Windows Setting
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I cannot find a suitable forum for this question, so please forgive me for posting it here, or please suggest where I ought to be posting it. Yesterday I got a prompt saying something about a security risk that malicious programs could overwrite protected storage locations and a link to a windows setting to switch on a hardware setting to prevent this happening. I cannot remember the exact details. I clicked the link and switched on the hardware feature. Now, every time I start Windows, whether from a reboot or after an inactivity time out, I get a message box titled 'System Setting Change' with the message 'Your hardware settings have changed. Please reboot your computer for these changes to take effect !!'. I have searched the Settings menus and cannot see anything that looks like a setting related to this change. Further reboots have no effect. Googling suggests that it is caused by changing AMD Graphics Cards. I am reluctant to touch that as the graphics card is part of the processor (AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics (4 core)).
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I cannot find a suitable forum for this question, so please forgive me for posting it here, or please suggest where I ought to be posting it. Yesterday I got a prompt saying something about a security risk that malicious programs could overwrite protected storage locations and a link to a windows setting to switch on a hardware setting to prevent this happening. I cannot remember the exact details. I clicked the link and switched on the hardware feature. Now, every time I start Windows, whether from a reboot or after an inactivity time out, I get a message box titled 'System Setting Change' with the message 'Your hardware settings have changed. Please reboot your computer for these changes to take effect !!'. I have searched the Settings menus and cannot see anything that looks like a setting related to this change. Further reboots have no effect. Googling suggests that it is caused by changing AMD Graphics Cards. I am reluctant to touch that as the graphics card is part of the processor (AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics (4 core)).
you can try to reinstall the AMD graphics card drivers Alternatively you can contact AMD support for more information regarding your specific graphics card
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I cannot find a suitable forum for this question, so please forgive me for posting it here, or please suggest where I ought to be posting it. Yesterday I got a prompt saying something about a security risk that malicious programs could overwrite protected storage locations and a link to a windows setting to switch on a hardware setting to prevent this happening. I cannot remember the exact details. I clicked the link and switched on the hardware feature. Now, every time I start Windows, whether from a reboot or after an inactivity time out, I get a message box titled 'System Setting Change' with the message 'Your hardware settings have changed. Please reboot your computer for these changes to take effect !!'. I have searched the Settings menus and cannot see anything that looks like a setting related to this change. Further reboots have no effect. Googling suggests that it is caused by changing AMD Graphics Cards. I am reluctant to touch that as the graphics card is part of the processor (AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics (4 core)).
jsc42 wrote:
I cannot find a suitable forum for this question
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I cannot find a suitable forum for this question, so please forgive me for posting it here, or please suggest where I ought to be posting it. Yesterday I got a prompt saying something about a security risk that malicious programs could overwrite protected storage locations and a link to a windows setting to switch on a hardware setting to prevent this happening. I cannot remember the exact details. I clicked the link and switched on the hardware feature. Now, every time I start Windows, whether from a reboot or after an inactivity time out, I get a message box titled 'System Setting Change' with the message 'Your hardware settings have changed. Please reboot your computer for these changes to take effect !!'. I have searched the Settings menus and cannot see anything that looks like a setting related to this change. Further reboots have no effect. Googling suggests that it is caused by changing AMD Graphics Cards. I am reluctant to touch that as the graphics card is part of the processor (AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics (4 core)).
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I cannot find a suitable forum for this question, so please forgive me for posting it here, or please suggest where I ought to be posting it. Yesterday I got a prompt saying something about a security risk that malicious programs could overwrite protected storage locations and a link to a windows setting to switch on a hardware setting to prevent this happening. I cannot remember the exact details. I clicked the link and switched on the hardware feature. Now, every time I start Windows, whether from a reboot or after an inactivity time out, I get a message box titled 'System Setting Change' with the message 'Your hardware settings have changed. Please reboot your computer for these changes to take effect !!'. I have searched the Settings menus and cannot see anything that looks like a setting related to this change. Further reboots have no effect. Googling suggests that it is caused by changing AMD Graphics Cards. I am reluctant to touch that as the graphics card is part of the processor (AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics (4 core)).
This sniffs of malware, right from the popup. I've never heard of Windows popping up such a dialog. THe first mistake was not Googling the EXACT message that came up. The second mistake was clicking that link. Your machine is now likely infected with malware now. I would suggest getting a few pieces of anti-virus software to scan the machine.
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I cannot find a suitable forum for this question, so please forgive me for posting it here, or please suggest where I ought to be posting it. Yesterday I got a prompt saying something about a security risk that malicious programs could overwrite protected storage locations and a link to a windows setting to switch on a hardware setting to prevent this happening. I cannot remember the exact details. I clicked the link and switched on the hardware feature. Now, every time I start Windows, whether from a reboot or after an inactivity time out, I get a message box titled 'System Setting Change' with the message 'Your hardware settings have changed. Please reboot your computer for these changes to take effect !!'. I have searched the Settings menus and cannot see anything that looks like a setting related to this change. Further reboots have no effect. Googling suggests that it is caused by changing AMD Graphics Cards. I am reluctant to touch that as the graphics card is part of the processor (AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with Radeon Vega Graphics (4 core)).
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This sniffs of malware, right from the popup. I've never heard of Windows popping up such a dialog. THe first mistake was not Googling the EXACT message that came up. The second mistake was clicking that link. Your machine is now likely infected with malware now. I would suggest getting a few pieces of anti-virus software to scan the machine.
Asking questions is a skill CodeProject Forum Guidelines Google: C# How to debug code Seriously, go read these articles.
Dave KreskowiakDave Kreskowiak wrote:
THe first mistake was not Googling the EXACT message that came up.
And then avoiding all of the promoted and/or scam links that would make up most of the first page of results. :rolleyes:
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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This sniffs of malware, right from the popup. I've never heard of Windows popping up such a dialog. THe first mistake was not Googling the EXACT message that came up. The second mistake was clicking that link. Your machine is now likely infected with malware now. I would suggest getting a few pieces of anti-virus software to scan the machine.
Asking questions is a skill CodeProject Forum Guidelines Google: C# How to debug code Seriously, go read these articles.
Dave KreskowiakDave Kreskowiak wrote:
The second mistake was clicking that link.
This.
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something about a security risk that malicious programs could overwrite protected storage locations and a link to a windows setting to switch on a hardware setting to prevent this happening.
So the setting was turned on, but the program was then run anyway...rather than just not running the program at all...?
