Thanks, will take a look at that.

Title says it all really. Therefore if I click on a YouTube URL in Firefox I want that YouTube URL to instead open in Opera.

Is that possible?

My PC has USB 2 and 3 ports and I've tried both.

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One thing that I should also add is the erratic nature of loading some sites - they're all still terribly slow but I find...

My main PC is using Windows 10 Pro, it's fully updated, etc. The PC is working fine with anything else that I use it for.

USB Tethering from my smartphone is terribly slow on this particular PC,...

Noted, thanks.

I've now found another setuperr.log file - it's a cumulative log so has entries dating back a few years. The most recent entries (for yesterday) are as follows:

2023-04-02...

I'll do a search for any other instances of setuperr.log

As for security software, all that the PC has installed is Eset NOD32 and Malwarebytes.

I'll search through the logs.zip file that...

While a have a setuperr.log file in the Windows folder that log file is unfortunately empty. Is that normal?

I left the older PC on that build because it wouldn't let me upgrade past 1909 some...

Noted, thanks. Now found setupact.log and setuperr.log in the c:\windows folder

Curiously enough the setuperr.log file is empty, zero bytes. Is that normal?

To read setupact.log I had to copy...

Thanks, just looked for those and I don't have them, but apparently they are only created when an install is successful?

Also, regarding this post:
...

I see, thank you, I hadn't realised what an enormous pain it would be to diagnose.

Thanks, here they are:

HotFixID Installed On

KB4601556 9/25/2021
KB4516115 1/15/2020
KB4517245 1/15/2020
KB4524569 1/15/2020
KB4528759 1/15/2020
KB4535680 9/25/2021

The only one that I can think of is Shutup10 which I used years ago, however I've since set the the PC back to the factory defaults using its function Actions - Undo all changes ('factory settings')....

Nope, not done that. Just checked it out anyway and it's 'Not Configured'.

I've been having a nightmare the past few days with an old PC that's still running Windows 10 Pro version 1909 - it won't allow me to update it with any newer version.

Tried all sorts including a...

I don't have such a system image I'm sorry to say.

No worries about the drive contents though as I do a backup clone to an identical drive every so often.

Currently tempted to ditch Windows and switch to Linux ........ this has been such a huge pain of a problem.

Thanks for all of your help.

Thanks for the replies.

Regarding Shutup10 - it's not something that installs, you just fire it up, make changes then exit. It also has an option to set everything back to their default values...

I hope so too, this is seriously driving me nuts.

I won't be able to try again until tomorrow as I have to sort out something else first unrelated to the PC. I'll update when I've tried your...

Thanks.

Thanks, I'll try 1909.

Should I be running it from a mounted ISO or an ISO that has been installed onto a USB with Rufus?

As for Shutup10, how can I verify that it's put back everything as it...

Update on the update torture - downloaded the relevant 2004 ISO, mounted it and ran the setup from the mounted drive.

It seemed to get to about 91% (at least that was at that point when I last...

Ah, I see. I've learned something, thanks. :)

Thanks, just tried the Windows ISO Downloader that Option 5 in the tutorial points to and it has a version 2004 for May 2020. However, my currently installed Windows 10 version on the old PC is...

Thanks a bunch, I'll give that a try.

Edit: no luck with that TechBench site I'm afraid, if I select the required version it errors with:

"File is not available for download"

I can find it...

Thanks a bunch, I'll give that a try.

Edit: no luck with that web site I'm afraid, if I select the required version it errors with:

"File is not available for download"

I can find it...