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In my desktop, I have 2 dedicated NVIDIA GPUs alongside the integrated GPU. They all show up in Device Manager (see attached screenshot: GPUs.png). In Windows 11, I am able to configure which GPU Windows should treat as the high performance (HP) GPU, and which GPU should be treated as the power saving (LP) GPU. Additionally, programs can be set to use a specific GPU instead of the default HP or LP GPU. I was able to do this in Windows 10 before I upgraded. A screenshot of these settings is attached. As my PC is not officially compatible with Windows 11 (ASUS did not expose the TPM function in their Haswell motherboards), I need to downgrade to Windows 10 once more. After installing Windows 10 in another partition, however, these settings are missing. If I enable the integrated GPU in the UEFI settings, Windows uses it as the LP GPU and the weak NVIDIA GPU as the HP GPU. If I disable it, Windows uses the weak NVIDIA GPU as both the HP and LP GPU. The only way to use my better NVIDIA GPU is by connecting all my displays to it, causing it to be used for both HP and LP tasks - if any display is connected to the weaker GPU, it reverts back to the other behavior. I need this specific configuration (iGPU enabled, 2 dedicated GPUs, displays on the weaker one) for other reasons. Is there a way to bring the GPU choices back? (Another thing: the usual warning about Windows now managing GPU selection is missing in the NVIDIA Control Panel).

Windows has decided to take a big, old shit on me and no longer wants to run; every boot up where I don't go to safe mode decides to crash during the splash screen instead, turning off my mouse, keyboard and leaving me with a blank monitor; this problem has plagued me numerous times in the past; one day my computer will just crash during boot-up, and I have had to reinstall windows multiple times to regain access to my PC; now that I have found a way to boot into safe mode in W10 I am exploring the potential problems this could entail

Ayo, So my laptops barely over a month old and it's pulling bluescreens on me already! Checking the Event Viewer I see this around the time of the bluescreen. Before the bluescreen, I do get quite a few warnings too. My drivers are up to date as well. I also find that my keyboard stops responding and then shortly after my touchpad does the same. When my keyboard stops responding it won't register keystrokes or any key bindings, such as Alt + Space to run on Lenovo backlit keyboard, either. About 30 seconds after that my mouse will old go in a vertical direction and favors only 1/3 of the screen. Then 10-15 seconds after that I get a blue screen with POWER_DRIVER_STATE_FAILURE as the Error ID and with the same log in the event as the one above. How would I overcome this problem? Thanks, Duke.

Hello, I got my ModMic through the door today, opened it, set it up and plugged it into my Laptop only to find it isn't being registered! I have no idea why but, if it comes to any benefit, in my Sound > Recording tab it says the front mic isn't plugged in? I've checked the audio drivers and my laptop says they're all up to date. What in the world is causing this and how can I fix it? Thanks, Duke.

Is there a feature/program on Windows 10 to measure how long the laptop screen has been on between battery charges, restarts, or shutdowns? Looking for something similar to the screen on time feature on android phones.

To make a Windows 2 Go USB, i need to "apply" a install.wim file. I have a completely clean wim file, as i used the official Windows 10 ISO creation tool directly from Microsoft, took image.esd, converted it to image.wim using built-in utilities, and now i have this file. I installed GImagex (graphical version of imagex), and tried to apply this WIM onto my SanDisk 16GB USB 2.0 drive. However, it always fails at: " Source: C:\Users\Nuno\Documents\Windows 2 go\install.wim Destination: I:\ Image: 1 Verify: Off Check: Off Temporary files: I:\ Opening WIM...please wait... Image contains 19070 folders and 103878 files. Starting apply... ERROR: I:\Windows\WinSxS\amd64_multipoint-wmssvc.interop_31bf3856ad364e35_10.0.14393.0_none_2a92a877b3a0ebf2 [err = 82] ERROR: Error applying WIM. ERROR: The directory or file cannot be created." How do i fix this error? For anyone doubting install.esd/install.wim contains anything: It contains a Windows version, as you can see in PowerISO and is the file that Windows copies to the hard drive, then does updates, etc. I checked and it does contain default Windows folders and files. For anyone wanting to know specifications of my system: OS: Windows 10 v1607/14393.576/Redstone v1. CPU: Intel i3 4160 HDD: 1 TB, however only 558 GiB is reserved for Windows GPU: Superclocked GTX 950 USB: SanDisk Cruzer 16 GB USB 2.0 stick, formatted as FAT32 For anyone wanting to know what i have tried: I have tried converting wim to iso, however this copied something else and did not work. Through PowerISO, it gave an error so fatal PowerISO stopped working (the message that says that). I have tried directly writing the wim, however that doesn't work. I have tried writing to a folder, THEN putting that in a ISO, however it is impossible to include the bootloader like that. Thank anyone for any help.

This is what I'm trying to do... I am trying to share unblocked internet for my school. How I'm doing this... I have downloaded a VPN (XVPN), then shared my laptop internet using an external wifi adapter that supports sharing WiFi (netsh wlan start hostednetwork) What happens I am able to access the VPN but when I start to use it BSOD - BAD_POOL_CALLER (sometimes BAD_POOL_HEADER) I have gotten sharing WiFi to work (without VPN)... THIS IS NOT THE PROBLEM I can only use this VPN as this is what works at school I have used verifier.exe and signed all the unknown drivers I have run the windows memory diagnostics tool This is a school laptop so I can't reset, update, or use the windows 10 troubleshooting Windows 10 Pro | 4gb memory | Dump File: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xPQhCNv3cNTYNC2o14Ko9WkRkthZzzvj I've been looking for for an answer for days now and nothing Thank you to anyone who can help me. (If you need more info I am happy to do that) PS this is my question from https://superuser.com/questions/1378109/bsod-bad-pool-caller-when-using-vpn but I wanted to reach more people

Brief problem overview: When turning on my laptop, I get to the Windows lock screen, but my laptop's keyboard does absolutely nothing and neither does my mouse or touchpad. The only thing I can do here is shut the laptop off by holding the power button. Since I can't get into Windows and I have no idea what's wrong, I want to recover the data on the drives somehow. Unfortunately, safe mode didn't work, and when booting from Linux on a USB drive, two of the three drives in this laptop are not recognized (both of which are NVME drives), and I need to retrieve some data from those drives. The SATA HDD is recognized by Linux, but in read-only mode. I don't know what to do to get the data on the two NVME drives. The details (there's a bit of a story to this, so hold on tight): Last night, I was using Windows 10 Home Build 17134 on my personal ASUS ROG G752VY laptop. I plugged in one of my NCredible PNY 32GB flash drives (that was most likely corrupted in some way because it had write protection unintentionally enabled on it) and I plugged in another one of my functional flash drives (a Verbatim 32 GB drive) to try and move files over from the PNY to the Verbatim flash drive. Only one problem; for some reason, Windows only recognized the PNY drive, and not the Verbatim no matter how many times I plugged it in (I unplugged and replugged the Verbatim drive probably somewhere around 6 to 10 times, including in different USB ports on the laptop), even though one of my older laptops recognized the Verbatim drive with no problems. So I thought, why not try the solution to everything; let's restart the computer, right? Big mistake. If only I had known what was to come. With both the PNY and the Verbatim flash drives still plugged into the USB ports on the computer, I restarted Windows 10. When the lock screen appeared, pressing keys on the keyboard did absolutely nothing (normally pressing a key opens the lock screen and brings you to the field where you enter your password), and no mouse that I plugged in, wired, wireless, or even the touchpad, would move the cursor (the cursor didn't even appear on the lock screen). Plugging in a wired external USB keyboard also did nothing. So the only thing I could do was press and hold the power button to shut it off. After waiting a few minutes, I pressed the power button again, turning the laptop back on. Windows booted up, taking me to the lock screen... and still nothing worked. The keyboard does nothing, and neither does any mouse or the touchpad. Desperate, I decided to turn it off and try again. This time, when the manufacturer logo appears before booting into Windows, I see the text "Please wait..." at the bottom, and it takes me to Windows advanced recovery options. And guess what! When I'm in here, the mouse and keyboard both work! So this indicates that it's an issue with my specific Windows installation, not with the hardware. So once I'm in here, I try several different options: First, I try booting into safe mode. This time, instead of showing me the typical lockscreen with the time, it immediately shows me the field where I enter my password. Unfortunately, even in safe mode, the mouse, keyboard, touchpad, and even external keyboard all still do absolutely nothing. Then I tried "startup repair," but it reported that it couldn't do anything, so that didn't help much. At this point, it was 3 AM, so I was too tired to continue; I gave up, unplugged the laptop, went to bed hoping that it would be magically fixed in the morning. Well, it wasn't; all the same issues persisted this morning, so I decided that the best thing for me to do would be to at least get the files off the drive that I needed quickly. So I put xUbuntu on an external SanDisk Ultra flash drive (using a different laptop to do this), booted into the BIOS on the ASUS ROG laptop (the laptop's keyboard works in the BIOS), and changed the boot priority to the flash drive. I didn't fully install xUbuntu; I just ran the "try Linux" option you get whenever you boot from a drive you wrote an xUbuntu ISO to. So now I'm inside xUbuntu (running on the SanDisk flash drive), and my keyboard and mouse are working perfectly. I can navigate around, so I go to check the disks; but guess what; GParted and xUbuntu only see the 1TB HDD inside the laptop, and I can't access the other two drives; it doesn't see the 256GB NVME SM951 drive that Windows is installed in, nor does it see the other, separate 256GB SM951 that I have some important files on (these SM951s were never running in RAID, Windows always treated them as two separate drives). Great. In addition, for some reason, the HDD drive that it does see will let me copy files from the drive, but it won't let me delete any files from it (every file and folder has a lock icon next to it). Researching this problem, apparently I need to change the SATA Mode Selection in my BIOS to "ACHI," but of course my BIOS only shows "RAID" for some reason (there's nothing else to select). So that solution apparently won't work. At this point, I honestly don't know what to do. Whenever I'm in the advanced startup options, I do see the choice to "remove everything and reinstall Windows," which theoretically should fix the problem based on my observations. However, I do have important files on the C: Drive that I would like to manually back up before trusting that this option won't remove them. Theoretically, everything on the other NVME SSD would be unaffected. I just want to save this as the last resort, though, and only use it after I've got all the data on these drives backed up. I could take apart the computer and remove the drives, but don't have the hardware necessary to retrieve data from the NVMe drives outside of that laptop. I also really don't want to spend any money. So, it's been a relatively fruitless adventure so far, and I honestly don't know what to do. Does anybody have any idea what actually happened here or what I need to do in order to get the data off the two NVMe drives? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I'm having a nightmare trying to install Windows 10 on my new PC build and didn't know where else to turn. I'm using Microsoft's Media Creation Tool on a Mac Mini running Windows 7 to create my Windows 10 bootable USB drive. That process goes through perfectly fine (or so it seems). When I take the USB drive and try to boot with it on my PC I get a "TRAP 000004FD EXCEPTION" before the installation process even begins. I figured somehow the boot drive got corrupted during creation, so I tried creating it again. Same thing. I've read this issue can have something to do with displays? So I tried changing displays, same thing. Windows support response was more or less "Wow that's weird. No idea." I'm really out of ideas. Any helps would be *greatly* appreciated. My PC is a ASRock H170 Pro4 motherboard with an Intel i5 6600 CPU. Dunno if any other specs are relevant, but I can provide if needed. Photo of exception down below. Thank you.