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This would be on Windows 10. The facts that it is only available in the Control Panel and that it has Windows 7 in parenthesis isn't very reassuring. The reason I ask is that #1 I like it, and #2 I just set up a backup for a second computer and if I am going to have to find something to...

I have a HTPC that I recently reformatted to Windows 10 Pro from Server 2008 R2. I noticed now that the Storage HDDs spin up and then back down every 30 minutes or so. This is with no activity. I would expect the Storage HDD to spin up only when I try to access it. I never had a problem when...

Quick rundown of the situation: - Oldish PC with 2 HDDs, one of them has been showing signs of failure recently - Earlier today it still worked, then I went to shut it off and got a BSOD (something about videoport.sys, doesn't sound relevant because there are no video problems otherwise) - I...

Dear fellow Anandtech forum users, I have experienced a massive problem installing this year's Windows 10 Fall Creator's Update 1709 (10.0.16299.64) and am in urgent need of your help! Since spring 2016, I am on a Toshiba laptop with 64-bit Windows 10 and which has the computer name...

Hi, Unlike other Windows 10 computers this mini computer does not have under System -> Remote, the functionality to enable remote desktop connectivity. Can this be enabled? Thanks

My scenario: I am playing a game or listening to music using my laptops speakers. I connect a bluetooth speaker or headphones. Existing sound keeps coming from the speakers. New sound comes over bluetooth. I need to relaunch whatever program was playing in order to move the audio over to...

Hi all I am starting a small business and have bought 4 ex business lease pc's from an ebay seller. It's possible I will grab a couple more in the future. I will mostly be using these pc's for kids to use tutoring software but may sign in to chrome and video conference with 1 of them, meaning...

Hello everyone! I have three hard drives in my PC: C:\ - My OS and programms are on this drives D:\ - My data is stored on this drives G:\ - My games are on this drive I regulary make Images/Backups of my PC for the case that it goes unstable or I want to try out stuff. So recently I wanted to...

Anyone else have an issue with desktop icons not liking to go where you put them? I am on the latest official build. Seems to have started with the Creators update, though I am not 100% So far I have noticed this with two different computers using three different mice.

I have an old Windows 7 laptop that was upgraded to Windows 10 recently. I set a password for it the other day and unfortunately forgot it as I don't use it quite often. This sounds stupid but it is true. So I did some homework online and tested two well-known programs: Ophcrack and NT...

I am building a new workstation using an ASUS Z270E Motherboard. SATA Drive Configuration - Port 0 - 275GB SSD Port 5 - 1TB SSD Port 6 - 1TB SSD Running Windows 10 Professional on the 275GB SSD (Drive C) My intention is to create a RAID 1 setup for Drive D, comprised of the two 1 TB SSD I...

I give up. I cannot get to the HV settings in BIOS (Windows 10). Kaspersky Total Security is giving me warnings about the setting, but I can't find it. I now admit that I'm getting old.

Planning a TFS 2017 build with SQL Server 2016 Standard. What OS should I use for this? Considering Windows 10 vs Windows Server...I don't really want to install and use or manage an Active Directory because changing the workgroup is not an option. Current setup is a 2-3 person workgroup...

Ever since MS released this update and introduced WDDM 2.1, Nvidia hasn't been able to get things right with their current driver branch. I've had to rollback to 378.92 to get the best performance and functionality out of my setup, GTX 1080 and Samsung 40" 4K HDTV. HDR and Chroma:444 support...

So last night, I tried recording a games and then suddenly it freeze don't know why.. but i can still open other programs like chrome and task manager but i can't see them because the display is stuck at the frozen screen but you can see the task bar so i decided to restart the computer.. After...

It keeps appearing and it closes my game(Watch Dogs 2).Played the game for about 16h and nothing happened until the cocaine mission came.Every time I play the game(max 10 min) this error appears and it crashes the game.Looked up the"solutions" on the net but no one works(I even rolled back the...

FIXED: See post #9. This is on the rig in my sig, currently running Windows 10 build 14393.969. It installed fine on one other machine I tried - a laptop. I followed the link in the availability the message from Windows Update. On the desktop, the app just kept restarting. Goes all the way to...

My company has decreed that we IT folk are to get training for Windows 10 ahead of our scheduled migration later this year. Our budget is low, as such I think we're relegated to online style training. The initial suggestion was a course from IT Sherpas...

Hi everybody, I'm having the following problem with windows 10: - after starting my pc, the drawing of window-menu is very slow. eg. If I right-click the taskbar the menu doesn't show up directly, but only after 20 seconds or so. It only shows the frame first and not the full menu. This is with...

When I boot up to Windows 10 and start gaming immediately, performance is as expected (480FPS in osu! for reference). But after some time, FPS drops and stays to 200 fps with medium CPU load! The CPU isn't trying to achieve maximum performance at all! System Specs: Intel i5 6200U 2.8 Ghz Turbo...