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When you double-click on an ISO file to mount it to a drive-letter, nothing may happen except the hourglass cursor. After 5 minutes or so, the following error appears: Couldn’t Mount File Sorry, there was a problem mounting the file. Note: If you receive a different error message (“You don’t have permission to mount the … Read more
When you install Windows 11 using Installation Assistant, USB disk, or ISO, one of the following errors appears, and the Setup process stops.
Something went wrong Select Try again, and if that doesn't work, contact Microsoft support for help. Error code 0x80070001
When you open Credential Manager, the error 0x80070005 may appear. Here’s the full error message info:
Credential Manager Error You do not have permission to save files to this location. Select a different location. Error code: 0x80070005 Error Message: Access is Denied
When installing a third-party program, you may encounter the error 2895 mentioning riched20.dll. The entire error message is below:
Error 2894.Info 2894. Loading RICHED20.DLL failed. GetLastError() returned: 5.
After changing the “Number of processors”, “Maximum Memory”, “PCI Lock” settings in the MSCONFIG Advanced Boot Options dialog, Windows may not start correctly. In some cases, you’ll see the “HAL INITIALIZATION FAILED” or other blue screen errors at startup.Read more
When you open Services MMC and double-click “McpManagementService”, the properties dialog may show the error 15100.Read more
Many users are experiencing an issue with the OneDrive app wherein an empty window titled “DesktopWindowXamlSource” appears on the taskbar. Closing the window will terminate OneDrive. This issue seems to occur on Windows 10 and 11 systems, irrespective of the version or build installed.Read more
After being unable to install Windows Updates, the error code 80041002 may have been recorded when you checked the CBS logs. Here’s an excerpt from CBS.log: 000009a4 (F) Installer: Mof Binary Name: cmiadapter.dll ErrorCode: 80041002 Phase: 32 Mode: Install (upgrade) Component: Microsoft-Windows-NetworkProfile-CIM, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35, ProcessorArchitecture=amd64, versionScope=NonSxS[gle=0x80004005] Error CSI 00000944@2023/1/4:13:48:41.970 (F) CMIADAPTER: Exiting with HRESULT code … Read more
The EFI boot partition is a FAT32 partition that stores the boot files and the boot configuration data (BCD) to load Windows. Sometimes, the boot partition or the BCD may get corrupted, and the boot files remain unserviceable by the Windows Setup process. In that case, rebuilding the EFI partition and recreating the BCD & boot files should resolve the issue.Read more
When you run a DISM command to scan or repair the component store, the error code 1392 appears, and DISM quits. The full error message is mentioned below. Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool [== 3.8% ] Error: 1392 The file or directory is corrupted and unreadable. The DISM log file can be found at … Read more