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Hello I am having an issue with those two driver updates from Intel PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A70DDesc%=Needs_PCI_DRV,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_A70D "Intel(R) PCIe RC 010 G5 - A70D" ver…
Hello, we (a small university research faciltiy) can confirm that the latest cumulative update in March 2023 for Windows 10 (KB5023702 for 1809 LTSC and KB5023773 for 21H2) is having a serious negative impact on drive performance (obviously, as can be…
I am visiting the setup page https://partner.microsoft.com/en-US/dashboard/Registration/Hardware?step=GetStarted When I sign in with my Azure AD account (with global administrator privilege). It returns me back to the start page and I can't progress…
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…
My pc keeps crashing in the middle of games and I can't figure out why. I have followed every single guide on this issue but nothing is fixing it. This is the system warning message: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local…
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I upgraded to Windows 11. I have some programs that I am trying to run but get a message that it cannot locate the Microsoft Visual FoxPro support library. Is there a way to get these programs to run on Windows 11. I was previously running these programs…
Hi windows: currently we are working on miniport driver HLK tests. now we are blocked on the test case named as glitchfreedevice. the error reported as: 30 total breakpoints were hit in the protocol driver while this test was executing NDISTest…
Hi windows: we are working on a NIC mimiport driver HLK tests in OS of windows server 2016. when running HLK tests with the case name as 1c_KernelCalls, we get the failure as: Variation #5 Verifying calls made to NTOSKRNL.EXE This comparison with…
I am trying to do HLK testing for my own driver by this instruction https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/test/hlk/getstarted/step-5--select-target-to-test However, I can't find my kernel filter driver on the Selection tab. How can I add…
Hello, I'm trying to setup kernel mode debugging with my VS2019. Im runnign hyper-v VM of latest windows 10 as guest. I can connect with WinDBG over NET and COM port I can connect with VS19 through COM port (but it's painfully slow) …
So I have added 5 disks into a stroage pool, then created a virtual disk where i have added them together, i made a mirror, then created a volumes for data with 5GB. Now the volumes of 5GB is already full, so I added extra disk to storage pool and…
For both operations the documentation says "This routine is called at PASSIVE_LEVEL in an arbitrary thread context with normal kernel APCs disabled." I always thought they would be called from the calling process. My code also works as…
It has windows in it but it won't boot. I can't use anything when hdd is plugged but when I remove the cable everything is normal
I see that on my Surface Pro 6 the HDMI stops functioning on the current update. I tried the Surface Diagnostic Toolkit and it once corrected the issues ( about 4 weeks back) but then the issue again resurfaced and the tool kit was of no use. I then…
Dear Sir, This is more of the Teams v4 certification test equipment issue. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/skypeforbusiness/certification/test-spec My understanding is that microsoft are working on approving new set of lights for testing…
I used performance counter for measure cpu usage on my web. In x64 setting. when performacecounter member was inited, Next problem has occured. private readonly PerformanceCounter _cpu = new PerformanceCounter("Processor", "% Processor…
Hi Team, I was using Dell Inspiron with Windows10. For better performance I upgraded laptop with new SSD with windows OS on it, keeping the default hard disk by removing DVD drive slot. I can see all the prior data to use, but I can't see older OS or…
My driver package consists of a custom INF file that used to use the WdfCoInstaller and WinUsbCoInstaller DLLs for installation of the WinUSB driver for our USB devices, targeting Windows 10 and below. This was one of the recommended ways for WinUSB…
I have several PC in my organization that are experiencing this issue. When a user locks a PC if the user doesn't log back in with 30 seconds the lock screen displays a spinning circle where the password text box was and then the text box disappears…