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I have a dell inspiron 3421 with windows 10 enterprise, fresh install. With no programs running, I get 40% cpu usage from “System” and “Interrupts” combined. Searching the problem I downloaded the Windows Performance Recorder and the Windows Performance Analyzer. In the “DPC and ISR Usage by Module, Stack” tab you can see that hal.dll […]

I’m usually connecting my laptop to a larger screen. I’m away from my desk for a few days and I’d like to know what model of monitor that is. I just remember the manufacturer, size and and native resolution. I know that Windows remembers previously connected monitors and their settings. Does it also remember more

I recently did a clean install of Windows 10, overwriting Ubuntu. How did Windows find out that I had activated Windows 10 before on my computer? It didn’t ask me for a product key, but it is activated. Solution: Windows DE (Digital Entitlement) takes IDs of different parts of the hardware (I don’t think anyone

I have a link to a deleted folder in “quick access” (frequent folders). However, I cannot remove it, because when I try to “unpin” it I get an error “Location is not available”. Somewhat related to “How do I correct Quick Access folder links?“, but with no applicable answer. Solution: The answer above was useful,

I recently got the Windows 10 anniversary update and installed bash. I tried installing nmap, but it wouldn’t run. My question: Is there any way for commands like nmap to correctly run in WSL? Thanks in advance! Error I get when running sudo nmap -sn 192.168.1.*: route_dst_netlink: cannot bind AF_NETLINK socket: Invalid argument I remember

I am running an SSH server within WSL2 on a WIN10 machine. To make that work I am using: netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenaddress=0.0.0.0 listenport=22 connectaddress=172.19.237.178 connectport=22 This works fine initially. 172.19.237.178 is the IP of the WSL2 VM. There is just one problem. I have the sshd set to run when the PC

Windows has virtual desktops which is great. I use separate desktops for different things I am working on.But if I close a program (or reboot), then when I open the program again the program appear on the desktop I am currently on. So I manually have to move the program back. I guess for chrome

I have three displays, a 4K display flanked by two 1080p displays. Physically, these monitors are roughly the same size. Furthermore, Windows 10 handles the DPI scaling of the 4K monitor separately from the 1080p monitors just fine. So while it appears as such to Windows the real layout is three monitors of equal size

I use a Windows 10 machine remotely at work. Both the local and remote machine are in the same ISP network (not same local network, but same ISP). I’ve been using it like that for almost a year now and I had never experienced absolutely any issues. Until recently. I don’t know if anything specific

I’m trying to setup remote connection to my Windows 10 machine. During the setup I noticed that my installation is missing some settings all the tutorials have. Can anyone tell me why I’m stupid and what I should do? Below you can find a screenshot of what I’m talking about. The first image is how