Windows 10: why do i suddenly have to activate windows when it worked fine before??

hi yall,


ive been bussy upgrading my pc and forgot to make a backup, but there was nothing special on it either. so i used my bootable flashdrive wich has the creation tool on it and wiped my ssd and reinstalled windows but now i having a sign, text in the bottom right of my screen wich says i have to activate windows i cant change my backgroundeventhough it changed automatically because i logged into my microsoft account and sound etc.. im wondering why this is happening. ive had windows reinstalled on my laptop plenty times and also on this one. why does it appear so sudden its really annoying to have a sign in the corner of my screen..

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Windows Update suddenly hangs?

Windows Update is suddenly hanging for some reason... I went and downloaded and installed the first bunch of updates, restarted when asked, and now when I go back to windows update I just get the window with a white box forever. Reboot and it still does it. This happens to be on my main machine, running windows 7.

I've also noticed when I reboot it says configuring windows update, step 3 of 3, 47%. Maybe it somehow skipped something and is screwed forever?

 

Laptop speakers suddenly not working, but headphones work fine.


I'm really baffled here as to what's going on with my laptop audio. It was working just a few days ago from what I remember and now tonight when I was playing a game in Steam the audio just wasn't working. Checked audio settings in the game, all was good. Turned the game off and started testing using YouTube, still nothing. The volume is definitely up and I found that headphones work fine. When I open the 'Playback devices' dialogue from right clicking the speaker in the task bar it shows the green equalizer bar moving up and down if something is playing, but there's no audio. I've checked for any conflicting devices in here and ensured everything was enabled as per usual.

So far I've updated the drivers, uninstalled the drivers completely and reinstalled them (automatically after restarting laptop), and have checked for updates on my computer (all up to date). My device manger does have 2 drivers listed which I thought was weird, but maybe it has always been like this? I'm not sure honestly. I uninstalled both and they both came back after restarting. See the image here:




Is there anything else to try? I thought uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling them would fix it, but nope.

System details: Windows 10, Acer Aspire laptop (~7 months old? No issues thus far). Let me know if I need to provide any more details! Very frustrated and need to get to bed now because of work in the morning, but I will be sure to check back and try any suggestions and answer any questions.

 

Cortana is not working fine

Hi,

For better understanding the issue let us know few details,

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        Have you created any system restore point?
        
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        Are you facing same issue on other user account?
        

As initial troubleshooting I request you to try below steps,

I suggest you to install the latest windows 10 updates, please follow the steps to install all the windows updates.

If you want to check for the update now, select the Start button, then select Settings
> Update & security > Windows Update > Check for updates.

Run the Search and Indexing Troubleshooter.

Follow the below steps:

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  Open Control Panel.
  
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  Select Troubleshooting.
  
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  Click on Search and Indexing Troubleshooter.
  
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  Run the Troubleshooter.
  

And also I suggest you to refer the below link and check.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...ubleshoot-problems-opening-start-menu-cortana

Hope this information helps. Get back to us if you have any more queries on windows.

Thank you.