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...

From...

Hi, as you may have noticed this is tenforums- for... you guessed it- Windows 10. For Win 11 - please see elevenforum.com. Thanks.

Agreed, some things MS does and inflicts upon the public are shoddy.

As spotlight also requires interaction with MS's servers other factors could be in play.

I've had 2 laptops, no clean...

davidhk A hint- you could also find that solution by asking Google this:
mount not available when I right click iso

- and sometimes it helps to search the Tutorials section here...

It does seem to say that.

There are tutorials in the Tutorials section in tenforums and elevenforum.com about controlling update-related restarts.

If you have the Pro version (or a version with...

And thank you very much for replying. Good luck and unsubscribed as I don't want to waste time on this.

Hi, given the above, I'll discount hardware issues, unless perhaps UPS-related somehow- if you have one.

In which state you do you leave the PC overnight? Obviously not switched off....

Using the last field in the dialogue of Openwithadd as per my post #6..

For example, I had an Open With option to open doc files with Atlantis Word Processor.

I used OpenWithAdd but specified...

The ones in my post #2

Can you see the blue text?

Click on that in each case and the tutorial will open.

Good luck, unsubscribed.

Posts #2, #4?

It seems you posted about this problem in December:
Some tiles in Start Menu show gray background

but you did not respond further.

That's effectively a full backup of - for starters- all your O/S partitions - so if your system disk fails- or your PC is stolen- and your image files are safe- you can recover to exactly how things...

Check the internal disk(s) (e.g. Crystal Diskinfo, free, portable version available).

Do so
- either by booting from a suitable live boot disk created on another PC (Google for more)
- or by...