Discord Opens Emoji Picker on Enter Instead of Sending Message
App

Discord Opens Emoji Picker on Enter Instead of Sending Message

If you pick an emoji from the emoji picker in the Discord app on Windows 11 or 10 and press Enter to send your message, but the emoji picker opens again instead of sending it, it’s not [...]

By Nyau Wai Hoe, ago
Quest 3 Controllers Won't Wake Up After Going to Sleep
Troubleshoot

Quest 3 Controllers Won’t Wake Up After Going to Sleep

The Touch Plus controllers of the Quest 3 (and 3S) are supposed to doze off when you put them down and come back the moment you press a button, but since a recent Horizon OS update, many of them [...]

By Nyau Wai Hoe, ago
RAM Sticks Pass MemTest86 Individually but Fail Together
Hardware

RAM Sticks Pass MemTest86 Individually but Fail Together

Two RAM sticks that each pass MemTest86 on their own, even in more than one slot, should run just as well side by side, but sometimes they don’t: with both sticks installed, MemTest86 [...]

By Nyau Wai Hoe, ago
Outlook.com Junk Folder Flooded With "Unverified" Emails
Troubleshoot

Outlook.com Junk Folder Flooded With “Unverified” Emails

Say you open Outlook.com and the Junk Email folder has dozens of new messages from random addresses, many of them tagged “Unverified“, and a few even look like they were sent from [...]

By Nyau Wai Hoe, ago
Quest Link Disconnects and Won't Reconnect Until PC Restart
Troubleshoot

Quest Link Disconnects and Won’t Reconnect Until PC Restart

If your Meta Quest 3, 3S or Quest 2 drops out of Quest Link soon after a game starts and then just sits on “Attempting to connect to PC“, or doesn’t see your Windows 11 or 10 [...]

By Nyau Wai Hoe, ago
NVIDIA Control Panel Resolution and Scaling Options Missing
Nvidia

NVIDIA Control Panel Resolution and Scaling Options Missing

The NVIDIA Control Panel has long been the place to change the resolution, refresh rate and scaling of a monitor plugged into a GeForce card, but after a recent NVIDIA App or driver update, [...]

By Nyau Wai Hoe, ago
amdafdapp.exe Keeps Popping Up at Startup in Windows 11
Troubleshoot

amdafdapp.exe Keeps Popping Up at Startup in Windows 11

There is a strange problem on PCs with AMD processors, mostly laptops, where a Command Prompt-style window showing the path to amdafdapp.exe opens by itself every time Windows starts, and comes [...]

By Nyau Wai Hoe, ago
Show or Hide Data Based on a Drop-Down Selection in Excel
Windows 10

Show or Hide Data Based on a Drop-Down Selection in Excel

A drop-down list in Excel only controls what can go into its own cell, so picking an item from it won’t make any rows, notes or instructions appear or disappear by itself. To show only the [...]

By Nyau Wai Hoe, ago
How to Turn Off Mini Window in Firefox
Browser

How to Turn Off Mini Window in Firefox

If you’ve been clicking “Move Section to Mini Window” by accident ever since Firefox updated to version 160, usually when you meant to search for some selected text, [...]

By Nyau Wai Hoe, ago
High Non-Paged Pool in Windows 11, Which Driver Is Leaking?
Troubleshoot

High Non-Paged Pool in Windows 11, Which Driver Is Leaking?

The non-paged pool in Task Manager’s Memory page usually stays under about 1 GB, and it barely changes no matter how long the computer has been on. If yours sits at 1.5 GB, 4 GB or even [...]

By Nyau Wai Hoe, ago