I'm not complaining. Did I sound as though I was? On the contrary I'm thrilled to bits. I just hoped some expert might be able to explain the occurrence. (So far, not.)
Also, I didn't disable the...

You are absolutely correct that there is no Recovery partition on this drive. I dislike Microsoft's management of Setup on a clean drive. From the beginning I set up just two partitions as described...

VolumeList and DiskList both attached.
Also (in text immediately following) output from fdisk and sfdisk demonstrating full and adjacent occupancy of entire HDD drive by two partitions NTFS+exFAT....

Well: actually I prepared for the clean install by partitioning the HDD into exactly two - p1 being NTFS 80G and p2 being exfat 400G (I don't like MS's decison-making) - and then booting into the W10...

I installed W10 from scratch (wiped and nuked HDDs) on two elderly Dells this week.
Two strange findings.
1. After the usual raft of W10 Updates with 4 or 5 "Restart now"s I noticed that I was not...

I have a 2014 Dell Precision M6700 whiich in its day was a monster bit of kit.
It limps along horribly with W7. I know it will accept W10 Pro using Media Creation Tool. It won't take W11.
I never...

I know MeToos don't get anybody anywhere but it is soothing to know that it's not JustMe.
So: same here!
What is odd is the date on KB5001716: 2023-10 Update - 4 or 5 months ago??
(Cf. KB5034441,...

That, I would have expected. The shape / structure of a s/sheet is surely as fundamental a component of its architecture as its content; similarly, merely altering the Layout of a Word doc would...

Thanks all 3 for your kind responses:
>> Try repairing the installation.
I'm really reluctant to do this (a) because in all other respects Excel works just fine; (b) because the same glitch has...

Opening a s/sheet in Excel 2019 (and all earlier versions as I recall), viewing it, then closing it, seems to result in half a dozen byte changes and so the document appears "changed", with...

Occasionally as I move around a document in Word 2019 the cursor comes up against a hard stop mid-document.
At some newline <DownArrow> simply fails to operate and the cursor remains stubbornly...

I'm an obsessive curator of my own standalone W10 machine, updating regularly and with frequent sfc /scannow checks resulting almost always in a clean report.
Today the only outstanding update is...

Got it.
Visit HKLM/System/MountedDevices/DosDevices
and Rename the unrecognised partitions to labels that don't matter.
The old labels still show in Explorer.
Reboot and Explorer shows the new...

I have a USB stick with (a FAT32 partition and) an essential 2nd partition which is formatted reiserfs.
On insertion (every time) Windows comes up with "You need to format the disk in drive F:...

Apologies if Everybody Knows This already:
Nagging message "Outlook Closed While You Had Items Open".
(Quite recent, after an update? But I can't find it referred to here .. ..)
In Outlook 2019...

Thanks to all esp Garlin for the effort and the personal touch.
I am pretty certain that I re-compiled correctly; and the "new" edited .mui file is there in place.
I used a Linux boot disk to...

I don't want to force you guys to watch a "How To Tweak Windows 10" YouTube video - you are probably better equipped to present them than to watch them! But I have followed
How to change the welcome...

I took look at the thread and got kind of exhausted so I don't know whether you have found a fix? Or whether the suggestion below has already been offered. But I like a sparse system and absolutely...

I installed Geekbench 5 on a Dell XPS 13 9360 running W10 and achieved scores
CPU Single 909 Multi 1975
Compute 5299
Actually my real intention was to quantify the performance of my Dell 790...

At the moment IE is still accessible on W10.
(At least, that is to say, Search Internet Explorer comes up with it. But press it and one is taken into Edge.)
Within IE, one used to be able to set...

Start Word, Excel, Powerpoint. Press Home.
"Recent" shows previous opened files.
This list can be emptied by pressing Alt-R then R-click "Clear unpinned items".
Similarly for Folders.
Can these...

Office 2019. PowerPoint.
I've built a 29-slide PP presentation and turned it into a times slideshow with slide transitions happening as and when required.
29 silent slides really rather arid!
I...

I have Outlook 2019 on Machine 1 and just the basic Outlook (that comes with Windows 10) on Machine 2.
Synchronisation between the two (Inbox, Sent, Calendar, ..) seems to be working fine.
BUT I...

I have put a lot of work into refining a .VCF (not .CSV) file - removing duplicates / irrelevant entries and including all required.
(Actually, for my phone.)
Conversely, my Outlook 2019 address...

I was getting a recurrent (and annoying and wrong) notification repeating every time I closed it.
"Windows Explorer does not recognise the USB device you have just inserted" [or similar, sorry]....