Windows 10: is what is happening to me normal

my laptop is an alienware 17 r5. it has an nvidia gtx 1080 graphics card and an intel graphics card. it has 32gb ram. i am using windows 10 build 2004. in the end of march my ram chips spoilt and new ram chips were placed for me after that i played a bunch of modern games and there were no problems and then i started to play some ancient games the first one was released in 2001 and it is for windows xp+. i ran the game by using my nvidia card and there were no problems. i finished that game around 2 months ago next i played a game on pcsx2 which is a ps2 emulator. while i was playing the game it froze for a few seconds, the whole screen was black for a bit and then the game resumed. that happened once in a few weeks and then i finished the game next i played the second ancient game which was released in 2008 and it is for windows 7+. also i was playing this game it froze for a few seconds, the whole screen went black and then the game resumed. the issue happened around 15 times in the few weeks that i played the game. i tried a couple of things like closing steam so it didn't run in the background while i played the game, i lowered the graphics settings, i played the game in windowed mode, i wiped the nvidia driver by using ddu and i reinstalled the driver but i wasn't able to stop the issue from happening. i played the game by using my nvidia card now i am playing the third ancient game which was released in 2015 and it is for vista+. the issue is still happening. i tried to play the game by using the intel card, i enabled compatibility mode for windows 7, i disabled fullscreen optimization and lowered color settings in the compatibility settings but the issue is still happening why is the issue happening for me aggressively in the ancient games? i don't think that it's a problem with my graphics driver because it's happening on both of my graphics card. i am not doing windows updates so a bad update cant cause the issue. i checked the event viewer and i couldn't find anything. my cpu temps are normal when the issue happened is what is happening to me normal due to compatibility problems from running ancient games on windows 10?

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Is this normal?

I have a 5870 and i get that some times. I think is because of the SSD's speed or at list that didn't happened wen i was on a normal HDD.

Still not sure if it's normal or not.

 

laptop doesnt boot automatically

This is what happened.

1. Did a repair install and later disabled hibertnate in CMD.
2. Enabled legacy option ROM in BIOS.
3. After a few times startup ( i used the system in such mode for 5 days), changed boot option back to default.
4. Vola!! It boots automatically to win10 without any keypress. Tested it with many starts to confirm the same.
5. Re-enabled hibernate option using CMD and later selected Fast Startup.
6. System booted normally, without the need for any keypress.

I do not know exactly whether such steps resolved the problem or what else happened, hence cannot suggest above steps.

Many thanks to all members who helped to troubleshoot problems.

 

Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region


I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

1. Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.
2. Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.
3. Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

1. Go to Settings.
2. Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.
3. Select add someone else on this PC.
4. Enter a user name and hit next.
5. Click on Finish.
6. Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.