Oh, I know. ;) It just helps to have a clearer head point you in the right direction, now and then. Which is why I belong to this Forum!

I've never been able to establish any consistent cause. It's not Avast for me, because one just came through last night, and my "Ribbons" are still running. It's not Win 10 updates either, this...

Yep, that's where I would go each time to fix it. But when you're doing that every few weeks, it gets pretty frustrating! Particularly so, if you remember that the app's long-time home, the...

Thank you, I never knew that ability existed in GPO. I enabled both of those policies, also went into Computer Configuration and found the tool I need to keep my wife's machine from resetting her...

This is one of those irritating little things which Microsoft does now and then, I'm afraid... something you can grit your teeth and live with, which is why I'm only now getting around to seeing if...

I've had much more dramatic results in file-size reduction, using only "Medium" compression. I have a laptop with about 54GB of 256 used, and the backup file size was only about 17GB, easily fitting...

Mine is a desktop, not a laptop. The parts have been consolidated from various machines over the years, but it started out life as a barebones kit, running XP. Later on, I bought a copy of Win 7,...

I just restore from my last backup. (Macrium has saved my skin more than once.) Then don't forget to go into your Windows Update "advanced settings" and scroll down to "Choose when updates are...

Sounds like you should roll back to 1909, and wait for them to iron a few things out. Your rig obviously hates 2004 right now. Mine loves it, but a few versions back I had the same kind of issues...

Much better. Always good to have the disks all one way or all the other. Less confusing for your OS kernel.

Apple is good for that. This machine of mine we're talking about is XP-era -- the motherboard's original disk which came with the kit has XP and Vista drivers. I bought Win 7 years ago, and there...

Thanks, and that would have been a great idea. Only problem with that is, the official Microsoft download site doesn't like my OEM key, and won't play nice. I have some ISO files from back when...

Thank you! I used command prompt to install the .cab file, then restarted the system, and it came back up as version 1909. Just that easy. All you folks here are the best!

(I'm real familiar...

I'm running two machines, the main one on 2004 and no problems whatsoever. The second machine, however, is a different story...

That machine is older but still solid -- a relatively ancient DDR2...

DBD -- the way you installed everything is exactly the way I do it, and personally I would not alter that method. Installing the different OSs on separate drives keeps them completely independent...

I believe he will tell you that yes, Windows does recognize your SSD, and will optimize it on a regular schedule, just as it will a standard disk drive. However, with an SSD, the procedure is a...

Lol! I come here whenever I need the best advice possible. Some very, very knowledgable folks hang out here.

A third-party defragmenter would do it, but I knew better than to go there, trust me.

Okay, if Windows has no problem with it being left alone, neither do I. Wish they would change the way it...

Hey, here's my own question -- and I apologize if I missed something along the way, but I don't see this point in any of the threads -- what about the "System Reserved" partition? My computer keeps...

I just had to fiddle with this yesterday, because when I set up my second computer and it initially forced me to log into my MS account, it altered the background on my main machine (which was...