Thanks for the suggestion Compumind, but it's no longer there.

Stumped.

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Compumind,
Your suggestion led me to the solution. I found out that when I disabled the lan...

I have an old orphaned mapped drive I can't get rid of in Explorer/Network. I had mapped a drive to a USB drive plugged into a Netgear Router. The router fried and I replaced it and the mapped drive...

Yes, a new Event Error on my system, Service is disabled, apparently a new version was installed with 20H2. Why it is disabled now I can't say.

EyeInTheSky,

Did you mean
"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools"

or

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\WINDOWS Administrative Tools
...

I use the Windows built in Snipping Tool to simply take a snip-it of the text/page and then save as a JPEG or PNG. "Print to PDF" is good, but sometime a simple JPG is preferred for various reasons,...

I have tinkered with these setting in the past and found the results, let's say, unpredictable at best. Even so this wouldn't solve the issue.

I had installed CU/1703 on my test system and my...

Hi folks.

I see quite a few posts around regarding issues with Homegroups and Network Sharing. It appears to me that SMB is broken again in Creators Update 1703.

I have 3 of 4 systems on 1703,...

Thanks for the quick reply, and the link! I can see now that I haven't thoroughly checked out the MS services as a possible cause.

I have a system that will only start in Safe Mode, otherwise in Normal Mode it will Bluescreen. Failing to figure out the problem I would like to do an in place repair.

The system WILL start in...

You might check to see if you have any remote access drivers installed like LogMeIn, Teamviewer, GoToMyPC, etc. Look for them in Device Manager and just delete/uninstall them.

You can always...

I was able to easily solve the issue of "mixed up" partitions on 3 systems using the suggestion contained in the following thread. I used option #1 in all 3 cases.

Solved Old Recovery partition -...

I have a question about the partition layout on my system which originally came with Windows 8, was upgraded to 8.1, now upgraded to 10. I wanted to delete the OEM Recovery partition since it is...

I bought a new XPS 8900 directly from Dell, loaded all my applications and files, then replaced the HD with an 850 Evo Pro, and was a happy camper, getting really good performance. It wasn't until...

Chkdsk found no errors. Samsung Magician reports all is well with the SSD.

Weekly images and cloud backups in place, just in case.

Thanks.

Ok, I'll do that.

Thanks!

Ok, I'll take you up on that offer. Hope this upload is right.

Thanks!

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Thanks philc43 for the quick reply.

Learn something new everyday - I had never seen Reliability History, even after all these years. Useful stuff.
And I see the Get Started app now...and all the...

I walked away from my computer and when I came back it had restarted. I looked in the event log and found the last 6 events prior to the crash were:

1- The start type of the Background...

Ahhh, yes I see it now with Acronis DD.

Thanks NavyLCDR!

It's got the EFI partition alright, just not the MSR (3rd) partition shown in this tutorial. I had read about that
in several places, but my new installation doesn't have it? I did use the...

I created a USB/thumbdrive W10 install from these tutorials and then this tutorial was exactly what I needed.
The only thing is that I did not get the 3rd/MSR partition mentioned (below)? System...