This category contains posts about Microsoft’s latest Operating System – Windows 10.Windows 10’s always been interesting, as every new major update will usually include additional features.
When you try to log into your Windows 10 computer using an account that was not previously logged in, you may get the error “The User Profile Service service failed the sign-in. User profile cannot be loaded” and the sign-in screen appears again.
This article tells you how to resolve the error “The User Profile Service service failed the sign-in. User profile cannot be loaded.” when logging on to a newly created user account.Read more
There are situations where you’ll need to activate and use the built-in Administrator account in Windows. The built-in Administrator account is disabled by default. If your existing admin user account profile gets corrupted (and you have no alternate user account with admin privileges), you’ll need to enable and use the built-in administrator account to fix things up or create a second administrator account.Read more
With the Windows 10 Photos app set as the default image viewer, when you right-click on an image or video file (or a group of files), you’ll see the Create a new video option in the context menu.
The Create a new video option lets you create a video clip from the list of selected image files, and optionally export the video file or save to your OneDrive account via the Photos app.
This article tells you how to remove the Create a new video option from the right-click menu if you don’t use it and would like to declutter the right-click menu.
When you attempt to install .NET Framework 3.5 or any other optional feature using “Windows Features” (optionalfeatures.exe) dialog or using DISM command-line, error 0x800F0954 may popup.Read more
When you attempt to scan for updates or when installing an update, the Windows Update page may throw the error 0x8024a223. Here is the full error message verbatim:
This article tells you how to fix Windows Update error 0x8024a223.Read more
Your Windows 10 computer may not show available Wi-Fi Networks (No Wi-Fi Networks Found) sometimes after installing a feature update. Many of the users have reported that they are unable to search and discover new Wi-Fi access points after going through the Fall Creators Update. However, this issue still exists in computers running v2004 which is the latest Windows 10 build as of this post.
Welcome to the Windows-land where the “mandatory updates” and “security patches” would more often than not, make your life harder by either messing up or not showing something. One of the rather recent additions to the list is the Wi-Fi problem.Read more
After installing Windows 10 feature update v1809, the screen brightness gets reset to 50% after every shutdown or restart. This seems to be yet another bug in the 1809 update.
This post tells you how to fix/workaround the screen brightness reset problem in your Windows 10 1809 computer.Read more
Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool (MCT) is used to download Windows 10 ISO or create a bootable Windows 10 installation USB drive. MCT is one of the most useful tools by Microsoft, but at the same time, it’s one of the buggiest utilities out there which throws some obscure errors like 0x80042405.
In this post, we’ll be talking about Media Creation Tool Error 0x80042405 - 0xA001A in Windows 10, and how to workaround or fix the problem.Read more
The Windows 10 action center may show a prompt with a black exclamation inside a yellow triangle icon in the Notification area. When you click on that, it opens Windows Defender Security Center. In the Windows Defender Security Center, underneath the “Virus & threat protection” icon the exclamation mark inside a yellow triangle shows up again, with the note reading “Set up OneDrive for file recovery options in case of a ransomware attack.”
The Windows Defender warning shows up even though OneDrive is already be configured, syncing and working perfectly fine. Also, clicking the “Dismiss” link beneath the warning message may do nothing.
If OneDrive is already setup correctly and working fine, then the yellow exclamation warning can be safely ignored. But if you’re desperate to stop Windows Defender from issuing the false alert, this post tells you how to do so.Read more
When you attempt to install updates via the Windows Update channel, error 0x80070BC2 may occur and the update repeatedly fails to install. The Windows Update page may show “Awaiting restart”. And after restarting, the Windows Update installation history page shows the following error under that particular update(s):
And the Windows Event log records this error, referencing the KB number:
For example: