Hmm. That's fairly basic. Example. By default file type rtf is defined in Windows and can be opened in Wordpad.

Type ods does not exist in a clean installation of Windows. Nor does .docx.

Only...

Do you have type .ods defined as a file extension on your PC?

Note how I specifically showed that for you from Settings.

Again, thank you for your reply. And here I provide yet another screenshot for you.



As you will see from the second screenshot I provided ods is present.

Here you can see in addition that...

And thank you for your time replying.


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Pictures would clarify. Note I am posting screenshots for you.

There are several 3rd party utilities that let you disable these by using check box selection.

One very often mentioned (also in a tutorial) here is Shellexview (free).

This doesn't actually...

You can, one way or another, do what you want with the New document list.

This small free utility helps:
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You can also create your own template document, so the New document...

Intriguing.. looks like it was connected by different means although on the same hub on the two occasions?

Thanks. One with e.g. Minitool Partition Wizard e.g. would be helpful as that shows more details and the 16MB partition hidden by Disk Management. Looks like your last partition is the current...

Your partition details (see posts above) will help a lot.

Note too that there are reports that the EFI partition must be at least 400MB - whilst that will only be 100MB on many....

For interest: searching for cpuz158_x64.sys =>
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- which you may have seen.

FWIW - my experience of 3 drives to which I have assigned letters late in the alphabet (so the letter isn't used by anything else) - 2 used on 1 laptop, 1 on another as backup drives. The two I use...

My comment about the 10 minute repeat actually related to the absence of any sign of repetition on mine.

I'm wondering if on yours if the 10 minute timeout on idle is triggered when the Start Menu...

Yes/ Yes

No.

Note: there is one aspect this does not cover- to automatically minimise a program to the tray on startup.

To do that you'd need a different program - e.g. Actual Window...

And thank you very much for all of this.

As to whether programs start- look for the options as usual.

Look at my screenshots- then if you read my post you will see how to minimise a program to...

Hi, this seems to be an abrupt shutdown which means nothing diagnostic is likely to be captured.

Once again.. separate hardware from software. Your problem sounds more likely to be hardware.
...

Thanks for your reply.


Seems that version has been withdrawn- no doubt somewhere there's a download.. anyway, I've retrieved this from my other laptop for you, uploaded it to Dropbox as I can't...

Hi, you might try the
Default Programs Editor (free).
Default Programs Editor

Very useful - does the above and more.

Also don't forget the 'browse to' option provided by rt click, 'Open...

Yes, the easy route is available provided your PC is 'compatible' (i.e. meets hardware requirements etc).
Have you checked? There are a couple of easy ways to do that (tools).

If so, and if...

As long as you know you have a routine method to recover a working environment (your complete O/S, configuration, programs etc etc) if...

... your disk fails
... your PC is infected by...

Thanks. Bitlocker makes things more complicated. I don't use it... so feel free to research.

E.g. I found
Macrium Software | Techie Tuesday: Adding BitLocker support to Windows PE
- this relates...

1. Point is an alert on a drive beginning to fail (degrading)
2. If the drive is a data drive, SMART params could still be read
3. If the system drive catastrophically fails- well, who needs an...

Isn't it simply reading the SMART parameters?
How much load/wear is that???

Disk imaging should be regular and routine.
Note that the very act of creating a disk image can detect incipient disk failure or corruption (at least with Macrium Reflect it does).
So that in...

To try to answer your questions:


I have it installed. Here's how from its options:
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You need to be able to mimimise it to the tray.

Here's how:

And thank you for your clarification.

Then note that it does not run repeatedly on mine.

There will be some cause specific to your PC.

I suggest you simply don't bother about the SM...