The combined answers led to a solution. Dalchina's code provides a general solution as long as you edit it to match the peculiarities of your own installation (e.g. their being no empty file in the...

I tried the suggestions in the tutorial without luck. Now I at least know more about where ‘new’ items come from, but something is still missing. I want to try something simpler: just focus on...

Version 21H2. When you right-click the desktop or the file list screen in File Explorer, you are offered a "New" option, which leads to a set of available file types (e.g. "text file", "Word...

Sorry, should have mentioned that it does not show up in Settings / Devices / Bluetooth..., whether Bluetooth is turned on or off.

And a further nevermind, and thanks. Apparently if you toggle...

On my Win10 (Dell Precision M4800) laptop, I have an annoying "drive" which appears in the quick access panel on the left of W-Explorer and as part of the "Devices and drives" content of My PC. It...

Thanks; I tried to change to a local account but it insisted that I supply an account name (reasonable) and wouldn't accept my existing account name since it was "in use". Rather than play around...

I just rebooted my computer (updated to W10 about 2 weeks ago), and now all of the sudden it wants me to enter a password, for some kind of Microsoft account – this is before I can get to my desktop....

Topgun, thanks. I take it the diskpart stuff is to resolve the problem of two active partitions. And the second is resizing drive 1 by getting rid of the Dell recovery partition? Unfortunately, I...

The reasoning I have seen is that two logically adjacent sectors S1+S2 could be physically in the order S2+S1, so to read both sectors, you may wait one revolution for the data to be under the read...

Yessir, that would be very helpful.

Slartybart, thanks for the stand-alone -- W10 seems to want to obscure Disk Management, making it hard to find, and I appreciate having something to click. Here's the screen shot, which gives the...

DavidE, that's true, I used the standalone dmDskmgr-vd.msc. Using Disk Management, the structure is clearer:

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In an earlier investigation, I figured out here that Disk Management tries to figure out what a partition is from the partition identifier byte (partition ID, partition type, file system ID), but...

Disk 0 is an SSD, cloned from spinning disk = Disk 1 (both same size), where I then re-formatted the spinning disk 'cuz one shouldn't have two active partitions at the same time at bootup. So...

Here is the partition table info (I edited out the system chit-chat):

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
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Disk 0 ...

(What is the security risk in having USB ahead of HD in the boot order?)

Here's what's on the machine:

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I have a WD 5TB USB drive with backups on it, which I've used for about 9 months (single partition: there was a thing I had to do to overcome the 2.5TB limit that made it incompatible with XP, forgot...