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Seems that version has been withdrawn- no doubt somewhere there's a download..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...

And if you HAVE done that.. then probability is the files have been overwritten.

However, chances are you didn't - why? Because by default (unless you changed it at some point) there's a...

What Pentagon has given you is a command prompt command to list the parameters of the DIR command.
Not sure how that's going to help you...

Open your Recycle bin and see if it's there... usually...

It would be a great choice to start using disk imaging.

Not only does that provide a 100% backup, but recovery from bad situations to a previously good state- provided you have an image created...

Well- and thank you so much for your polite reply.

No solution? Everyone wants a magic instant fix for free!

Your registry values are wrong- so correct them.

As for file explorer- male sure...

And does it scroll e.g. file explorer scroll bars on your desktop PC?

What sort of mouse is it? How is it connected?
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the driver (completely)?

Check...

It will be much clearer if you can follow what I asked:



Why? It provides a lot more info, and shows a small partition that is NOT shown by Disk Management by design.

Assuming something caused by installation or configuration... here's what I do if clean installing..

a. Install Windows and as soon as possible create my first full disk image (Macrium Reflect)....

- and before chkdsk (which doesn't check the entire physical disk) use
Crystal Diskinfo (free) - portable version available.

Just launch and look.

Hi, first, if you have a recent full 3rd party disk image of your complete O/S- you can simply restore that to a different disk and be back as you were when you created the disk image.

The routine...

And thank you for your reply. Short answer: no.

If you read my post, (unacknowleged) I commented on content indexing.

Obviously disabling content indexing will speed indexing and reduce disk...

Hi, whilst Windows search can be formidable when used properly, my view of it indexing external drives is simple- don't.

Far better in that case to use a 3rd party tool... and I'd suggest you...

Thanks.
To check:
Verify that this task runs every 10 mins.

Simply look at what e.g. Task scheduler reports for that task every 10 minutes and see if it has been run...

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