1,690 questions with Windows Hardware Performance tags

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How to remove "SLEEP" and "SHUTDOWN" options from power button on CTRL+ATL+Delete Screen but keep "RESTART" option.

Windows 10
Windows 10
A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.
12,075 questions
Windows
Windows
A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.
5,824 questions
Windows 10 Compatibility
Windows 10 Compatibility
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Compatibility: The extent to which hardware or software adheres to an accepted standard.
535 questions
Windows 10 Setup
Windows 10 Setup
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Setup: The procedures involved in preparing a software program or application to operate within a computer or mobile device.
2,064 questions
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2023-05-01T17:20:27.4566667+00:00
Robert Cox 1st 5 Reputation points
answered 2025-06-13T20:21:42.34+00:00
IT 0 Reputation points
1 answer

Microsoft Partner Center -> Hardware -> Access restricted

I try to let a driver sign throug the microsoft partner network but when i click on the hardware workspace i geht the Access restricted message: We're sorry, you don't have permission to access this page. Please contact your administrator to request…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2022-09-05T13:59:49.25+00:00
Sandro Leinzinger 6 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-13T09:45:39.2933333+00:00
Yoann Traut 0 Reputation points
0 answers

Surface Laptop 7 caps lock indicator not working

Hi, The Caps Lock indicator light no longer works on Surface Laptop 7 ARM, Windows version 24H2 since a recent windows update. I have spoked to multiple Microsoft support team members and there doesn't seem to be any urgency in resolving this. There…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2025-06-11T11:19:56.4133333+00:00
hvmish 0 Reputation points
4 answers

how to check my hard disk health

hi friends, can anyone tell me how to check my hard disk health?

Windows 10
Windows 10
A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.
12,075 questions
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2023-07-22T08:54:40.08+00:00
Bhavana k 95 Reputation points
commented 2025-06-06T16:35:27.15+00:00
jack william 0 Reputation points
0 answers

Registry fix for windows speculative side channel revert due to GPO settings for Spectre/meltdown registry

We have a GPO registry setting for Spectre/Meltdown locked down(see below screenshots), however, the fix for windows speculative configuration check changes those specific keys. The question is would adding the Reg fix for windows Speculative config…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2025-06-04T15:06:43.7933333+00:00
Kramer, Bill 0 Reputation points
3 answers

how to fix constant game crashes from source nvlddmkm event id 153

Subject: Help Needed with Persistent Game Crashes and nvlddmkm Error Dear Microsoft Support, I am experiencing persistent game crashes on my system, accompanied by the following error message in Event Viewer: Error Source: nvlddmkm Event ID: 153 …

Windows 10
Windows 10
A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.
12,075 questions
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
168 questions
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2024-10-10T18:01:26.3966667+00:00
Aleksandar Neskovich 25 Reputation points
answered 2025-06-04T02:11:59+00:00
nyet 0 Reputation points
0 answers

New window vm data disk attached during creation and also attached one more after creation not showing

New window vm data disk attached during creation and also attached one more after creation not showing

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2025-05-30T06:58:50.67+00:00
kuldeep singh 0 Reputation points
4 answers

Bluetooth Device Battery Indicator Display in System Tray

When we hover a mouse over the Volume icon in System Tray it currently shows the sound level indicator. Would it be possible to replace with Battery Level indicator (if connected to BlueTooth device) or add it along with Sound Level?

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
Windows 11
Windows 11
A Microsoft operating system designed for productivity, creativity, and ease of use.
11,767 questions
asked 2023-01-09T02:29:01.6+00:00
Deepak Vasudevan 96 Reputation points
edited a comment 2025-05-29T00:41:04.6133333+00:00
TP 123.5K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
3 answers

Config Hash algorithm for HLK Studio - 2

Dear Microsoft Team, I am using HLK Studio to sign .hlkx package but as I see the HLK Studio is using SHA1 algorithm to calculate hash and sign, I want to use SHA256 but can not find any document to config it. Can you help me?

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2022-10-25T01:46:13.71+00:00
Tuan Tran 1 Reputation point
answered 2025-05-28T21:06:42.3166667+00:00
Wes Wilson 0 Reputation points
2 answers

Persistent Keyboard Freeze Issue Following Windows Updates

After a recent Windows update, my laptop keyboard intermittently becomes unresponsive while I'm working. The only way to restore functionality is by restarting the system. This issue had occurred previously as well, and reinstalling Windows had resolved…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2025-05-23T17:36:09.11+00:00
Vaayath Consulting 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-05-25T14:15:13.5566667+00:00
Reza-Ameri 17,326 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
0 answers

How to fix windows startup issue ?(Windows 7 , and it is not opening , startup repair also could'nt fix the issue)

I ran a startup repair in my windows 7 laptop , but it showed it couldnt fix the problem automatically (Root cause found : Boot Critical file C:\Windows\system32\ntkrnlpa.exe is corrupt ) .

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2025-05-16T04:55:40.91+00:00
SRIHARI SIVASANKAR 0 Reputation points
1 answer One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

windows11+intel BT5.3 bluetooth SCO remote connect Failure

brb = (struct _BRB_SCO_OPEN_CHANNEL*) &(connection->ConnectDisconnectBrb); devCtx->ProfileDrvInterface.BthReuseBrb((PBRB)brb, BRB_SCO_OPEN_CHANNEL_RESPONSE); brb->Hdr.ClientContext[0] = connectionObject; brb->BtAddress =…

C++
C++
A high-level, general-purpose programming language, created as an extension of the C programming language, that has object-oriented, generic, and functional features in addition to facilities for low-level memory manipulation.
3,960 questions
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
Windows 11
Windows 11
A Microsoft operating system designed for productivity, creativity, and ease of use.
11,767 questions
asked 2023-07-04T02:31:51.6633333+00:00
小钧 唐 25 Reputation points
commented 2025-05-13T09:04:47.9333333+00:00
Sibert 0 Reputation points
3 answers

i7-6820HK CPU support for Windows 11

Like many others I have a Gaming Laptop with a still powerful i7-6820HK; however whilst Microsoft windows 11 supports a vast list of Intel processors the list is missing the i7 6xxx and 7xxx series. will this be addressed in future updates?

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
Windows 11
Windows 11
A Microsoft operating system designed for productivity, creativity, and ease of use.
11,767 questions
asked 2021-10-24T11:07:16.923+00:00
A H 56 Reputation points
commented 2025-05-12T15:55:59.55+00:00
john watkins 0 Reputation points
1 answer

How to support user customize page in Print Support APP?

I am working on the Print Support APP. We need the printer support user customized paper size. Unfortunately, the Microsoft's Print-support-app-design-guide documentation do not mention how to implementation this function. Followed by the document…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2023-03-17T09:38:24.09+00:00
piggy lazy 5 Reputation points
commented 2025-05-12T08:02:45.01+00:00
Chau Dang Ba 50 Reputation points
1 answer

Why is there no generic eSCL image/document Scanner driver for Windows?

I know that Windows typically uses WSD scanners which is okay, but the rest of the world, MacOS (Native), ChromeOS (Mopria Scan), Android (Mopria Scan) and iOS (Air Scanner app) can all use eSCL scanners . I developed an app that shares a Windows…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2022-02-13T11:07:51.063+00:00
Mark DM 6 Reputation points
answered 2025-05-09T06:10:43.7466667+00:00
Riccardo Quercetti 0 Reputation points
1 answer

NDIS Driver Performance and allocation of Net Buffer Lists (NBL) and NB In the Send and Receive Path

Gooday, I am writing an NDIS filter driver and I would Like to know if it is very efficient to allocate NBL, or NBL Context from receive and send path, without affecting performance. I would like to know if functions like NdisAllocateNetBuffer(),…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2025-05-03T12:35:51.9566667+00:00
DaveSC 20 Reputation points
answered 2025-05-03T14:18:30.1766667+00:00
Wagner Silva 80 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
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NPU almost always active after bootup. Copilot+ pc with Qualcom processor

Microsoft Copilot + PC. Task manager shows NPU cycling between 0 and 80% usage on a 50% square wave cycle after bootup with no applications running. CPU usage 1%, memory usage 1%. Cannot find any reason for the NPU to be running so much. Any…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2025-04-20T12:50:28.9566667+00:00
Mark Stubkjaer 0 Reputation points
edited a comment 2025-04-24T09:42:40.0933333+00:00
jing 0 Reputation points
3 answers One of the answers was accepted by the question author.

HLK DF-PNP test item failed, WDTF_EDT: EDT filter driver not installed HRESULT=0x80004005

When I performed the DF-PNP test item of the HLK test, I encountered the following error  - DF - PNP Cancel Remove Device Test (Reliability)  - DF - PNP Cancel Stop Device Test (Reliability) etc.  - WDTF_EDT: EDT filter driver not installed…

Windows 10
Windows 10
A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.
12,075 questions
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2023-04-20T02:24:05.2333333+00:00
mumuxi 20 Reputation points
commented 2025-04-08T12:42:31.78+00:00
zhang yijie 0 Reputation points
1 answer

WHLK [System - PNP (disable and enable) with IO Before and After (Reliability)] fail -WDTF_PNP : Result: Successful , but device not started

Hi, A failed item occurred after running WHLK [System - PNP (disable and enable) with IO Before and After (Reliability)] It looks like enable device fail, however, I can not see any abnormal symptom after the HLK test finished. Also can not see any…

Windows Performance Toolkit
Windows Performance Toolkit
A collection of Microsoft performance monitoring tools that produce in-depth performance profiles of Windows operating systems and applications.
114 questions
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
Microsoft Deployment Toolkit
A collection of Microsoft tools and documentation for automating desktop and server deployment. Previously known as Microsoft Solution Accelerator for Business Desktop Deployment (BDD).
943 questions
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10 Hardware Performance
Windows 10: A Microsoft operating system that runs on personal computers and tablets.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
168 questions
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2024-05-15T01:50:18.7333333+00:00
TY Yang 0 Reputation points
answered 2025-04-08T08:17:17.97+00:00
zhang yijie 0 Reputation points
0 answers

Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Application development

Hi Community, I would like to write an application to test memory transfers for my UFS device using WINAPI UFS host controller. Are there any sample application or guidelines provided by Microsoft on how to implement the drivers/ applications…

Windows Hardware Performance
Windows Hardware Performance
Windows: A family of Microsoft operating systems that run across personal computers, tablets, laptops, phones, internet of things devices, self-contained mixed reality headsets, large collaboration screens, and other devices.Hardware Performance: Delivering / providing hardware or hardware systems or adjusting / adapting hardware or hardware systems.
1,690 questions
asked 2022-07-01T10:39:48.65+00:00
Satyavolu 1 Reputation point
commented 2025-04-07T01:47:42.1933333+00:00
Ma Ronie 0 Reputation points