If you have trouble signing on to Windows in Safe mode with or without networking, follow the instructions here: How to log on to Windows 7 automatically - CNET in order to log on and off...

Thanks. To update, I tested with a wide variety of tools, and also have done a "low-level" format of writing all zeros with 3rd party and drive mfgr tools. I can confirm that, at least on the X99...

A few days back I got a slew of disk errors in Event Viewer and quickly backed up the drive in question and started testing it. Before that, I checked and the only errors in the SMART data were crc...

Thanks for the heads-up. Even being aware that many, if not most errors in Event Viewer can be ignored or will be fixed on their own, when debugging one invariably gets caught up in determining what...

Me, too. No idea yet what is causing them.

Note the correction in bold. I have since discovered that even rebooting into Safe Mode with Networking is not working, either, and an attempt to do so made me deploy the fix above again. As things...

I had this issue yesterday. I had chosen to reboot in Safemode, and was faced with an inoperable password.

Cause: Minimal Safemode without networking does not allow safemode to access the...

Sorry for the thread necromancy, but this thread was the first google hit on the forum for this issue, which has risen again in the form of a problematic registry permission under Win 10 Anniversary...

From HKCU. The quoted text above in 1st post needs to be put into a reg file and merged. As per second post, no luck making it stick; required a workaround. Today I am reinstalling the OS after...

As readers may be aware, the fix above does not resist Dropbox updates, which reestablish the pesky navigation pane entry.

A nuclear response was needed, but not by uninstalling. I created a Task...

Here is how to do it:

1. Modify pin value and folder type value (SGAO) so the item is doubly invisible:



2. Enable inheritance on the registry key...