I'm aware of it. I've been getting good advice from Brink since Windows 7 days at sevenforums.com :D

that's it. it was your comment to look for security settings that did it. everything I was seeing was telling me to look in the cpu settings. but it's a dedicated security tab that I just hadn't...

Unfortunately that's a different bios look from mine, so I don't see any of that.

Also that's for an AMD cpu, mine is an Intel.

I have it running on a recent media pc I built. I used Open Shell and a couple of other tweaks to get it the way I like it.

This one, I just looked through bios and I don't even see available CPU...

It's a 1tb M2 drive, I let the windows 10 install select the format.

The command prompt DiskPart shows an asterisk next to the drive for GPT.

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I just ran the Windows PC...

I downloaded Windows 11 from Microsoft onto a USB stick and I get the alert when I attempt an installation.

I'll have to look to see if TPM is enabled.

I don't know how to tell if the...

This has been solved, thanks for all the help, people. :D


I have an ASRock Z390 Extreme 4 motherboard that their website claims is Windows 11 ready, but I get the alert saying the pc doesn't...

I was chatting with some lifelong IT guys a couple of years ago, and they said the buzz was that the software engineers are being told that literally any change is good, for the sole purpose of...

the worst part of the flyouts is their complete lack of usefulness. i've just muted an audio file, so I certainly don't need a popup telling me I did so. now if it stayed there until I unmute it,...

I keep the same folders. lol, I just checked and my windows 10 folder has over 2,000 items in it. :eek:
There's 25 sub folders of various items, lots of notepad walkthroughs, lots of saved apps...

That was it, thanks.
I can't help but wonder why that hasn't happened before on this pc. I just did a reinstall, and I would have thought it wouldn't be any different than before the reinstall. I...

It says this is for google chrome, but I'm using firefox.

I hadn't spotted the focus assist before, but turning those off didn't help.

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WIN + G doesn't open that for me, how else do I get to it?

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I actually did a search for flyouts, and I adjusted the settings that I saw mentioned. I turned off news and interests just in case it was related, and I turned off all the switches in notifications.

https://i.postimg.cc/yxCCk35z/1.png

That's on the right of the screen, and I also get one on the upper left part of the monitor when I turn on a web streaming service.

I looked around online...

if I had a drive failure, that would be better than nothing. but i've been doing it this way for so long that I really don't mind anymore. and best of all, it really is foolproof. i'm kind of...

I've already used the media creation tool to load windows on a usb-c nvme drive, so installation will be a piece of cake.

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many times i've thought about running the...

I use the Aomei Backupper, and I have an image saved from this c: drive when the install was complete.
but there's so much new data in various folders, that it would reverse far too many files.
so...

SFC /scannow worked, the search bar is back to normal.

but I was wondering about the drive too, so I'll do the Hard Disk Sentinel program.

as far as reinstall's go, I do an unbelievable amount...

It's not responsive when I click on Add someone else to this PC.

I click on it multiple times and nothing happens.

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I'm going to run sfc /scannow and if that doesn't work,...

Regular virus scans with Avira, which coincidentally updated immediately following the restore point, and it auto scanned.
I run as admin on this pc, so no other profile.

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My Windows 10 Pro build wasn't running right, so I ran a restore point.
Well I have thousands of files on this pc, so I frequently go to This Pc > C drive and then type a file name in the search...

well there's the obvious one, take the drive out and put it in another computer, or in a dock.
then just scan the program folders.

The build number is 1903

The clean boot stopped the folder from opening at startup. So it seems that it is connected to a windows service.

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not intentionally. it would...

I have windows sounds turned off.





This isn't an app that is running, it's just a folder that opens on my desktop at startup.
I've looked in task manager/startup and it's not there. That's...