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As your lockscreen slideshow can be from a set of pictures you select, then I would have thought this reduces to running a simple script on startup that manipulates the content of that...

Can you boot to Safe Mode just for reference? If so, what do you see?

Thank you for your reply.

Disk imaging is not comparable to backing up data. If you are comfortable with the consequences of not using it and fully understand that, that's great.

I guess this...

How can you do that?
- start by searching the Tutorials section for URI (or Settings shortcuts perhaps) and you find this:
Settings Pages List of URI Shortcuts in Windows 10

Find:
Multitasking...

And thank you for your reply.

From the searchable Tutorials section (do feel free to have a look) I found this for you:
Sign in User Account Automatically at Windows 10 Startup

Excellent model! Just add in free upgrades to the next range or flavour of the particular food please!

Agreed... please state how you got this device- and why you didn't clean install it if previously owned.

No, it doesn't in the relevant option.

Read carefully. Option 2 local accounts- via built-in administrator acct.

Else MS account as appropriate.

Which do you use?

And thank you for your...

What is the file extension?
Seems to be some Windows system image:
windows - What is Catalog and Mediaid in WindowsImageBackup? - Super User

As this is old, not likely to be of much use unless...

If you want a meaningful report that puts it in English and predicts remaining life etc, try Hard Disk Sentinel. .. portable version available.

It is periodically given away e.g.
Hard Disk...

The above program has been recommended hundreds of times on tenforums,

Better: get Hard Disk Sentinel (full functional trial) - analysis in comprehensible English.

Note that you can detect...

Please confirm you are prompted to sign in with a PIN. I'm not clear this is so from your post, noting you say:

Noting you have Pro, is it possible you have somehow a group policy set? See...

Hi, please look at your Update History and identify the problem update.


- there are many.
Do you mean you used this?
Reset Windows Update in Windows 10

You should start by checking your...

Thank you for your reply.

From the searchable tutorials section see:
Reset Password of User Account in Windows 10

Please remember blue text is clickable and may take you to another tutorial.

Don't forget that- so many...

There's nothing hard about this.. just don't try to do it yourself by hacking services or files.

If you have Pro, it's easy- set updates to Notify in Group Policy.
Using target feature update (as...

My experience of blocking all updates from 1903 thru much of 2 major builds (the debacle of 1909), was that that was completely successful.

At that time I used Sledgehammer- and the script in my...

Hi, this has been asked so many times.. the searchable Tutorials section is one great place to start:

Enable or Disable Windows Update Automatic Updates in Windows 10

and...

For what you want to do including having a bootable disk- 3rd party disk imaging.

All disk imaging programs I know of allow images to be mounted and explored with file explorer.

A problem you may face is this:
If the drive in question is failing (duff sectors etc) you most...

Er.. well, Win 10 users might have Android phones somehow linked with their PCs one way or another.. e.g. my password manager applies to both, and Prey (lost device location etc) applies to both.. ...

Hi, are you using more than one monitor?

If you look at the article for that update in the News section it comments


KB5037768 Windows 10 Cumulative Update build 19045.4412 (22H2)

As this...

Hi, there's absolutely no 100% guarantee of that whatsoever.

Some things that help in limited ways:
1. Some programs e.g. word processors, Thunderbird.. keep saving the current state of what...

That's the default. You must have deselected it.

Note: you should consider creating a new user account just for test purposes - then delete it. Log in to that account- if you see the SAME problem an in-place upgrade repair install could well help....