I think I'm probably out of luck. Serves me right for being happy with a 21-year-old keyboard instead of buying a new one every couple of years like Microsoft probably wants me to do.

(For the...

Since I'm trying to do this on my desktop, there are no laptop-friendly entries in the UEFI to do anything with the keyboard. F-Lock + CapsLock does nothing special. I couldn't find any way to change...

Yeah, I guess so. My other keyboard both defaults to F-Lock being on and, IIRC, remembers its state for the next boot. I'd use it instead, but I prefer the feel of the keys on my usual keyboard, even...

Thanks for that, but I'm not looking to remap the function keys themselves, as they're already remapped. I'm looking to toggle the F-Lock button on startup so that I don't have to remap the keys...

Win 10, 22H2, 19045.3086

My preferred keyboard is an old MS Natural Multimedia, with a PS/2 connector. This is one of those keyboards which have an "F-Lock" key to change the function keys from...

I've been having much the same problem here, for much longer than since BitDefender was withdrawn. Whatever they did to cause it was months ago.

Well, I turned off fast start and tried to replicate the problem in both a new user account and safe mode, but in the last week of occasional testing I've only had it hibernate on me once, and that...

I'm still testing this (sorry for the delay, I've not been using the PC much in the last few days). It's still happening after the full shutdown/restart tests. I've not tested it in safe mode or with...

It's an SSD - as far as I'm aware, the Surface line doesn't include any HDD options. As for hibernation, I don't think it's necessarily a problem with hibernation itself, as I think it's hibernating...

Thanks for the suggestions.

Dalchina: my problem only occurs once per session, not repeatedly as in the case you linked.

Megahertz: I've previously done both normal shutdowns and restarts to...

My Surface is set to go to sleep after 20 minutes and then hibernate after 60 when on battery (and never hibernate when plugged in). I typically don't manually shut down when I'm done with it, I...

Late reply, but I finally worked out that this was caused by a SyncBack Free backup profile that I had set to shut the PC down on completion. Deselected that option and the problem went away.

Never mind, I'm being dumb.

Thanks for the replies. From what I've read here and in other places, I assumed that people were seeing this window when they were deliberately shutting the computer down. Is it appearing...

Hi all.

My dad's been seeing a pop-up window every now and again which says "Other people are logged on to this computer. Shutting down Windows might cause them to lose data. Do you want to...

As far as I can tell, based on Windows' Resource Manager tool and ProcessMonitor, nothing is reading or writing to this drive while it's mounted, so I doubt it could have filled up any significant...

It's not the fact that it's still spinning that I'm concerned about (even though it always used to stop spinning right away), it's the fact that it still sounds like it's reading/writing data. Even...

I've got a 3.5" drive in a caddy that I use for backups. Up until a couple of weeks ago I could eject it in Windows and it would almost immediately spin down. Now, however, it's started behaving...

Well, that seems to have failed. It lets me change it, warns me about stuff not working, tells me that the drive is in use and therefore can't be changed immediately, and advises me to reboot. I...

Moving stuff this way is piecemeal, which is why I used the answer file when I originally installed Windows. I'm not looking to move anything, just change the existing installation's drive letter.
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My PC has Windows on drive C and the Users folder on drive E, which I achieved using an answer file during installation. I'm thinking of swapping some drives in and out of the system without...

Yeah, I've used all of those options in the past, so I know what I was going to keep/lose. Irrelevant now that I've got the user account working properly again with NavyLCDR's tips (thanks again).
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I'm pretty sure that there's nothing on the old storage drive that had anything to do with the user profile. I always build my PCs with separate drives (or at least partitions) for the OS, user data...

This wasn't possible: Task Manager wasn't working, so I couldn't use it to stop and restart explorer.exe. I've already got a Windows install flash drive, so my next steps were going to be to reset...

Additional info: I've just managed to open Chrome on the PC, but only because I clicked on a button in the antivirus software that opened a URL.

My guess right now is that explorer.exe is in some...