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Thanks guys for reminding me about checking Disks using SMART and the venerable free windows Crystaldiskinfoportable utility - everyone...

If you only had 0.5G to clean it's an exception. Some time ago someone had 230G as temp files. SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis and...

Good point - I cleared 0.5GB. Wonder why cleanmgr.exe is hidden away by Microsoft, IIRC it was common on XP W7 - disc properties? - YUP...

When was the last time you did a disk cleanup? It's a good to do a maintenance procedure periodically. I do it every Friday. - Start by...

Is it possible it went into sleep mode while doing a big update ? So you couldn’t see the progress? I am avoiding 24H2 for now. And...

It was late when I made my last post, so just to tidy up: Using Hasleo as an example here. When you use Hasleo to backup your system...

Link is in post 6 above. A system backup is so you can restore your system to an early working state at the time you backed up. I...

hi @antspants As I posted my beginners first start tutorial, in my opinion, Hasleo is the simplest. so Im on the same page have you...

You can find plenty of help for OneDrive, in this forum But not wanting to use it is fine, I certainly don’t, either do many others, but...

Windows 11 doesn’t do system image backups by default. For this you would need a secondary drive and a program like Macrium or Hasleo...

Hi @antspants AND guys thnx for insights - seems like ive opened can of worms (been down this route otherwise several times and even...

Not a waste of time, it is an appropriate warning for those thinking of getting the Insider Canary build. MS do indeed include such a...

My first experience started with W10 on a lenovo 10" 4GB several years ago. I quickly found that 4GB was hopelessly undersized for W10...

Should we hold off on this update and see what experienced members have to say on this. Microsoft has a bad reputation for spoiling some old...