About five minutes ago, I found the culprit.
As I mentioned in the first post, I run W10 as a VM under Parallels. Parallels has a configuration option called Maintenance that does:
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About five minutes ago, I found the culprit.
As I mentioned in the first post, I run W10 as a VM under Parallels. Parallels has a configuration option called Maintenance that does:
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After downloading and inspecting the patch files on the "Enable or Disable" page, I suspect that these keys don't even exist in a shipped system until the patch files themselves create them.
As a...
I cut and pasted your string -- are you sure you spelled it right?
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Update: I'm assuming "HKLM" may be an abbreviation for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE that I don't have set up. Regardless, I don't...
Usually I check the advanced options only in the idle time after I have already unpaused updates and are waiting for them to download.
But as per your suggestion, I started the VM fresh this...
No, I did mention that. I never choose to pause updates.
Indeed, but I shouldn't have to patch Windows to get it to do something it shouldn't be doing in the first place, and doesn't do to other people or to my own other VM. I'd rather figure out what is...
I run a copy of Windows 10 x64 (Version 10.0.19042 Build 19042) in a Parallels VM on two separate Macs. I may boot each of them once every week or two as I encounter a task I need to use Windows to...
Well, that's a fair observation. If that's true, I won't mind blowing it away.
I wanted to preserve it because I had no idea what would break in Windows if I got rid of it. It's a belt and...
Well, that's half the answer. Now, how do I get the recovery partition back once I have merged the space?
I have a client who has Windows 10 running in a VM. He set the virtual boot drive size too conservatively, and now the update package for 1903 won't fit in the available space.
I successfully...
I didn't *think* I was using OneDrive, but I may have been -- its certainly not something I turned on on purpose, but I think it's one of those things Windows likes to turn on by default given any...
I checked the BIOS, and the bad news is that the USB sections were all set to legacy... so it's not that.
Curiously, the splash screen from "American Megatrends" mysteriously disappeared when I...
"The keyboard is, I believe, just fine. The keyboard works after boot. It used to work when entering the BIOS. Current behavior is not indicative of a keyboard failure. Something else is wrong."
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Setting it to run as administrator had absolutely zero effect on this message. It's been set that way forever. Changing the name was the only way to turn this message off. Like you, I don't want...
Despite the moderator's defense of this behavior, my opinion is that it is an idiotic oversight on the part of Microsoft as well.
I, too, was getting really tired of seeing the warning box saying,...
Encountered a client's machine today on which Firefox and full IE could access the network just fine, but Edge, Chrome, MS Store, and all the AV updaters couldn't get out.
Tried all the...
The second and third claim to be deprecated. I tried the one about disabling automatic proxy detection, and found that Windows 10 no longer even offered that option (at least not where the poster...
"You can try this if you don't mind the network icon not showing that you're connected."
Ouch. Sounds like a non-starter in an environment where basic troubleshooting is the main thrust.
If there's a way, I haven't found it.
I configure routers for a living. Every time a new one comes online and throws me a DHCP address, Windows 10 creates a new "Network [nnn]" entirely unbidden....
Malwarebytes says their products do not do this. And I have never had Norton, or any other AV other than the ones I posted in the OP.
I'll check it out. It would have to be the Anti-Exploit (which I was just reminded is the "new" name for the old Anti-Rootkit) because it's the only one that runs automatically. The other one has...
As stated in the first post.
Unless Onedrive is something that sets itself up in Windows 10, no. I don't even know what Onedrive is, much less activated it. I don't use cloud storage or backup services.
I'll have to do that next time I see the arrows. They're not there all the time; they're not there now. When they show up, it's just after booting the system, so I'll watch for them and try this.
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In the past week or so, I have noticed that the shortcuts (aliases) on my desktop are being festooned with tiny green checkmarks. For example, last time I started up my Windows VM, I saw:
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