Hi Brink,

Yes, I did mean the pinned folders in Quick access in the navigation pane of File Explorer.
Looks like I have mixed up two similarly sounding things.
Will take a look at the other link...

Hello Brink,

Approximately once a week my Quick Access links are reset to default.
I am forever having to re-pin my ten or so required folders to Quick Access.

I downloaded your batch file to...

Thanks for your humorous reply. Love it!
I will take on board your highlighted advice.

I have 6.0.9050.1 installed. It seems to work fine but my driver updater program insists that I should install 6.0.9071.1. When I install it, on opening the Realtek Audio Control program, it reports...

Yes, you 100% correct of course!
I think I was quite unclear in what I said because the Pictures Library is I believe supposed to include the Pictures User Folder by default.
Well it did include a...

Thank you.
It was the Pictures Library which was the issue.
Fixed now!

Thanks for your reply.
I discovered all the user library locations in the registry under "User Shell Folders"
There I could see that the location of the Pictures library was still pointing to the...

I made a rather silly mistake!
My Pictures was on a HDD.
I bought a new SSD and copied my Pictures folder to it successfully.
I forgot to change the My Pictures Library location to its new place...

Thank you for your help.

Would anyone know what would become of the Microsoft Office 2016 software which is installed on this PC?
It is currently associated with my own Microsoft Account - could...

Windows 10 Version 20H2 PC:

I wish to pass on my PC, when I get my new one, to a new owner.
The new owner in question is my dear lady wife!
I do not wish to remove anything but my own persononal...

I moved the Chrome cache from my SSD successfully using a sybolic link but a few days later my symbolic link had been deleted and the cache was back in its old location!
I have tried this half a...

Thank you for your advice.
I managed to resolve the problem by forcing shutdown three times in succession using the power button. On the fourth startup the keyboard began to respond. I was...

I attempted to use BitLocker on my system drive. I do not have TPM so used the Group Policy Editor to enable. After the first few steps were followed, a PC restart was requested. On restarting I...

Hi,
Following your Option 3 in this thread, the menu I see is different to yours. Most importantly there is no "Remove location from Library" option. Removing a library location can be achieved...

Many thanks for your assistance.
By following the link you provided I have successfully eliminated the Group Policy Editor error message.

However the first problem remains - my script does not...

My Windows 10 PC just updated itself to 1703.
I have a script which used to run perfectly on Shutdown, but now it does not - I just get an empty black box and nothing happens. (The script still runs...

Thanks Brink - sorted!

Hello Brink and thank you for your reply.
I am feeling rather dim here as I don't know what you mean by a hard shutdown or how that gets me into UEFI settings.
Any chance of a little more detail?
...

This is a hypothetical question.
I have UEFI and can access settings from within Windows 10 without a problem.
I have a system image on an external USB HDD created by NTI software which makes the...

Hello Ken,

Thanks for your help.

"I think you could go into your event viewer and it will likely give you more information about the "Event" and hopefully the driver version."

I can find the...

I have windows 10 version 1511 which has run for a long time with no issues at all.
Windows now continually (at least once a day) downloads the Anniversary Update but the installation always fails....

:) Thanks for your time and your suggestions.
I didn't get around to trying them because on the 63rd attempt, Windows successfully installed the update.
There was no input from me at all - it just...

I have Windows 10 Pro Version 1511, OS Build 10586.589.

Windows continually attempts to download and install the anniversary upgrade.
The download completes, but the installation fails with error...

Thanks for your reply. I will follow your advice and leave well alone.

I installed Google Chrome and made it my default browser.
Everything worked fine.
I decided to switch off IE11 in "Control Panel > Programs >Programs & Features > Turn Windows features on or off"...