Didn't see a Tombstones there.

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Now, after having unpinned stuff and then doing a restart, the two messed up taskbar entries are gone. They ought not to have stuck around...

Though the 'pin to taskbar' did nada, I did checkout the User Pinned directory that Try3 pointed me at:

Astrosynthesis v3 Shortcut (visible on taskbar)...

Tried that, no joy. It doesn't seem to pin anything there.

I think how we got here was:
a) I got an avast update, hit 'okay' and didn't uncheck other crud like Avast Secure Brower
b) I got an...

Did that... it literally has no image. It just looks like the taskbar. It's like there is no icon and given the two options when you right click (pin to taskbar and close all windows), there's...

My past experience (with having copied full system drives) is that if I reinstall an new OS or if I have to try to view them from another machine, I am not permitted to see many of the directories...

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So, as you can see, near the bottom right, there is a blank taskbar entry. The popup menu does little to clarify (pin to taskbar and close all windows, neither of which does anything as far...

I think the order is:
1) Finish my backups and info collection with due paranoia
2) Run the script that clears out the Software Downloads and shuts down and restarts services and see how that...

I get that... for example, I'm pretty sure my older laptop won't support the virtualization stuff, but I don't use that, so no big deal. But if, as was posted in this thread, 20H2 has the same...

It doesn't say UEFI and I'm not even sure if the 2011-2012 models of like my GE 70 0ND would have supported UEFI. My wife's MSI gaming laptop I got her for her Xmas 2019 does, but that's 7-8 years...

My path was Atari Gaming Console (My folks paid $110 for the Defender cartridge back then... wow!... I wouldn't pay that for a major game title on Steam now), then the Commodore 64 (I had the disk...

I'm a software developer, a gamer, and I do graphics work and I also have moved most of my movies, TV, books, etc. into digital form. So yes. The only reason this machine doesn't have another 1 TB is...

I have done that with some different tools.

My experience however is that sometimes that isn't as good as just copying the data you want somewhere you know it will be accessible. (Once I had a...

Computer savvy is handy, but baking a mean quiche is wonderful!

21 -> XP went out in 2001.... It's 2021.... you started early :) (Well, Win7 had a good long run so not quite that young)
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The short answer is that wasn't the first place I'd start. Updates were working fine up (as far as I noticed or can tell now) up until now and even now, there's no indications (other than in running...

I ran the command (though with no output, I couldn't tell you what it did). When it went to the command prompt again, I ran a restart.

I then ran 'windows update' and checked for updates. A...

I ran the script - I did see some files at the end of the deletions that weren't found and the I saw another indication of failure, but the script cleared the text in the command window buffer (in...

I just recently successfully (at least as far as all updates reported successful conclusion) the 1909 -> 2004 update. I repeatedly queried windows update and installed anything it provided and now...

As per forum requests, I'm introducing myself.

My name is Tom, I am a software specialist/programmer/software developer/systems analyst (nobody could ever make up their mind) with a fair amount...

I have a new MSI Codex R desktop. It came with a 500 Gb SATA SSD as the only drive and Windows 10 was installed in the system partition. The drive had five partitions (one for the OS, one for data,...