A few extra nanoseconds while loading my Web pages isn't going to make much difference.

If my goal was avoiding trouble, I would have thrown out all my computers and disappeared on a remote Pacific Island years ago.

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Thank you, I read that yesterday. I...

Yes, thank you, I did that. Why would someone put something like that in there? They go through the trouble of putting a collection of images together, along with the means of displaying them, then...

It's post-login. Actually, I don't have to interact with this PC to login, as I don't have a password set for my personal account. I just go straight to the post-login, which takes about 30 seconds...

Thanks! It's a small thing, but I enjoy looking at the pretty landscapes while my OS loads.

No, right-click on the drive, select Properties, click on the Tools tab. Select the top option, "Error checking" (requires admin credentials). Windows usually tells me in the next window that it...

I'm using Windows 10 Pro 1903 on my home-built PC that has 16 GB of RAM and I have a minor annoyance that technically I fixed, but I would like to understand better. I'm trying to make backups of my...

Possibly. However, it occurred to me that I probably have Adobe Photoshop on one of the other partitions that you told me not to install when I was trying to get my system to boot. Now that my system...

That worked! Thank you! I'm amazed that worked! Four days after my PC crashed, I finally have it back, 99.99% (Dropbox is complaining that it has been moved or deleted, but I don't actually use it)...

Ah, I see it now. That's my new SSD. I installed it in June and made this BU in July. It is, indeed, a 1 TB SSD, but the Windows installation on it came from my 2 TB HDD. I had been booting from the...

I'm afraid that I have to disagree with you there. I've been running GPT on this computer for at least five years. Also, my source backup is of a partition on a 2 TB HDD; too big for MBR.

I got a clean Windows install, installed MR & ran it, pulled up my MR backup and noticed that Windows has an extra partition on the SSD than I expected:

249048

249051

What is MS trying to...

I was left w/ one more decision; whether to use my Windows Product key or not. Windows says that for installing on PCs that already have Windows installed, select "I don't have a product key."...

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bcdedit /enum
The boot configuration data store could not be opened.
The requested system device cannot be found.

bcdedit | find "osdevice"

(Returned to CL prompt w/ no messages)

I've been using my newly-built PC for a few months, but I had to go out of town for six weeks. About two days after I returned, Windows 10 prompted me to update from the April 2018 release before the...

Thanks, it shows a value for the original key and original edition, too.

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On my next reboot, my SSD was inaccessible. I've rebooted several times and checked in Disk...

Microsoft has already made it my problem that people pirate their software. This product key doesn't perform any function for my benefit (even though Microsoft phrases their explanation of it in...

Windows shows that I have the retail channel version. I tried contacting MS support via chat. The first agent seemed very positive and helpful, but we got disconnected when she had me switch from my...

It looks like I'm stuck. I mean, my old motherboard can't boot without BSOD at least once.

I don't have a new PC. I'm using the same boot drive that I've been using for years, with the same license of Windows 10 that I've been using for years. If I remove the old OS, I won't have any OS on...

You should assume that I'm engaging in the normal course of using software. I know, that's a dangerous assumption, but it's really true in my case. However, to be clear, I could create the MRIMG...

Oh, no; that disk has eleven partitions on it. I couldn't get the mrimg file with three partitions that I wanted moved to my SSD to work, so I made a new mrimg with just the System Reserved and Boot...

Unsurprisingly, Microsoft's solution is for me to pay them a lot of money for something that I already own.

Now I find that I can't launch Macrium Reflect, and I can't install a new version of...

The following path takes me to the relevant location:

Win + I, click on the message, "Windows isn't activated. Activate Windows now."

An error message in red text reads, "We can't activate...

I'm not copying the same Windows installation. I had Windows 8 on my laptop and Windows 7 on my Desktop. I upgraded both to Windows 10 independently, and now I'm trying to move both to new drives...