Fix Blue Screen of Death in Windows 10

While you are upgrading the operating system, booting or simply working on your computer/ laptop, you might encounter a problem of Stop Error Screen in Windows 8.1/ 8/ 7/ Vista/ XP. Well, this issue also happens to the latest operating system Windows 10. When this problem occurs, you could see there is a big ‘Sad’ icon on your screen. In this case, some are suffering from a Blue Screen of Death, on the other hand, some are involving in a Black Screen.

Generally, there are three scenarios about blue screen of death in Windows 10: BSOD while booting Windows 10, BSOD while working on Windows 10, and BSOD reboot loop. In this post, it will analyze the causes and propose the effective solutions for each scenario.

Senario 1: Blue Screen of Death on Windows 10 While booting

After you upgraded to Windows and forgot to upgrades the device drivers, you might have difficulties in booting Windows 10 if the blue screen stuck on your machine. The corrupted or incompatible drivers and wrong updates are the main reason leading to this issue. Find the solutions below to solve your problem.

Solution 1: Removing the updates after BSOD occurred

Step 1: Go to Setting -> Windows Updates
Step 2: Click on Advanced -> View Installed Updates
Step 3: Check the date of the Updates
Step 4: Remove the updates installed on the date after BSOD occurred

Solution 2: Block automatic driver updates

Please follow the above 5 steps first, then go to Control Panel -> Advanced System settings -> Hardware tab -> Device Installation settings to block automatic driver updates.

Note: After you turn off the automatic driver updates, it is suggested you use a third party driver tool to update the device drivers. Driver Talent is highly recommended, which is able to help you to download and install the best-match driver.

Scenario 2: Blue Screen of Death on Windows 10 while working

If the drivers are incompatible with Windows 10 after operating system upgrading, the blue screen of death might be happen. Please also check if you add or install hardware recently. This might be also one reason resulting in blue screen of death on Windows 10. Follow the below solutions to solve the problem.

Solution 1: Using Driver Talent to troubleshoot

Driver Talent is a professional and authorized driver update tool. It is able to scan your computer/ laptop to detect the outdated or corrupted device drivers, but also to update and fix drivers.

Step 1: Start Driver Talent to detect the drivers.
Step 2: Click Start, Driver Talent could download & install the best match drivers or repair the broken drivers for you.

Solution 2: Remove the hardware installed recently

If you installed the hardware recently, to remove it could fix the blue screen of death on Windows 10. Please shut down your computer/ laptop before you take this step.

Scenario 3: Blue screen of death reboot loop

Blue screen reboot loop will prevent your access to the Windows 10 desktop, but you will be taken to repair mode automatically after a while. You could use the System Restore facility to figure out this problem from there. Check the following steps.

Step 1: Click on System Restore
Step 2: Select a date/ point prior when BSOD is appearing

All above methods are workable to solve blue screen of death on Windows 10. If you have any other easy and effective ways to get rid of blue screen, please leave a message in comment. For any other problems on Windows 10, you could get hot tips from source center.

How to fix Wifi not available after Windows 10 upgrade

A vast number of Microsoft users suffered from various Windows 10 upgrading bugs including bluetooth not available on Windows 10, touchpad not working on Windows 10, black screen on Windows 10, etc. Recently, thousands of hundreds users complaint that they encountered a new problem: Wifi not available after Windows 10 upgrade. You might be familiar with the following symptoms.

• WiFi Stopped Working after Update to Windows 10
• Windows 10 wifi connected but no internet
• Windows 10 wifi not connecting automatically
• Wireless Networks Missing After Windows 10 Upgrade

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Why Wifi not available on Windows 10?

What are the reasons resulting in Wifi not working after Windows 10 upgrade? After updating to Windows 10, the Wifi or Wireless driver is incompatible with the new operating system. The issue of Wifi works improperly on Windows 10 occurred.

Another reason is the unsupported VPN software, which was explained by Mirosoft:
‘The issue may occur if older VPN software is installed on Windows 8.1 and is present during the upgrade to Windows 10. Older software versions contain a Filter Driver (the Deterministic Network Enhancer) which is not properly upgraded, leading to the issue.’

2 methods to fix Wifi not available after Windows 10 upgrade

After you figured out the causes, you are very close to the solutions. There are two workable methods to fix this problem and get the Wifi working on Windows 10.

Method 1: Update Wifi driver on Windows 10

As we mentioned, old or corrupted wireless driver is the reason leading to Wifi not working on Windows 10. A compatible Wifi driver could workable for Windows 8 or Windows 7, but it is outdated for Windows 10. In this case, you need to update the driver. Using Driver Talent to update the drivers is the easiest way to solve this problem. Instead of searching the latest wireless driver on the manufacturer’s website, all you do is mouse click.

Method 2: Enter command to fix Wifi not available on Windows 10

If updating wireless driver is not workable, follow the steps to enter command. It could be helpful to resolve the problem. You’d better to backup and restore in case other problems occur.

1.Right click ‘Start’ and select ‘Command prompt (Admin)’
2.Enter the following command and hit ‘Enter’
reg delete HKCR\CLSID\{988248f3-a1ad-49bf-9170-676cbbc36ba3} /va /f
3.Type the below command and hit ‘Enter’ again
netcfg -v -u dni_dne
4.Reboot your machine. Also go to check the Wifi settings.

The above states how to fix Wifi not available after Windows 10 upgrade. Hopefully these are useful to you. Definitely, if you have other solutions, you could leave a message in the comment. For other Windows 10 issues, you could go to source center to get more tips.

Top solutions to fix games freeze or stop responding in Windows 10

Are you a game lover? Do you play games everyday for fun? It really sucks if the games crashed while you are playing. Well, there are a vast number of Windows 10 users complaint that they encountered a common issue: games freeze or stop responding in Windows 10. You might be familiar with the following problems reported from Windows 10 users.

• I am having a problem with games freezing on my windows 10 HP PC.
• My Lenovo got freezing when playing games after I upgraded to Windows 10.
• Game freeze/stuck at loading screen after update to Windows 10
• After upgrade to Windows 10 my Asus PC freezes especially in games.
• Game crashes(stops responding) since my Samsung upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 8.

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Why the game works properly in Windows 7/8/8.1, but it gets freezing or stops responding in Windows 10? You might ever think about this question. Well, the reasons resulting in games freeze or stop responding in Windows 10 are various. In this post, you will get know the probable solutions to different causes. I’d say you are really lucky.

Top 1 solution: Basic troubleshoot in Windows 10

Occasionally, games get froze or crashed might be caused by the temporary issues from your computer/ laptop or bugs from games you are playing. Following ways, you could solve the problems probably.

• Exit and restart game
• Restart your computer/ laptop
• Uninstall and reinstall the game
• Check the network connectivity if you play online games

Top 2 solution: Check for the driver updates in Windows 10

If your games freeze or stop responding in Windows 10, the Windows device drivers might be incompatible or corrupted. In this case, updating the drivers including graphic card drivers and audio drivers is the solution.

Driver Talent could be helpful to solve the problem easily. It is an authorized and professional driver repair utility for Windows. Incredibly, Driver Talent could do more than you think: scan all the drivers, and hardware, verify the driver problems, download and install the latest drivers, fix the problematic drivers, backup, restore, etc.

Top 3 solution: Check if the game is compatible with Windows 10

There is a specific minimum system requirements for Windows machines to play some games. If your games freezes or stop responding in Windows 10, go to check the compatible systems of the games you play. The easiest way to check for the compatibility is go to game official website to check or contact the manufacturer.

I bet your problem of game freeze or stop responding in Windows 10 is resolved, right? If you have other workable solutions, you could leave a message in comment. For other Windows 10 issues, you could get valuable tips from source center.

Fix: Black screen on Windows 10

Windows 10 users have encountered issues including Bluetooth not available, touchpad not working, sound and audio issues, etc. fortunately, all of them were resolved. Recently, numerous users reported they got involved into a new problem of black screen on Windows 10. You might be familiar with the listed common issues below:

• It shows a black screen with only the mouse showing after upgraded to Windows 10.
• Windows 7 to 10 upgrade -part Installs... Black screen with movable white pointer.
• Black screen booting windows 10.
• Windows 10 Envy will not shutdown black screen with power lights still on.
• Black screen without cursor after upgrading to Windows 10.
• Windows 10 gets stuck on a black screen.
• Black screen windows 10 without cursor.

Generally, when black screen on Windows 10 happened there are two scenarios that are users can’t sign in to Windows 10 and users can sign in to Windows 10. No matter you are a user of HP, Lenovo, LG, Samsung, IBM, Thinkpad, Toshiba, Asus, Acer, Dell, Sony, etc., this issue could be easily solved using the troubleshooting methods.

Scenario 1: Users can’t sign in to Windows 10

Black screen of death occurred when you were trying to sign in to Windows 10 but failed, in this case, an outdated or corrupted display driver could be the cause resulting in black screen on Windows 10. The following solutions are helpful to fix the issue of black screen at boot on Windows 10.

Solution 1: Using Driver Talent to update the display driver.

Driver Talent is an easy-use third party utility, which is able to scan all the drivers, identify driver problems and outdated or corrupted drivers, fix the problematic drivers and download & install the best match drivers for your machine.

- Activate Driver Talent and click ‘Scan’
- Click ‘Start’ and Driver Talent will update the compatible display driver for you
- Reboot

Solution 2: Reinstall display adapter driver

- Click ‘Start’ and type ‘Device Manager’ in the tasktab
- Select ‘Device Manager’ and expand ‘Display Adapter’
- Right click and select ‘Uninstall’
- Reboot and reinstall

Scenario 2: Users can sign in to Windows 10

This is another scenario we talk about, which is allowing to sign in to but there is no display yet. Well, this issue of black screen on Windows 10 might be caused by external devices. The solutions listed below could be helpful to resolve the problem easily.

Solution 1: Check for external devices.

- Remove all external devices
- Restart your machine

Solution 2: Enter Windows 10 safe mode

- Boot and enter safe mode
- Click ‘Troubleshoot’ -> ‘Advanced’ -> ‘Startup Settings’ -> Restart
- Press F5 when your computer restarts, then it will enter Safe Mode With Networking
- Open ‘Device Manager’ and uninstall the display driver
- Reboot and reinstall the driver.

After you tried all the above solutions, you might solve the problem of screen goes black after installing windows 10. If you have other problems, please check Resource Center to get more useful tips.

Tips: How to fix the issue of Touchpad not working for Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP/Vista

For a laptop user, touchpad stops working could make you crazy when you are without a mouse. Well, the report reveals that HP, Acer, Asus, Sony, Samsung, LG, Thinkpad, Lenovo, IBM, Dell, Toshiba, etc. laptop users encountered touch screen/ touchpad problems like ‘Windows 10 touchpad gestures not working’, ‘Synaptics touchpad driver not working’, ‘touchpad/touchscreen not functioning’. You might be wondering why touchpad is not working properly? Generally, the common causes include inappropriate device setting, missing updates, and incompatible or corrupted drivers. In this article, it will teach you how to fix the touchpad not working issue in Windows 10/8.1/8/7/XP/Vista.

Method 1: Check for touchpad settings

Certainly, a disabled touchpad could not work in your laptop. So the first thing is to check if your touchpad is enabled. We will take Windows 10 for example. Please follow the steps:

- Click Home> Settings> Devices> Mouse
- Click ‘Additional mouse options’ and then ‘Mouse Properties’.
- Click the tab on the right (named ‘ELAN’ or ‘Device Settings’)
- Check touchpad is enabled. If not, click on its name, and then on ‘Enable’.

Method 2: Use troubleshooter

Toubleshooter could help you to diagnose and find some common problems including touchpad freezes or working improperly.

- Click ‘Start’ and ‘Control Panel’ then
- Enter ‘Troubleshooter’ in the search box, and click ‘Troubleshooting’
- Click ‘Configure a device’ under ‘Hardware and Sound’

Follow this method step by step, you could repaire the problem of touch not working in your Windows operating system.

Method 3: Update touchpad driver

As we know an incompatible, outdated, corrupted, broken or missing driver could block the communication between the computer and touchpad. If you tried the above two methods, your touchpad is still not working, then the out of date touchpad driver might be the reason resulting in the issue. Using Driver Talent to update the best-match driver for you. It could scan to detect all drivers, then verify the problematic driver, fix them for you finally. All this just need one mouse click.

Now you might resolve the problem about touchpad not working, right? If the answer is negative, please leave your details in the comment and we will try to figure it out. For other Windows driver problems, you could obtain valuable tips from source center.

Drivers backup for Windows 10/ 8.1/ 8/ 7/ Vista/ XP

We know Windows drivers work as an essential bridge allowing hardware device communicating with your computer, laptop, or notebook. Without drivers, hardware and external devices including video card, audio card, Bluetooth, printer, network, etc. will never work properly or even not work completely. You might also know formatting operating system will make all the drivers gone. If you don’t want to involve a trouble of searching and downloading them, you’d better to backup drivers before reinstall. In this post, it is dedicated to show you how to make drivers backup for Windows 10/ 8.1/ 8/ 7/ Vista/ XP.

Backup drivers by Driver Talent

Driver Talent is a professional and authorized device driver update and manage utility. It is a feature-rich free software that is able to help you scan your computer, backup device drivers, identify the driver problems, download the best-match drivers, repair the problematic drivers and do much more. The strong compatibility makes Driver Talent could work for all computer and laptop including HP, Sony, Lenovo, Samsung, Toshiba, IBM, Asus, Acer, Dell, etc. Well, let’s see how to use this tool to backup drivers. 

Step 1: Scan to detect all the drivers.

Launch Driver Talent -> Click Scan. Driver Talent could scan and detect all the driver backup information automatically.

Step 2: Drivers backup with simply one click.

Driver Talent would list the identified drivers need to backup. What you need to do is just one mouse click, and then all device drivers are going to be backuped.

Certainly, driver backup could help you to avoid issues of display, sound, bluetooth, network, printer, etc. If you haven’t done that, you could download and install Driver Talent to help you. 

How to fix Windows 10 sound and audio issues

More and more users upgraded their computer from Windows 8/8.1/7 to Windows 10, they have enjoyed the new features, apps and functionality, however, quite a few users also reported they encountered sound and audio issues like - ' No sound on Windows 10', ' A recurring problem with sound', ' Unable to play videos', ' Sound not playing after Microsoft Windows 10 Update' , ' My sound is cracking after upgraded to Windows 10', ' Hear anything at all speakers', ' My sound drivers also completely disappear', ' My sound randomly cuts out and clips, especially when watching videos.', etc.

Now, let's learn how to fix these Windows 10 sound and audio issues. All the solutions listed below could resolve these issues for your computer, laptop or notebook including Sony, Samsung, HP, Thinkpad, Lenovo, Asus, Toshiba, Acer, LG, Dell, etc.

Solution 1: Basic sound/ audio troubleshoot

Go to check for your speakers and make sure they are plugged into your machine properly. Also please verify there is nothing muted. This is the quite basic and first step, but most users are easy to ignore.

Solution 2: Run the sound/ audio troubleshoot

There is a function of ' Playing audio troubleshooter' in Windows 10, which you could troubleshoot sound/ audio issues easily by it in ' Control Panel'. You could watch the following video to run the audio troubleshoot. 

Solution 3: Update sound/ audio card driver

The sound/ audio card driver might get outdated or corrupt during upgrading to Windows 10, which could result in the incompatibility or bad communication between them. In this part, it will give two methods of how to update sound/ audio card driver.

Method 1: Update sound/ audio card driver by Driver Talent

Driver Talent is a professional and authorized third-party device driver update software. It could help you to scan all the drivers, identify the driver problems, download the compatible drivers, and repair the problematic drivers.

• Activate Driver Talent to scan your computer
• All verified driver problems will be listed 
• Click ‘ Start’, ‘ Repair’ or ‘ Update’
• Reboot your machine

Method 2: Update sound/ audio card driver in Device Manager

• Click ‘ Start’ and type ‘ Device Manager’, then select it from the list of results. 
• Expand ‘ Sound, video and game controllers’, choose your sound/ audio card, right-click the driver tab and select ‘ Update driver’

Note: If this did not work, follow the above steps to unsinstall the driver. Don’t forget to reinstall after restarted your machine.

Well, those are the probably solutions to fix Windows 10 sound and audio issues . Does your sound back to your computer? Can you hear everything from your laptop? If the answer is nagetive, you could leave the details about your problems in the comments, and we would like to work it out for you. For other problems related device drivers in Windows 10/ 8/ 8.1/ 7/ XP/ Vista, you could get some useful tips from Scource Center.