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  1. Thread: New installation of W10 Pro : activation? by fergusd
    Forum: Windows Updates and Activation
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    New installation of W10 Pro : activation?

    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...
  2. Thread: Issue with KB5001716 update on March 5 2024 by fergusd
    Forum: Windows Updates and Activation
    Replies 24 Views 11,756

    I know MeToos don't get anybody anywhere but it...

    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,...
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    That, I would have expected. The shape /...

    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...
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    Thanks all 3 for your kind responses: >> Try...

    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...
  5. Replies 9 Views 1,242

    Annoyance : merely viewing an Excel s/sheet alters some bytes

    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...
  6. Thread: Occasional difficulty : moving cursor in Word 2019 by fergusd
    Forum: Microsoft Office and 365
    Replies 0 Views 438

    Occasional difficulty : moving cursor in Word 2019

    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...
  7. Replies 1 Views 2,185

    .. .. problems installing updates, but we’ll try again later.

    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...
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    Got it. Visit...

    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...
  9. Replies 6 Views 1,032

    Change drive letter for an unrecognised partition

    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:...
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    Nagging message "Outlook Closed While You Had Items Open"

    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...
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    Thanks to all esp Garlin for the effort and the...

    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...
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    How to tweak monotonous cold "Welcome" message at logon

    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...
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    I took look at the thread and got kind of...

    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...
  14. Thread: Geekbench 5 stalls by fergusd
    Forum: Benchmarking
    Replies 1 Views 1,368

    Geekbench 5 stalls

    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...
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    Internet Explorer will be retired and go out of support on June 15

    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...
  16. Thread: How to delete Recent? by fergusd
    Forum: Microsoft Office and 365
    Replies 1 Views 1,018

    How to delete Recent?

    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...
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    Office 2019 - Cannot add soundtrack to a timed Powerpoint slideshow

    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...
  18. Thread: Outlook on 2 machines - not synch'ing by fergusd
    Forum: Microsoft Office and 365
    Replies 2 Views 933

    Outlook on 2 machines - not synch'ing

    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...
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    Outlook 2019 : how to completely replace address book

    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...
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    How to turn Windows Explorer Notifications back on

    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]....
  21. Thread: Adding to router's firewall blacklist by fergusd
    Forum: Network and Sharing
    Replies 1 Views 1,106

    Adding to router's firewall blacklist

    I would like to:
    "You can also try just adding xxx.x.xxx.xx [a specified address] to your router's firewall blacklist (both TCP and UDP)"
    but don't have an idea how to start. Any help?
    (Sorry for...
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    Annoying startup error msg about disconnected uninstalled device

    I have uninstalled a defunct HP Officejet Pro 8100 printer. The uninstallation process also removed references under C:\ProgramFiles and C:\Users. As far as I can tell nothing survives in the...
  23. Thread: Refreshing desktop.ini by fergusd
    Forum: General Support
    Replies 7 Views 2,002

    Thanks, all. Really helpful and much appreciated....

    Thanks, all. Really helpful and much appreciated.
    So: I downloaded Macrium and took an image of C: onto an external device.
    (V. easy and convenient.)
    I opened the file 30-NOV.mrimg with Macrium...
  24. Thread: Refreshing desktop.ini by fergusd
    Forum: General Support
    Replies 7 Views 2,002

    Yes to sfc /scannow (frequently). Yes to disk...

    Yes to sfc /scannow (frequently).
    Yes to disk imaging (frequently, using partimage [-save,-restore] in Linux).
    I find this quite simple, fast, reliable.
    Of course the pim image is not browsable....
  25. Thread: Refreshing desktop.ini by fergusd
    Forum: General Support
    Replies 7 Views 2,002

    Refreshing desktop.ini

    Not entirely sure of the role of desktop.ini in a folder or how it is achieved.
    But different folders have different versions.
    Is there a repository or some other mechanism to recover any missing...
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