I completely agree! Many of today's "updates" are practically "down-grades" for your technology, and sadly, there's nothing one can do about rejecting the forced down-grades to your technology.
...

Yet this is related to your post:

See if you can do a roll-back to the previous version of Windows 10 you had installed on the laptop:
Go Back to the Previous Version of Windows in Windows 10
...

What are the chances... (about 35 minutes after my previous post). I was reading other threads, regarding a different issue.
Issue with KB5034441

I don't think this has anything to do with your...

I'm running .4291

I have this Windows Update setting as such:
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Today's programmers are way under-educated to previous programmers.
I never try any immediate release of any update...

Yea, I was thinking exactly like the admin here, Brink, about the "Administrator"-named account while I was reading the top-most post.
I've tried to name my account as "Administrator" in the...

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yuo're welcome

Look at the first reply:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/contentmso-folder-consuming-huge-disk-space/021164fd-8676-45b2-83db-872d6c11568a

Send a message to LesFerch.

(My post above.)

That's interesting.
(He's actually another advanced member on this Forum; TenForums,
and on Microsoft Forums, that writes little programs that can modify programs' settings.)
If you go to that...

dlwmacgregor, as of the exact time of my post that I am making, before any additional changes may happen:
I see that you made an update to your post #3, which looks almost exactly to your post #6....

Yes, as stated in the post before mine, here's a quick summary version:...

Try the suggested reply, here:...

Hi, you said you've solved this before.

Once it happens, go to: Event Viewer
and look in these sections at that exact time that it happens on. Maybe you will see something that you recognize. If...

=)
You're welcome.
Glad you got it solved, somehow.

I get many custom, approriate, wallpaper from the internet. Here's a small preview of what I have. If you want, I can make you a compilation that you can use as a slideshow like I do for my Desktop,...

I pressed the DaFont link on the Microsoft page. They now link outside their site?

uhhh.... that's new to me.

There's today's programmers for ya.

I remember the Windows XP days. Everything was ... practically perfect, for the "timerange in technology", that the XP operating system existed in, Now so much...

Yes, Chrome is supposed to be a memory hog.

Mine is taking up about 4 GB of RAM currently.

While Chrome is the active window, press Shift+Escape. What does it show there?

Also, make sure to...

Do everything, including Fast Startup, if haven't already done so:
Why Is "Turn on Fast Startup" Greyed out on Windows? - Technipages.

If done all those steps, does it work now?

Okay I looked around the internet, just for you.

1) Try this out real quick for me:
Go to your Desktop -> Right-Click -> Personalize
Does it
a) open a window, or
b) does an error message...

The .dat file association, by default, is that it opens with no application:
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You can do that by:
1) Search for, and open: Registry Editor
2) Go to this location: ...

I replicated the shortcut you made to that same app. My shortcut doesn't mess up:
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• Did you press Apply, then OK, after adding the Comment?
• Try removing the "https://" from the comment....

Here's a few good ones:
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-endpoint/safety-scanner-download
> https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner

Other, alternate ones, that I haven't used...

You're welcome.
I actually don't have a computer for media expertise; I just use that program to watch videos that I download from the internet and stuff.
I don't record any videos using the...

Here's a possible solution, that may work. Ask for assistance here, if you need help setting that "script" up:
Link