Thank you very much Dalchina. I was looking in the standard Win 10 menu autoplay settings, instead of the Control panel autoplay settings. In Control panel all the DVD settings are there!

Now...

I recently stumbled on some old videos on DVD RW discs. Unfortunately VLC can't play them. I just get the sound with a white video stream (codec problem). However if I open the folder, then Media...

Thank you Dalchina for suggesting Speccy. It's a neat programe!

Update. The computer was stable as per my previous post.

After uninstalling the Realtec Ethernet controller Software from...

Thank you very much Dalchina and Pepanee. I will check the file size to see if it is within specs and check if there is a better driver and report back.

Kind regards
Chris

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I am fixing an HP Pavilion G6-1155sv for a friend. After starting, a few minutes later, the fan works at top speed chucking out tons of heat and in Task manager I can see the process RtlService.exe...

Thank you Brink! Good to know.

Kind regards
Chris

I am not sure if this has already been mentioned on another thread. I have found a solution to restore the old Windows Mail app in place of the new Outlook Mail app for those who prefer not to...

Thank you very much for the suggestions. I will try them out.

Kind regards
Chris

I recently purchased a Wavlink Halo Base Pro WiFi mesh system. It connects via Ethernet to my Modem. It works fine and my phones and tablets can connect to the mesh wifi without any problem.

The...

Thank you again Denis for your helpful comments and motivation. When I get a bit of time I will tackle it again.

Kind regards
Chris

Thank you for your reply Denis. I am afraid i have not got that far yet. I have only entered the event trigger as shown in the screenshot below. This trigger doesn't seem to do anything at shutdown. ...

Thank you very much for your reply Denis and for all your help. I entered event Event ID 1074 into task scheduler and that's about it.

I am totally lost with points 1-4. I suspect they will take...

Thank you all for your replies and continued support. It has been a learning experience for me. After carefully reading through all the replies and checking the links my final conclusion is that this...

Thank you for your continued support Denis. I will look through the procedure and have another go with Task viewer as soon as I can.

Kind regards
Chris

I had a go with task scheduler. The problem is the option to make a message box has been disabled my microsoft (depreciated), although evidently there are work arounds with Power Shell.

Solution...

Denis, thanks again for your reply. Yes the option of showing a large message with a bright background would be ideal (or play a 5 second mp4 video with the same message) before shutdown. However,...

Thank you Rick, I will look into that option.

Kind regards
Chris

Thank you very much Rick. This is something that would work as the user must see the message before shutting down. My personal PC is Win 10 pro, but unfortunately the particular PC I wish to modify...

Thank you Dalchina and Dennis. I appreciate all of your replies very much.

Dalchina, thank you for the two links and suggestions. I will need some time to study and test them and see which points...

Thank you Denis. Ideally, the message or a bitmap image with large text could be displayed for 5 seconds.

Ideally what I would like is a senario like this:

A user clicks shutdown
Immediately...

Thank you both for your help.

Dalchina, I will look at the article and check through the points.

Denis, it could be any reminder or pop up note, or an image with text, like remember to turn off...

Is there a simple way to create a popup or reminder message on the computer screen when the PC is shutdown? I did a bit of searching and the task scheduler offers some options, but I could not find...

Bobby, thank you for your reply. The problem is how to find the url. Once I have the url, then I can make a shortcut using the method you have described. Some embedded videos will open in a new...

Is there a Chrome extension that can copy the URL of an embedded video or open the URL in a new window? With Internet Explorer, you just had to right click the video and select "create shortcut" and...

Thanks for the advice!

Kind regards
Chris