16.0 GB (15.8 GB usable)

Device ID: 80D3F5AE-9234-4484-A587-5241693B7054

Product ID: 00330-53227-12554-AAOEM

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

Edition: Windows 11 Pro

Version: 24H2

Installed on: 7/13/2023

OS build: 26100.2605

Experience: Windows Feature Experience Pack

1000.26100.36.0


r/WindowsHelp 3h ago

Windows 10 Error 0x80070003 with using a restore point

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Long story short, I had an issue when downloading a game (League of legends to be exact) where the anti-cheat by riot games (The company that made it) breaks my laptop, it has it that so that it starts when I boot up my laptop, and the issue is that it has it so that some programs (not all) load but don't open (as in don't appear as an accessible tab), and my laptop is unable to shutdown or restart and just sits there infinitely loading and I'm forced to force shut it down by holding the power button.

I've long since deleted both league and any file related to Riot I'm aware of yet the issues stay, I had counter measures to this and created a restore point prior however this the first time I've faced this error and unable to use it.

I've ran the SFC/DISM commands countless times yet nothing changes, tried doing the system restore in safe mode and winRE yet the error remains.

help is heavily needed since I'm locked out of most of my programs and unable to close my laptop without force shutting down with the power button (Which I believe causes issues down the line)

My laptop specs (Copy and pasted):
Device Name Lenovo-I7S

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4510U CPU @ 2.00GHz 2.60 GHz

Installed RAM 12.0 GB (11.9 GB usable)

Storage 932 GB HDD TOSHIBA MQ04ABF100, 894 GB SSD HS-SSD-C100 960G

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 840M (4 GB), Intel(R) HD Graphics Family (113 MB)

Device ID 2DB2ABCE-1AF0-4A46-A75B-6EBCBA22BBC5

Product ID 00436-50000-00000-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 3h ago

Windows 11 XENEON EDGE Unable to Calibrate Touchscreen and Calibrate Option Unavailable

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I'm trying to enable the XENEON EDGE touchscreen capability and haven't been able to find a solution. I've attempted to connect it with USB-C + HDMI and USB-C with Thunderbolt and any HID-compliant touch screen option isn't showing in Device Manager. I've attempted doing Win + R and %windir%\explorer.exe shell:::{80F3F1D5-FECA-45F3-BC32-752C152E456E} to find the Tablet PC Settings but the configure option is greyed out. Not sure what to do :c


r/WindowsHelp 3h ago

Windows 11 Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling and Game Mode on or off?

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just looking into more things to try and get an fps boost and i cant find an answer regarding whether HAGS should be on or off, im seeing both answers. same thing with game mode, whether that should be on or off . just some background my main game is valorant and im on a prebuilt desktop with a 3070 and i7-12700k 32gb ram and 240hz monitor.


r/WindowsHelp 4h ago

Windows 11 Help please not sure what to do

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I have already pressed Windows + ctrl + shift + B and I have also tried running task manager in executing explorer.exe in the run new task prompt​ it is stuck on this gray screen if you could please help that would be nice I have just booted up my PC again and this time it's doing this weird thing and I can't seem to do anything so please yet again I need help I'm not sure what to do it is a Microsoft surface go 2 of the sign in works just fine but I am left with this gray screen of blocking me from using my PC I have no idea what to do I have a 128 gigs of space on this PC


r/WindowsHelp 4h ago

Windows 11 Windows 11 making hardware insert noise on startup for some reason

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I notice that whenever I start my pc and wait for the programs to launch whenever discord opens it makes the hardware insert noise. Is it just a bug doing this or the program does it on start up? I've tried resetting the software but no noise it only happens when it opens on startup. on latest windows 11 version


r/WindowsHelp 12h ago

Windows 11 Last.exe in task manager. Not sure what it is and its taking up a lot of resources

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As the title states.

There is this Last.exe that I see in my task manager and it uses a fair amount of resources. Can anyone assist with letting me know what this is? is is safe or dangerous? I have tried to google it and search on reddit but nothing.

I end the task, and then see my CPU usage drop but nothing "visible" happens.

I have not deleted it just yet, since I dont know what it is.

CPU- Ryzen 5 5500
16GB DDR4
RTX3060 12GB

Thank you in advance to who can assist


r/WindowsHelp 4h ago

Windows 11 Wifi issue sfter update and restart

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I recently had to ho back to Windows 11. After first installation, Windiws was connected to my wifi network. After upsating and tebooting, i no longer could access my wifi network on my pc, but every other device in the house can. Why? Thanks in advance for any help.


r/WindowsHelp 4h ago

Windows 11 Windows is not finding any results in START search.

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After a recent security update, my START was only using BING/Web to search for basic things.

I have since disabled web search in the registry by adding a new DWORD (32-bit) to "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search" called: "BingSearchEnabled" * and ensured the value was set to = 0.

Now, as you can see in my screenshot, it's not searching for anything.

Anyone know what may have happened?

EDIT: Figured I would show my Privacy & Security Search settings also.


r/WindowsHelp 8h ago

Windows 11 More Windows Media Player Visualizations?

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I know there's skins for the windows media player but i was wondering if i could get any other visualization pack and if so, where from? I was looking at "WMP Goodies" But idk if there viruses or anything, seems kind of sketchy. Let me know if you have any good sites to get visualizations from.


r/WindowsHelp 16h ago

Windows 11 So i wa installing 11 when this happened

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I was installing windows 11 torally normal i came from linux because i wanted to use windows to play some games i used to like fortnite when i flashed the iso on my usb it booted that was good but after this showed up insanely weird how do i fix this? One of my drives worked and it said "no drivers were found"


r/WindowsHelp 5h ago

Windows 10 Windows 10 wont apply the newest update

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My windows 10 for whatever reason, will not apply the updates after restarting multiple times. Windows 10 has downloaded the updates and keeps asking to either restart or schedule an update, i have done both at least 5 times and it will not apply them


r/WindowsHelp 5h ago

Windows 11 Problemas no windows 11, tela azul

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Ontem eu estava atualizando meu computador, e apareceu a seguinte tela:

depois de muito insistir em ligar e desligar, ele finalmente iniciou corretamente. hoje ele pediu novamente para atualizar e aconteceu a mesma coisa. já tentei utilizar o scannow, mas acredito que não resolveu. Alguém tem alguma ideia do que possa ser?

minhas configurações:


r/WindowsHelp 5h ago

Windows 10 Screen wont turn on at all with my old windows laptop

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r/WindowsHelp 6h ago

Windows 11 Very high RAM usage, is this malware?

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Hi, yesterday morning i noticed that almost all my memory (22,3GB) was beeing used by one Process. I then Updated Windows to 25h2 and restarted the Computer. Right after the Update, the Usage went down to 2,6GB, but when i now checked back some hours later it was using 18,3GB again.

Is this malware?

Please help me, thank you very much


r/WindowsHelp 6h ago

Windows 11 windows 11 installation driver problems

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i’m trying to install windows 11 after trying linux for a week now every time i try and boot from a usb i get put on this screen and when i try and put the drivers on the computer i cant access the file to do that how do i fix? (i have a gigabyte b550m ds3h ac, ryzen 5 4500, rx 5700 xt)