While I appreciate this OP owning up to what he had done, 30 minutes after I first read his post I'm still shaking my head....and gritting my teeth that anyone would willy-nilly disable core services (without a backup or list of every thing that was done) and not expect Windows functions to...
Welcome to the forum. From the screenshot your taskbar icons seem to be there. Are you referring to taskview?
You might try rebuilding your icon cache Rebuild Icon Cache in Windows 11 Tutorial
Welcome to the forum. In all honesty, I couldn't follow your post but from the gist of it, I believe your BCD wrote to the wrong drive. When clean installing, one should always disconnect all other drives until the OS has booted to insure BCD gets written to your system drive. Step 2 in tutorial...
You should have used the iso or installation media option (OPTION 2) in the tutorial. If done correctly an inplace upgrade using this method does not remove applications or user files.
And you will probably never know. Save yourself a lot of time and restore the image you made before you gave it to her. Get it updated, run SFC, then make another image before you give it to her again.
FYI when doing an inplace upgrade all that's necessary to to browse to where your stored the...
EA app is always running in background. Before it can be uninstalled you have stop its service.
In Windows 11:
1. Right click the start button.
2. Select Task Manager
3. In the Task Manager Window search, "EA"
4. Right click on EA and stop service.
5. Try uninstall again.
I completely agree with some of the others...restoring an image to the new drive is the way to go. Macrium does it all for you. Remove the hdd, install the ssd, boot from Macrium recovery media and restore the image by dragging each partition from the image file onto the new drive . Once...
I strongly suggest that you delete that video. It shows private information that you so not want anyone to know. I know it would be more trouble, but screenshots with the private info blacked out would be better for your safety
FYI While you can hide the update, if the problematic update was a cumulative update, that is not an ongoing solution without disabling all updates permanently.
Cumulative updates are just that. What is in this month's cumulative will also be in next month's cumulative.
If it is a cumulative...