Recent content by robintes

Thanks guys for reminding me about checking Disks using SMART and the venerable free windows Crystaldiskinfoportable utility - everyone should have this on a usb. - probably teaching granny to suck eggs here heh heh

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 found it thru This PC - why does Microsoft deliberately P8SS off customers - cos they can - happens so often like this. So It will take an hour to go thru 500G but 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 a link? I started looking at How to use a Hasleo System Backup file to restore PC but then quickly saw certain controversies arising. I dont want to get...

Hi @antspants AND guys thnx for insights - seems like ive opened can of worms (been down this route otherwise several times and even with Macrium. First - dismiss suggestions for Onedrive - user reviews Reddit - Dive into anything . If it goes wrong then help is negligible with Microsoft. It seems...

My first experience started with W10 on a lenovo 10" 4GB several years ago. I quickly found that 4GB was hopelessly undersized for W10 as it would always go into cpu100% for hours at a time while it was updating its as per compulsory Microsoft diktats. I never found a ways to control this properly as...

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 tried and tested stuff (eg Paint.net - notepad - DVD player messing with Task manager etc). Always forcing extra bloatware upon your system - you guys know...

AFAIK W11 seems to create a system back automatically and deletes old bu sys file. eg I have a file period 1-1-25 to 1-1-25 only left. There are other files in there which look like data stuff and maybe config? What I would like to do was keep the W11 system file on one HD usb ext drive and...

I stand corrected. I know there was an option to delay installing updates (min 1 week - default and max 5 weeks). I’d suggest it was just a glitch. - hmm maybe it was some of the apps were still running and unsaved properly - that causes things to hang eg Word, Excel. I must get into the habit...

Pls bear with me, Im not a nerd, just a long time user and wish to get on with real home/office type work without machine distractions. I generally leave my desktop machine on 24/7 with screen auto/off energy saver. So W11 has been updating itself once/week overnight . So for years this has...