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Hi, I recently bought a camera that doesn't need software apparently and it doesn't seem to work on any program i run, only the microphone. I checked if I needed to update windows but it keep loading and loading but nothing ever happens, also my windows defender is unable to turn on but I don't have any other antivirus on my PC. Im running on a windows 10 trial version and the version is 1809. Just came from microsoft tech support because about 30 people viewed but no one replied... Specs: Ryzen 5 2600 CPU 2x8Gb 3200mhz of ram GTX 1070 Aorus GPU 8Gb of VRAM

I know that there's been a lot of bad things happening to people updating to newer Windows 10 versions, but I was doing a fresh install on my GF's computer today and noticed the Windows I installed was a bit different than the one I had. When I came back home I noticed in the Windows Updates settings that it's telling me my version will be out of support soon and to consider updating to the most recent version of Windows 10. I couldn't find any recent information about the current situation with updating to this version from an older version. Does it still cause problems after so many months since the most recent feature update version was released? Should I take any precautions or something else I need to know about updating from my current version to this one? Should I go with a fresh Windows install instead? It's not that I care a whole lot about the data I have in this PC, I literally just use it for gaming so everything is in the cloud pretty much. I have all my important stuff in my laptop which I guess I would also have to update, so I kind of want to test with my gaming PC first. Thanks! - Wonka0998

Yo, I updated windows the other day and this morning my computer stopped opening most programs and some (Opera browser for instance) show up as a blank window even without the windows close X in the corner. The windows close and resize buttons work though. Most, if not all the native windows programs run, like control panel device manager and such. When I uninstalled the nvidia driver the Opera browser showed up correctly, but couldn't reload or load new pages when I tred. I haven't tried installing an older nvidia driver yet, I installed a new one right after I put a 1070 in. The 1070 I put in has been running in another computer just fine and it ran fine in this one until I did "Shut down and update". I also overclocked the 1070, but that's reverted when I boot the computer I think and I also manually turned it off. I run windows 10 pro 64 bit and the only thing I changed recently was the GPU and the windows update. I also tried system restore (both normal and safe mode), but that failed telling me it couldn't copy some file, don't remember the name and I can't check just yet because I'm currently sitting at university. I am going to try to uninstall the windows update and change to an older nvidia driver when I get home, anything else I should try? Thanks for any replies in advance.

I have a computer running Windows 10 pro and joined the insider program a few weeks ago, since I joined the program my computer hasn't downloaded any updates and its been over 2 weeks.

I use a Windows 7 pc for Netflix, Amazon, YouTube I think (I have been beating this old rig with everything I know for over 10 hours real life time and YouTube was still acting like I was on or connecting to DSL circa 2001). Anyway, a third power outage in the last 3 days (We get 2 feet of snow In three hours here with 35-100 mph winds and don't lose power even though the lines are above ground; the pine and wet maple just bend. Oily trees I tell ya. Fricken rain. Windows is doing it's "we'll just update you for no reason (when the power goes out the lines are so old the pc initially thinks it was when it was first built in 2011? When the Win 10 update was mini mandatory. Great, if your power does not keep going off. I would have gladly accepted the free update now for this pc. No, I got my files flummoxed instead. Mind you I am home, so no physical versions of any OS' (not true, I have 98 and 2k, a Win 7 disk I bought for $149 with a student discount, that I can't find... So Windows did it again. I love my PSU, but this can't happen. Both PC's post. One is good now, and the other will be soon, but the drop f'd up so many things on the *fun* pc. 4379 files moved but not deleted. 2957 of those files replaced. All restore points gone. Firefox takes me, nowhere. Opera, nowhere, just another error message. I right click, properties, blah blah, and have nonsense as where shortcuts are supposed to go. Oh, this last reboot after changing 100 or so programs to manual then starting or stopping them, took 21 minutes on an OC'd 3570 (I grabbed a great Asus cooler and can run 4.7 at 65c on air, with the Peltier + fan as an intake). So 21 minutes, Opera works, finally, and Firefox lists y target as c:\users\...\roaming\browsers\explorers\exe\xofenif.bat and a start in of C:\Users\...\appdata\roaming browsers shortcut key : none run : c:\users\...\XOFENIF\play world of warships.exe\minimized Almost every file is like that. By the way, I now have War of Tanks, Warships, Warframe, Imperial Online, and War Thunder! Guess that was in the update too? Why does MS do things like this? I would have called and asked for help but it would just take longer, and no Opera or Firefox help, or any other program MS does not develop/sell, so a waste of time. I know if this happened to anyone else in my immediate circle of friends/family besides my uncle Thomas (He started working for NASA in 1980, then wrote for the CIA, Navy, the NSA, then was finally allowed to work on normal programs at Raytheon in the mid 90's, finally got out and writes medical software now) would have just taken the PC and thrown it at someone who was trying to take away U.K. Imaginary privacy. Again, why does MS do this, when they have no one who is available to help?. Not saying there are not people who take the calls, but they are not equipped to answer the questions that need answers. I'm just going to reinstall Firefox and MIE at this point, as I don't feel like digging through folders and searching for files who's names were changed in yet another botched update (I probably could have gotten everything straight in the time it took me to type this, but I needed to vent a bit. Umm, go AMD. Please get your IPC up so Intel has to come back to earth pricewise. And NVidea, you won the GPU battle, don't pull out now leaving us with $1700 + cards as you will only be doing deep learning after Volta. AMD/Radeon Technologies can compete in the consumer market for the next decade or so, but then they will just turn into you, Price gouging like a son of a gun against an Upstart Samsung.

source: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-will-unbundle-its-edge-browser-from-the-windows-10-os-with-redstone-3 hold your horses there MicroSoft, "you" are committing one huge mistake I dunno how many people would go signing in through the MS Windows Store just to update the browser they don't use I don't even understand what the fuckheads at MS are even thinking ... Windows Update checks for updates basically daily, so why not receive updates from there? is it that much of a problem to separate Edge updates from the OS updates? they're already thinking to pass them trough the Store why not do what the other browsers do and check for updates each time they're started?

I posted a thread a few days ago as well, about experiencing crashes ever since this update was installed: Windows Update KB31503513. The day after this update was installed (it was first installed on 02-05) I'd been experiencing crashes. First, I thought it was my new GPU, however, this GPU (RX 580) has been working with no issues whatsoever for the week I've had it prior to the crashes. Now, the same update was installed again on 05-05, and I've been experiencing crashes again since yesterday. The only way I'm avoiding these crashes now seems to be having to check whether this update has been installed again and then removing it. Between me removing the update for the first time earlier this week, and yesterday, I haven't had any crashes, until the update was installed again. What I've done to try to fix this: Earlier this week: - Used DDU to uninstall GPU drivers and reinstall new ones. - Tested with different games - Reseated the GPU Yesterday: - Ran sfc /scannow; no errors or faulty files to be replaced. I wanted to run memtest86, but I'm fairly sure it's not the ram; it's the update. I will attach the minidump files in this post. Please, I would like to resolve this problem as soon as possible. I need my PC for my exams (I'm a senior in college) in June. 050317-32500-01.dmp 050317-38125-01.dmp 050617-39187-01.dmp 050317-30625-01.dmp

Hi! i have a problem with the windows creators update installation. it keeps getting stuck at 16% everytime i try to install it. i have tried reinstalling the update several times. Does anyone know what the problem might be? Thanks in advance.

Hi I just updated windows 10 and now chrome crashes within one minute of browsing. It just closes all by itself. The same goes for Edge, only it closes immediately after opening. IE is the only browser that works. I've tried re-installing Chrome, running it as an administrator, and restarting my computer several times. Nothing has made any difference. Anybody have the same problem, or maybe a solution? Thanks!

my PC is being a retard again... yay so windows is having trouble with updates even after installing the patch that allegedly fixes everything (hint: it doesnt) i have updated it once after installing that patch (most security patches up until last month's, no optional updates installed) if i don't kill the windows update service on boot, my CPU usage stays at 100%. I have gone from 10pm to 4pm the next day, not touching my PC at all and it still hasn't done anything. I've done this on multiple days, too. right now i'm just considering suicide. what should i do? (inb4 "get windows 10" why would i want such a slow, unstable and ugly OS?)

Following this thread (specs in signature, please look at previous link for context as ive explained my troubleshooting there) Where I had a boot loop issue that first appeared after months of use with no memorable changes apart from an windows update triggering this boot loop without post or output then again after a few days of use with my replacement motherboard, Im at a loss at what to do. 5 Points: Only 5 components were connected outside of the case (PSU,CPU,CPU cooler,Motherboard, Hdmi monitor from integrated graphics hdmi port). I have tried another psu I have that worked before also and my current psu worked fine for months before the motherboard started boot looping and worked after I got a replacement till it started boot looping as well, so It makes me think the psu is not at fault. My cpu has worked for the same amount of time without failure. It has always ran cool with my aftermarket heatsink mounted as per the instructions with an appropriate amount of thermal paste (top mostly covered with none leaking over the side and definitely none in the socket. Speaking of the socket, now the second time, unlike the first, I took pictures of the inside of the socket and found it to be immaculate, both with the backside of the cpu and the socket itself. No visible bent pins or burn markings on either. This is of course to go with all the trouble shooting tried in the previous thread. Gigabyte said my previous rma board tested fine (as in it worked for them) despite the continuous bootloops for me. My thoughts so far, are that I firstly, would love to be playing Battlefield 1 right now, and secondly, I have no idea what to do and cant afford to just buy random parts with the hope that they are the culprit. My first plan of action is to call a local computer store (a store where I bought my graphics card (1070 ftw) and ask to use some of there test parts to see whether or not my cpu or motherboard are at fault, though Im not sure how willing they would be to do that. Another option, likely done after the first, is that I could take the shipping pre paid RMA Gigabyte support have offered me, which will likely take 2-3 weeks to arrive, and if they are correct, will end up with the same problem. I know that cpus failing are extraordinarily rare, and I think they fail differently than this (like they just stop working completely, so Im utterly confused, as like I said in the linked thread, there are no beeps from the motherboard speaker( I specifically bought to test this (there were beeps when I got it first a few days earlier)) no matter what I try (ram here, ram there, no ram (supposed to get a beep but nothing). Ive now been without my computer for more than a month and I just dont get it.

Source: http://wccftech.com/microsoft-refers-windows-10-rs2-version-1703/ Microsoft hints at "build 1703" as Microsoft Redstone 2. There are also rumors of a launch date sometime around March or April of 2017. My question to the forum: Would you upgrade?

Hi Everyone, Three questions, 1) Can bad sectors on a drive be transferred from one to another? 2) Can a backup be affected by a bad hdd? and 3) I got a new hdd and tried to download windows updates on it, and i couldnt get them to download. Could there be a reason for that?

I recently purchased 2 laptops for our company. On the first one I skip the WiFi setup until later since I was just wanting to "set it up". This still takes, 15 - 20 minutes, reasonable... The second one I just set up and obviously made the mistake of not skipping the WIFI setup, since it starts downloading "Critical Updates". I think that is just stupid. It already takes 15 - 20 minutes without that, and now I have to wait through that because they decided to install updates 30 - 45 minutes before I ever get to the desktop. I got the 2nd computer out, out of necessity. In the 1st one I installed a M.2 drive and cloned the hard drive to that and booted off the m.2 drive flawlessly, great right, so I go and erase the original drive and then boot up to a lovely blue screen saying that there are files missing and I scratch my head. I try the D2D recovery tools on the cloned drive to no avail so I break out the 2nd laptop thinking I can quickly make a recovery flash drive... over an hour later... thanks Microsoft. I thought this would be a interisting rant to see what anyone else thinks or if anyone else had had a similar problem, trying to do something quick, then Microsoft says, "Not so Fast, Haaahhaahahha" So if your in a hurry setting up a new laptop. Don't connect to any internet connection until you want Microsoft to take over. I did not mention the computer specs here since they were non consequential for this topic.

This occurred at 11:40ish at night. I have wake-on-lan turned on in Windows and in the BIOS. Has anyone heard of windows update turning on a fully turned off computer? Is this an attack on my network or just Microsoft going overboard?

Hi guys, I bought a new mobo and processor and had to format my pc. So, i want to know if Windows Update is enough for drivers updates. The only one i manually updated was the GPU driver. The others i made Windows update for me. What i fear is: Does ''Windows Update'' really update all drivers such as chipset, audio, usb, lan and others? Or i really need to download from the motherboard manufacturer?

Hello, I just made my account here to ask this question because I need help. My PC has always frozen when Windows 10 wants to restart during the update process. In the past few months, Windows 10 told me that if I don’t update, my version would lose support in November (I was on 1803), but whenever I tried updating, all it did was freeze, forcing me to press the reboot button on my PC. I always had to do that multiple times, but whenever I did it around 70%, it said something like “undoing changes to your PC”, so it changed its mind I guess. But the other day, it asked again and when it froze at 60%, I pressed the reboot button and it did the same thing; it then went to the login screen and froze. It did this every time I restarted or turned it on after turning it off. I had this exact issue when I first built my PC last year and installed Windows 10 and it wasted my whole Summer. Since all the technician that I went to did was do a clean install of Windows 10, that’s what I did. He could never figure out what caused the issue, software or hardware. So after doing a clean install of Windows 10, I checked for updates and had a few minor ones. It froze like before when restarting, but only once this time and no further issue occurred. It seems to only break like it did when big updates want to install. Here are my hardware specs. I hope someone is able to answer why this is happening. CPU: Ryzen 5 2400G RAM: 16GB DDR4 2400 MT/s Motherboard: MSI B350 PC Mate 120GB SSD 1TB HDD Ask if you need more details.

Hey y'all, Might just be paranoid, but I might be infected. I've already scanned with malwarebytes and windows defender, and both came up clean. But I've been having some weird issues lately. Discord keeps crashing consistently (every 10 minutes on the dot, might be unrelated), System process is using around 20-40MB/s disk at any given time, and no matter what I do, absolutely no shutdown commands work. Start>Shutdown doesnt work, shutdown /s /f /t 0 doesn't work, as well as a tap of the power button does absolutely nothing. Now, I'm not sure if it's the new Windows update, or some bad malware. I did just pirate a game, but I also just updated, and I'm not sure which it is. There aren't any sketchy processes running that I've seen. Any suggestions are appreciated. Thanks!

So here I was innocently letting windows 10 update itself last night and this morning. Then I started GTA... I was getting 40-50 FPS on a 1070ti at 1440p... low and behold windows had reactivated it’s weird power saving mode, and my overclockEd 2070 was running at 2.15 ghz instead of 4ghz on all cores. Turned it off, and reset Nvidia power setting to performance and I’m back into business. This is just and FYI should anyone run into a similar situation

So theres lots of windows updates and I always do them right away because 9 times outta 10 when my PC gets a weird qwerk it's because windows wants to update. I have no idea how that works but literally know theres an update as soon as my PC acts funny. So I always do them, 30 mins ago I did one and PC rebooted as usual and boom windows is now broken and telling me windows needs to be repaired! This have happened to me atleast 3 times in my time using win 10 and always from an update. Pretty sure it's always been a reinstall to fix sort of thing but ughhh I do not want to reinstall it.. there must be some way to fix the install. I am going to have to start making backups before windows updates.

Hi there, First time posting, and I hope I checked every box of the "Read before you post" sticky Just built my first system in a long while (mostly from used parts, though all coming from running pc's) and after finally installing Windows 10 (from an iso straight from MS) and getting everything up and running, I installed steam and 3DMark demo and basically any bench I run, the error msg "dxgi_error_device_removed" appears, and the run is halted. This happens many times, and updating the graphics driver changes nothing and after all that, more errors start coming. I suddenly got an error message saying that I need to install .Net framework 4.5.2 every time I try to open DAEMON Tools Lite, and trying to open Discord presents me with the error "Update.exe - Application error. The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000135)." I click yes on the .Net error and it starts the install process, but after a little while it hits me with "HRESULTS 0x80240017" From there I go and check out Windows Update, and sure enough, there is an update available called "2019-05 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1903 for x64 based Systems (KB4497935)" I hastily click on update now, the update finishes and it asks me to restart the computer, which I do, but upon entering the OS, it prompts me again to install the same update, which fails every time i try to perform it. After a touch of googling, I found some threads mentioning both an SFC scan and a DISM check, and neither one finds any errors. So to simplify: windows update = broken .Net framework = broken benchmarking = broken OS - Windows 10 2019 - 64 bit MB - Gigabyte F2A88XM-D3H (used) Bios - F5 AMD AGESA KaveriPI V0.0.8.1 01/09/2014 CPU - AMD A8-6600K (used) RAM - 2x4GB DDR3 (used) GPU - Sapphire R9 295x2 8GB (used) PSU - Corsair AX860i (new) OS drive - Samsung 830 128GB SSD Steam library drive - Seagate desktop 2TB Nothing in the system is Overclocked I don't know how to describe my problems better, but if anyone could point me in the right direction, that would be awesome! Best regards, KeZeel Iceland

Restart and update to stay in support Support for the Windows 10 April 2018 Update end in November 2019. Restart to install a supported version of Windows. [Pick a time] [Restart tonight] [Restart now] __________________________________________ Hate to be "that" person, but is this legitimate? Windows normally dont ask nice and discrete to be updated/restarted. The reason for my "paranoia" is the timing, as I just earlier today downloaded some Chrome extensions: a few google analytics & tag related. I also visited random websites to gain the knowledge to opperate them. Nothing alarming tho, general explainers of google analytics & tags, general explainers about website domains, general explainers about DoS. Windows Defender Security Center showed a yellow icon 3 sec ago, I clicked on it to see what it wanted to tell me. It then said "everything's OK" and turned green. Could just be random. The update message is overlapping the screen, so its on top which is unusual. It removed itself as I wrote this, and is now living in the notification tab in the right corner. Just wanted to hear what you guys think.

Hey fellas, Quick question, should I update to the latest version of Windows, windows 10 1903 now? I saw it poped up in my settings, saying my version of windows 10 will be no longer supported anytime soon. But, it seems like the new version use to have many incompatibilities with gaming. Does windows fix them now? Shall I do the update? I usually play LOL, Starcraft2, CSGO. I will play subverse. Here is my laptop info below: Gigabyte Aero 15x V8 i7-7850H GTX 1070 Max-q DDR4-2666 16G M.2(PCIe) SSD 512G Many thanks, SpaceHunter

I bought a new RTX 2080 ti from Asus and when I tried to run a game with RTX the option to do so was greyed out. From what I've read it's due to my windows version being 1803 and it needs to be updated to 1809 or the latest 1903. But when I try to update with the update file from Microsoft's website, the process downloads and finish and when I restart I get a blue screen reverting everything back to 1803. I was thinking that there is a bug in 1903 that creates this, but when I tried to get the previous 1809 version it's nowhere to be found. Google searches just ends up with click-bait articles and stuff that just point to 1903. Why is this happening? How can I update to a stable and working version of windows that enables RTX on my card?

So...my computer did the usual Windows 10 update without telling me, overnight. The difference is, this time it corrupted my boot partition! I'm wondering, has anyone else seen this problem? My techie dad was the one that saved me. I was going to reinstall windows from a recovery drive, but he was able to get the system reset through the Dell tools/troubleshooting repair options. The Windows recovery options all failed. Will we ever have anything good to say about the Windows 10 Home edition, or are we just all unwilling guinea pigs? I was one month over my warranty on this PC, and Dell wouldn't even offer me phone support without somewhere between $120 and $365 for coverage. Even though I was pretty sure I just needed someone to walk me through the non-Windows recovery options. Thought it was worth sharing! If nothing else, my brain is fried for the day. Too many nerves.