I have a laptop with an external pioneer USB Blu-ray drive and PowerDVD17. I have had the hardware for a while, but had not had a movie to try it out with. I got Logan's Run for Christmas, the...

It's already on my Christmas wish list. I can't buy any software till after the 15th of Jan, which is my birthday, because my family is expecting the opportunity to buy me software for Christmas and...

I re-installed Windows and then I re-installed Google's Backup & Sync. I noticed that there seems to be no obvious way to connect to my existing "My Laptop" in the computers tab in Google Drive. ...

Mines a laptop. No idea why mine failed. My hard drive went bad, and then it turned out to be my motherboard. Chief among the evidence, was a failure of Bitlocker due to an account of the TPM 2.0...

I had did the re-install from the Dell recovery partition as a local account, then I logged onto Windows and upgraded to a Microsoft account from there. Before, I had always done the install with a...

Just got off the phone with Dell. Their sending me a key via FedEx in less than 48 hours, and all I had to do was show them your Avatar :thumbsup:

lol!

I see. Thanks for the link to that other tutorial. I read it, then I realized I had already made that change to prevent standard users from seeing an elevated UAC prompt. So I'm good. My ideal...

This context menu thing is turned on for my account which is an admin account. Is it possible to ONLY turn this off for standard user accounts. What about limited accounts in the guest group. On...

OK. I'll delete them then. That's where I was headed, just thought I'd be sure. Solved.

Apologies if this is the wrong thread, I couldn't decide which sub-forum was best suited, so please move as needed. These Icons are OneDrive icons, but I disabled OneDrive via Group Policy. So now...

Bookmarked. Looks good. Free, and you can mount the image and browse the files you say, that's a plus. I'll keep this as a strong contender as I do my research.

OK. Thank you.

I'm only 1 year into my 4 year warranty. So your saying I should call Dell and tell them that I need a new OEM key. Can you tell me exactly what you mean by RMA? What should I do and say when I...

I have been using Windows 7 backup tool in Windows 10 Pro. I decided I need something a bit more powerful. I am asking for thoughts on backup solutions for backing up to a local hard drive through...

Dell replaced my motherboard and hard drive under warranty. I re-installed Windows 10 Pro from the Dell recovery partition. Everything was fine, bu I see that my Windows is not activated. Why is...

I restarted for sure. ;)

Thanks again.

Hi. The hard drive, and the motherboard were both replaced by Dell under warranty, thank goodness. The new hard drive came with a Dell customized version of Windows 10, and I went with that. I...

LiveTcpUdpWatch looks cool. I'll definitely add that to my arsenal. I'm also gonna try EventLog Analyzer. They have a free version.

Thank you. The tail function is neat. Not quite what I'm looking for, but I'll keep this around.

Thank you. The tail function is neat. Not quite what I'm looking for, but I'll keep this around.

Hi guys. Sorry for the late reply. I tried the .reg method and rebooted my computer and it broke my machine. My laptop says it no longer detects a boot device. So I called Dell and we went...

When I try to turn this on, it just immediately turns off. How do I get it to stay on? Nothing I do seems to make it stay on. I turn it on and reboot and it's off! Any ideas? I have...

I've just started to log my firewall connections. I'm looking for a log viewer/analyzer to read the log. What is everybody's favorite. A big plus for free or cheap software, open source or...

Secure boot disabled because you want it that way or it broke? Maybe open a new thread about secure boot. Secure boot and Device Encryption Support Reasons for failed automatic device encryption:...

Good to know. I read up on it and now I am satisfied I have a good working knowledge of the issue.