Samuria, sorry about that. The error message is always Connection Timed Out. Thanks for your patience.

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Thanks, MisterEd, I'm looking at it.

Thanks, Samuria. Yesterday morning I was able to ping the PC with no problem. An hour or so later, with no explanation, the PC suddenly appeared, visible on the laptop. I was elated, but wary, as...

Thanks for the replies!

Samuria: I cannot access the PC from the laptop using the ip address. I can access the router from the laptop, but all is good there, it appears: the PC status is Allowed....

Both rigs running Win 10 20H2 build 19042.1052.

I am able to access the internet from the laptop and I managed to share a printer that is connected to the PC with the laptop.

For about...

I selected 'Restart' from the Power options after each uninstall. I think I did, at times totally shut down, though I didn't keep a log of what I did - which would have been smart.

Thank you all for your input. It's all fixed now. Don't ask me how. Sometime during the next umpteen iterations of uninstalling and reinstalling Office 2013 the gremlin gave up and I now have a...

Thanks, I downloaded the MS uninstaller and ran it. Reinstalled 2013 with no joy. I think I'll just use Mail. Good luck on your uninstall.

I didn't know that support had ended, but I shouldn't be surprised.

This was a clean install of Office 2013 on a brand new computer. Wait... Ooops.... there was the bloatware trial of Office...

I have a new HP laptop - Win 10 version 2004 - that I am trying to install a bulk purchase copy of MS Office 2013 on. Word and Excel work perfectly. when I open Outlook, however, I get an error...

We are making progress! VDS was already enabled. I used 'diskpart' and the USBs are now automounting with drive letters. Thank you!

The pesky RPC server issue, though, persists. When I'm in...

I have checked all four ways (the fifth way is to do something drastic with the Windows installation). Everything in services, the Registry, etc. were already set at the correct values. I had...

Dalchina - right after I got back I got hammered by a very nasty bug; just emerging now.

I managed to enter Safe Mode successfully using msconfig. The RPC server error occurred again.

I...

Thanks, Dalchina, glad you're still sticking around.

I didn't follow the standard procedure to enter Safe Mode. When I started Tweaking it offered a button to start in Safe Mode which I pressed. ...

I guess I really stepped in it. I did not create a new user account; I must have glossed over that in your post. I did select only the repairs you suggested.

I tried to work from Safe Mode, but...

Thanks, Dalchina, for the quick reply. I have appointments today so I'll try your solutions a bit later. I've updated my specs in my profile. My current OS is Win 10 Version 1903 Build 18362.356
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For months now I have been unable to connect USB drives automatically in Win 10. When I go to Computer Management/Disk Management I often see the drive there, but with no drive letter, so I have to...

king901: Unfortunately, I didn't do it, the guys I paid at the shop found it. It's above my pay grade. What they told me is that this 'diskpart' (I'm guessing it's something related to disk...

You're singing my song. That happened to my USB drives also. When I gave up and took it into the shop they found that function called 'diskpart' that needs to be enabled to recognize the external...

I have all the current updates on Win 10 home. I cannot tell you how many times I have tried this with no result. I uninstalled and let Win10 reinstall each and every USB driver on the system. I...

Thanks for asking for clarification. Internal is Rosewill multi-card device. External is Lexar dual slot 3.0. The Lexar has been tested with several other computers and works on them.

I'm not...

After months of problems with external USB drives not mounting and not being able to use my card readers, either internal or external, I took my rig in to a shop. They gave me the usual okey doke...

Thanks for replying, Arc. I've done all that now. Some ports are working, the ones built into the rig and connected directly to the mobo. My Rosewill internal card reader and my Lexar external...

I am running an ASUS P6X58D-E mobo and an i7-930 CPU. After upgrading from Win7 two weeks ago I cannot access any USB mass storage device, including my internal card reader as well as my Lexar USB...