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AskWoody PlusSeptember 19, 2019 at 5:26 pm #1958180I had a random look at an issue from 2010/10/28 (Issue 263). In Fred Langa’s article”What to do when a patch won’t install”, at one point he recommends typing the following into a command prompt window:
reg delete HKLMSOFTWAREMicrosoftSQMClient WindowsDisabledSessions /va /f
Note that there are no backslashes. This is followed by a figure showing the command prompt after this has been typed in – which does show the backslashes. I presume that the missing backslashes is some kind of porting problem from the original ??
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ManagerMay 3, 2021 at 7:27 pm #2362538This reply doesn’t address anon’s raising of the current 8 months of restricted Plus newsletters, which differs from the original policy of only 2 mths’ being paywalled.
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