Save the date: Windows Office Hours - March 20, 2025
Save the date and join us for our next monthly Windows Office Hours, on March 20th from 8:00-9:00a PT. We will have a broad group of product experts, servicing experts, and engineers representing Windows, Microsoft Intune, Configuration Manager, Windows 365, Windows Autopilot, security, public sector, FastTrack, and more. They will be standing by -- in chat -- to provide guidance, discuss strategies and tactics, and, of course, answer any specific questions you may have. For more details about how Windows Office Hours works, go to our Windows IT Pro Blog. If 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time doesn't work for you, post your questions on the Windows Office Hours: March 20 event page, up to 48 hours in advance. Hope you can join us!Slow startup - I've run out of ideas ?
Hey all, long-time lurker searching these threads for tech advice, now I need some more direct help! I have an incredibly slow Windows 11 bootup: 100-200 seconds on average for a Windows boot, plus 150-300 seconds for desktop. Has been getting steadily worse over the last couple of years and now it's pretty unbearable.Black Screen and Spinning Cursor after startup
When i turn my PC on, I get a black screen and a spinning cursor. I have turned my computer off and on over 20 times now. I have tried to uninstall latest quality update and latest feature update in advanced options but still doesn't work. I have tried system restore and thay didn't work either. I have enabled safe mode but I run into a blue screen saying we encountered a problem. Tried to go into BIOS but not sure what to do there. I am lost on what to try next. I did download the latest nvidias graphics card driver or something like that the night before and it was fine and then this morning when I opened my computer I now can't get in.Join us December 11th for Tech Community Live: Windows Edition
Deploying and managing Windows? Join us December 11th for four hours of live, Ask Microsoft Anything (AMA) sessions with our product and engineering teams! Get answers to your questions on the latest capabilities. Sounds great. How do I register? No registration required. 🙂 Simply: Sign in to the Tech Community (or create an account if you don't have one). Go to https://aka.ms/TCL/Windows Select Add to calendar to save the date for the full event or individual AMAs (see the list below). Select Attend to let us know you're coming and receive event reminders. Scroll to the bottom of each page until you see "Leave a comment" - that's the spot to start posting your questions today! Agenda: 7:00 a.m. PT - Ask Microsoft Anything: Windows security, chip to cloud 8:00 a.m. PT - Ask Microsoft Anything: Unified update management for Windows 8:30 a.m. PT - Ask Microsoft Anything: Hotpatching Windows - client and server 9:00 a.m. PT - Feedback wanted: Adopting new features with agility and control 10:00 a.m. PT- Ask Microsoft Anything: The future of AI with Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs Can't attend live? Scroll to the bottom of each session page and post your questions in advance. All sessions will be recorded and available on demand immediately after the live streams conclude--and we'll continue to look at questions and answer through Friday at 12pm Pacific Time.
Live backup PC
I operate a business that mostly depends on design by simulation relying on constant operation at very high CPU utilization of big multi-core PC's. And because of the high utilization, I seem to kill them on a fairly routine basis, 3 Dell 7820 Xeon Gold's in the last two years, which is worse than average, I probably kill one on average every 2nd year. We can talk about what's dying separately, it doesn't matter here, the issue at hand is DOWN TIME.
