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..)

Hope it works- I've never had a huge screen to play with.. my mouse issues have been limited to cleaning cat hairs from the scroll wheel mechanism!

:thumbsup: MS does make some things tricky... making hard to avoid MS accounts and Edge e.g.

- have you tried that- shown in article I posted.

Also that shows where this should be installed. As I suggested: if you can find a folder - especially one with an exe file in it - then you can...

Thank you for your reply

I gave you a series of steps to work through.... but no reply to those, just to the first part of my post. Those are directly relevant ...

Please review my previous...

Hi, welcome to tenforums.

You will have noticed the forum prompted you for your full Windows build number (so we don't have to keep on asking for it).
winver

Please complete your PC specs...

Well done.. hope the program works for you...:-)

Given this is being reported by multiple users (above) it might be best to add yourself to one of those threads on their site to see if this possible bug is resolved.

Hi, this appears to give some useful info:
should-I-remove-it

Have you checked the Control Panel, Programs and Features list?
Personally I prefer to run geek uninstaller which runs the standard...

As for compatibility mode: inspect the installer you are using.

If it's got an exe file you can right click that , click Troubleshoot compatibility, work thru what it says, and try installing in...

Backing up files is fine, but you have to think about protecting your entire O/S - and other partitions if you wish.

With a recent disk image you can recover from
- failed disk
- stolen PC
-...

Some gaming mice, for example, have a button which allow you to adjust pointer speed.

Another way, using CTRL + SHIFT to slow pointer is given here via Ease of Access:

How to Use the Keyboard...

Good you're using disk imaging.. use e.g.
Initial I(base image)
+ differential 1
+ differential 2
+ differential 3

say, using your backup job created when you create the initial image.

Or...

Worth checking for curiosity at least.. and whether the drive is worth keeping..

Note: strongly recommended.. as early as you can after the clean install and before everything is configured and...

This seems a current issue for them:
Rhinoceros : Platform not supported error while launching - #11 by archz2 - Rhino for Windows - McNeel Forum

Rhino is not supported on Windows Server-But i am...