Does anyone have a phone number for contacting MS Windows Tech Support in the USA where you can talk to a live person? Everything I've Googled doesn't get me anywhere. I keep asking for a representative and the automated thing ends up disconnecting the call. Every number I try has the same automated answering 'helper'. Thanks
fr though. i have a low end laptop and trying to play basic stuff like minecraft or apex is already a struggle, but windows background services literally make it unplayable. like why is bing search running in my start menu when i just want to open discord??? 😭
after dealing with massive micro-stutters for months, i did a deep dive into power shell and disabled a bunch of useless default stuff. if you guys are struggling with frame drops on potato specs, try these 3 things manually before playing:
did this and my 1% low frames actually became stable. what other background services are u guys disabling to keep your potato pcs alive? let me know cuz i'm tryna maximize every single frame here.
I searched it and had a hard time finding anything specific. A lot of the results complained about not finding a way to remove it. Some complained about not having it. I finally deduced, but have no idea if I am right, that it is a screen sharing program. Mine has an uninstall option. If I use it will that affect other programs? I do not share screens.
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EDIT-The solution from AbrahamL1865
It is a windows feature named "wireless display" (if your OS isn't english, it might be named something else) so you need to go check if it is installed (go to settings then enter "manage optionnal features" in the search box) and :
- if it is installed, you should remove it and reboot.
- if it is no longer installed, add it and then reboot and then remove it and reboot.
I regret signing up the the extended windows 10 updates. All the latest updates keep breaking things and I've been forced to constantly uninstall them. Pausing updates is no longer enough, it only delays the struggle. How to I disable windows from downloading/applying updates anymore?
I just noticed this recently but I am kind of panicking as I think I might have a virus even though I am pretty good about staying safe online. I have windows 10 and I tried to open task manager to close a program not responding, it brought up the simplified version and everytime I try to click more details it, it opens for a split second before closing itself. I tried restarting the PC and the issue persists. I have done a full system scan with windows defender (Both "Full scan" and "Microsoft Defender Offline Scam" but they both say no threats found. I also installed the free version of Bitdefender and scanned with that but it also says no threats found but I cant think of any other reason my task manager and only my task manager closes itself after I open it.
ThinkPad P1 Gen 5, wiped drive, Windows setup stuck on ‘Install driver to show hardware’ screen, only have a Mac, need help installing Windows 11.
Can someone help please
Some days ago it was 6-4 GB of free space, today I checked it had around 1 GB. Why free space is getting shrinked day by day even if I am not putting any files?
When I witnessed that this drive is losing space, I partitioned another drive for day-to-day usage. What do I do? Is there some sort of malware?
TL;DR: Unable to search for any local files/applications due to Windows Search service not running (and consequently search indexing being non functional as well)
Recently (I think starting yesterday?) I tried to search for an application on my PC that I know 100% is currently installed. Instead of showing the application, I see that Settings and a notification at the bottom saying that "Search indexing was turned off" with an option to turn it on. When pressed, this option opens an "Indexing Options" window that shows "Indexing is not running."
I searched through countless online posts and guides, following through with a lot of steps that did not end up resolving my issue. I should mention that I tried all of the steps in the official Microsoft post which included resetting the Windows Search feature using the ResetWindowSearchBox.ps1 file linked in the post. I have also checked my disk using the command prompt, where sfc /scannow found corrupted files and repaired them (the issue still persists on PC startup).
I believe that I have found the root issue with indexing, but I am unable to fix the actual issue itself. When I ran the Search and indexing troubleshooter, it tells me that "Windows Search service [is] not running." I then went ran services.msc to potentially restart Windows Search, however, it's status is constantly set to "Stopping." I am unable to force stop or start the service as it is greyed out.
I believe this is the root cause of all my issues, which prevents me from searching anything except the basic Microsoft Settings app. I am now unsure how to proceed, as all other guides assume that the service is either currently running or stopped, with none describing an intermediate "Stopping" phase.