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Clear the Cache on a PC? There Are Five of Them

Nearly 2 GB of cache on this machine, and two thirds of it sits in a folder nobody means when they say clear the cache.

Every guide sends you to Event Viewer for your boot time. On this PC that log is not there at all.

Windows Home cannot be the PC you connect to. That single fact answers a large share of these before any setting is touched.

Your headset appears twice in Windows. One entry is stereo, the other is a phone line, and Windows keeps choosing the phone line.

Windows was quietly remembering a volume for 150 separate apps on this PC. That is the state people are trying to reset.

The Wi-Fi link here reported 86.5 Mbps and full duplex False. That second value explains most slow uploads.

Four keys restart the display driver with nothing closing. Windows already does the same thing on its own.

Windows has never controlled the brightness of an external monitor. One command tells you whether yours can have a slider.

The master switch said Allow while two apps underneath were set to Deny. A denied app gets this exact error.

Microsoft lists 36 causes for this stop code and only two mention hardware. The parameter on your screen says which one you have.