Rather than trying to move your 'Documents' folder - simply create e.g. a 'My Documents' folder on the drive or partition. You can, should you wish, include that in a library. Much simpler - and...
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Rather than trying to move your 'Documents' folder - simply create e.g. a 'My Documents' folder on the drive or partition. You can, should you wish, include that in a library. Much simpler - and...
Hi, do you really mean duplicate music - i.e. matching the audio content - or do you mean
- files with matching or similar file name (or part of)
or
- a match between files based on part of the...
So await the next stage- a clean boot. As per my 1st post. And I guess you didn't try link I posted in #6.
I'd prefer not to keep repeating...
I know all about that. Because of the risk of...
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Thank you for your reply.
Two basic ways (there are more):
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How to Choose Which Files Windows Search Indexes on Your PC
Interesting.
Try
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/windows-10-file-explorer-slow-to-create-or-delete/884f40a5-f287-4403-9141-40e8afc93ca8
Many found that resolved this.
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If your digital right to a license was acquired by upgrading to Win 10 from Win 8.1 or Win 7, then most probably you would need a new license.
Otherwise, it's easier to activate Windows afterwards...
Await response to the other points. Thanks.
Hi, that's a BSOD. Please repost in the specialised BSOD section, taking care to observe the posting rules, and use the log collector tool there.
Obviously, then complete your PC specs including...
Hi, please try this in SAFE MODE and if ok, after a clean boot and report outcome.
- a. Consider using a System Restore point before this started.
- b. History- what changed 'recently'?
If...
Indexing 'backs off' even with minimal activity (I seem to recall MS tweaked that to make it more sensitive to user or CPU activity).
Whilst you can disable backing off (Tutorial available), I...
Yes:
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How do you do that? - It's certainly possible... question is, can I recall how I did that...!
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As I suggested before, you can create a live boot disk (of any kind initially, but one with utilities on it like, say, Bob Omb's or Hiren's which allow you to do some simple tests on your laptop) -...
Best guess- some kind of hardware failure- does the laptop have a working battery (not the CMOS one- the other one)?
If you can't reliably access the BIOS/UEFI settings...that's pretty basic.
...
Probably a temporary Edge version or server issue.
I see
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Edge update -- What am I doing wrong?
Be patient- give it a few days..
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Hi,
That is most likely KB5034441 - the extremely well-known Recovery partition size/placement problem 1000s have experienced- just search the NET or tenforums to see how widely known that is.
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Hi, why not format the disk?
You can also delete partitions with a partition manager.
Note that there are zero permission issues if you were to do this from a live boot disk, for example.
As...
- do NOT use the built-in Backup and Restore (Windows 7). MS recommends against this.
The free version of Macrium R is still available- just not being updated.
Some have suggested Hasleo Backup...
Probably the best idea. After all, you don't know what other damage exists.
Before you do, check your entire physical disk using e.g. Crystal Diskinfo (free). (That's quite different from chkdsk)....
Go here:
https://login.live.com/
and enter your login credentials.
Check whether you can log in to any account you believe to be an MS account.
To check if any of your PC accounts is a MS...
Ok.. there's a Files App and a 'Mighty Explorer' in the Store- and there have been 3rd party file managers around for years like Q-dir, Free Commander, XYplorer etc.. but none can fully replace file...
Sorry, what is a "new style" File Explorer app?
I made suggestions in post #2 as to possible cause. See that thread- feel free to search - there can be multiple possible causes of such a message. Never seen it myself.
Your Recovery partition is...