"application has been blocked from accessing graphics hardware"

MICROSOFT, YOU NEED TO FIND WHAT THE ISSUE IS AND COME UP WITH A FIX. IT HAS BEEN YEARS NOW, SINCE WINDOWS 7.

I HAVE REBUILT ENTIRE SYSTEMS BECAUSE OF THIS.

I USED 4 DIFFERENT VIDEO CARDS FROM 4 MANUFACTURERS, AMD AND NVIDIA.

PROBLEM DOESNT EXIST WITH WINDOWS XP

PROBLEM DOESNT EXIST WITH LINUX, ANY FLAVOR, TRIED SEVERAL.

YOU CAN BLAME CARD MANUFACTURERS DRIVERS, BUT YOUR NOT GETTING WITH THEM TO FIX IT.

ITS A PROBLEM IN YOUR OS, EVEN IF IT IS VS. THEIR DRIVERS, ITS ALL DRIVERS FROM BOTH MANUFACTURER TYPES, NVIDIA AND AMD DRIVERS, SO THEY BOTH CANT HAVE THE SAME PROBLEM, ITS YOUR OS.

FIX IT!!!!!

My problem started when I went from 8 to10 as well.  This is a brand new computer (one year old) loaded with memory.  I am running some real memory hogs for my work, so this is more than just a nuisance for me.  It has crashed word twice now, and although I save regularly, and have auto-save on for every 5 minutes, I still lost some work that I could not recreate.  The times it simply locks up is just a nuisance, it freezes for 5-10 seconds and then starts working again.  Irritating and a little scary, but not the end of the world.

I have had the GeekSquad work on this six times, they have been unable to resolve it.  So far they have installed every update imaginable, uninstalled and reinstalled software, cleared out buffers, reset processing speeds, and honestly I'm not sure what else they've done.  The suggestion posted earlier might as well have been in another language, its obvious he knew what he was talking about, but I understood about 1/3 of what was suggested and had no idea how to do the majority of it, and frankly I don't think I should need to.

Microsoft needs to step up to the plate and fix their problem.

Did you try to downgrade your drivers? Try installing the drivers without any control panels like amd's and nvidia's software? Try different video cards ( if only on desktop) try updating all of your drivers, not just graphics, try basic graphics driver? Faulty hardware?

And here it is March 2016 and I have just found the same freakin problem and I am not about to go through the steps described a few posts up. It is ridiculous that I am facing this after finding out its been a problem for so long. I have done so many things trying to find out what is wrong and $700 paperweight also! Spent extra to get more ram and more space only to find the clouds solve the space problem (a waste of my money getting such large storage), but what good does it do if I keep having problems operating. I am just playing video games (not even sophisticated ones, but simple and its constantly failing. Just now I got the message, previously it went undiagnosed, but getting the message hasn't helped me a bit). Please tell me this is now fixable!!!! PLEASE!!!!

Oh yeah, and I originally purchased windows 8.0 and now have 10pro. What a joke.

I've  deleted, reinstalled and updates drivers.   HP support has deleted, reinstalled and updated the drivers.   Still experiencing the issue.   I'm running Windows 10 on a new laptop.