Windows
audiodg.exe High CPU in Windows 11: 7 Fixes
audiodg.exe is Windows Audio Device Graph Isolation, the process that applies effects to sound before it reaches your speakers or headphones. It normally sits at 0–2%…
John Ward
Windows
Windows 11 Settings Not Opening? 8 Fixes That Work
When Windows Settings not opening is the problem, it usually shows up one of three ways: nothing happens when you press Win + I, the window…
Windows
WMIC Removed from Windows 11: PowerShell Replacements
If wmic suddenly answers with “‘wmic’ is not recognized as an internal or external command”, nothing is broken. With WMIC removed from Windows 11 in 2026,…
Chrome
How to See YouTube Dislikes Without Installing an Extension
YouTube hid the public dislike count in November 2021, and the change stuck. Open any video today and you get a like count on its own,…
Chrome
Free VPN for Chrome: What It Covers and How to Choose
Disclosure. HowFixes publishes browser extensions of its own, including some in this category. We do not name or link to them here — a page about…
Chrome
Free VPN Browser Extensions: What They Do and How to Judge One
Disclosure. HowFixes publishes browser extensions of its own, including some in this category. We do not name or link to them here, because a page about…
How To
How to Fix VIDEO_DXGKRNL_FATAL_ERROR (BSoD)
VIDEO_DXGKRNL_FATAL_ERROR is a blue screen from the DirectX Graphics Kernel — the part of Windows that sits between applications and your graphics driver. When it appears,…
Windows
How to Disable the Windows 11 Password (and When Not To)
There are two different things people mean by “disable the Windows 11 password”, and they have very different consequences: Sign in automatically at startup — the…
Windows
Is SearchApp.exe a Virus? How to Check and How to Fix It
SearchApp.exe is a genuine Windows component. It draws the search interface when you press the Windows key and start typing, and it lives in the protected…
How To
How to Fix KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE in Windows
KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE is a blue screen that means Windows caught a data structure in kernel memory that had been corrupted. It stopped rather than continuing with memory…