137 questions with Windows 10 Hardware Performance tags

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What is this folder?

This folder is taking up 303 GB on my HP Laptop aaqM6XJbs5-=6'`yjv What is this for and can I delete it?

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-03-10T09:40:16.0833333+00:00
Michael Bowen 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-12T08:27:29.8433333+00:00
Michael Bowen 0 Reputation points
1 answer

i want to activate windows but what is this? i alr connected to internet

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-03-09T09:12:25.0566667+00:00
Tuvshinbayar Tuvshuu0330 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-11T02:15:33.2333333+00:00
Daisy Zhou 30,891 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer

System_Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power_41

Hi can anyone help me with its please ?? Nazwa dziennika:System Źródło: Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-Power Data: 08.03.2025 15:18:11 Identyfikator zdarzenia:41 Kategoria zadania:(63) Poziom: Krytyczne Słowa…

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-03-08T17:04:27.57+00:00
Jakub Góra 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-10T09:40:16.44+00:00
Molly Lu-MSFT 1,421 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
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Boot issues CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT

I have a 4 year old Windows 10 Pro PC (22H2, Build 19045.5487) running on a i9-11900KF, RTX 3080, 64 GB RAM, 2TB WD BLACK SN850, etc. Everything is updated and nothing is overclocked. When I am running, it works absolutely fine. When I restart it, it…

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-03-07T20:15:45.02+00:00
John Taylor 0 Reputation points
1 answer

Need help for DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION

Hi, would like to ask help regarding DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION. My PC recently had this error and I am not sure what/how to check it. Appreciate the help

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-03-07T01:10:18.66+00:00
MelleMari 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-07T07:10:13.2566667+00:00
Molly Lu-MSFT 1,421 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
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How to fix Stop Code: Critical Process Died after unsuccessful UEFI setting?

I was asked to switch on UEFI Mode manny times in the last 3 days after purchasing a new Samsung PC monitor. Today, after trying to uninstall some program a series of video interruptions occurred - the screen was flickering with black screens in and out.…

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-03-06T04:56:41.3233333+00:00
Armando Bobe 20 Reputation points
accepted 2025-03-06T19:10:20.8433333+00:00
Armando Bobe 20 Reputation points
1 answer

Laptop Drive

Hello, why can't my laptop drive tray be opened in any way and the front is coming off?

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-03-06T07:57:08.43+00:00
Arkhan Muhammad Arkhan Al Faqih 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-06T08:16:03.61+00:00
Zunhui Han 3,730 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer

How to stop repeated lsass.exe terminations from unscheduled, unsolicited, uncancellable snap reboots?

My use has been interrupted repeatedly by Event ID: 1074 with the unhelpful comment: "The system process 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe' terminated unexpectedly with status code -1073740791. The system will now shut down and restart." This has…

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-03-06T00:24:27.3866667+00:00
Cameron Jenkins 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-06T02:50:08.1866667+00:00
Hania Lian - MSFT 22,076 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer

Laptop Keeps Restarting Instead of Shutting Down After Enabling WSL and Virtual Machine Feature

I recently decided to install WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) on my laptop. To do this, I enabled the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" and "Virtual Machine Platform" features in Windows. However, after making these changes, I started…

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-03-04T02:56:13.6733333+00:00
Kortei 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-03-05T02:00:58.32+00:00
Zunhui Han 3,730 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
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restore upperfilters deleted in registry for keyboard

I want to restore upperfilters deleted in registry for keyboard. I have limited storage in my C drive so system restore is occasionally deleted on its own. And the problem is that time I didn't make a new backup. Will you please help me recover my…

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-02-25T08:57:21.89+00:00
eXhauztee 2LuvRu 0 Reputation points
1 answer

Windows 10 - dual monitor plus laptop setting is wrong...

Hello... I have had this setup for years and without issue. all of a sudden something changed and i cannot get it back to the way it was. My setup is a laptop connected to 2 identical screens (HP 24f) via a dell docking station. The 2 screens are side by…

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-02-22T13:40:18.3833333+00:00
Matt G 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-02-25T08:22:45.5066667+00:00
Daisy Zhou 30,891 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer

what is this problem?

everytime i boot up my pc it wants me to update my drivers because i cant open certain games and also some games are just have really low frames when i play them and they look like a slideshow my driver is AMD Radeon RX 550 and i went to device manager…

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-02-22T17:25:03.6533333+00:00
Amanda Flickner 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-02-23T02:27:06.9666667+00:00
S.Sengupta 22,446 Reputation points MVP
1 answer

Computer stick in"automatic repair"loop

My computer was working fine last night. I powered it down and in the morning when I powered it in I was put in an "automatic repair" loop. When asked to sign in it has my name in the field but all my passwords are incorrect. When I attempt to…

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-02-19T16:41:46.3633333+00:00
Marcel Braggs 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-02-21T08:20:18.8133333+00:00
Daisy Zhou 30,891 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
1 answer

Winsat.exe formal fails returning error 21 in memory assessment

Dear all, we´re running into an issue that shows up during our OS deployment sequence. Calling "Winsat.exe formal" as SYSTEM returns unspecified error 21 on only a very specific System configuration, a Dell Precision 5860 Tower Workstation with…

Windows Performance Toolkit
Windows Performance Toolkit
A collection of Microsoft performance monitoring tools that produce in-depth performance profiles of Windows operating systems and applications.
113 questions
Windows 10 Setup
Windows 10 Setup
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Setup: The procedures involved in preparing a software program or application to operate within a computer or mobile device.
1,976 questions
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2023-07-27T06:59:28.2166667+00:00
Bischof Andreas IT 10 Reputation points
commented 2025-02-18T22:17:19.6+00:00
Tim Dickson 0 Reputation points
0 answers

windows 10 LTSC occasionally blue screen,Is the error related to ndu.sys displayed by Windbg related to rndis

2: kd> !analyze -v ******************************************************************************* * * * Bugcheck Analysis …

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-02-11T09:04:22.5266667+00:00
小松 0 Reputation points
0 answers

Ultra 5 125H-Process are forced to use E-Cores.

One day I hard shut-down my laptop, my laptop is Vivobook S 16. then I opened my laptop, it shows can't login to my account. I create a new account and then all fine. But I see that my E-Cores are 100 percent, my CPU 0~1 and 10~15 are P-Cores, my CPU 2~9…

Microsoft Graph
Microsoft Graph
A Microsoft programmability model that exposes REST APIs and client libraries to access data on Microsoft 365 services.
13,239 questions
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2025-01-23T03:55:23.94+00:00
Leonardo 0 Reputation points
edited the question 2025-01-29T12:36:53.56+00:00
Givary-MSFT 35,456 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
2 answers

System Protection turned on, but won't save restore points on OS drive

I'm running Windows 10 Pro on a Dell T7910 Workstation housing 8 drives. I have System protection enabled on all of the drives with max usage set to 20% on each drive. I am able to create shadow copies on all of the drives EXCEPT the OS drive. Obviously,…

Windows 10 Setup
Windows 10 Setup
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Setup: The procedures involved in preparing a software program or application to operate within a computer or mobile device.
1,976 questions
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
Windows 10 Security
Windows 10 Security
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Security: The precautions taken to guard against crime, attack, sabotage, espionage, or another threat.
3,015 questions
asked 2025-01-15T01:07:13.2433333+00:00
Tony Morris 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-01-23T23:42:24.8466667+00:00
Tony Morris 0 Reputation points
1 answer

I added a new SSD Drive and Disk Management Assigned it Disk 1 and there appear to be duplicaes of it Disk 2 and Disk 3 that are unallocated and cannot be initiated or deleted?

I added a new 2TB SDD When I initiated it GPT is shows as Disk 1 - 1.863TB (Basic Data Portion) I also see under Disk Management Disk 2 - 1.86299TB - Unallocated Disk 3 - 1.86299TB Unallocated I assume that it tried to mount this drive 3 times and…

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
Not Monitored
Not Monitored
Tag not monitored by Microsoft.
42,607 questions
asked 2025-01-14T12:24:49.7+00:00
SD Hill 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-01-16T08:32:03.4566667+00:00
Daisy Zhou 30,891 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
2 answers

how to fix constant game crashes from source nvlddmkm event id 153

Subject: Help Needed with Persistent Game Crashes and nvlddmkm Error Dear Microsoft Support, I am experiencing persistent game crashes on my system, accompanied by the following error message in Event Viewer: Error Source: nvlddmkm Event ID: 153 …

Windows 10
Windows 10
A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.
12,077 questions
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,675 questions
asked 2024-10-10T18:01:26.3966667+00:00
Aleksandar Neskovich 25 Reputation points
commented 2025-01-11T08:40:06.1033333+00:00
Hang Zhao 0 Reputation points
1 answer

a device attached to the system is not functioning

When I attach an external hard drive using a usb cable and port to transfer files from my Samsung phone, I am receiving the message, "a device attached to the system is not functioning," thus not being able to transfer. Please advise on how to…

Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
137 questions
asked 2024-12-28T22:06:27.9633333+00:00
K P 0 Reputation points
answered 2024-12-31T01:16:25.5833333+00:00
Karlie Weng 19,141 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff