Perhaps but how Macrium ever discover people breaking their policy?

The USB stick is toast. This is also a common fault with SD cards.

I shut down my desktop PC and power it off at the mains when not in use and shutdown laptops when not in use for a day or so since there is still a small battery drain in sleep mode. With exception...

Assembly code is luxury compared to machine code!

My laptop shows False for that command. I'm not inclined to fiddle in case I break something!

Spotlight is a fine example of shoddy software engineering.

100% agree too

That's not a great plan since that software is deprecated. I've found Reflect very reliable.

How did you prove Windows 10 is faster?

I upgraded a 10 year old non-complaint PC last week as follows:


Download the latest Windows 11 ISO file and mount it as a virtual drive
Turn off net access
Run setup.exe
On the first...

Oddly I have no problems installing or using Windows 11 on multiple PCs

The software design of the bug prone Spotlight functionality is dire. I use the Dynamic Theme app to avoid most of the issues.

I noticed this problem last week no thanks to Microsoft's shoddy software QA. The above fix works.

My previous desktop PC had boot problems when the CMOS battery voltage dropped much below 3V yet the BIOS date was correct. Replace the CMOS battery which should be c. 3.2V open circuit for a new...

My desktop PC has an Intel Core i7 13700K Raptor Lake CPU so seems to be affected. Why isn't this fix installed automatically via Windows Update if so important?

Should we all rush to install this for Intel CPUs?

No - I store downloaded software in D:/Downloads. I use drive C for Windows and installed programs except for large installations like games which I keep on a separate drive on my desktop PC. I like...

I checked back on the Group Policy timeout setting mentioned at the start of the thread but that has been removed.

FWIW I store portable programs in the folders where I archive downloaded software. I wouldn't use the Programs folder since I sometimes review that for installed programs I don't recognise.

Typical Microsoft - If it ain't broke then break it!

I always use the portable version too where possible - sometimes hard to find!

Implemented using an Artificial Idiot or an algorithm?

To restore a selected file / folder just mount the partition containing the data as a virtual drive and copy across the folder needed.

Did you try inserting the shortcut to Bluemail in folder C:\Users\{myname}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Did you try using Macrium Reflect Free to make the cloned drive?