Sure, I feel it's either the driver itself, or the way windows interacts with the driver. These things change as the OS changes, but they got it right for a long time, or simply didn't run into some...

Up until a couple of minutes ago this was going to be a plea for help. But I have just now fixed it, and I thought it may be useful for somebody, sometime...
My main system is multi-boot; XP, W7,...

I am *far* from an expert on sharing, but MS recommend against disabling IPv6, and instead suggest using the 'Prefer IPv4 over IPv6' Prefix policy. My network has W10, Vista, W7, and XP machines, on...

Indeed, it is hardly even an inconvenience. The problem is that it's not documented anywhere... is it in your MB manual?

Yeah, I can't take credit for it, but it has obviously been a problem for a lot of people for a long time, so I thought it was worth giving it some air, particularly in a thread where using a...

Ghot, thanks for the SSD links. I didn't realize (long time since I looked) how much the price had dropped. I just bought a 1TB WD Blue for AUD$65, and that made me reflect on the past 50 years. The...

Thank you everyone. I'm truly blown away by the number and quality of the replies.
zbook, good links and a really good checklist.
idgat, an SSD would be nice, but I'm not sure if it will work on my...

Well, that was a great response! I'm used to waiting a day or two on other forums...:-)

@ idgat Why the emphasis on the clean install? Does the in-place path have problems? Never mind the hassles...

I see the last posts in the upgrade forum were in 2020. Is the upgrade still available?

Thanks

Hello Eagle51.


Yes, I totally understand, and agree... and in fact that's (partially) what it did, and what I expected.
Here was the situation at the time I became involved:
A user was...

Bree, I've done a lot more reading today, including Eagle51's post #141. Like him, I discovered that a normal uninstall of Get Office did actually remove the two recalcitrant files with no further...

Bree, thank you very much. It is indeed 1607, so I'll pursue it. Your post pointers are much appreciated, and the news about the Get Office app is something I hadn't come across so far. I'll go to...

I'm looking at a W10 Home 64-bit system that apparently screwed up a user and their profile folder ("Can't log you into your account ..blah blah blah.... Temporary account " crap). It's not just the...

Just to add a couple of notes to this:

A friend's PC had gone through an 'involuntary' upgrade to W10, leaving it in a fairly sad state. One of the problems was the "The user profile service...