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The Event Log was helpful when I had a networking issue between the Intel driver and the OEM router/modem. It allowed the conflict to be identified/isolated so that the appropriate pressure could be applied to the OEM to replace the device. Yes a rare situation.

Web site omission. The link provided goes to that specific utility.

Portable SSD are fine for backup purposes even though bit-rot is real. Bit-rot occurs when the charge in a cell drops because of write inactivity. Reading the data or powering on the drive is not enough to prevent this happening. Writing restores the cells. Do the following to keep you drive in...

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Performed the updated and ran my usual scans and cleanup scripts. All looked goo, but then noticed that Copilot was no longer installed. Not sure if this was from the WU or the scripts. Not worth doing a system restore to identify when it was removed. Anyway, just reinstalled it from the MS store.

Like everything in life there are trade-offs. The clone approach above keeps the functionality stable and should be a fairly fast process but retains all the baggage, bloat, and put off the migration to Win 11. The fresh start will take longer but allows an inventory of programs to be...

@hcccs I assume you are booting from the SSD. Over time the capacitive charge of the cells, that contain data, loose some charge. This results in slower read times, and could be contributing to your slow boot time. See this discussion for more detail. One way of "refreshing" the boot drive...

I have replaced the battery in my HP laptop twice so far with a non-HP battery from an agent in Canada but likely sourced from China. They have performed just as well as the original. The original was replaced when it would only hold the charge for about 50%. The first replacement lasted as long...

Did a first time trial run of HSB. Some observations: 1. Would like to be able to operate in full screen for the main program and the sub menu windows. 2. Credentials for a network attached Windows PC that is identified as "Joe User joe.user@outlook.com" requires username as Joe User, not...

@antspants Thanks for a great post. The link and description for How to Repair Windows VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service) issues with Hasleo Backup Suite is incorrect. The link is https://www.easyuefi.com/backup-software/tutorial/repair-vss.html

It is an ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED laptop. After install a .mp4 will not play with Media Player (current or legacy), or VLC player, and .mp3 files will play but there is not sound from either speakers or headphones. A restore of the OS resolves the playback and sound issues. The problem is the new...

When this driver is installed by either the Win 224H2 26100.2894 update, G-Helper, or ASUS Support Assistant it breaks the audio functionality. The problem is likely specifically related to the ASUS product line. My interim solution is to revert to 24H2 26100.2605 and pause updates for a week...

Yes, it is flawed with all sorts of reasons why items on the network do not show. The commands that usually bring them back for me is running these two commands from an elevated prompt on the PC's involved: net stop FDResPub net start FDResPub

@dacrone Its been a while and maybe I should have marked this as solved, but the cause remains unknown. My solution was to do a complete reinstall as no combination of setting worked for what I needed.

My solution is a file backup program called Perfect Backup. The free version is fine for this process. It has scheduling capabilities, encryption, compression, with full and incremental backups. The number of incremental backups to be made can specified, and intelligent restore can be performed...