win 10 21H2 up to date

After MS's "update" which zilched usb connected printers I managed to reinstall 2 of them fine, but the third one, HP Envy 5545 (5540).
Whatever I try it installs the...

Not always but often. Not just one machine.
Using file explorer (FE) I navigate to a biggish folder, for example My Documents (>500 entries)
Sometimes it takes ~10secs to load, a green progress...

Sorry. Um, we have 5 laptops and 1 desktop in the house, there doesn't seem to be a way to reflect that. And actually the desktop has changed, I'd forgotten all about the system spec in the profile

It does. Laptop Portégé (Dynabook) Z20T

Actually that might give me somewhere to go, At around the same time the screen became half undocked and the machine switched into tablet mode, and still...

win 10 20H2
I can't see how to get the ribbon back

And why have all the entries gone double spaced?
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Thanks

I'm pretty sure that I lost Inline Autocompletion when I was forced(ish) to "upgrade" to 20H2

Finding it in "Internet Options", well thanks MS, great </sark>

But real thanks to tenforums...

Hi
For some unknown (unremembered at any rate) reason I seem to be running TWO backups
They both save on an attached usb drive see image. (WHQ is my pet name for the backed up computer)
As far as...

It's not blocking. As often as not I ping the ISP's own website
Following the hypothesis that the isp's dns is unreliable (I think this is more than a hypothesis, I think it must be the case) then...

Thanks both
I've done what Barman58 suggested. primary dns .1.1.1 secondary using ISP's original. It'll take a couple of days to be certain.

We have two routers in our house, one is for a sort of VPN (smartdnsproxy), which is hardwire ethernet connected into the router supplied by our ISP

Several times a day when I type a url then "not...

No no. There is an internal 3G drive (F:) which holds data. There is an external 3G USB drive (J:) which is used for backup

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Thanks. There is only one partition on...

It seems reliable. It's used for backup constantly, and I have restored a couple of files without problems

Chkdsk seems happy

Stage 1: Examining basic file system structure ...
360448 file...

The pc comes with a "hub" built in on the front panel ( USB, SD, CF cards).

The disk in question is however attached to one of the USBs on the back.

Thanks for the quick reply. screenshot below

I don't know mbr/gpt, how can I tell?
It is only used for data backup
and yes have swapped usb sockets

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I have a toshiba 3Tb usb hdd for backup.

Like the title says the boot hangs if it's attached.

I just changed machine and reinstalled windows, and it still happens. It hangs just...

I seem to have two backup processes running
On the (external USB) backup drive I have one directory called "ComputerName" which I don't want, and another called FileHistory which I do want, both...

Actually I have solved my own problem
The screenshot shows that all the drivers are in fact the same date, at the top they are like 2017-09-10 (10sep2017, yyyy-mm-dd), at the bottom they are in in...

I'm contemplating a system restore but before I do I looked at the list of files (drivers) which might need redoing. Which was absolutely huge, seemingly because of a glitch over date formats (see...

Thanks for all the pointers.
42G - well yes, I just like to keep quite a lot of data and I didn't want to fork out for a disk upgrade. It has been OK with Win 7. Oh and because I also (have to...

Thanks
42M 2free

I upgraded (by accident) from 7 to 10 a few days ago. I am definitely seeing lots of swapping making it very slow, task manager is frequently showing 100% disk activity*.
Tosh r830 laptop, i3 4G....

Thanks, but unless I've missed it (about 50-50) then it doesn't cover this

I have my faves pinned to the taskbar (I never got over quickstart really), and having just changed to 10 (by an act of carelessness on my part) I get the underlines for active programs, that works...