Tag: Windows 10

  • June 9, 2022 · Article

    Keyboard and Mouse Microstutters with a Dell Latitude Notebook

    I’ve been having a weird microstuttering issue with my Dell notebook, running Windows 10. The symptoms are input from the keyboard or the mouse hanging for about a half second to a second every 1-2 minutes. When this happens, I am unable to move the mouse. Rebooting the system did no good, and I found […]

  • April 10, 2022 · Article

    Gigabyte OSD_Sidekick: “Please check if your USB cable is connected”

    I wanted to find out what firmware my Gigabyte M32Q screen was running, and update it if necessary. The software used to do so is called OSD_Sidekick. Installation was a bit odd – it froze my PC for a few moments. But the installation did finish. However, OSD_Sidekick.exe wouldn’t recognize my M32Q, instead displaying the […]

  • January 23, 2021 · Article

    Gnucash: “Install Online Price Retrieval for GnuCash” results in “Access is Denied” error

    When I tried to install Stock market price retrieval for Gnucash – via the included script – I was presented with an “msxml3.dll: Access is denied” error. At first, I thought this was an UAC problem and reinstalled GnuCash outside the Program Files directory, but this did not help. The solution turned out to be […]

  • August 18, 2020 · Article

    Windows 10 “Type here to search” Search in Taskbar not working

    This is going to be a little more unspecific than I usually like my posts, but it took me a while to fix and I didn’t document well. My apologies, I hope this still helps. I recently had the issue that, when clicking on the “Type here to search” search box in the taskbar of […]

  • July 13, 2020 · Article

    Windows 10: Microfreezes in Games

    For the past few weeks, I noticed microfreezes or microstutters in games. Gameplay would “halt” for maybe half a second, then resume normally. This affected multiple games, so I knew it was a problem with my PC. I checked everything I could – deinstalled applications, made sure nothing “weird” ran in the background, checked the […]