Yup - you were right!!! The last few have worked fine. Still glad I asked as I'd never have thought about the closing aspect to them, so might try & see if Nero would do the job for some at least...

Hmm good point - no idea TBH, but would imagine I would have done for some of them at least. I'll have a better idea of that with the last few I've just found which were commercially cut for me from...

Windows 10 Pro Build 19045.4170

I'm at a point where I finally decided to go through my old CD collection & try & remove important files off onto other media, but have run into a problem I'm...

You are AWESOME!!! I didn't honestly think there would be such a simple fix available - just perfect. Thank you SO much as it's a minor niggle that's frustrated me for quite some time!

Windows 10 Pro Ver:19045.3803

I like to run a desktop slideshow constantly and have it pointing to a rather large directory of images to use (around 750 photos/pics). I sometimes see an image I...

Yeh it feels more & more like an unwinnable issue to some degree. Remember I only got the PC, set it up with the a/c & then put it away hence no backup done just because there was nothing on it save...

Ahh yeh that's where my problem lay before (on my laptop) - those pesky license keys!! Same issue here - how can I get those if I can't access windows. I can't really back anything up as such...

Sorry - maybe I should have clarified. Those were the steps I'd used (from that link) to try & get past this problem without any success in any direction.

What I now need to know is if I opt to...

Dalchina - so I've worked through that linke to reset the password but the option to do so using the 3 security Q's didn't work for me as I keep getting errors on them too even tho I'm convinced...

Thanks guys
Reading through all that lot makes me think a Reset would be far simpler since I've probably not got much on the PC worth worrying about after 2 years anyway?

Or would that really be...

I got myself a Mini PC in 2021 as a backup to my main tower PC which I set up at the time before putting it away until a few days ago. Then I discovered that I either set it up with some weird...

Hmm that explains a lot perhaps. Somewhere along the way WMP either created the playlists in a subfolder I called External files, so I then always placed that folder first in the Library folders as...

Thanks Denis
Halfway fixed :). Still stuck on the playlist thing - I thought I did have them kept in the same folders but perhaps Windows opened up other instances of them that I missed & I then...

Hard to describe exactly what the issue is here.

Windows 10-22H2
WMP - 12.0

Basically I recently moved Win 10 to a new SSD and then also moved the music partition to a new SATA drive so 2...

I have that ok :)

This is probably a silly question but maybe not.....

I have an aged Asus laptop (Intel Core i5-3317U - c2012) running Win 10 Pro (22H2) that I'm thinking of upgrading as it's become so slow &...

Ahh see - I was looking for it at the top of the page (under Thread tools) where I find it on some other forums - duhhh. You live & learn :D.

Thanks Denis.

What button where lol - I looked everywhere for one but couldn't find it hence marking it at the start.

On the partitions - I'll either make them as large as I feel the category needs or else on...

Great - thanks so much for your patience Denis. I could make quite a few excuses for my issues with my PC but you'd be bored by the time I got to the 2nd sentence lol. So I appreciate your help &...

I used Easeus Partition Manager - reason for so many partitions is just because I like to have all my info easily found plus have always thought it was safer in that you could more easily backup just...

Oops sorry - did mean to do that at the time!!

If I click on "My PC" in Explorer - it shows the correct number of partitions i.e. not duplicated.

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PC setup:
WIndows 10: 22H2
Drives: 1: SSD - Windows 10 only
2: 2TB drive - 8 partitions
3: 2TB drive - 8 partitions.

I recently had to...

Well, job mostly done without any dramatic issues thankfully. I chose to do it perhaps not the best way or quickest but easiest for my situation. Basically just copied over those folders of vital...

So I've not yet got to undertake this task but should do in the next day or so.

I wanted to ascertain before I get into it., how I then clone the drive using Mint - is there a walkthrough...

Oops - wish I'd read your post 10 mins ago - just got a Seagate 2TB one as it was really all I could afford. So what's the current storage option over HDDs? SSD?