OK - thanks for the update.

Now, my 2TB SSD is acting squirrely. I guess I'll try the same thing on it.
(if you're interested, I can create folders, but not delete them, and I can't copy...

Disk management didn't give me any option to initialize, but I did find a way to assign a letter to the drive. PRESTO!

It looks like everything is all good. Many thanks to both y'all

Oh-k-a-a-a-y. That SEEMED to work. At least it reported that everything went well.

The only problem now is that my computer says the drive doesn't exist at all.

I tried unplugging it and...

System is Win 10 home (21H1) running on Toshiba laptop.
External HD is a Simpletech USB drive with 177Gb on it.

I have upgraded to a 2TB SSD drive (again, USB) to keep backups on - both for...

It's BACK!!!
Guess I was a little too optimistic about the fix.

WMI provider host is back up and bouncing around from 15 to 25%

process ID for error message is now 4096 - it still doesn't show...

strangely enough - It kinda did.

Before this I always rebooted in an effort to fix the problem - with no glory.

Since I'd been rebooting, I never bothered with the WMI restart (figuring the...

My system is sluggish most of the time, and I'm trying to find out why.
Rebooting the computer doesn't help.

I noticed that the WMI provider host is busy (20 - 30%), so I started chasing...
...

Many thanks!
I think I've got a handle on what's going on now, and I was right - the problem was ME not the computer.
I'll have to think a bit on how I want to proceed, but I'm going to consider my...

edit post doesn't appear to be an option I have available to me.
Maybe I need to make a "minimum" number of posts first?
Can the admins do it, since I can't?


update - "edit post" shows up on...

Dalchina,
Try3 (Denis),

Here are screen shots of the things you requested.
It's beginning to look like OneDrive somehow got involved - I don't know how, since I've never deliberately chosen to...

dalchina,
to my knowledge, I haven't ever relocated Documents.

the %userprofile%\documents yields "T1I0716500H (C:) > Users >Admin>Documents
The only thing in that directory at the moment is a...

Hi, I'm Steve. Not much to say, really. I'm just a home user, with just enough knowledge to get myself in trouble.
I've always liked computers, and my first one was a good-ole TRS-80 (trash 80)...

I'm not sure if I'm worrying for nothing, but here goes...
I'm running Win10 ver 1909 (build 18363-959) on a Toshiba Satellite laptop.

I was logged into my "steve" account - which is an admin...