Bought a digital version of Office Professional 2016 under Microsoft Home Use Program back in 2016 and have been using it less and less since then. But, occasionally, I have a need to use it and so...

Interesting idea. However, at present, I can't get this device to even boot from USB so need to figure that out first.

Update: From posts on other forums, it appears that this device can only be...

Owner told me this morning that his son had told him he'd upgrade it and went ahead and installed 64-bit Win 10. Then he tried to recover some space by removing $Windows.~BT and messed that up. So,...

Yes, Linux Mint would also be my preferred route but this belongs to a family member who, at the moment at least, wants Win 10. He may change his mind :)

As title says, this Acer Switch One Netbook is stuck. No matter what I try, I cannot get it to upgrade. Initially, I thought it was because there was not enough storage available (showing 4.86GB...

So maybe a better strategy would be to keep the Win10 versions/licences on their respective machines and just move the physical drives from one laptop to the other.

UPDATE: No problem taking the SSD from the Dell and installing it in the ASUS. Had to enable CSM in the BIOS settings but all working now.

Just installed the HDD in the Dell and it's not...

Although, I've worked with computers since the '70's, the only one I ever bought was in 1993. Other than than that, it's always been components/parts, work laptops, other peoples rejects, repairs,...

Asus is beaten up with physically damaged screen. Also it has a HDD rather than SSD so is pretty slow. Dell is just old with limited memory, old CPU and poor screen. So the Dell will go into...

Win10 on SSD is Retail.

I want to switch an SSD from an older Dell laptop to a newer Asus (currently with a large HDD). The Win10 licences (Pro on SSD/Dell and Home on HDD/Asus) on both laptops are legit, linked to an MS...

So would this same explanation apply to how a USB connected device, like a printer or scanner, appears to slow down the startup process? If so, is there a practical way to deal with that?

That appears to have made a massive difference. Start up time from power-on through POST to Windows login screen is about 25 seconds. Thanks for advice as I would never have thought the power plan...

Followed your recommendations except for the very last part "change Adaptive to 0 milliseconds". Where is that setting?

Thanks. I'll move the SSD to another SATA port and report back.

UPDATE: SSD switched from IDE Channel 3 Slave to IDE Channel 2 Master. IDE Channel 0 is for IDE Drives and there is no IDE Channel...

I had a problem with my SSD showing up as a removeable drive. It always seemed like there were hesitations with that drive so I thought I should fix the proble. To do so, I followed this Microsoft...

Thanks and no, I just set the share permissions. I'll look into the ntfs permissions issue now and report back.

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Not as straight forward as I thought but I'll persevere...

I have two Win 10 Pro 1909 computers on same LAN and some tasks I do on one and others on the second. Occasionally, I need to pull files from one to the other but not often. So I decided to add a...

As a private pilot, I assume you read posted notices as well. If so, you really should have read through the thread before commenting. :chuckle:

Sorry,but you walked into that with your eyes wide...

Agreed. A few weeks ago, my friend brought this laptop to me for some other minor Windows issue and I asked him at the time if it was always this slow. He said it didn't seem slow to him but that I...

None of the usual tricks used - freezing, heating, shocking - but it seems like an electronics issue. Drive spins up and intermittently chirps like it's been powered up/down. So the issue of...

A 500GB WD Blue drive just failed (unrecognized by BIOS, unrecognized in USB case, clicking, etc) on a friend's laptop, Lenovo Ideapad 110. Fortunately, the owner says that he has any important...

Returned laptop to owner and he is adamant that problem occured after he did the 1903 update. Anyway, he is happy that his issue is now fixed. Again, thanks all.

My first suspicion was that this was a shared laptop which he took over and then deleted the other accounts. However, that couldn't happen unless he was an administrator, right? Anyway, I'll ask...

Original issue was that it would boot into Win 10 but the only account didn't have admin permissions so was very restricted. My thought was to enable the internal administrator account and then...