Windows 10: I upgraded to windows 10 - no sleep mode and no usb recognition

I recently upgraded to windows 10 - no sleep mode and no USB recognition. I have tried the powercfg etc and power options in the power button but no success. Also, my flash drive is not recognised on the USB. Tried everything but no success, unless i restart the pc with my flash drive connected then if I'm lucky it will read it until I eject it. Device manager has a few "!" on the drives & graphic card but can't seem to get an update for it. Do i need a new PC?

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Problems with Face Recognition after Sleep Mode


Just got my Dell Inspiron 23 Series 7000 All-in-One desktop computer with 23" Touch Screen and Intel 3d RealSense camera. I have activated the Facial Recognition login feature at highest level which seems to work quite well with the 3D camers. However, I have run into a bug. I activated a 30 minute Sleep Mode in the settings. After returning later the screen was blank and moving the mouse brought the screen to life. There was references to Facial Recognition, but the camera was off. There was a message saying that the camera was in Power Save mode and that moving the mouse would release it from this mode. I moved the mouse, a lot. No change. I tried the following:

1) Clicking on the Enable Facial Recognition Button in the bottom left corner - no result

2) Clicking on the User ID button in the bottom left corner and then clicking on the Enable Facial Recognition button below it. For a brief moment the camera came on and my face was displayed in the proper location, but then disappeared and I again saw the message about moving the mouse to disable Power Save mode.

3) I also enabled the Gesture secondary security measure during setup, and since the Grid was displayed, tried entering the gesture. About half way through the gesture, it forgot what I entered and reverted to a blank grid.

4) I tried clicking on the User ID button in the lower left corner and entered my password. It was apparently not recognized as no login occurred, but no error message about invalid passwords displayed either.

I repeated several of these steps about two more times each, until finally I was able to login using my password.

This would appear to be a major glitch in the code, apparently brought on by Sleep Mode and Power Save modes. Suggest coders look into resolving this. Hopefully they can recreate the issue in the lab.

Walter D Thompson, Jr
Retired Director of IT

 

Windows 10 USB boot

Hi there, am not a windows 10 expert. I have a pc in the bedroom on windows 10, I messed up the bootloader trying to fix the xp on that system.

System wont boot, trying to repair via win 10 usb installer.

Downloaded the media creation tool to install windows 10 installer on usb stick. Not compatible with a host of usb sticks I have. Tried the usb sticks that others use, but I think they use rufus; as the media creation tool by win 10 does not detect the usb stick.

So quick question, the win10 machine i am trying to repair the bootloader is a win7 upgraded to win10.
If i were to use the usb win10 installer to "repair installation" does the version of the iso downloaded via the media creation tool matter?

There is three options:
Windows 10
Windows 10 Home
Windows 10 N

Also is there a step by step instead of using rufus as I want to try an alternative method of creating a usb win 10 installer. Preferably with more compatibility.

System is a asus sabertooth 990 (r2?) with AMD phenom X 6.

Also is there any other software I can load onto the usb that can repair the bootloader easily?
That would be the ideal alternative. Thanks

 

Speech recognition keeps going to sleep mode

Hi,



Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.



I understand that Speech Recognition goes to sleep automatically. I’ll certainly help you with this issue.



It could be possible that Speech Recognition is unable to recognize your voice properly, you can try training Speech Recognition for your voice and see if that helps. To do this, right click on the Microphone icon of
Speech Recognition, select Configure and select
Improve voice recognition. Follow the on-screen instructions to complete the training process.




For more information, see Use voice recognition in Windows 10.



If you are facing issues in using the Microphone, I would suggest you to refer the article on

Fix microphone problems.



You can also try running the Troubleshooter and see if that helps. Refer the steps mentioned below:

1. Press Windows logo key + I, to open
   Settings.
   
2. Click on Update & Security and select
   Troubleshoot on the left pane.
   
3. Scroll down and click on Speech and select
   Run the troubleshooter.
   
4. Follow the on-screen instructions.
   

Let us know how it goes.



Regards,

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator