Thanks Brink, I will give it a go.

Peter

Hello

I have a situation regarding my mistakenly entered username.
At the moment it’s showing C:\Users\ User\
It needs to be C:\Users\Peter\
Can somebody help me please to change 'User' to...

Reinstalling Windows, tricky as startup doesn't recognize the installation USB or Disc and boot management doesn't show any choices. :(

Ever since I've had these problems the fan comes on a lot,...

Well spotted that man, I did it properly this time and that part of it was successful. I rebooted as instructed but regrettably Windows didn't load and I now get a message saying that Windows needs...

Hi Navy

Everything okay until I get to 'assign letters=s' I am told the command is not valid. I then go to HELP ASSIGN and try different letters but still not valid.

Pete

The suggestions all seems a bit complicated, bit of yet another learning curve.

I don't have a Windows installation disk but I do have the MediaCreationTool21H2 on a USB stick, should I transfer...

Good news and thanks Dalchina.

My drive is healthy, the next thing is how do I get it to load at startup?
You may be wondering what is the volume 1 ESP, I reckon it's my wireless mouse?
...

In my continued efforts to get to the bottom of my laptop startup problems I have discovered something that might be of relevance. Could it be that the solid state hard drive is kaput?
To recap,...

I appreciate all your information, all I have to do now is read and digest.

Luckily I can can use my wife's laptop as a standby and I also have all my stuff backed up on IDrive, the only trouble...

Following a recent unsuccessful System Restore it found some sort of rogue file and now I can no longer access Window 10. I cannot do a reset or a clean reinstall.
When I turn on my laptop, instead...

All sorted.
Eventually managed to login as the administrator, found everything which I then backed up and then did a reset, put the backed up stuff back to where it should be.
Then did a clean...

I asked in my message above. " Is it feasible to take the Marion user folder from this Old folder and put it in the User folder where she is missing"
Well I have not had any replies so I took a...

I finally had to resort to a Windows 10 reset and I can now login to the Administrator account but still not into my wife’s Marion local account.
The login page still shows the 2 accounts though,...

Unfortunately I am unable to use any of the tutorial options as the administrator account and my wife’s account are both impossible to log into.
Option 5 and 6 looked promising, because I can get...

I do have passwords, but there is a tweak that can be done that allows users to login without having to enter a tiresome password every time.

I am having to use my laptop to try and solve my wife’s login problems, we both normally login without passwords, that’s how we both prefer it.
Lately however when she logged in she sometimes had...

Thanks, that's done the trick. :)

Every time I start my laptop the same Word document automatically loads on the desktop.

I have uninstalled all of Microsoft Office/Word hoping that would do the trick, sadly it did not because now...