I do NOT use any magical software to make my backups. I simply clone the HDD using a disk duplicator. I use one made by Startech. My HDD (actually an SSD) is externally removable - requiring no...

Well, the only thing I have not tried is to wipe the drive and try an install. Wasted time again yesterday trying from a disk - hours later - failure again. After several more hours, the system...

Gotta love clean installs - a ton of work to get everything running again. Not an option for most machines. I can try the ISO - I have one of them on hand.

Twice I have been notified of awaiting update and to restart. The update is the Anniversary version. After over an hour of time, the computer will fail to boot and after fiddling you are notified you...

You have chilled any further interest I have in being part of the discussion as to what could happen if MS continues on the path they are on.

"I'm surprised a moderator hasn't chimed in with a back on track post, re all the Linux talk."

Oh, sorry - I thought this was a discussion forum (a place of learning) and not a praise only venue!...

I am an old timer with MS - starting with the DOS days and into the Win10 era. I have also dabbled with Linux. So - to make a long story short:

There is some software that does require the use of...

How can I create custom tiles? Can it be done within Win 10, or does it require third party software? Links?

Thanks,

Bill W2BLC

While setting up a new Win 10 laptop for the wife, I downloaded several simple free games from the App Store. What utter trash - they are nothing more than vehicles for loads of ads. Very...

Reinstall fixed it. And, no nothing showed any place and only Defender is used.

I am on cable - took about two minutes, runs at 60 meg a second. Do the math with your download speed and you can estimate how long a time you will have to invest in it. Only the download uses...

Making the ISO disk is exactly what I did.

Glad you could get it to work. I look at that "tool" as invasive junk and will not install it.

Reinstall did the trick for me. Thanks for the link.

Bill

Thanks for the link - am working on it now - looks most interesting.

Over the past couple of weeks I have experienced a general slowing down of software initiation. Programs that used to be up and running in a few seconds are now taking 20 or 25 seconds to get...

Had that happen with a recent online upgrade to my 8.1 laptop. Reset back to 8.1 - then used my 1511 ISP disk and all is OK. And I thought it was just something I did.

This does a sector by sector copy. As I run more than one OS on the drive, most cloning software (ala USB devices) will fail to clone the entire drive (they fail when hitting various partitions), I...

New information to old questions may be of interest to someone.

I use a StarTech device for cloning identical drives. My drives are all SSD and operate outboard of the computer box. The StarTech device is stand alone. Perfect every time.

I run Linux Mint 17.3 as a dual boot with Windows 10. It works fine for most purposes, however, some of the Linux software lacks the elegance of that found for the Windows OS. In other words, it...