CRITICAL_SERVICE_FAILED (0x5A) Blue Screen in Windows 11
If your PC shows a blue screen with the stop code CRITICAL_SERVICE_FAILED (0x5A) while it’s starting up, then restarts into “Preparing Automatic Repair” and ends up on the same [...]
If your PC shows a blue screen with the stop code CRITICAL_SERVICE_FAILED (0x5A) while it’s starting up, then restarts into “Preparing Automatic Repair” and ends up on the same [...]
If you take a screenshot with Win + Shift + S or the Snipping Tool app and it gets copied to the clipboard, but nothing shows up in your Pictures\Screenshots folder anymore, even though Snipping [...]
If you’re running low on space and found out that a folder called DXCache inside AppData\Local\NVIDIA is taking up 20, 50 or even over 100 GB of your C: drive, it’s NVIDIA’s [...]
If you’ve found an extension in Microsoft Edge that has no Remove button, a greyed-out switch, and a note saying “Managed by your organization” even though it’s your own [...]
If you’ve noticed a PowerShell window flashing on your screen every 15 to 30 seconds, or a powershell.exe process that pops up in Task Manager for a second and disappears, with CPU spikes [...]
If your wireless mouse’s left button acts as if it’s still being held down after you let go, dragging windows and selecting text on its own, and then stops clicking at all until you [...]
If you’re seeing a pop-up that says “A driver cannot load on this device” with the driver named as AMDRyzenMasterDriver.sys, usually after a Windows update or an upgrade to [...]
If Malwarebytes, Kaspersky or your firewall keeps blocking MSBuild.exe from connecting to a strange website every 5 or 10 minutes, and you don’t build software on your PC, it’s [...]
If your Lenovo ThinkPad, IdeaPad or Yoga keeps dimming and then turning off the screen every minute or two while you’re sitting right in front of it reading, even though Windows is set to [...]
If Discord keeps asking you to confirm your age but the face scan fails every time, the window shows no available method, or k-ID only offers the ID scan, you’re far from the only one. [...]