The following issue may appear if you try to perform a clean installation or a repair upgrade of Windows 10 from an installation media: "It looks like you started an upgrade and booted from installation media. If you want to continue with the upgrade, remove the media from your PC and click Yes. Read More
As you may have already noticed, Google Chrome opens many background processes, even when you have only opened a few Chrome windows / tabs. This is happens, because Google Chrome is designed in a such way to create an individual process for every plugin or extension installed when you open a new windows or tab. Read More
The following problem may appear on a Windows 10 based computer, while other clients are connected to it, through RDP (Remote Desktop Connection): The "DWM.EXE" process, causes high CPU utilization on the remote host, or crashes and terminates the remote desktop session. The problem commonly appears if the remote desktop host machine, runs Windows 10 v1903 and owns an Intel based display adapter (GPU). Read More
This tutorial contains instructions to fix the following error in Windows 10 startup or when you try to run or install a program: “The program can’t start because VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem”. Read More
If your system works with high CPU usage when you open Chrome, then probably an installed Chrome extension or a malware program is the culprit. To easy fix the high CPU usage issues on Google Chrome follow the steps below. Read More
With Windows 10, many users complain that their laptop battery drains quickly even with low usage or even in full shutdown. This "battery drain" issue in Windows 10 happens, for two basic reasons. The first reason is that Windows 10 loads too many background applications that consume battery power even if they are not being used. Read More
On a Windows based computer, appears the following error in Remote Desktop Connection: "Your computer could not connect to console session on the remote computer because you already have a console session in progress". Read More
As you may know, Windows 10 comes with many apps preinstalled. Some of these preinstalled apps (also known as built in apps), can be easily uninstalled from the system, by right clicking on them and choosing uninstall, but many built in apps cannot be uninstalled by using this way, and you have to uninstall them by using PowerShell commands. Read More
The error message "Folder Access Denied. You need permission to perform this action….", can be faced on any Windows based computer (Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista or XP) if you try to rename or delete a system protected folder. Read More
On a Windows 10 based computer with the 'Photos' app as the default application for opening images, appears the "File system error "-2147219196" when the user tries to open an .JPG or a .PNG image (with the 'PHOTOS' app). Read More
For many years now, the Windows Media Player, was the default application for playing music and videos. In Windows 10, the Windows Player, is not anymore, the default player for the media files and has replaced by the "Movies and TV" app. Read More
The following issue may appear on a Windows 10 based computer. The "SrTasks.exe" causes the disk to work at 100%. The "SrTasks.exe" (Microsoft System Protection Background Tasks) process, is a legitimate Windows process, and it used to start up the Volume Shadow Copy Service and the Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider service. Read More
