Recent content by _william

Thanks.

I'm abandoning this, there's no point pursuing it, it's not worth it.

@Try3 I'm going to settle with just turning off sleep. I can't continue down all these rabbit-warrens. It's not worth it for me. I'm going to settle for unsatisfactory and just hope for the best. I've got too many other things to do. Thanks for your help.

This isn't directed at anyone here, this is just a general vent about society. It takes 2 hours to manually check through those two Drives I mentioned in the OP. There were 3 crashes in that 2 hours. That's 40 mins of continuous tabbing back and forth between windows and directories in order to...

I didn't understand this sentence sorry.

Should've said, I'm using a Dell Latitude 7430.

@Berton Well I have 16GB of RAM so that shouldn't be the problem then.

Sorry, I didn't catch what you were referring to here: Sure, I intend to keep getting BIOS-updates, I would just rather I let Dell manage them rather than Windows, as I wrote in the OP; so I'm just asking if there's any way to turn off the BIOS-updates through "Windows Update" and just keep...

@andrew129260 It sounds like it's probably out of my control then, beyond turning-off the "Windows Update" tool in Settings. There isn't any setting inside the "Windows Update" Settings tool to opt-out of BIOS-updates is there? if there were, then I could ensure that only the "Dell Command |...

@Ghot Thanks for clarifying that. I probably should've been clearer that I'm using a Dell Latitude 7430.

@Ghot Seems the jury's out for the time-being perhaps...

@andrew129260 Thanks for the insight.

The other day I was checking through an external portable SSD of mine against the laptop using File Explorer. The External-SSD contained a copy of all my personal files that were also held on the laptop, and I was just manually checking through both copies to check that it was all fine. Each...

I made a post the other day about BIOS-updates on Dell computers. I have a follow-up question from this: by default, is it Windows or is it Dell that manages the automatic BIOS-updates? I actually spoke with Dell over the phone about this and they seemed to be trying to tell me that both...

@RJARRRPCGP Thanks, I'll try that.