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On three of my PCs there is a notification (sound and icon appears in the notification area of the taskbar) when I plug in an external USB drive. However on one, it doesn't show the "Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media" icon, but still makes the sound. When I check "Settings > System >...

Currently using a bootable USB stick with Acronis True Image 2024 to create image backups of my Windows disk/partition. Very simple and easy to use... However, I've ran into a couple of errors recently, which have rendered a couple of my backups unusable (despite validating the backup after...

Hi Guys, Just dealing with a few issues with Windows 11 24H2 - prior to possibly upgrading a couple o my older PCs from 23H2... The older systems were originally installed with Windows 10 and were upgraded to Win 11 22H1 a while back and have since been updated to 23H2. The disks that have...

Thanks for the answers... Just installed Win 11 Pro 24H2 on a Lenovo T490s laptop. Turned off hibernation, reduced the pagefile to a mere 51MB, then removed pretty much all the extra Microsoft 'fluff' that I never used and also cleaned-up the Software distributions folder, ran a "Dism /Online...

Hi Guys, A bit of background first... Since using Windows 10, I always installed windows on a single partition, with no boot partition, recovery partition, etc. Every couple of months I'd use a USB-bootable copy of Acronis True Image to create an image backup of the partition. This was great...

Hi Guys, I'm pretty frugal with my storage and once I've tidied-up a fresh installation of Win 11 23H2, it typically takes up around 13GB of disk-space. I've just done the same with Win 11 24H2 and a clean install, with the same extraneous apps/features removed, weighs in at 30GB! Any idea...

Resurrecting this thread, as one of the recent Win 11 updates seems to have caused the same issue on several systems, that were previously displaying the correct customisation.

All services are running (on all systems), apart from upnphost (again, on all systems), so I don't think that's the issue.

Thanks for the reply... I think 24H2 introduces another set of networking stuff-ups... Thanksfully I'm still on 23H2 :-)

Thanks for the additional replies... I know it's not the Firewall - all set the same and can connect via IP address. I'd also prefer NOT to rest the network, as it's almost working now... Hoping to here back from @hsehestedt, as if I can solve the issue with the computer network name, it's...

Interesting... When I connect (in Explorer's address-bar) using the IP address: "\\192.168.20.12", the two shared drives "D" and "E" appear in the main Explorer window. I can then successfully access the shares! What gives? It's somehow not resolving the computer's network name? <EDIT> I CAN...

Hi Guys, Still experiencing an ongoing issue with a lack of connectivity to network shares between one Win 11 machine and a bunch of others. The offending machine can connect to the shared drives on all of the other machines (and they can all connect to each other), but none of the others can...

Cool, thanks for that... It's 22:25 here and I'm just off to bed!

Any pointers or instructions you can give me (upgrade, rather than clean install) would be great!

Hi Chaps, I'm usually rather miserly with allocating space for my system disk, as I don't really use much capacity and I usually assign more to my data partition. My current install of Win 23H2 resides on a system disk with 40GB of total space. I have two partitions on a single SSD: the 40GB...