I have never had the problem you are trying to fix. In my experience, the same drive, plugged into a different USB port, always gets the same drive letter. Again, this is irrelevant to the problem...

Interesting, but it doesn't address my issue, Windows mistakenly identifying my second external drive as if it were my first. And I don't really see what DriveLetterView accomplishes that I can't...

Thanks again. That is definitely what I want, so will un-check it on all my Windows 10 machines.

Duh, who'd've thunk that? Thanks! So does this setting affect only shutting down via hitting the power button, or does it disable Fast Startup for all methods of shut down, e.g. start menu power...

Thanks Bree, for that link. I've been using Shift - Shut Down since I learned about it just yesterday. I was wondering about ways to shut down from the command line. Didn't know about shutdown.exe...

I tried, but got "Cannot eject this drive because Windows is using it." So instead, I did a full system shutdown, and then removed it while power was off.

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As noted in the...

Thanks for the suggestion, Berton, but that didn't make any difference. I booted my PC without the drive, then plugged in the new drive. As soon as it spun up, Windows again showed it with the...

I had something really creepy happen today with Windows 10 Version 1903. Last month I bought a pair of Seagate external USB-connected 8 TB hard drives, model 1XAAY5-570. I unpacked one of them,...

Good suggestion, Bree!

After much trial-and-error, I found and applied this fix::

1. Start/Run SERVICES.MSC
2. Locate service "World Wide Web Publishing Service" and click its gearwheel
3. On the Properties dialog,...

I found these messages in the Windows Application Log:

The Apache service named reported the following error:
>>> (OS 10013)An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its...

For years, I have successfully run the Apache web server on my laptop (now running Windows 10 version 1903), making selected web pages available to other machines on my LAN. Today, Microsoft...

I don't think so, for two reasons:

The network to which I was trying to connect was a password-pretected secured network.
After I posted the above, I successfully connected to a different,...

Today, while having lunch at my favorite restaurant, I tried to connect to their WiFi network as I usually do.

I got the following message:
Checking network resources


And then, after a few...

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OK, Dave, again with lots of appreciation for all your research, I think I am not up to date on all your posts.
As my final experiment, I returned to
...

Oops, yes you did, Dave. Somehow I didn't see the notification of your post until after I posted today.
But thank you again, you did nail the issue and the solution.

- Rich

I found the solution: It was necessary to completely disable User Account Control (UAC). To do this, it is not sufficient to move the slider down to "Never Notify." Instead, I had to open the...

Dave, could you please try this experiment? On your Win10 machine, please remove "Everyone" so that only "Administrators" remains, and click OK all the way out. Then on your XP machine, try again...

Dave thank you very much for working with me on this. I think your most recent questions are helping me narrow down the problem. My emotional state is shifting from despair to excitement now. See...

Thanks, Dave. Here are the answers to your questions:

Yes.

Yes.

I have AVG anti-virus, but its Firewall component is "Not Activated".

"Hybrid"

My Windows 7 Pro machine correctly ran Apache and MySQL servers until I accepted the free "upgrade" to Windows 10 Pro. Now the services won't stay running.

I had previously installed the...

The network name of my Windows 10 PC is "Pasco-1558"
As to what I get, please see this screen shot:

UPDATE: In my post of yesterday, I had omitted the trailing slash from Dave's suggested...

So I bit the bullet and "upgraded" my laptop from Windows 7 to 10. I expected to find a few things that didn't work anymore, but not so soon as this. I keep it in sync with my desktop PC (running...