Bilbo Sekker
When you finally got it to activate after three days were you trying repeatedly for three days or did you abandon it and just come back with one last go for luck and it worked?
I'm...

I am battling with trying to create a user with restricted access to the computer, but still to let them view and edit files and folders in the C:\Users\<username> folder.

I have found helpful...

Thanks for the suggestion. I will consider that if no one can come up with a way of fixing it from within Windows.

I've just bought a webcam. Unfortunately it has a very short cable - too short to reach from the PC on the floor to the top of my screen where I want to use it - so I tried connecting it via a USB...

Keith

Thanks for the information.

Both the registry keys pointed to the correct folder. Here is a screenshot of where I think there are missing shortcuts - as far as I remember they were there...

Thanks for these suggestions. I've set up the permissions - now we'll wait for another update to see if they work.

Incidentally, when I moved My Documents to a different drive I also renamed it...

Yes, that's exactly what I've done.

However, what I didn't say, and may be relevant, is that I've moved My Documents from the default location, and it's now on a different logical drive E:.

I like to give the My Documents folder a customised icon so that it will stand out but Microsoft clearly doesn't like you doing this, because after installing updates the icon frequently reverts to...

A million thanks, philc43. I have uninstalled FileOpen.api and it finally restarted without the BSOD.

zbook - I am running the diagnostics now. "I may be some time..."

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I have recently upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 10 ver 1909. I did the upgrade keeping all Apps and Files in place.

Whenever I start the PC after doing a hard shutdown (using Alt F4) the...

Thanks dskiller, I think using autoruns might have solved the problem. The utility taking all the CPU seems to be the previous version of T-Clock which was fine for Windows 7 but won't run on...

Thanks for the response. I'll turn off the automatic start on T-Clock, restart the computer and see what happens.

In the meantime here is the Task Manager screen immediately after starting...

Still getting over the teething troubles of upgrading from Windows 7...

I opened the Task Manager and found the System Tray clock was using 14% of the CPU - permanently. ( I have also installed...

Thanks for the follow up. We're away for a few days but I will pursue this when we're back.

Thanks for these suggestions. I made a new user and it didn't seem to hang, but it did come up with a message about another instance of Cobian (installed back up programme) running - so maybe that...

When I power up the computer and log in the screen seems to hang and if I put the cursor over the task bar it shows the busy circle for minutes after logging in. I've found that if I do a single...