Wow, that's some great advice and options. Thanks so much.

I have R-Studio Tech edition, and I already tried scanning the drive -- nothing to recover there.

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Yes, they got dumped into the parent folder of the downloads folder...

I did. I had saved the names of seven files, and I searched for them. I figured out that although they were in a folder named downloads in the originating file locations (the entire set of which I...

I tried that. The way I did the dragging left no possibility of putting them in another folder. I had the two locations opened in side by side explorer windows. On the left all the files I wanted to...

No, I didn't use OneDrive. It was just from one local drive folder to another local drive folder.

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Sorry, I did just open up two file explorer locations: the from and the...

Yup, too late.

Well, yeah, i'm the molehill standing against the MS Mt. Everest.

My Wndows 10 Pro 64 version is now 22H2 19045.3448

I selected some folders in a drive on to which I want to reformat and do a clean OS install.

The move seemed to work and ended apparently...

I just replied with my own DM back to you.

I'm always afraid of clean installs. Would I do this on the new PC that I just built using the old hardware? In other words, instead of booting up from the borrowed system disk from the new hardware...

Thanks. specifically regarding this:

If you're lucky it may say 'activated with a digital licence linked to your Microsoft account'. If not, you should be able to run the activation...

You guys have all been great as usual. The message about Stack Social seemed to me the best option, but I did continue to try to figure out what was going on. I saw a tutorial on Eleven Forums about...

Where do I get a $3 key? Aren't they going to immediately know it's not a valid key?

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I can't change personal settings. For example, MSI crammed their own desktop...

Of course as I have spoken with MS agent representatives before, reading their scripts, they mention that if I edit the registry it invalidates their warranty, the ultimate legal weasel defense for...

Thanks to Bree and all. I had already done that, but let me verify all the steps.

1. I made sure I was logged in on my actual Administrator account, not just my user account with Administrative...

I recently decided to upgrade my desktop computer. I built it on an Asus motherboard about ten years ago. The Asus served me well for all I wanted to do. I wanted to have Gigabit data transfer...

I can't even remember all the Microsoft OSes I have bought, all the way back from their first MSDOS, through every single version until Windows 10. I've bought them all legally. I've built Windows...

Is there some way to find the product activation key somewhere within my computer?

Please read below. I edited this, as I got past the initial problem, but now Windows wants me to buy a new license!

I built a new Windows PC. Actually, I kept all my drives intact. All I did was...

Thanks for the tip. I guess deep down I knew that would be the case

Yes, although I forgot to mention it, I did connect a phone with a USB-C cable. It did connect. I didn't try transferring any data. I should have, but the charging time (several hours) didn't suggest...

I have an old PC I build on an Asus B85M-E R 2.0 motherboard. I know it's old, but it works great for me. I've got Windows 10 Pro, version 22H2, build 19045.3324 running on it, set now for automatic...

My OS is up to date on every available update to me. Why it's behind a year I don't know, but when it came out it said not all eligible devices could receive it immediately...But anyway I think that...

I've had versions of Microsoft Office like forever going way back. A few years ago I signed up for an Office 365 Home Family subscription. I have 5 member licenses on it. Now, I think this was just...

Yeah, I did. I mentioned that first one. The 1990s version of the IE control options that are pre-set to medium, medium, high, and paranoid. You can go to the advanced custom settings and then you...