Off track since this is a Win10 forum, not a Win7 one. :)

Lisa9,
The company I settled on is 0Patch, their website is: 0patch.com. There are other companies that offer a similar service. They offer a basic (free) or paid subscription (25 Euros/yr) and they...

A bit off track (apologies to the moderators), but I went sideways and found a company that tweaks all of MS' win10 & 11 security updates so they will work with Win7 and they also create their own...

Any such functionality within windows has been well and truly banished. The only hope would be to use a 3rd party file explorer. I know of only one viable option ATM and that's the one recommended by...

Could you PM me the link from the MS site? And let me know how the testing goes? The website does say there is a trial period, but not how long. Of course the licence is around $US10, so no biggie,...

I had a look at the website. Looks like it has potential. Going through the comments page I found there were also other Japanese programs that may do the same thing. Why is it that only the Japanese...

Those fixes haven't worked in quite a few years, alas.

As for fixing your problem .. did you try a system restore to before the time you applied the patch? Alternatively, most semi-decent sites...

I know it's almost certainly wishful thinking, but I keep checking every now and then to see if there's a solution. The closest I've been able to find is to use a tweaked ubuntu (linux) install, but...

Any suggestions for 3rd party software that'll do this? Whether freeware, shareware or payware? I've tried dozens and have not found one that has this feature.