When you check your Update History, look for failures. Failing updates are repeated.

N.B. you should not be allowing them to 'stop your laptop' - nor should they.
If the download phase slows it,...

And whether that works depends on e.g.
- whether the Windows 7 was installed on that same PC
if not
- whether there's UEFI BIOS compatibility- i.e. is the laptop configured appropriately to boot...

See:
How to delete files from a folder using a list of file names in windows? - Super User


While for interest this illustrates processing a list of files.. in your case you could replace the...

Downloading the update like that almost inevitably means you receive a larger download than what an individual machine would receive were that handled by W. Update.

Links are also provided in the...

You can, of course, research this and find one that actually suits you... yourself...

Does your laptop take two disks?

Do you mean you wish to dual boot with Win 7?

Or do you mean you hope to simply put the Win 7 disk into your laptop in place of your Win 10 system disk?

Or...

There's enough here about MS accounts for you to decide if you have one or not.
Switch to Microsoft Account in Windows 10

Further, if you have one, you will be able to sign in here:...

This is how you would have linked your license to your MS account, assuming you use one.
Link Microsoft Account to Windows 10 Digital License

This - also from the huge searchable tutorial...

Usually the license is transferrable one way or another.

How did you acquire your Win 10 license? What evidence do you have?

In particular, if it's linked to your MS account- if you use one-...

Thank you for your reply.


Here's another idea.

Try importing one of your vcf files into a spreadsheet e.g. Excel or a free alternative.

Imagine one column is names, the next, numbers.
...

Restore them from your most recent backup. You do have a backup....don't you?

The routine use of 3rd party disk imaging is endlessly recommended here...

There are much better ways of managing...

Maybe using wild card and 8 character limit at a command prompt would help:


You may have to do that by booting to a command prompt.

I've seen mention of using 7-zip to handle items with...

Having a HDD alone wouldn't cause this:


But agreed, people have taken the approach of doing what you say rather than fixing the problem...

Hi, first check your WEI score just for interest, using this great free tweak tool (with full explanations):
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Next check your disk: get a copy of Hard Disk Sentinel (portable version...

Are you looking in the right place in Settings?

Simply search in settings for 'lock' - should be the first result.

I think you can relax.

Please also ensure you have appropriate backups: you will feel more confident if you routinely use disk imaging e.g. Macrium Reflect and a scheduled System Restore point...

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You'd need a special 3rd party tool to handle mass tag edits.

That's going to be a matter of research unless someone happens to be familiar with one.

I found
FastPhotoTagger download |...

I too have repeats:
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I'm not worried.

If your build is up to date and all is well, don't worry.

The ones you highlighted in black, as I commented, have different version numbers.

Certain updates are 'updated' and the numbers repeated.

In the cases you highlighted it shows the definition number is different.

Also with the same device? You need to look for updates from the manufacturer.

That's how Windows works with updates as you know.

Have you discovered- as suggested- which of those two is...

I don't see anything untoward there... no failures.

Unfortunately you ignored the forum prompt:
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Mine is 19044.1889

You can check the News section where you can see these numbers and...

You can try Hard Disk Sentinel (portable version available).
Has been seen to even comment on cabling.

Obviously as you have been doing do your best to eliminate basic hardware issues by...

:thumbsup:

The Reliability Monitor is an instance of explorer.exe..



Do you have a System Restore point created before that?

What happened around that time?
Update/change/cat walked over keyboard?
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