LesFerch

Thanks, looks very promising.

G.

fishingfool
RickC

THanks for the hints. I will try the "Shellbags Analyzer And Cleaner" right away. About increasing the BagMRU, I will wait a little bit. I don't want to use a lot of...

Dear all,

When searching in explorer (F3, you know), you get the results along with some format. I understand Windows 10 remembers your preferred format for each or so folder or root of folders.
...

All,

Thanks for the explanations. It seems to have a purpose, then.

G.
PS: interestingly enough (or not), Word 2007 does stops at '.', not Excel 2007 (when editing the content of a cell). It...

As usual, sorry if the question has been answered already...

0- W10 file explorer (any update since 2018 will show this behaviour)
1- create a file such as "askjdasd.ajksd...

System information: W10 Pro, 10.0.19042 (the behavior appeared a few months back over multiple updates).
Dell XPS 15 9579

I am not sure where to post that, so please humor me.

Over the last...

Thanks for interpreting this for me, as well as for your interest all along.

G.

Here is the result after the "fix"., as an attachment.

G.

A reset or restore did the job, no need to reactivate since 2 days now.

I was still expecting someone at Microsoft would look at the detail... A few calls were needed (7). The first 3 resulted...

I re-opened the thread, even though I do not need anyone to take action. This mail is for the record (so that, just in case, there is a trace elsewhere than in my memory).

Yesterday (2019-11-21)...

Not sure I want to do a clean install, as I do not understand what other issues it would create (including a lot of program re-install & tuning, etc).

I

Superfly: Thanks a lot for your interest and many advises. WRT Macrium and clean install... Wait and see!

Gilbert

Superfly

I did nothing (through Nov 17th afternoon to late night, as per your advice. The "Activate Windows" message was there, taunting for an action, but I could resist... Until I got a Blue...

> dism
See attached relevant part of the log.

> sfc
"Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations." However the log (partly attached) show a few warnings, including this one...

After 36 hours or so... "Activate Windows" is back, with the same symptoms.

I will definitively call MS on Monday.

G.

This is indeed the original Wondows 10 Family key from Dell:

ShowKeyPlus - Windows Product Key Information

Original Key: xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-WTYK3

Original Edition: Win 10 RTM Core...

I don't know. This is NOT the temp key I mentioned (ending in 3V66T). It could be a Windows Family one:I bought the laptop with Family by mistake - I have no track of it though. I COULD uninstall Pro...

DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth does not find any issue.

Even though the "Activate Windows" is still showing:

slmgr /xpr says that "Windows, Professional edition: The machine is...

Date corresponds to a windows update (v 1903) at 16:08 or so



I am not knowledgeable enough to spontaneously run these.

sfc /scnanow did found errors - it looks that a OneDrive file in...

Since yesterday, windows version is now 1909 (build 18363.476) - updated yesterday evening.

I re-activated windows around 9:00 this morning (local time). I ran LicensingDiag.ps1 at 10:38 (no...

Well, Windows Update has installed whatever for me... So I assume it is correct. Moreover, in that case, would the activation succeed (as "Windows is activated with a digital license" would let...

Windows 10 Professional (x64) Version 1903 (build 18362.476)

After updating a week ago, a number of settings were changed for me. Among these, I had and "Activate Windows" message at the lower...

I agree with NMI, her/his reply naid the point: I have been confused by an update that created a number of side effects, including a "no permission to write" where I used to have access rights.

G.

Thanks to all.



This makes a lot of sense, because the initial issue I had was with writing files at a location I had writing access rights for long. I >suspect< some of the MS updates made...

[I have posted a similar question on answers.microsoft.com - no reply yet, I will repost them if any]

So, yesterday (Nov 7th 2019), I discovered that the only two accounts on my computer "admin"...