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For questions about the Windows 10 May 2021 Update (Version 21H1). Use [windows-10] for questions not specific to a particular release of Windows 10.

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Windows 11 trying to sneak onto Windows 10 system?

How do I update to Windows 10 21H2 without Windows 11 sneaking in? How would you go about it?
David D. Geer
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How to prevent taskbar from revealing on mouseover when hidden?

I have the Windows 10 taskbar set to automatically hide. By default, the taskbar appears when moving the mouse close to the edge of the screen where the taskbar is hidden. How can I change this behavior so that the taskbar never pops up on…
mrcp_pc
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"DOS Devices" to directory (aka permanent SUBST) not honored after Windows 21H1 update

Previously, a device mapping had been established using HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices to add an alias from D:\ to C:\Build. This approach discussed in the wikipedia SUBST article and similar. After…
user2864740
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How to access Windows ntfs ea/extended attributes under Linux or Windows? Or convert Volfs to DrvFs past version 1903?

I accidentally deregistered the legacy wsl1 install at %APPDATA%\local\lxss (back at the time when wsl was called bash on Ubuntu on Windows and there could be only 1 rootfs which had to be installed by bash.exe). Fortunately for the important data,…
user2284570
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“one of the hyper-v components is not running” how to get more information on this issue?

I just reinstalled all Hyper‑V features after disabling them for using another hypervisor that didn’t support pci‑e passthrough. There aren’t more details besides the virtual machine id. It’s happening with all virtual machines, even with the…
user2284570
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Windows Update trying to install update that's already installed

Windows Update is constantly trying to a install a windows update that's already installed. To be specific it's September 1st 2021-08 Cumulative Update Preview KB5005101 or September 14 2021-09 Cumulative Update KB5005565 I'm using Windows 10…
desbest
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How to lock Windows 10 screen without turn off?

Is it possible to lock screen without screen turn off? For example, here is my settings: I wanna automatically lock screen after 5 minutes, but display should not off (only after 30 minutes). I thought "Sign-in options - Require sign-in" option…
Adam Shakhabov
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Windows credential provider not shown in 21H1

I am developing a custom credential provider since the beginning of 2021 I took the reference from Credential Provider V2 from https://github.com/DavidWeiss2/windows-Credential-Provider-library So far it works fine for Windows 10 Home version 20H2,…
MH Rahman
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I can install Windows 10 2004 with MDT but not 21H1

So the time to deploy Windows to some new laptops rolled around this year. As 21H1 was already out, so I thought I'd spare my users a feature upgrade by installing from the 21H1 image. I've found that I can deploy Windows 10 2004 to the same…
Spencer
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Where can I get information if my computer refuses a connection?

As mentioned in this Stackoverflow post, I'm having trouble connecting to "localhost": I get the error message that the connection gets refused. As far as I know, when something happens to computer which he doesn't like, he puts a warning or error…
Dominique
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Windows 10 21H2 - How to prevent the start menu sidebar from expanding on hover?

I'm looking for a way to permanently disable the Windows 10 start menu sidebar from expanding automatically on hover, or disable the expanding "feature" altogether, ideally without a third party program, but through modifying the OS files or…
HYBR1D
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How do I make explorer.exe load my desktop quicker once past the login screen?

I've finally managed to improve the performance of my laptop using multiple solutions as described in the threads I've made on various windows technical support forums. The line is only going to keep going up. However I have a minor performance…
desbest
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Sound does not work / “No Audio Output Device Is Installed” after 21h1 (May 2021) windows update

After installing the lastest windows update, my sound does not work. It shows a red X in the taskbar and on hover it says "No Audio Output Device is installed.": How can I fix it?
GameScripting
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No internet connection

Installed windows 10 Pro version 21H1 Already connected but windows shows no internet connection Already tried reinstalling adapter driver ipconfig and winsock solutions resetting the network none of them solved it but BTW connecting using VPN makes…
Mahy
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Information missing from Reliabiliy Monitor after windows update

After installing Cumulative Update July 2021 for Windows 10 21H1 KB5004237 I have got the following errors on my computer. Reliability Monitor doesn't show all the events. The following are missing. Miscellaneous failures Warnings Information I'm…
desbest
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