50€ payplay for anyone who can fix my windows api problem without me having to reset my pc

[turbid loom]

Elaborate on your API issue pretty please

[little mango]

i chackmarked "use microsoft ... api" on rivatuner statistics server and after i restarted my pc my windows taskbar doesnt work propperly

the windows button, the notification area, shortcut contextmenues. non of these work anymore

im4h+ into looking for a solution

im gonna loose my mind

i reset my windows a few days ago, cuz i had this same issue. but back then i didnt checkmark anything

we can go on a call and screenshare if thats gonna help

[turbid loom]

"use microsoft ... api" what's the exact setting

[little mango]

no

this is the exaxt setting i used

im not 100% sure if this caused it

i found many sites mentioning these together

but no solution i can understand anywhere

i turned this thing on to be able to "game cature" in obs

and it worked out, but after restarting my pc, my windows taskbar was fked

i tryed every YT solution i could find

i rly dont wanna factory reset my pc again

[turbid loom]

that's really interesting

is this win10 or 11?

[little mango]

win 10

i found this

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/release-health/resolved-issues-windows-10-22h2#3001msgdesc

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/june-27-2023-kb5027293-os-build-19045-3155-preview-1c50b938-6a65-4e7e-9fdd-967f391c846f

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/march-22-2022-kb5011543-os-builds-19042-1620-19043-1620-and-19044-1620-preview-4fe2d1c0-720f-47fe-9523-75339bc107a1

https://www.tenforums.com/pc-custom-builds-overclocking/87940-latest-msi-afterburner-betas-updates-79.html?s=e74b63dec7ea92c3ed66f9d3a7510b3c

[turbid loom]

It's going to be tough finding forum/bug reports for this, because it's a really broad issue that could have many causes. In other words, there's a good chance all of these are completely unrelated

Have you booted into the Windows repair/safeboot menu and tried the automatic repair?

Have you unchecked that option in RTSS?

[little mango]

idk about automatic repair, but i had to safe start at some point and i didd everything form this vid for example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfirL7sJtz8

[turbid loom]

Yeah this is what I was getting at earlier. This is a broad issue and these videos are going to be very unhelpful

[little mango]

what does board issue mean?

is my mainboard broken?

[turbid loom]

No, you're fine dude

An easy first step here is to do the automatic repair provided by windows
Go to click on the restart option, but hold shift while you're doing it

It should boot into a menu like this

[little mango]

i unchecked the option in rtss and restarted my pc but it didnt help

[turbid loom]

Click advanced options > startup repair

[little mango]

ok, i will try this

wait

i cant

the windows button is not working xD

[turbid loom]

can you click on the start menu at all?

[little mango]

nope

search bar is not working

[turbid loom]

otherwise, just restart and select the power/reset option in the login screen

[little mango]

win key is not responding

[turbid loom]

^^

[little mango]

in login screen i will try

[turbid loom]

remember to hold Shift when you click restart

[little mango]

oki

the repair option failed

[turbid loom]

It failed to finish or was unable to find any issues?

[little mango]

i dont remember the exact wording and it was in german as well. but i think i couldnt even get started

[short tundra]

It's either that I'm stupid, or this problem has an extremely easy solution

Put in a usb drive, go to bios, set the usb drive as the boot device, and boot up your pc

(the usb drive needs to have an os installed btw)

[little mango]

whats that gonna do? for reapiars`?

[short tundra]

Nothing, you can then recover your data and reset your pc

[little mango]

i dont wanna reset my pc

[turbid loom]

The whole point here is to avoid doing a reset

[little mango]

i just did that a few days ago

[short tundra]

I know, but I thought you were avoiding resetting your pc because you didn't want your data to be lost

[little mango]

nah, its just to much effort to set everything up agian and again

[turbid loom]

im4h+ into looking for a solution
FWIW, it's going to get to a point (or already has) where the amount of time you spend trying to fix this bug takes longer than it would have to just reinstall windows

[short tundra]

Does your boot drive have other applications on it?

[little mango]

i just want to know to the exact solution to my problem, so i can just fix it fast next time it happens

[short tundra]

Wait, are you using windows 10 or 11?

[turbid loom]

10

[short tundra]

I think you can fix it by downloading windows 11

[little mango]

only the ones which forced themselves in there like discord

i my e drive for all optional software

[short tundra]

Try downloading windows 11

[little mango]

my pc is to old for windows 11

[short tundra]

ah

Have you tried already?

[little mango]

yes

iot says my cpu is sht

its 4th gen

[short tundra]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[little mango]

but a good cpu imo

i need to buy new cpu mainboard and ram if i ever wanna upgrade

[short tundra]

Did you actually try?

[little mango]

that gonna be a littleexpensive for me

[short tundra]

You should have the minimum requirements

How much ram do you have?

[turbid loom]

https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/bypass-windows-11-tpm-requirement
You have to fuck with the registry to install 11 on a PC that old, because it doesn't have TPM

[short tundra]

Can you try freeing storage?

[turbid loom]

That google overview excludes the TPM requirement

But it is possible to bypass it

[little mango]

i heard of this, but idk if i should risk it. since ppl say it might crash on you , adn you will get no updates cuz its not supported hardware...

[turbid loom]

Yep

So, insisting on an 11 update probably isn't the answer here

[little mango]

non of my drives are near to beeing full. wdym?

[short tundra]

Wait, try restarting your pc and when you go into the login page, press restart while holding shift

I think that takes you to the automatic repair thing

[turbid loom]

Homie take a moment to look through this chat, I already walked them through this

[short tundra]

You didn't say what I said though

you said to press the windows key

I said to press the restart key on the signup page

wait lemme try it myself

[little mango]

i did this already

[turbid loom]

^^

I literally said exactly that

[short tundra]

ah

sorry

[turbid loom]

Automatic repair did nothing

[short tundra]

Wait

can you try going into safe boot?

[turbid loom]

That was going to be my next suggestion before you steamrolled a win11 install

[short tundra]

cool

@little mango You here?

[little mango]

yea

[short tundra]

Have you tried going into safe boot?

[little mango]

i was gonna start this soon , but im mentall done for now i think https://www.easeus.com/computer-instruction/windows-10-startup-repair-not-working.html

thjis is a lot of steps to fix this

[turbid loom]

These are not helpful articles

[little mango]

i did step one already

im crying

[short tundra]

Man chill it's not that hard to fix

[turbid loom]

Step One is to take a deep breath and go for a walk, it's not worth it

[little mango]

yea im 5 hours on this sht already

[turbid loom]

Telling them it's easy to fix when they've spent half a day on it is not helpful advice

[short tundra]

Idk man

just telling you, I once tried fixing my laptop's os for a week straight

[turbid loom]

@little mango Go for a walk, step away from the computer for a bit

[short tundra]

and it worked out because I had patience

[turbid loom]

That's a great story dude, thanks for sharing

[short tundra]

np!

[little mango]

yea, i will

[turbid loom]

Get some fresh air and revisit this tomorrow. Trust me, it'll help a lot

[little mango]

thx man

[worn belfry]

Have you tried just restarting the taskbar ?

This used to happen to me occasionally in the past, for what reason I don't know

https://m.majorgeeks.com/content/page/restart_reset_taskbar.html#:~:text=Open Task Manager.,so press the Windows key.

Following those instruction to restart windows explorer always fixed it for me

[little mango]

yea, this is on of the fist things i did. im a windosw xp veteran :)

[little mango]

there is defenetly something fked in windows files

i want my windows 7 back q_q at this point im considdering to try out linux for the first time... but there is no valorant on linux ...

[turbid loom]

I wonder if installing Classic Shell would resolve this
http://www.classicshell.net/

If you like Win 7, you'd dig this anyways, as it can reskin the taskbar to look like 7

[little mango]

the software is doin its job, by giving me a funktional windows button. but when i close it, the windosw button still doesnt work. and also even if running i cant rightlick or edit shortcuts cant click on clock or notifications either. so its basicly just giving me a makeup windows button

[worn belfry]

Did it work in safe mode? If it does then I suppose you can start uninstalling things one by one mull you find the culprit

[candid beacon]

Just reset the pc

[little mango]

dude if your mom dies, i will be at her funeral with you, telling you to 'just be happy'

[candid beacon]

Thats Not a Comparison

[little mango]

in my eyes that i s

[candid beacon]

Why cant you just reset is?

*it

[little mango]

now go and think about what you have done

[candid beacon]

Why cant you reset it bro

Seriously

There is Not a Single reason why you cant do it

[little mango]

cuz i dont wanna reset and setup my entire system every time this random error comes