I have a planned backup cycle for the upgraded PC in 5 days (1st of the month routine). So how do I remove the left-over prior OS files? I'd rather not include them in the backup file.

All the advice I got was re-install windows, which is what I was trying to do. And use 7z (in lieu of 'mount') is what I ultimately did . . .
- media tool to create the win 10 home 22h2 iso file. ...

That's what I did and the image shows: the iso file is on the desktop, and there is no mount option in the rt-click menu

Ghot,
Thanks for a simple method. Followed it, but there's a problem; rt-clicking the desktop icon has not mount option. See attached screenshot.
Is there a fix for that missing function???

That link is . . complicated. I got lost just reading it. I'm familiar with using an iso file, is there a link (click on it) where I can just get the 22h2 file?

That sounds easy. But can you do that: meaning upgrade to a later version of win 10 from within win 10? I have an earlier version, 21h1 in a usb which I used to upgrade an Hp laptop, but I avoided...

Background.
I have 3 PC's, 2 running win10 and up-to-date, and one is an old Toshiba C665 laptop that was bought new with win 7 on it. I resisted upgrade to the OS when win7 was going out of...

I've been keeping tabs on the MS KB5034441 article over the last 3 months, and MS have updated it to include a means of finding out if the WinRE is enabled using a single command line entry. So I...

Ben,
You are assuredly not alone. Google search using kb5034441 and read the firing squad comments levelled at MS from the first day this abomination was released.

I'm with Ben. It's not only embarrassing to the users but MS is taking a real hit on the internet about this, altho I am sure they see it as 'a fix', pat self on back.
The reality is that it's a...

Hiding the system files seems to be the fix. I can still view hidden files, and there are times when I need to do that, so I normally leave view hidden selected. But turning OFF the system files...

All those marked inaccessible folders look like they are just a folder name, but no folder (if they were, then the message probably would be "this folder is empty") - properties screenshot attached. ...

Some 3 months ago a m/b failure required a desktop re-build, effectively a new machine running windows 10 home, now feature updated etc to 22h2.
Running explorer on the new machine, I keep finding...

Dalchina,
What I did was;
- review whether Run was able to be "run as administrator" as opposed to "run by the administrator". It wasn't. So the following was performed 'by the account...

Dalchina,
According to the win10, settings, accounts page - there is only the file1 local account (screenshot) and I am the administrator of it.
When creating the task, the last item requested is...

An update on this . .
1. the scheduled task did not run on schedule (weekly, monday at 11am) nor did it run at any later time - no idea why.
2. A review of the task did not show anything...

In a nutshell, I've got task creation to complete Ok. Now to see if it runs on schedule. But the conditions seem really odd. the details . .
1. My windows 10 'step by step', p410 says that if...

Thanks for the detailed feedback. You learn something everyday, it seems: I've long been aware of local accounts but never realised that you must have one just to use the PC, password or not. So,...

Re accounts - I have an microsoft account, that I mainly use to access One drive for large file distribution. For example, most recently blue screen minidump files for analysis. AFAIK I don't -...

Logging in - cannot say I consciously do: on start, the lock screen has a PIN (on the other win 10 machine it's an account password) but that's it: once into the workings there's no other...

Hi Dalchina,
Yep, that's the one. When the link opens the reference number is in the address bar (screenshot)

Hi Dalchina,
Thanks. the regedit version done.

This query relates to the tutorial on this topic - 64869.
On a prior system running win7 without an account password, it set up and ran fine per the tut script. at step 11, because there was no...

Until last week, my win10 PC was 'not suitable' for upgrade to windows 11 (wrong cpu, no TPM, no m/b drivers etc etc). So any offer to upgrade to win11 simply was off the table. But then it failed...

A week after applying the win10 21h2 Aug 2022 windows updates, suddenly I'm getting windows stopcode errors. Several in an hour. Usually during a day, I use the machine for 4-6 hours and there may...