Problem solved... probably because some restore points for System Restore are deleted.

To try to determine if it's a Windows update that's to blame, I considered replacing the disk contents with...

Tried re-installing the display driver. No good.

Tried updating the display driver by letting Windows search my computer and the Internet, but Windows says the current driver is the best one.
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Fast startup had been disabled before that problem occurred the first time.

Before the problem occurred a few days ago, Win10 had gotten updated to 1709 and, because automatic updating is disabled, there hadn't been any updating of any sort. So the question might be:"Why...

dalchina,

Thank you for helping.

I bought that NB as a second hand sale. The old owner had upgraded the OS from the original Win7 to Win10 1607 before he sold it to me.

I have only allowed...

Hi,

On my notebook (Acer Travelmate 4730), if the power cable is plugged in, the system always restarts automatically after it is woken up from sleep. whether the battery is removed or not. No...

Tried raising the privilege level of Everyone to Full Control on a Win7 shared mp4 file, but the 'problem' didn't go away.

Anyway, as I've read the guidances provided in this thread, this...

I tried modifying those group policy settings as suggested in the article that lx07 points me to. But remote Win7 files, when clicked on in an elevated instance of Win10 File Explorer, still can not...

When I say: "run Win10 Explorer as admin", I mean that I open a shortcut of "%windir%\explorer.exe" with the checkbox of "Run as administrator" being ticked in the Advanced Properties dialogue.

That's probably true because after I have logged into the Win7 machine from the non-elevated Win10 File Explorer, when I launch another instance of Win10 File Explorer as administrator to access...

I found out why.

I always run Win10 File Explorer as administrator from a shortcut. If I don't run it as administrator, then "Movies & TV", "Groove Music" and Photos can successfully open Win7...

> If you open file explorer on the Windows 10 machine and double click on a file on the Win 7 machine,
> say a movie, it won't open.

Correct.

> However if you start Movie Player on Window 10...

Those shared folders in Win7 are shared with EVERYONE indeed.

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Now, something very interesting...

If I log into the Win7 PC from the "Open file" dialog window of ANY program in Win10,...

Now I have noticed the following:

(1)

It's incorrect that files of any type can not be opened. Actually, only videos, audios and graphics can't be opened by their associated programs:"Movies &...

More info...

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I know SMBv1 is removed from Win10 since version 1709. But, weirdly, on my Win10 version 1709 machine, SMBv1 still exists because the "State" of "SMB 1.0/CIFS file sharing...

Four devices are connected to the Ethernet ports of the broadband router provided by my ISP: a Win7 Home Premium PC, a Win10 Pro NB and two Linux media players.

The only problem with respect to...

Hi,

I have tried the following 3 programs to view some external SRT subtitle files. But they all are not ideal.

(1)

Windows Media Player Native Subtitle Plugin 1.0 (Can't work under win10)...

Hi,

I have tried to set my notebook to use the Private network profile (location) for Ethernet and use the Public network profile for Wi-Fi. But it turns out that it's impossible. When the network...

Great to know that. Thanks.

I found image A.

From the "Select a system image backup" dialogue, I clicked on the "Select a system image" radio button, pressed the Next button. In the new dialogue only image B was listed....

Since I can't find an editing function for my post, here I would like to clarify on the following statement I made:

"This time the Recovery Wizard still lists, under the 'Most recent system image'...

Hi,

On my Acer laptop there are two system images contained in D:\WindowsImageBackup\%ComputerName% (Win10 resides in C: ). Their folder names are:

(A) Bachup 2018-02-18 034639

(B) Backup...