I did not know these things. I know partitions can be moved between drives, but I wouldn't want to mess with that.


Indeed it does. Thank you! I would be foolish to ignore the advice given in...

It will be an M.2 drive. In my proposed way, the drive goes into the motherboard before the board is inserted in the case and before any cabling. Installing after assembling involves removing the...

Thank you all for your responses. Let me say a few words. I plan to build a new gaming computer. It will have three SSD's. All are virgin (no data). They are all the same size (so can't be...

Here's the reason for my question: I'm planning a build which will have three SSD's, two M.2 and one 2.5" Sata, all the same size, but each a different speed than the others. I will want my Win10...

Wow, thank you! (If you don't mind telling, how did you access that file?)

The file tells me what I wanted to know: The product name and the hardware id in the file are the same as those given in...

Yes, ran command as administrator. As for Dir cmd, here's result: C:\WINDOWS\system32>dir C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.7.12.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Input\
The system...

Just tried it. I get "Access is denied". I guess these files are well insulated. Seems silly to me, because from postings to the flight simulator forums, it sounds like those who bought the game...

I think it was a mistake to put the word "game" in my title, because the problem is not about a game per se. I suspect a bot moved it here. I have a thread going under general, but as long as this...

Thanks for the response. I already had access to the folder. It's the file I couldn't open and after enabling "privilege" in Q-DirPortable, I still can't open the file. I believe microsoft game...

I am trying to read this file: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.7.12.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Input\Saitek_X52_Flight_Cont rol_System.xml

I took possession of the folder, but...

No, I don't think so. I've already tried various programs that can read xml files. The problem is not the file type. The problem is getting read access. Not sure why my question was transferred...

I am trying to read this file: C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_1.7.12.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Input\Saitek_X52_Flight_Control_System.xml

I took possession of the folder, but...

That was exactly my thinking, but the caveat about possibly confusing windows update persuaded me to chicken out. I wiped the boot partition on that secondary HDD, and expanded the data partition to...

Thx for responding. Not sure you understood that I'm referring to a secondary HDD. At any rate, problem solved: I had not passed inheritance of ownership down through all objects in the windows...

Thanks for the responses. I have a macrium backup, made before I even transferred the HDD from the old computer to new.

So now I'm trying to delete the windows directory from the drive, and...

Greetings. I just built a new computer with an SSD boot drive and the boot HDD from the old computer as a second drive. Both drives have Win10-1803 on them, and each is bootable in the new PC. In...

Ah, of course, my apologies. I did download that tool. But I forgot about the last two sentences of your first post (and I tend to think of an "update" as a patch to a given version (eg. 1703), and...

Hi Roy,
What happened was a window came up saying "Got a major upgrade ready, you wanna do it now or later?" (paraphrasing), so I said do it now.:) Took about 90 minutes. Win Update had apparently...

Hi Roy, No. DOH!! Now that I have, your post of course makes more sense. Thank you for pointing me to that forum! Looks like they can identify and do surgery on just the responsible registry...

I'm the OP. Thank you! After a week of searching, that's the most definitive statement I've seen on this error! Sounds like you are familiar with it.

Yes, in desperation I put a copy of the...

No hangups, BSOD, or unexpected start or stop. It's nice to know about the whocrashed utility, but there is no memory.dmp in my Windows directory and the minidmp subdirectory is empty (EDIT -as you...

Yup, that's what I'm thinking.
From the MS Support page for the key update: "To install this update, you must have Windows 10 Version 1709 installed."

Ok, but I don't know how.

No, I only clean manually (and cautiously).Understood. Reminder, I've got a dysfunctional DISM, not a BSOD.
Ok. So what's the next step?

@topgundcp Thanks, I'll look into that. EDIT - those...

Done, but are you asking me to clean the remaining items?


Done.

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Here are the five images requested (probably in reverse order, sorry). Re. items 4-6, I have backups but not disc images; would rather avoid step 6 if possible,...