#windows help

[celiaboyd]

this might be a stupid question and maybe not meant for tumblr but i refuse to use reddit / make an account so it’s going here

does anyone know why my screen goes black when i play certain games and hit the window key? it only happens on steam, specifically dead by daylight and the outlast trials. i’ve tried updating my graphics driver, i’ve tried using borderless windows, literally everything that google and preexisting reddit posts have suggested. it *only* happens on dbd and tot. i don’t understand </3

[atwas-gaming]

Need Help Changing the Username in 4th Wall Games

See, I like recording and making videos using my own gameplay, and I want to record some games that pull from my files to break the 4th wall (Sonic.exe, OneShot, DDLC, etc.), but they're still using a name that I don't want to have in videos- or at least exe is, I haven't checked OneShot or DDLC. But I've changed everything I can think of, my Microsoft username, my administrator name on the PC, my Users folder name.

Can someone tell me what I need to do to change the name that comes up when characters in 4th wall games talk to us? What could they possibly still be pulling data from?

[nanowatzophina]

okay... i've already attempted fixing this... and i could never figure out what the fuck it means... i just want to play inquisition.

what the fuck is this???

[callieloveshlvrai]

Hey what does it mean if bitlocker randomly activates for the first time in having this laptop for 2 years and when i get past it and boot my laptop up normally says that i had too many failed pin attempts despite me being at school all day. What does that mean

[ramtiger]

how the fuck do you get rid of this toolbar. i don't know what it's called. i don't use any of these apps because i don't like them. i've tried turning this off with settings in edge even though i don't use edge and it shows up when edge isn't running. this is windows 10

i've tried googling it but i don't know what to call it anymore since all of my previous searches for how to fix this haven't worked for more than 10 hours

i am also looking for solutions on reddit, so if you want to see what i've tried for more details, please look here: link

[onyourstageleft]

does anyone know a lot of stuff about Windows updates btw bc I messed with some stuff a few weeks ago while downloading a 🏴‍☠️ game and now every time I try to update my PC it goes "something didn't go as expected, rolling back changes" except my start menu doesn't work

unfortunately at the time I made the settings changes I was a) v stoned and b) using an incognito browser to do my research so I have NO CLUE what I turned off and can't look at my browser history to find the articles I was working from

it was a minor thing, I went through task manager and picked something and disabled it on startup ((I'm wondering now if it was some sort of sign on services thing?)) and it was fine for a few sign in/out cycles so I I know I didn't directly break something but then the update rolled out and it broke my start menu

if context helps I was trying to figure out how to limit a local user account to certain files/programs, but I'm not 100% sure the change I made in settings directly related to this overall effort

I tried everything on the guides for fixing a start menu that's broken, I downloaded the files and messed with Cortana settings and all the things that should have fixed it and they didn't. I was really hoping another windows update would fix it but it appears to do the same thing it did before of "something didn't go as expected" or whatever that message says so maybe whatever minor thing I turned off somewhere deep in settings broke the ability to update? if you know anything about what my stoned ass could have done pls tell me like it's just a minor inconvenience rn but idk what else could break down the road

[agirlwithachakram]

does anyone know how to schedule background updates for windows? my computer is running them EVERY DAY for HOURS and while I can still use my computer, i can’t play video games because it takes 100% disk usage. I won’t even know it’s doing it unless I open task manager or find my games are lagging super bad. i just want it to do it once every couple weeks instead of daily.

[ythaenagor]

Can someone help me get an old PC game to work?

Hi!!!

I’ve been trying to get a Windows 98 game (The Rocky Interactive Horror Show, if it makes a difference) to run on my Windows 10 laptop. I have a Windows 7 desktop, on which I got it to run through a virtual PC, but the desktop is old and buggy and the virtual PC can’t be fullscreened. Frankly, I just want it on my laptop. I discovered that on my laptop I don’t need to use a virtual PC, as it can be directly installed.

For the most part, it runs fine. The graphics display, the background music plays, the controls work, etc. However, the only issue I have is that the cutscenes don’t work. They are stored as .avi files, and are supposed to play at many points in the game, but instead I just get a black rectangle for a few frames and then it goes back to gameplay. On the virtual machine, they worked fine. What can I do to get them to play correctly?

Thanks in advance! You can either reblog this or message me if you know the answer.