Perhaps I am a little daft on homegroups, but all I want is to have 3 ethernet connected machines in my house and one Wifi laptop to use a homegroup. However every time I attempt to create the homegroup and then join the homegroup with a second pc, the second machine tries to connect and then windows comes back with the message that "Windows no longer detects a home group on this network". So I delete the home group from the first machine, turn both machines off and try it again only to get the same message. I have let Windows trouble shooter try to solve the problem but of course it doesn't. I have made sure that my firewall (Bitdefender 2016) is not preventing the other IP addresses from seeing each other. I have done this 5 or 6 times to no avail. I thought it was supposed to be easy to get a few pc's to share files but this wonderful homegroup tool does not appear to work. I am using a Lynksys WRT 1900AC router with a Lynksy WRT 8 port switch and all the machines are connected via ethernet except the one laptop.
I bought a new PC a few weeks ago with Window 10. Worked fine for a while and now when I switch on and type my password I get a message in the bottom right hand corner of the screen stating "Failed to connect to a Windows Service"
I googled this problem and the advice given was to run the command prompt as an administrator and type netsh>winsock reset
However, when I right click on the command prompt icon and click run as an administrator nothing happens. A few minutes later an error message pops up on the screen stating "The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion"
If I left, click on the command prompt icon the command window opens immediately.
I successfully upgraded to Win 10, which was an achievement? It all appeared to be working fine until I had to restart the PC. During the boot process the USB ports stop working.
. During the BIOS process the USB ports function. . Once Windows starts the boot process the USB dies.
I reboot several times to get into the diagnostic tools and have to role back to Win 7.
I have checked and loaded the latest NVidia drivers but am unsure of the next step.
I have a Dell XPS from around 2011 that came with Win7 Home Premium, and recently upgraded to Windows 10, worked great for a while. Win10 started acting erratically so I tried a restart, and could not get much past the BIOS part. It would get to the point where a sad smiley face came up, and windows attempted to fix problem, but could not. After extensive research, HDD is the failure and needs to be replaced. I have to get a new HDD.
Question is, how do I get Windows from my non-functioning HDD to a new HDD (or possibly SSD). It is an OEM copy from Dell of Win7 originally, and still have the COA sticker on the case with the product key.The computer is otherwise great, and I have no problem buying a new drive, but want to see if I can avoid having to buy windows, since I already have it on that computer. I do not have the Dell media anymore.
If I buy a new drive, will I be able to download some files from Microsoft on a USB drive or something to download win7 or win10 and use the COA product key to re-install windows on the same machine (just different HD of course).I have searched through the threads and not found a problem quite like mine with the new OS. Also, I like Win10, but if necessary, just want Win7 at a minimum and can re-upgrade later.
My computer is working fine, and I click on a video, and my screen just goes blank. Then my computer shuts down and restarts. Then a blue screen comes up and says Video TDR Failure. How do I stop this from happening.
Upgrade to Windows 10 Home, version 1511, 10586 fails to load. I restart and the message says my pc is up to date but in update history the upgrade is missing. When I do a search for updates, the message says the upgrade is available but when selected It does not load. I have tried several times but keep going around in the loop. Below are screenshots of the messages.
I wasn't really sure what section to put this in since it could be security and/or network. The problem is I can see my NAS in file explorer and I can ping it fine and I can even access it via FTP but if I try to access it I get the following dialog box.
I did a little bit of searching but nothing worked and reverted my changes. This is a fresh install of Windows 10 Pro 64bit. The NAS is about 10 years old, it's nothing fancy and uses a Samba architecture.
Bottom line it'd be sweet if I could access this directly through windows instead of FTPing a file.
I have recently received four emails with attachments that have failed to download. The attachment icon is in place but at the bottom the notice 'download filed' appears.
- free upgrade from Windows 8 - no USB key as boot insurance - completely unstable. Won't stay up for more than 10 minutes before freeze or crash - multiple blue screen messages including the following:
- driver IRQL not less or equal - kernel error - KMode exception not handled - system service exception - bad pool caller. (Honest I didn't call windows a bad pool :-)
above are are all blue screen but I also had windows trying to correct itself. Messages included
- need correct BIOS startup media - windowssystem32configsystem - error code 0Xc000098 (may not have been 98 as pic died before I could record it)
i also got got close when windows asked me if I wanted to Save Files and rebuild Windows. I said sure and it started percent countdown. But then instability killed this and it never finished
i can get to my desktop but usually only for a minute before crash. Read on a forum about maybe disabling IRST Intel rapid start technology but I could not find this in my control panel. Maybe I have to intercept the bios during startup? Sometimes I am given access to the bios screen and I can navigate with my arrows safely.
New HP 15. Upgraded to Windows Ten 2-3 weeks ago. When updates began being pushed and a restart was required, my laptop would freeze during restart. I would then power down / up and all is well.
I noticed during restart my wifi lamp would go orange (disconnected) and cycle to blue (connected). If I powered down / up the same sequence would occur followed by my audio off lamp (orange) illuminating.
Happened every time. Figured it had something to do with an audio driver but I don't have the knowledge to say if it was that or the phase of the moon.
Today I received update KB3081448, went to restart and it actually restarted. I knew when the speaker button lit I was good.
Just for s&g, I have "restarted" 5 times in about the past 30 minutes successfully. What the update is or if it's a coincidence however restart now works. Just throwing this out there for those who may be documenting all this stuff.
Since i've upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7, my Start Button, Cortana, Search, App Store, and Action Center have stopped working. I've had no problems installing updates (no hangs). The latest update today (8/11) has not fixed this issue. I cannot roll back to Windows 7 (It says the files are no longer available). I do not want to do a clean install,
I installed windows 10 forever ago on my main pc and it ran beautifully I wasn't experiencing problems like other people that i've heard about, but this morning around 8AM my pc decided to crash, was watching hulu on my left monitor and playing a little flash game on my right monitor, windows crashed and the message popped up "memory management failure" also my pc just crashed again while typing this, literatly just crashed as i was typing this. with a different message somthing about "memory securtiy kernal" and ive also got another crash that said "Critical process died" . I'd prefer to keep my data.... and if the memory management is suggested as my RAM, this RAM is less than a year old.
So, I built my grandparents a computer and they upgraded to windows 10. now they keep getting the error message "Kernel Security Check Failure" then the computer reboots. I was told I should upgrade drivers as since it is a custom computer it can't do it itself during the upgrade. Is this the right thing to do. I also download their motherboard drivers and it comes in an all in one package from AsRock. I can only do this over facetime which is hard because they aren't the best with tech. They run setup and it installs AMD catalyst then finish's install which doesn't make sense as the download package is 550MB large.
Yesterday i upgraded my 8.1 to 10. The first time is still smooth but suddenly after i installed all the driver my laptop needs, when i play a song using WMP and turned the 'repeat all' option, my laptop gone to BSOD.
I tried to read the Minidump file using WinDbg but it needs to download the symbol pack, unfortunately my internet connection is very slow.
My laptop BSOD again after using WMP (playing a song) and Photoshop CS6... BSOD again after that because I Used Photoshop.
The latest Win 10 update (from about 8/12) has really hosed me. Every morning the computer tries to install it, fails, and then removes the update. No error codes. This take about six reboots and half an hour. Never ran into this before. I'm about to roll back to Win 7 if I can't resolve this.
I tried the trick of setting "metered connection" in the Wi-Fi settings, but that did no good, apparently because the update is already stored on my machine...
After reading an article in PC World, I decided to use the Media Creation Tool to create an ISO version of Win 10 on a USB drive. I downloaded the tool and ran it. All was well during the Win 10 download and download verification. The program then moved on to setup the USB when the terribly informative message appeared..."SOMETHING HAPPENED". THAT'S IT!!! Upon which the program terminates. I repeated the process once with the same results.
I was using my laptop last week to find all taskbar icons were all using a default icon and that the desktop icons and file explorer icons had all gone completely blank (no icons or Thumbnails).I also cant right click and get Properties to work on Drives in file explorer.System Restore no longer works, I get a "Catastophic failure" warning dialogue every time i open the panel to create restore points.If I open the "system" menu the written options down the left hand side are no longer there. If I open Control Panel and it is set to display by category there is nothing on the screen, but if I choose view small icons then the text comes up but no icons.Apart from these problems all programs function properly on the laptop, most icons are working on my start menu.
Was originally a Windows 8.1 installation upgraded to Win10 about 6 months ago. What has caused this, no new hardware or software. No changes of anything. My laptop always runs problem free!I did however notice and only saw this once, a system restore point from 6am in the morning, seems to of been created by a windows update while I was asleep, but after I saw that and tried to restore I have never seen it again, but looking on windows updates there was no new update that day.Tried setting up a new user but the issue exists in the new account also. I have also done virus checks and disk checks, restarted explorer.exe. No luck in safe mode either. Reinstalled graphic card drivers. Tried lots of delete and rebuild icon cache suggestions. Used windows defender to scan and Malwarebytes
Ran Dism commands Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /ScanHealth Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth Ran sfc /scannow
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I ran chkdsk /scan but nothing found and this error only appeared once on a chkdsk scan
I've been having a problem with upgrading to Windows 10. I've tried using the tool both by running it on my PC and putting it on a USB. It gets through the first part of copying files and does the first reboot, then it starts back to the screen and the Installing Features and Drivers sits at 0% for a few seconds then resets and restores my old version with this error:
0xC1900101 - 0x30018 - The installation failed in the FIRST_BOOT phase with the error during SYSPREP operation.
When I originally looked this error up I read that it might be an encryption error so I decrypted both of my drives, ran the install again.. Same error. So now I am at a complete loss as to what to do so I can get myself upgraded.
System:
Windows 8.1 Pro x64 Mobo: ASUS ROG Maximus VII Hero PCU: Intel i7 4790k 4.00 GHz GPU: ASUS ROG MARS760x2 (2 GTX 760 chips on one card) RAM: 16GB DDR3
I've run the free Windows 10 upgrade twice on my Windows 8.1 laptop. Both times, Windows 10 would download. As my system restarted the install would take place and system finishes restarting. However, upon hitting the splash screen, I was back to Windows 8.1. Not sure why the install is failing. Each time, I receive a failure in the Windows Update popup. Did not have this problem on my desktop going from Windows 7 to 10.
Ever since I updated to windows 10, my computer automatically installs some Nvidia drivers from their servers. From past experience I know that my computer can get random BSOD's with the wrong Nvidia drivers installed (WinDBG always pointed towards nvdllmkm.sys). So previously when their was an Nvidia update that would cause crashes, I could install a previous version that I knew was working, however if I do this know I'm forced to go to Nvidia builds before the windows 10 update and afterwards windows update just reinstalls the windows 10 version it thinks I need.
So instead of trying to install previous Nvidia versions, I want to go into the root of the problem and find out why I'm getting these random BSOD's (BTW mostly happens when I'm watching a show, so could be temperature related?). Furthermore, I would prefer to stay on windows 10
I've seen this BSOD a few times on this laptop. It's probably a driver issue but need identifying which ones are causing the issues.
And before you ask about the Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 drivers, those from MSI have constant disconnects and barely work. Latest and most uptodate drives straight from Intel do not have any noticeable issues other than a couple of odd logs that pop up from time to time (Netwtw02). I am trying to talk with MSI on this.
I recently upgraded to Windows 10, since upgrading I'm having pretty regular BSOD Crashes where the following error message appears;
VIDEO TDR FAILURE (nvlddmkm.sys)
It appears to happen at completely random times, could be watching a youtube video, opening a reddit page or just playing a song on itunes. I've updated to the most recent Nvidia drivers but to no avail. I also tried to follow the following instructions from this youtube video [URL] ...., however its still happening.
My computer is currently pretty much unusable! Specs are below :
I am getting a blue screen of death every time I am trying to play a game. It happens in less than 1 minute. Blue screen, video_tdr_failure and freeze.
I have tried everything, and this is apparently a wide spread issue.
How can this be fixed? My Computer is basically useless for gaming now that I upgraded to windows 10. (I have a gaming laptop from 2014, with fine specs, it is not overheating or anything) .....
