Recent content by TraceyW

Hi Ghot Thanks for your comment re imageids. They are something I've always hated and strange though it may seem, I had the feeling I was alone in my feelings. It was wrong to feel that way but nowhere could I find anyone else with strong feelings about them or come to that any feeling or...

Hi cereberus et al Many thanks for all your replies. I particularly thank you for pointing me in the direction of the prefix.exe patch to get rid of those horrid imageids. If anything this is the best thing to have come out of this post so far. I had no idea such a fix was available. I've...

Hi cereberus I have a thing about being made to use an image ID - I hate them with a passion. I don't know what they do or what good they are. All I know is that I've used v7 since its release and never had a problem and ALWAYS I uncheck the box which inserts the image ID, its the first thing I...

Hi I've been using Macrium Reflect Free now for several years and have always got on with it very well. Very few errors - at least until now! Let me explain. After completing my weekly backup last Saturday I installed Windows 11 on two of our three PCs. This has gone very well but today I felt...

RFS - If Family is an app perhaps you'd like to share how you uninstall it so I can do likewise cus I've found nothing on the wider internet. Many thanks. Tracey

Hi I'm getting a bit p****d off with MS and Windows 11. I'm being pestered with dialogues saying to set up Family. I DON'T WANT to set up Family. The only other person in my family is my husband and he has his own PC. So how the hell do I turn this darned feature off. MS don't allow it to be...

When I started reading your reply cerebus I had the feeling of singing from the same hymn sheet as yourself. As I said in my initial post, I have several copies of my backups in the hope that should the worst happen at least one of them will survive. True, I don't have different medias but I'm...

With each reply I read I'm getting the feeling I shouldn't bother with cloud storage but there are some things I don't understand. A couple of responders have used abbreviations without explaining what they mean. BunnyJ says buy storage IE but what is storage IE - it means nothing to me as its...

Hi I am seriously considering using cloud storage. I've not done so thus far due to the time needed to upload the sort of files I want to place in the cloud since currently I only have an 8Mbps upload speed. However, next week we'll be upgraded to Full Fibre 500 with BT since it has arrived in...

Yes I know Macrium v8 is available and I've tried it. I hate it! Why? Because it insists on using these damned Image IDs. I hate the things. They mean nothing to me and they look ugly so I wrote a message about them but held off putting it up until the right moment - so here goes! I have been...

Thanks for your reply cerebus. Quite frankly I've never used System Restore so I don't really know why I care so much about this. I suppose its a case of "its supposed to work so why doesn't it". Like you, I depend to a very large extent on Macrium Reflect (the free version - still on version...

Hi I have a system where I am dual booting Windows 10 and Windows 11. However, after not going into Windows 11 for a few days, today I found that Windows 11 System Restore is not working. Windows is coming up with the 0x81000203 error. I've checked that the relevant services are starting when...

Hi I have very recently installed Windows 11 on a spare PC and in general I'm getting on with it very well. However, since it has been installed on a spare PC my husband uses from time to time I am worried about one thing. What I am worried about is that he is slowly but surely losing his sight...