Thanks for all the replies.
Type: Posts; User: Gaius
Thanks for all the replies.
dalcina,
Thanks for your reply.
The laptop does not have a valid W10 activation associated with it. I am starting from scratch.
I found this link:...
I am planning a fresh installation of W10 on a spare laptop.
I have been offered W10 Pro (FQC-08789) and W10 Home (FQC-00017) but I have read that these are older versions.
Will these work or...
mngerhold,
Thanks for your reply.
I am not using Ease of Access.
I have only had this problem a couple of times. Usually it behaves perfectly.
A friend had experienced exactly the same...
dalchina,
Many thanks for the fast response.
I will try one of your suggestions the next time this happens.
W10 v.1909
This is a Macrium Reflect 7 problem.
It is a really strange problem which only occurs intermittently. I know of at least one other Macrium user who has experienced exactly...
Bree,
You are correct.
I had omitted to say that Secure Boot had been disabled.
I have edited my original post accordingly.
Thanks.
NavyLCDR,
The bootable USB drive was properly created using the Media Creation Tool.
It should have shown up via UEFI boot, but it did not do so for whatever reason.
As soon as I enabled...
I lost count of the number of times and different ways I tried to update my W10 v.1809 to W10 v.1903 (the update usually reached 94% and then failed).
No error message was given, just the...
dalchina,
I am going to use Macrium to go back to an earlier drive snapshot and then defer the 1903 update.
Thanks for your advice and help.
dalchina,
Thanks for your reply and the links. I already have Macrium Reflect.
I have W10 Pro build 17763.437.
I was not given the option to Download & Install when it was suitable for me.
...
Yes, I know, yet another Windows "feature update" error.
Is there anything to be gained by blocking this update for another 35 days in the wild hope that MS will have resolved matters and the...
dalchina,
Thanks for the advice.
I will investigate further.
Does anybody else have a similar laptop with 4GB of RAM and an Intel i3-5005u CPU or similar and experience generally slow performance running W10?
Would I gain anything by adding another module...
HansW,
There may have been a typing error in my previous reply. My apologies.
Go to the Microsoft Update Catalog and download KB4058258 (middle one) for the 64 bit version of W10 (for offline...
HansW,
This worked for me:
Go to the Microsoft Update Catalog and download KB4058258 (middle one) for the 64 bit version of W10 (for offline installation):
...
srv,
In my experience a lot of the really useful solutions to Microsoft problems originate from community forums such as this.
My first attempt ended in failure, but my second attempt has actually worked, almost by accident.
First I went to the Microsoft Update Catalog and downloaded these 2 items for my 64 bit version...
Many thanks to Ben Hastings and winactive for this valuable information.
I will attempt a repair at the weekend.