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Yes, everything is back to normal after the successful system restore. My icons are back, admin options are back on the start menu, audio service is running again, Windows updates...

I will try those things in the morning and report back. For now, I'm calling it a night. Thanks for your help.

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This was ultimately the solution. The "Repair" option...

I can't run an admin Powershell or an elevated command prompt so I can't run sfc, that's the first thing I tried.

I managed to create a new user account with administrator privilege in netplwiz...

I am experiencing multiple problems in Windows 10 Pro 21H1 that I believe may be due to a corrupted user account, but I'm not sure.

Symptoms are:
- Many missing icons in the Start menu that...

Plenty of tech writers slammed Microsoft's activation scheme as being bad for consumers when it was first announced. I guess they can come back and and say, 'I told you so' now.

There's no...

Mine was a fresh Win7 Pro installation upgraded to Win10 Pro nearly 2 years ago and used as my daily driver ever since. Activation nag appeared this morning, and the troubleshooting link tells me...

Sorry, edited because of duplicate info. Solution was provided in Post #5.
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Blame the victim.

It was delightful to learn that Windows had changed this when it rebooted my PC overnight while I had a notepad window open with stuff I was working on.

In my case they are desktop PCs with no bluetooth capability.

Thanks Mystere, that is strange but helpful.

I haven't seen that phone make another appearance since I blocked its MAC address in my router. Based on those previous threads I'll keep an eye on it...

That was a thought but my WiFi has a pretty strong WPA2 password so I don't think he should be able to jump onto my WiFi and show up in my Windows network list.

I was wondering if it's some kind...

I woke my desktop PC from sleep this morning, clicked on Network and immediately spotted a Phone in the device list that doesn't belong to anyone here (a Blu brand phone which is unusual enough that...

It turns out he was in the habit of turning off his computer with the physical power button instead of using the Windows shut down menu. I'm going to assume that's what caused the corruption,...

Good suggestions that I'd already started working my way through. System Restore had failed, and sfc /scannow didn't find any issues.

I finally tracked it down to a corrupted user profile, and...

I'm trying to use TeamViewer 11 to help my elderly Dad get his Win10 machine running again after something reset it, or at least wiped out his preferences.

I was able to restore some of his...

Thanks, whs.

I actually saw that link in my initial research... but the article is 8 years old and since we're three generations of Windows past that time I figured it was too stale to be of much...

Well anyway, File History is already busy tracking my user folder, documents, etc.

I want to keep the contents of this drive completely separate from that, saved to its own network folder. As far...

I thought that tool used its own format as opposed to making exact copies of the files. I want other users to be able to view the photos on the network location.

How do I automatically mirror files from a hard disk drive to a network folder?

In this case I want to mirror the contents of an entire disk containing photos (no system files) to a shared folder...

Yes I know, it's intended for data storage.

Anyway I went ahead and set it up despite the warnings in BIOS that changing to RAID could make the system drive unbootable and it worked fine. I...

I have Windows 10 Pro installed on an SSD in AHCI mode.

I would like to add a RAID 1 array to this system for storage but I understand some registry tweaks must be made before I can change my BIOS...

Great, thanks!

This happened to me too. I'm sure there are plenty of things that could cause it but in my case it turned out the order of my boot devices kept getting reset in the BIOS.

I updated the firmware...

I searched for this but surprisingly could not find the answer anywhere, probably because the search terms end up being too broad...

I'm setting up a new Win10 machine for a friend who wants/needs...