Hi, you should be able to log in to your online OneDrive account with or without OneDrive installed on your PC.

I uninstalled OneDrive years ago, but can still log in to my OneDrive account.
...

Thank you very much for your reply.


Do you have Pro or have you tried to add group policy to Home?

Major update normally don't have such an effect. Evidence?

By default, you will realise, Windows updates happen automatically.

Many ways to take control have been described.

There are relevant tutorials and even 3rd party tools in the Tutorial section....

Thank you very much for your reply.


Why not write a script?

I would suggest you'll gain nothing useful given your usage by 'upgrading' to Win 11, but would face a period of adaptation. Consider too that 21H2 will bring better taskbar features to Win 11,...

Should be fine- if that works on Home.
I think I've seen posts related to problems following adding the g.p.editor to Home... you can check. Hope that's readily reversible.

Here are a couple more...

Thanks, that's much clearer. As there are several issues there from licensing to dual boot and more which others are much more experienced with, now the starting point is better defined it would be...

Hi, it would help if you specified the two PCs in an appropriate manner considering what you seek to do.

For example, is the old PC MBR? GPT? UEFI? 32 bits or 64? I.e. how compatible is it with...

You're welcome... you could, of course, upgrade to Pro...

Or disable WU and use a 3rd party tool...

As you know, there are preview updates, and there are optional updates. These are different things.

If you have Pro you can choose never to receive preview updates via Group Policy... but you have...

Maybe that's the equivalent of 'Notify' in Pro via group policy.

E.g.
Configure Windows 10 to Prompt for Update Installs

As you don't have the Group Policy editor, a registry tweak or 3rd...

Have you tried opening that folder with/without thumbnails?

You can upload a video to any suitable site then post a link.. I believe there's a limit to the size of forum attachments. (E.g. Go...

I use APO/PEACE.. some have mentioned
Boost Volume and Sound Quality on Your PC - FxSound

Is one of them Pro? If so see:
372867

OPTION ONE
To Refresh Windows 10 at Boot

1 Boot to advanced startup options.



Are you booting to advanced startup options as per the tutorial?

E.g. SHIFT + left click restart...

Hi, here are your options for "refreshing" Windows:
Refresh Windows 10

'Keep your files' - keeps personal accounts. There's a risk the underlying problem will not be resolved. But you could try...

Given the history (which would have been helpful early on- you're not alone- most posters fail to give this) I suggest your only option, as it seems you don't yet use disk imaging regularly and...

Winmerge comes to mind- you can but try it..
WinMerge - You will see the difference…

Good- whilst present on mine as a file, doesn't appear to be running..

Is it perhaps related to Hyper-V ?

Ok, thanks, you can delete that new user.

History:
- when did this start?
- what happened around the time this started?
e.g power outage/cat walked over keyboard/just switched on the PC and ...

Creating a new user and checking when logged in to see if the same problem exists is an important diagnostic test.

Why?

If the same problem does NOT exist then general repairs such as
SFC...

The underlying problem here is that Otherway is seeking a general solution for all contexts.

And that's exactly the difficulty. Each context can be different.
The means of extracting the path -...

There's a mac os theme here if interested (not tried it.. just came across it by chance..)

macOS theme by macos2020 on DeviantArt

Thank you so much for your kind and thoughtful reply.




Booting from a bootable flash drive is a separate issue from problems with your O/S.
a. Do you know your flash drive is bootable? Have...

Ah- so you have managed to remove it...? (not marked as solved at that point so I missed the line in the middle of your post..)