When giving assistance to my daughter's PC, her end works as expected,
but my session is always immediately terminated

- black QA screen, "Session has ended...", with rolling blue balls...

I have read this thread, applied jumanji magic formula (correctly I think). #41
For other reasons, I have also run a online repair update
but I am still in trouble with a french language ASUS AIO
...

May I suggest you research Steve Gibson, the author of InControl.exe
GRC | InControl

Using the utility itself would break your No Tools rule
but Steve Gibson might have the in depth knowledge...

Thank you both.
I'd already read the thread mentioned, but had no idea InControl existed.

Now installed on my aged Win 10 Pro laptop
The acid test for me will be if it works on a Win 10 Home...

Thanks Paul. You asked

[1] Out of interest, are you using a VPN? No VPN used

[2] Does the problem also happen in Google if you use Incognito Mode? Yes it does

Incognito Test 1
[2] I...

Can you gurus please point me to how to hide, avoid or otherwise disable the Win 11 upgrade
on Win 10 HOME edition (a friend's not mine?

I want to keep a naive user away from Win 11, because,...

Thank you so much for the (first) reply

However I can confirm my system is very UK in all its system settings

The problem is Chrome and not Edge
In Chrome, if I am logged out of Google, GMAPS...

I've been a long time user of Chrome browser on my aging laptop, and gMail webmail as my email app; under Win10 21H2 build 19044.1526

I have set the desktop default Location correctly in the local...

Agreed... and using Macrium Reflect to do it for preference.
- That's the received wisdom at TenForums

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nixed: I've made some suggestions on your error 200 problem at the end
I think my own FH problem is now solved thanks to clues posted here - So thanks guys
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Unlike you, I wanted to abandon...

I have a very similar problem, and want to re-initialise FH to start a completely new backup


FH failed on me when it found an Apple Mac file that had an invalid character in the filename
The FH...

arnoldh
My setup is the same as yours
C: is my system drive; D: (or whatever) is my data drive

I found that rolling back C: without D: gave me the issues I describe.
As I have rolled back C:...

I too have just done a clean restart of File History, having just managed to break it by doing a partial Macrium Reflect restore.
My experience might alert others to what can happen.

Like the OP,...

x509

Like you I have relocated all my data to a D:drive and so can happily look at a complete restore of C: from my Reflect backups.
and then just allow WindozeUpdate to catch me up again.

The...

Hi Jaycee
Your computerhope thread took me to the same place I'd checked last night before y'day's postEvery setting I can find is set to default values, yet it still notifies me that firewall is...

Thanks Jaycee, but no joy yet

I found more than one Windows defender Firewall node in services (one was prefixed "Microsoft ...", and the other was not).
I used only the one you specified (not...

I'm running Win10 Pro,2004, Build 19041.572,with default Windows Defender and no 3rd party AV or Firewall
I've had the same policy unchanged for ages, except that...
I recently trialled...

Thanks Bree! The simple solution is FAR better
And I used exactly that method to get to local help until the on-screen layout changed and blinded me

Thanks again. Non-existent problem solved. ...

I'm another old scrooge happy with what I've bought and paid for (Win 10 + Office 2007)
but very displeased when MS seems to interfere with what formerly worked long after retirement in 2017.

I...

I've just managed to break my Jump lists, but for a different reason.

I wanted to test compatibility with Excel 2003, so installed it (Excel only) recently alongside my main Office (2007)
I think...

Hi Brink

It seems to have worked.

All the advanced restart Options are there at boot time
No flags in Device Mgr,
and a 20GB Windows.old

But which one is the real WinRE?
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Thanks Brink

Yes, I realised that.

I was a bit cautious about forcing the May 2020 feature update, but only because it had failed twice already.
Do you think those failure were entirely down...

Hello experts!

Just like Andrew129260, I can't enable Win RE either. Brink said to him


Until recently I had a non standard setup, with Boot partitions on Disk 0, and SSD system disk on...

Thanks Bree for yet more info on stuff I never knew

I'll take a backup, do some tests to measure the effect and report back

spilly

Just looked at the Compact command, and found that my own OS is in the Compact state.
As I've never meddled with Compact command, OS=Compact must be the default state of most systems
More relevant...