Thanks Bree. Nothing suspect noted.

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... however from your suggestion I disabled everything in there (not much) and it went away.

I was then able to isolate the issue to...

As the subject really. Message is posted at startup, return from hibernation (I don't use sleep) and seemingly at random. I've reviewed the incomaptibility centric threads on this matter, but I don't...

So word around the campfire has it IE will be disabled shortly. I use it to manage my cctv system, because the plugins they provide didn't get updated to support something that newer browsers require...

Thanks. They're already decrapified, but still edge persists with its nonsense.

My work laptop doesn't have problems with windows force 'recommending' edge, demanding I 'sign in' to windows rewards, populating stupid games into the start menu, installing xbox and 'mixed reality'...

I'm still using an old Inspiron 11z (1110) from circa 2010. Driver support is long gone, and the recent update stops the machine from booting. It refuses to recover, wouldn't roll back to 1709. My...

Well it is really, aside from choosing the 'upgrade this pc' option, which isn't an option for me, it would take a couple of weeks, and appears to offer no kind of resume functionality.

The stupid...

step3 meaning using MS download tool to get the ISO and apply to a usb stick, is exactly what I did. Get to step ten, then it demands a key. 7 is definitely correctly and legally activated, but it...

Not clear if this is going to fix it, but what is clear is it's not a good idea to turn on windows update on a six year old installation of win7. Haven't needed gigs of updates in all those years,...

Ah. but windows update must be running, which it isn't. Thanks for the link, hopefully that's it

I haven't been able to do an install at all. I run setup, get the option to check for updates, and the next windows demands a key - that's running from within activated 7. If i run booting from...

Hello Brink. Thanks for the reply. I did launch setup from the USB stick from within activated 7, but no choice was offered to upgrade or otherwise prior to the request for the key, and my win7 isn't...

I downloaded the iso on a work machine with a fast connection as my home adls sucks balls. Stuck it on a usb stick, but can't seem to get past the requirement for a product key, and my 7 key doesn't...