Thanks. Yes, that's good when I can be here to babysit the computer. :)
The problem is, OneDrive mirrors all files to C, which is small, so there's no way I can do unattended backups nightly. Even...

C drive contains the OS and Program Files.
External D drive contains all my documents, pictures, etc.
Since D contains files that I want to back up nightly (and so does C to some extent), I need...

Okay, I bought a brand new drive. Plugged it in and it was fine. BUT... right after putting an Ubuntu ISO on it (want to have a dual boot Linux/Windows system), the drive acted as described in my...

My USB thumb drive suddenly started showing up as two different drives in Explorer.

All along it showed up as F:\, but now it's showing as F:\ and G:\.

This is happening on both my Win10...

There goes the sale value on the laptop when I sell it in the near future. It already has one broken hinge that I'm hoping Best Buy can fix. Maybe they can fix the CD drive as well.

Yes, I did get a dialog that asked me how I wanted to use the CD. I chose standard.

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Tried again, and made note of the exact error message that WMP gives me:



1. The...

I reset my Win10 laptop (wiping everything) less than a month ago, and haven't used it much since then, particularly haven't used the CD drive.

Today I tried burning some files to a CD, and...

I'm going to sell my old Win10 laptop, so I first did a reset that supposedly cleans the drive before reinstalling Windows. I definitely did choose the option to clean the drive, yet when I checked...

Good reference info for the next person who has this issue.

I've already reinstalled. Opted for a basic reset so my files would be retained, and of course backed everything up before I did so.

I followed Microsoft's instructions, which were basically to go into System Recovery and click the "Go Back" button, and follow through. I didn't create a system image of 10 previously (yeah yeah, I...

I have an HP OfficeJet 3830 printer.

The Issue:
I upgraded my fully updated Windows 10 Home x64 desktop to Windows 11 a few days ago, but then rolled back to Windows 10 yesterday.
Ever since the...

Sorry everyone, I forgot to come back to say I solved the issue! I did it like this:


Right-click speaker icon in the tray
Click on "Sounds"
Go go to the "Playback" tab"

There are two...

I have an HDMI cable connected to my TV from my laptop.
I put a DVD into the laptop, and play it.
The sound comes out of the laptop, but not the TV.
(Same problem when I'm in a Zoom meeting. I...

Yes! Thank you for bringing that up!

Thread title says it all. In the future when I replace one of my Win10 laptops, new laptops will come with 11. So will I be able to put 10 on the new laptop?

I had to use Option 2 (restore with a BAT file).

The Downloads folder is back, but..... when I click the OneDrive icon in my tray, it no longer takes me to my OneDrive folder. It simply takes me...

Alrighty... I moved my Documents, Pictures, and Music folders to OneDrive successfully. So when I tried to move my Downloads folder using the same method, Windows turned that Downloads folder into a...

Never mind. Bought a new computer, this is no longer an issue.

I'm resetting my wife's old laptop so we can sell it.

When the reset is complete, and Windows starts wanting me to add a name, location and all the other personalization stuff, is it possible to...

The Apache monitor has been in my systray ever since I installed Apache years ago. The other day it disappeared from the tray. So I shut down my laptop to give it a rest for about half an hour, then...

I had to do 4 hard shut downs before it would work normally again. And this morning there was the restart notice again, so apparently Windows rolled itself back a little to work again. Oh, and I...

No, but I've checked my bank account, and I'm pretty sure SSD prices aren't that low.

You suggested switching to SSD. If I had the money, I would've done that years ago - provided my laptop would support it.

Not always an option for some people, right?

Anyway, I did a hard shut down, waited 5 minutes, then started it up. Now it's hanging at "100% complete. Don't turn off your computer".

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