How does one tell if a win10 is fully updated, or patched?

On my pc @ home, it shows version 1909 with I think build 18363.something and either zero or two quality updates.

On a work pc, it...

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solved. thanks.

in trying to activate the latest build of windows 10, whatever it was downloading the iso from Microsoft on 1/16/2020, I had planned to just go to microsoft.com or wherever and pay $99 after clicking...

I gave my old win7 home built computer (asrock extreme6 lga1150) to my nephew in 2017. I had bought an oem windows 7 key from newegg when i built it this pc for myself back in ~2015.
I think at...

Have one SSD with windows 10 installed,
I have already slaved it to another pc to copy data off the drive, so I know the SSD itself is not bad.
However when I try to boot it, the BIOS (EFI) says no...

the cause of the problem was a faulty sata connector that is on the SSD. Was able to lay the ssd down flat on the bottom of the case so the sata cable does not hang, as opposed to when the ssd is...

my blue screen i've determined is because of a faulty sata connector on my SSD. I had remounted the SSD - actually laid it flat on bottom of case so the sata cable does not hang, and the SSD has...

thanks, but i do not have a "DontRefresh" key anywhere in the registry.

If I search for keys (folders) named just "refresh" I get a few hits such as ShellRefresh but the values within are nothing...

I just had my first BSOD in Windows 10 home, while doing the following:
- firefox opened reading stuff at stackechange,
- foobar playing mp3's off my D: data drive
- possible execution of...

almost 2 months now with my new computer, I have noticed, especially, when downloading a file with firefox and doing save to desktop, that will complete successfully but the desktop will not show the...

so with the RefreshWindowsTool.exe {which is a 300kb download} that you mention, this can work fine in this one instance where i am gifting my computer and will let the family member keep this one...

in response to 3rd post above by Mr.Geek my Activation window states "Windows 10 on this device is activated with a digital entitlement." And for the Recovery window I do NOT have the link to "Learn...

I did the free upgrade to windows 10 however many months ago on my computer.
I have the oem Windows 7 Pro install dvd that i purchased from newegg.
I plan on gifting my current rig to family and...

after 3+ hours of my life wasted,
my solution ultimately was to mount this problem drive (which had updated to windows 10) in linux and then copy the data off to yet another hard drive that was a...

it's like when running windows 10 it purposely won't let you access a partition on another disk that has windows 10 on it.

i am becoming quite pissed.
a Western Digital hard drive i know is perfectly good, that was used as a windows 7 disk and had an automatic upgrade done on it but became problematic...
I have had to...

no.
it's one computer in my parents house, uses a usb-to wireless adapter to connect to the network provided by the wireless router which is either at&t or frontier. workgroup is WORKGROUP. Guest...

I finished correcting a relative's pc which they started the upgrade to windows 10.
PC uses a usb-to-wireless network adapter to connect to internet.
I brought the pc home and plugged it in to my...

after a few reinstalls and reboots since yesterday, the cdburnerxp window now pops up.
what caused the problems, i have no idea.
i did mess with some uefi settings because i was trying to install...

no offense but i'll donate $30 to cdburnerxp even though it's not working before i buy roxio.

i really shake my head on this one, since xp to 7, to 8, now to 10, how can there not be a decent...

Last week i reinstalled windows 7 pro OEM from dvd to my computer, then chose to do the windows 10 upgrade.
I am trying to burn openSUSE-Leap-42.1-DVD-x86_64.iso to dvd so i can later boot from dvd...