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 clean install Windows 10 or 11 on your computer by booting from the USB setup disk, the following notification may be displayed:
Windows can't be installed on drive n partition n
If you’re using a Windows 10 computer with hardware specifications fully compatible with Windows 11, you can upgrade to Windows 11 via Windows Update. However, on some eligible PCs, the Windows 11 Feature Update may not be shown on the Windows Update page.Read more
When you open Settings, you may see a notification that says “Attention needed” near the Windows Update icon at the top of the Settings window.
Clicking on the “Windows Update (Attention needed)” icon may do nothing.Read more
We may sometimes mess up with the Optional Features (“Turn Windows features on or off”) setting and don’t remember exactly what they changed. You wonder how to restore the system default settings for the “Turn Windows features on or off” (OptionalFeatures.exe) dialog without resetting Windows.Read more
There are situations where Windows doesn’t boot or the “Reset this PC” option in Update & Security (Settings) does not work. In such cases, you can reset Windows 10 or 11 via the Windows Recovery Environment (“Windows RE” or “WinRE”). This article tells you how to reset the PC via WinRE. Resetting through the Windows … Read more
When you open Settings and click Network & Internet, the “Proxy” option may be missing. Also, if you use the Start menu search to find the proxy settings option, you may not be able to launch it.Read more
When you attempt to enable Windows RE by running the reagentc /enable command, the following error may be shown:
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation failed: 2 REAGENTC.EXE: An error has occurred.
(or)
REAGENTC.EXE: Operation failed: 3bc3
When you attempt to perform an in-place upgrade of Windows 10 or 11, the “Keep personal files and apps” option may be disabled. The following message appears at the bottom of the dialog:
Your files, apps, and settings can't be kept because you've chosen to install Windows 11 using a different language than you're currently using.
When you run the “bootrec /fixboot” command from Windows RE, the error “Access is denied” occurs: Bootrec /FixMbr — writes the master boot record of the system partition using the master boot record compatible with Windows. This operation does not overwrite the existing partition table. Bootrec /FixBoot — write a new boot sector onto the … Read more
When you open a folder containing MP3 files, the metadata fields in the Details view of File Explorer may be empty.
For instance, the “Title”, “Contributing artists”, “Album” and other metadata columns may be blank. Even though the MP3 files have embedded metadata ID3 tags, they don’t appear in the Details view in File Explorer and the Details tab of the file’s Properties.Read more