Sometimes, you may need to turn off the paging file on the OS partition for testing or when shrinking the C drive. After turning off the paging file (“pagefile.sys”) on the OS partition and enabling it on another drive or partition, Windows keeps creating a temporary paging file on the OS partition.
The following notification appears at startup.Read more
Process Monitor is an excellent diagnostic tool from Microsoft Sysinternals. It can run a trace during the current Windows session or trace the boot process. Let’s see how to enable boot tracing using Process Monitor. Enable Boot Logging using Process Monitor Download Process Monitor and run it. Read and accept the license agreement. If the … Read more
After installing or uninstalling a game app, two strange startup entries may appear in the Startup tab of Task Manager. One entry may be a random Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) string, and the other may be a number.Read more
When installing Epic Games Launcher, you may get the following error code:
The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 2203.
After installing and uninstalling TeraBox, the Terabox entry may remain under “Devices and drives” on This PC. It may look like a ghost storage entry, as in the following screenshot.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: 3 REAGENTC.EXE: An error has occurred. When you attempt to create a USB recovery drive, the following error occurs: We can’t create a recovery drive on this PC Some required files are missing. … Read more
One of our readers asked how to remove non-numeric characters from file names using the Microsoft PowerToys PowerRename tool. You can accomplish the task using regex.Read more
If you’ve inadvertently converted your disk to a dynamic disk using Disk Management, you can revert it to a basic disk using the built-in diskpart command. Dynamic disks have been deprecated in Windows and are no longer recommended. Here’s a Microsoft article that explains how to convert a dynamic disk to a basic.
Change a dynamic disk back to a basic disk | Microsoft Learn
However, the biggest drawback to using the built-in tools is that volumes on the dynamic disk must be deleted before converting it to basic.Read more
When you attempt to start, stop, or reset the Windows Defender Firewall, the error code 0x8007045b or 0x8007042c may appear: Windows could not stop the Windows Firewall service on Local Computer. The service did not return an error. This could be an internal Windows error or an internal service error. If the problem persists, contact … Read more
When you open This PC, one or more of your partitions may have a yellow exclamation point. You wonder if a problem with the hard drive causes this or how to remove the exclamation point icon.Read more