Recent content by AndreyT

What if you simply playback that CD on that main machine? Do you hear any noise or other artifacts?

What about the text size settings in your system? Did you tweak anything font-size-related or scaling-related in Accessibility or in display settings?

True. For "Windows users world wide" the chances are very high. However, there's very little chance a group of "local residents" would just accidentally configure their machines in identical manner. And in this topic we are dealing specifically with such "local residents", not with "Windows...

You mean that several people (i.e. "other local residents") had essentially the same set of icons pinned to their task bars, and the same icons disappeared for all of them, independently? BTW, how did it happen that different people had the same pins on the task bar? Were the systems initially...

Where exactly are they popping up? What does "on my screen" mean? Do they pop up in the browser itself? Or do they pop up from your Windows notification area? Or from somewhere else? Best, post a screenshot demonstrating such an "interruption".

What is "not closing properly" supposed to mean? Provide a detailed description.

At what kind of login screen specifically? "Logged-in but locked" login screen? Or "not logged-in yet" login screen? If it is the latter, is there a difference between "just booted" login screen and "just logged-out" login screen? There's no "shutdown button" in Windows 11. There's a "Power"...

What exactly did you do? What steps did you take to "change your user name"? Also, what kind of account are we talking about here? Local account? Online MS account?

Why are you trying to delete a file with rd command?

Not really. The case will be closed when we'll figure out the exact reason for the behavior you described in your posts. Unfortunately, you decided to destroy the technical possibility to perform any further investigation, so the case will never be truly closed. But the most reasonable...

What find of matches are you talking about? Are you searching for file names? Or are you searching for contextual matches inside files?

True. But they are still unnecessary in a set command specifically even of you have a path with spaces. The entire portion of the input string that follows the = character is taken as a new value for the variable, spaces and everything, regardless of whether it is enclosed in quotes. In this...

In other words, the whole issue was ostensibly caused by mere "corrupted Windows Search database". (I presume this was confirmed by rebuilding the database, which fixed the issues, right?) No evidence of any ties to any "corrupted links" was ever found? No wonder Audrey (sic!) missed that...

Ther real question here is how the OP managed to end up with duplicates in search results as a consequence of "corrupted links". What is the mechanism here? A typical link corruption scenario usually results in a dead link, i.e. a link that leads to nowhere. It does not cause duplication of...

`C:\Users\All Users` is normally a symlink, not a junction.