Just had a big problem, and needed to reinstall windows. Windows is super fast, but lost all app's. Fortunately, I had saved all data. Thanks to everyone for their help.
Jim

Ghot:’
Thanks for your suggestion to run the In-place Upgrade, giving adequate details. My i3670 is now a usable computer. Startup is still slow, maybe 5 minutes, but it’s an old computer without...

I’m using a Dell Inspiron i3670 desktop with a 1 tb single hard drive (not a ss drive) using win10 Home (x640) V2009, build 19043.1466. The hard drive has plenty of free space. I have about 8gb of...

I have one of these enclosures, and it has given me no trouble. I assume their single bay version would work fine, too .
Or this one, for two HDDs... Amazon.com.

Problem is solved. Thanks NavyLCDR.

Spunk: it was a little different in my case. There were two different Properties screens. Right-clicking in the Disk 1 area brought a screen that had a...

I tried two other USB drives that worked fine when used on another computer. They look the same in Computer Management as the drive I described earlier, basic, online, healthy with basic data...

I connected an USB drive, added a drive letter, and it worked fine. I can disconnect and reconnect that drive, and it is seen each time it is connected. If I remove that and connect a different USB...

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Sorry about the delay. I tried a home made approach, which did not work and was never sent. Disk 1 is the USB drive. If I disconnect the drive, disk 1 disappears,...

My Dell i3670 desktop computer running win10 UEFI suddenly stopped recognizing external USB hard drives, like a WD 2TB Elements Portable External HDD, USB 3.0 ….WDBUG6OO20BBK-WESN. USB flash drives...

dalchina: The computer seems faster now, and ok for a computer without a SS drive. Don't know why, but will wait until I have a problem in the future. Strange. In the past, I might wait 20 min...

Bree’s suggestions allowed me to boot from a USB drive. Here’s a brief summary:
Secure Boot must be off. Default setting on my computer was Secure Boot on.
If necessary turn Secure Boot off as...

I’m using a Dell i3670 with win10 UEFI. Pressing F12 repeatedly during startup brings up a screen with blue, yellow and white letters instead of the boot menu. The statement with white letters says...

Bobkin:
I tried: NVIDIA DRIVERS Quadro Desktop/Notebook Driver Branch 340 U14 WHQL I ended up with a driver update app that does not include my existing Nvida Quadro 600 card (that works fine in...

Macboatmaster:
I don’t think I have power supply issue, as I have purchased a number of very similar T3500 refurbished workstations from the same vendor, and all came with graphics cards and worked...

I purchased a refurbished Dell T3500 win10 computer that uses MBR, not UEFI
Maximum resolution of the installed graphics card is 1280 x 1024, but I need 1920 x 1080. Low performance cards are ok,...

That's really interesting. Over the years, I have heard horror stories regarding security issues if Administrator is used. If I must use Administrator in the future, I'll consider remaining there...

Paul:
Your approach worked. I went to the start menu, moved the cursor to the far left, and Administrator was there, plus my standard account name, which was not there earlier. I clicked on...

How do I do it?
When I sign to cmd as Administrator, I see
C:\Users\Admininistrator
If I press Enter, the same line appears. I cannot avoid it.

I signed into CMD as administrator. but it didn't work

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The example had C:\WINDOWS\system>32... but was unable to include it.
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Bree: Missed your answer.

I don't understand how to perform these steps. Please give details.

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Sorry. Just noticed your comments are actually links

I needed to temporarily use Administrator, and now cannot return to my normal user account

If I shut down and restart, I come up in administrator

The Start menu only lists administrator

I...

The video card that came with the computer (AMD Radeon 7000 series) does not provide the resolution I need for some of my monitors so I have ordered a another card. It is the same card used in...

Hi Dennis:
All my Dell T3500's were refurbished item purchases, all have video cards, like a Radeon HD 4550. I'm not a gamer, so these old cards are more than adequate. Would video card driver...

FreeBooter: Your suggestion did not help, unfortunately.

Try3: Where do I find the display driver?

The Settings Power and Sleep menu in Settings should list Screen and Sleep, where Sleep is used to tell when the PC goes to sleep. Sleep is missing, so my computer never sleeps. Fast startup and...