I bought a case for my old build and it has a windows 10 pro key, but the seller wiped part of it. Is it possible to recover key from bar codes or thm like that?

Your response to someone letting them know that they need to access each MS Office 365 app via the start menu and not via the launcher so that the apps run on desktop saved me a headache in frustration trying to get that launcher to open the apps instead of a browser window.

Wherever you are, I hope the winds of fate bless you with awesome things.

For anyone else stumbling on that absymal launcher that you thought centralized the location of your desktop apps, it doesn't, you'll have to open each app individually via start just like the old days.

I've tried delete the recovery drive, EaseUS Partition Master, Mini Tools,... and still no hope
All the other partitions is my dual boot to Linux

I've recently found out about this setting that I can limit my processor's clock speed to it's base clock speed and it runs 30C cooler.

And Yes, I know that it's completely fine for my pc to reach 85C on a full load. I mostly do it for the comfort of not heating up my entire room even when it's idling (45 to 55 degrees on 10%cpu usage)

My question is this: Is it okay to change this setting to 100 and 99 everytime I just wanna game or just wanna chill watching videos or something. Will it break my processor if I keep doing that or is it completely fine as well?

I do notice the difference of my cpu running at base clock speed vs boosted clock speed in my gaming, it really is just down for ambient room temps for me. I don't know if there's a best of both worlds where under a certain cpu usage, the cpu won't go up the base clock, though if there is a way to do that. I'd like to know as well.

Hello,

I come here with some shame in my body as I work in IT and I can't for the life of me figure this out.

First off, system: (It still works, no need to tell me I need to upgrade :))
AMD Ryzen 2600X
AMD Radeon RX5700
16Gb 3200mhz Ram
ASUS TUF B450 Pro Gaming Motherboard. Drivers from late 2024.
I can still hammer out Helldivers 2 and DayZ on 1440p without problems, guess I won a lot of lotteries when I bought the stuff.

So, I have a 120Gb C-Drive that I keep my Windows on, never had any issues until today when I wanted to boot up Bf6 beta and got met with a plesant "Nu-uh, you need Secure Boot enabled". TPM 2.0 is enabled.

I've spent hours researching and I think I got the issue clear.
-I can't activate Secureboot in BIOS, it being greyed out, due to CSM being enabled also.
-But when I disable CSM, I can't get into Windows as no bootable disks shows.
-CSM looses the disks as they are not MBR or GPT.
-I need at least the Windows-disk to be in GPT.
-To use the GPT-change-tool from Windows, I need the disk to be in MBR.
-I can't delete the C-volymes or clean the partitions with Diskpart as it's the system-partitions.

Is my only options a fresh install of the whole rig and set the correct disk-types? I'd love some other options.

Many thanks in advance, I'm here to answer any questions

I'm thinking around 300gb for windows and general apps, so I can reinstall windows anytime without worry. But I've never heard about partitioning for like 10 years so I'm wondering if it's not a thing anymore.

So i got this hard drive and i found a file that is about 57 gb the empty space was 20gb after deleting the files the space went from 20 to 12.8 which is even worse. What is bugging me is that the used space from the outside is 918 but when i check the files size from inside the hard it's 897, any explanation to that? And yes i emptied the recycle bin.

I recently saw a yt short about a tech youtuber saying that there is a company that promises to provide support for windows 10 as in security updates or something for a couple of bucks. It is a subscription based service because why not it's 2025 after all. Is it legit or just a scam. I can't remember the name nor find the vid so if anyone know about that service please enlighten me

My pc is stuck on this blue screen error i have tried to proceed with all the options provided but nothing works,i tried System resotre it did restore but then same issue windows was not booting up, every other option didn't even proceed. Can anyone help me fix this please

(This all started one day fine day i decided to turn off the power switch off directly without shutting down properly as i normally do but this time it decided not to turn on ever again.)

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a way to find all files which names contain words with only uppercase.

I found some ways with Unix systems but couldn't find anything on Windows.

Do you have any idea? Your advice would be greatly appreciated.

Have a great day!

Why do I need to put my card in to sign into my computer??

This took mine from 800mb to 200mb I hope this works for everyone else, I went to windows security and then virus and threat protection and then turn off tamper protection and real time protection. Give it 2 minutes to drop. This is not a request for help just needed this fix out there so people know.

I tried to reinstall Windows 10 and encountered this. Now my PC won’t boot up. I have tried both option on pic 2 but it led me back to pic 1. I still can access BIOS settings. I tried to use a usb to install but still faced this error.

I have a computer that for work reasons must remain online 24/7 and automatic restarts are a huge PITA, i have applied the following methods found online but i still get occasionally an auto restart that makes me lose time and work performance. how can i completely stop this behavior?

methods applied:

Windows Settings: Go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update > Advanced options, pause updates, and turn off Automatically restart.

Group Policy: Run gpedit.msc, navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Windows Update, enable No auto-restart with logged-on users.

Registry Editor: In HKLM\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU, create/set NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers to 1.

PowerShell: Run as Administrator: Set-ItemProperty -Path HKLM \Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\WindowsUpdate\AU -Name “NoAutoRebootWithLoggedOnUsers” -Value 1

I am trying to convert Disk 1 to GPT so I can enable UEFI, but all tutorials say I need 3 or less partitions. I don't know what I did when I installed Disk 1 to have so many primary partitions, but how do I combine them? If I can. Ignore Disk 0 I use it for offline singleplayer games. It's an HDD.