Recent content by SlicEnDicE

Then it must be broken. Quickly MS, fix it. :zany:

Seriously though. All AV programs evolve over time. They all have their ups and downs. There's no best AV and asking for opinions will give opinions, very often as many opinions as there are users. Best course of action is to grind through them all. That is THE ONLY WAY to know which one works...

Because we have had issues with ESET and Bitdefender and have had to pay real money for those problems, when Windows Defender runs silently in the background for free and does its job fine?

Speaking of Bitdefender. I used to love it, until one update screwed up my whole computer. It did something no AV should ever do. It filled my desktop with garbage. First I thought I was infected, until I found out it was Bitdefender itself. Clean installed, canceled my sub and never looked back. 😂

What comes to white listing files and folders...that I have had to do for every AV I've ever used. Being it for performance reasons or false positives...they're all the same.

It's right there up with one of the best solutions. If you fire over 10000 malware variants against it and it let's through just a handful and gives about a handful of false positives, I'd say that's pretty freaking impressive. These tests vary from month to month. Sometimes some of the latest...

Yeah, Vanguard is a kernel level anti cheat system that runs every time you boot your computer. For some users it has been very problematic. For others there are no issues. It is a weird one.

Kaspersky, ESET, Bitdefender, Malwarebytes and Windows Defender are all good, with different interfaces and features. I've used them all. Just make sure you ONLY use 1 at a time for online scanning or you'll end up in same situation as before. For offline scanning it's good to have a second...

I see you have Vanguard installed. That component/anti cheat system is known to cause a lot of BSODs. Are you playing Valorant or League of Legends?

I didn't read the logs but based on your description of computer usage/behavior pattern, your issue is most likely a memory or Windows maintenance/configuration corruption. 4 BSODs in a year is not bad and means your system is very stable. I think you can solve this, by rebooting the computer...

This is not a solution, but just some information I want to put out here. I've noticed a pattern lately. Most Windows 11 issues among many users with random BSODS have been on 24H2 builds. Many users can't upgrade from 23H2 to 24H2, including myself. I've got 2 machines, that can't even install...

While troubleshooting, it's very important that Windows is as clean as possible and not having any third party apps and tools that mess with the system/OS itself.

Hello and welcome to Eleven forums. First of all, you should update the Motherboard BIOS and FIRMWARE components to the latest. Your BIOS seems to be the original this MB got at launch. If this did not help at all, then we have to look closer.

I have a strong feeling MS is experimenting with new or different media features, thus the service exists but is probably not used by anything yet...

It could be the Zune Software service...not entirely sure what it does in a dev build but, you should be able to safely remove it if you don't use the Zune Player or any of their services...Zune Software is a Microsoft product...so maybe that is why...