Whoops. I lost track of this one. Thanks for your follow-up, Skcusime.

Yes, APowersoft has been properly uninstalled (quite a while ago now). When I double-click on any of the items highlighted...

Hi all,

Back when my computer was initialized, most of my image file-types were connected to the abysmal Apowersoft crapware. I blasted away that garbage, but still see the vestiges hanging about....

It appears as though BitLocker did not complete encryption. I know this only because *one* of the ten times I shutdown/rebooted, it suddenly resumed at 94.5% and then.. hung. Drive is assumed toast....

It's been a long few days. I finally finished an upgrade from Win 10 Home to Pro and used Bitlocker to encrypt all my hard drives. Now, after rebooting, two of my hard drives (both SSD) do not show...

I tried that, yeah. But Oh wow. The devil's in the details. Well that was a waste of cash. Yeah, I'll have to find someone who wants this and buy a proper upgrade. Thanks Mystere.

Okay, so it turns out I'm back to where I started from. I have a fresh install of Windows 10 Home and when I am prompted to enter my product key, I am told it didn't work. However, I have all the...

It turns out there were two recovery partitions that were withheld from me during the recurring installs. I blasted them out. Now the install is happening and I'm confident Win 10 Home won't...

My pre-built Dell system came with Win 10 home. After my Windows exploded, I had to reinstall. Along the way I learned that I need Bitlocker. Since Home doesn't include it, I purchase an OEM install...

I have an active Microsoft Support thread here. Still investigating.

I am still having this problem. I don't know how Windows Update keeps getting re-prompted but it's becoming crazy.

I think I've stopped it. Previously, I disabled Windows Update via services.msc. Some Windows-shaped thing must have triggered it to resume. I might have done it without realizing. Who knows.

But...

It's happening again. I can't stop Windows Update from going through this madness. It doesn't matter what instructions I follow.

Any help would be appreciated. This is effectively crippling my...

The Problem

A few months ago, my [Dell Pre-built] Win 10 PC was prompted to automatically install a Windows update. At this time, I had updates set to manually install.

However, after that...

Okay, so I've experienced the quintessentially Windows moment. It's that moment when, the day afterward, you do the same thing you did yesterday. But where yesterday, Windows failed every. single...

Thanks for those follow-ups.

Edwin: I'll be sure to check those settings when I return home after work.
Mystere: That's been the really strange thing: I can't drag fonts over. That's not working....

Thanks bro67,

I only mentioned the firewall issue because, in my web-searching, I found repeated mentions of font problems that were inexplicably linked to the firewall. I know that, in general...

For some reason, I can no longer install TTF fonts on my windows 10 PC. Here is a folder filled with web/ttf fonts that I am trying to work with.

Every time I click on a TTF font, a small window...