I assume you have multi-factor authentication enabled on your MS (MS 365?) account. This symptom suggests to me that someone has learned the password to your MS account and is trying to login to it....

Your video card has an HDMI output. If one of your monitors has an HDMI input, you might consider using HDMI from the computer to the Denon receiver and HDMI from the receiver to the monitor. Most...

You might try contacting the manufacturer of the device you're trying to connect. They might (should) have a list of validated USB3 host adapters. While that information should be on their Web site,...

1. Whether or not you get any noticeable performance advantage by putting your documents on the SSD depends on their size and how frequently you edit them: reading them in when you start editing and...

You have two options:

1. Patiently wait for Windows to finish building the File Search Index.

2. Disable File Indexing

There's a Tutorial available at Allow File Contents and Properties to...

Searching GitHub finally found a command-line application which does what I want:
VirtualDesktop GitHub - MScholtes/VirtualDesktop: C# command line tool to manage virtual desktops in Windows 10
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Is there any way to find and shut down all the tasks which have windows open on a particular virtual desktop?

Background:

I've had great success using virtual desktops to organize my workflow,...

You might try one of the 3rd party utilities which let you save and restore desktop icon locations. I use "Desktop OK". There are others.

Task Manager can help to find programs which are using a lot of resources during startup.

1. Rignt-mouse-button click on the taskbar and select the item "Task Manager". It's near the bottom of the...

You don't need to do anything.

When you upgraded your laptop to Win10, Windows registered its then-current Windows license with MS license servers as a "digital activation". You can verify that...

You're very welcome.

Both "wake from sleep on magic packet" and "wake on pattern match" should be *disabled*. Both are looking for special network packets and thus have to keep the ethernet chipset powered on.

You might also check to see if "Wake on Lan" is enabled in the BIOS and disable it.

Many computers have a feature called "Wake on Lan" which can be enabled and disabled in the BIOS. I suspect this...

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Since it hasn't been mentioned explicitly... have you inspected the list of programs that are shown by Task Manager in its Startup tab? Disabling the ones that you don't need might help...

If she had any irreplaceable stuff (family photos, etc) on the computer, DON'T DO ANYTHING MORE WITH IT. Remove the system disk and send it out for recovery: my guess is that most of it might be...

Since you're booting from an M.2 NVME SSD, not from SATA, SATA connections should be irrelevant. However, on some motherboards, using all of the motherboard's SATA connections can interfere with M.2...

Your symptoms suggest to me that there's a problem in your router -- the device which provides your wireless connectivity.

My suggestion is that you try power-cycling your router: unplug it from...

Utilities are available which can record the current desktop icon layout and restore it when icon locations get scrambled.
I use DesktopOK, for example. See DesktopOK 10.61 Save and restore the...

The free suite of ImageMagick command-line tools can convert from and to mpf.

e.g.


convert image.mpf image.jpg


ImageMagick is available for Windows at ImageMagick – Download

Also, don't forget that remote systems have their own bottlenecks. Very few can make use of the full bandwidth of your local connection.

Beeps at power-on usually are a signal by the motherboard that there's a hardware problem.
The number and length of the beeps indicate what the problem most likely is.
For details, consult the...

Sorry, I have no experience with or opinion on Experian's service. I make do with a combination of Microsoft Defender (as provided with Win10) and Comodo's Internet Security (free) in addition to...

Install Windows 10 22H2 and upgrade the software as soon as you want. You can use Macrium after the hardware upgrade either to clone or restore image backups of your current disks onto the new ones....

The Windows program named "Paint" is included with Windows 10 22h2. It's relatively easy to use with just a mouse. By default it draws black lines on a white background.

Some of the inexpensive large-capacity SSDs heat up dramatically and, as a result, slow down even more dramatically when they are subjected to long, sustained data transfers. In other words, they're...