Turn off your system. Remove the power cord and disconnect all the peripherals. Disconnect the charger if it is a laptop. Press and hold the power button for up to 30 seconds. Turn on your system.

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A security patch that addresses over 170 vulnerabilities should not also make useless one of the most vital recovery tools in the operating system yet that is just what happened with Microsoft’s Oct.

A new Microsoft update patches a bug affecting Windows recovery. The bug prevented the use of USB mice and keyboards in WinRE. The new patch is available through Windows Update. Microsoft has fixed a ...

in my ongoing quest to get games to work on my system (i can never seem to get them to work, they crash back to windows.... if you do a search, you'll find many threads on this topic from me), i was ...