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Wouldn’t the use of a second (or third) Standard User account work?  Of course, you would have to log in and out of your business/professional account when you are doing serious work, and log into your *leisure* account for everything else.  As far as I know, Standard User accounts can’t peek into other accounts files without the admin password.  And Search is limited to that account’s files.  That’s how I have set up a machine two of my family members share the use of, that way, one is not encroaching on the other’s privacy without some mental exertion beyond “casual.”

One “drawback” that I note concerns UWP apps.  It becomes possible you will have multiple instances of one app, for instance, Microsoft Solitaire Collection, because, as far as I know, the platform has no concept of a “shared across accounts” UWP app.  So you might have a space issue sooner by going with such a separation of accounts because of multiple copies of the same app(s) living on your system hard drive/SSD.

Under Windows 10, I would think it is the easiest thing to do, as far as keeping “serious” files separate from “leisure” files.  On my personal computer, I too came from Win7, briefly detouring through Win8…after a handful of months, I stopped grousing about not being able to access EVERY app from EVERY account, as I was already used to only doing “administrative” things like pausing and restarting services, as well as setting up network shares from only my Administrative account, and doing everything else, like paying bills, text chat, playing games, authoring articles and papers, etc., while in a different Standard User account.  In fact, I am so used it it now, I’m at the point of wincing when I run into a game I want to try, but I have to run it with my Admin credentials after installation.  That just screams at me as “BAD JUJU!!”, to have to play a game only after entering my administrative creds.

I don’t know if this is a palatable answer, but I find the “different account for different things” approach totally sensible now.  And as I noted before, when I run a search in my Standard User account, I don’t pick up things in a different account’s folders.  There have been times I wish it did, but it doesn’t.

I understand I can update the Ubuntu files, but that doesn’t answer the question if I need the Windows “optional feature” files.  I’m guessing the two operating systems are still fully separated, since the OpenSSH files shown for Ubuntu’s Bash shell is one point version older than the Windows version.  If there is a reason the Ubuntu files should remain “behind” the Windows files, I’ve not yet discovered why.  And if the Windows version is NOT supporting WSL, I should be able to get by without the Windows files, as the Ubuntu files are doing all the work.  Or am I missing something in how WSL (I do not have WSL2, of course) works on Windows?

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I’m kinda longing that the next “feature” update would have two flavors a body could choose from, one with “Legacy/Spartan Edge” in it’s code…and one without.  Not even considering a “feature update” choice without IE, large business corps would have a fit about suddenly having to refactor all their internal websites to “forget” the IE quirks to perform as expected. *sighs*  In this, I am a little envious of Linux distros like Ubuntu…as far as I’m aware, all distros come with just one browser (I’m aware of “Konqueror”), but they welcome the addition of the browser of your choice.  Just one “hanging chad” to deal with there.  I’m not sure if you can uninstall the “default equipment” browser, but just one potentially unused browser on a system seems safer in the long run.

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I upgraded a while ago to 1909 (yes, I tend to be a “seeker”, I seem to be unable to resist the big red “Upgrade Now” button *chuckles*), and I have run into one surprising issue…it’s a non-stopper, more irritating than anything.  I didn’t even know I had an issue until I went to make this year’s holiday cards.  Not precisely hand-made, but not store stock for sure.  The thing I found was that some older fonts, such as IberiaReal, Eurose, Eurostile, Trekker-2, and a handful of others all went AWOL.  Granted, I brought the fonts in question over from my old Windows XP machine (of which some fonts had been rescued from an even older Win 95/98/98SE machine of mine, talk about backwards compatibility!), but I had not anticipated having a loss issue with fonts with this upgrade.  I thought I was safe with my backups, (three different portable hard drives going back the last decade) but it the fonts folder as I had it is in those older backups I’ve yet to find them.  So if you semi-live dealing with fonts, you may want to manually copy your long-used ones and your stalwart standbys to a flash drive, just in case.  There are new fonts in my font’s folder, which are denoted by the word fluent being prepended (Fluent Calibri, or example), which kinda clouds the issue if the older fonts had failed some type of age check, to my mind.  Otherwise, I’ve had zero problems…all my hardware works as expected, I’ve not seen weird driver errors.

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Using an app is an option, but I see it as a last resort one. Even though it has been awhile since I last needed to use batch scripting skills, that mode of working is what I am seeking here. Pride is funny like that. :p

I will keep it in mind, but I’m certain Windows 10 has parity with the command line tools that are common across Linux distros. Powershell is another possibility, but it is way “wordy”…though my initial impression of that is that its a “makes sense” kind of wordy-ness.

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access-mdb wrote:

If you click on History in File Explorer (Home Tab) you can either restore or restore to by right clicking on the green button. This will do the trick for you. Just go to the top folder of what you want to restore and click history.

I am confused now…this is how I got into the dilemma I am in now, with the added date and time string. Did I somehow get File History to save it’s copies in a nonstandard way?

I thank you all for your tis and suggestions. I think I have a nice ‘check list’ to go by in case I run into another machine with similar problems. Sudo15 gave suggested a tip that worked, which he posted in one of my admittedly cross-posted threads:

Can you open a Command Prompt (Admin) and enter netcfg -d to see if that reinstates your wireless adapter – if you get any error messages, reboot and try it again.

Egads, that worked! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! I don’t know WHY it worked, since the built-in card was not showing up at all in Windows…but I’m not looking the gift horse in the mouth. lol And I’ll resist cross-posting threads in the future! *embarrassed smile*

Can you open a Command Prompt (Admin) and enter netcfg -d to see if that reinstates your wireless adapter – if you get any error messages, reboot and try it again.

Egads, that worked! Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU! I don’t know WHY it worked, since the built-in card was not showing up at all in Windows…but I’m not looking the gift horse in the mouth. lol

As for the system image…I made one for my Alienware machine, but I had gotten rushed at the maternal unit’s place, and I had not done so for hers. I did contemplate using my system image, but as the two systems have such differences, I held back, fearing that doing so would make the situation worse. So, now I need to go snag a 8GB USB stick to make one for her system…and I have a spare Belkin USB wireless adapter out of the bargain!QUOTE]

*facepalms* Oey, sorry about that…I meant “messaged”. *grumbles about being dyslexic at inopportune moments*

I did find it, finally. and the BIOS says it is enabled.

Thanks for the info. I did as you suggested, and this time I could see it “run” through the whole disk. It reported no errors, so, I am a bit more comfortable with the sfc /scannow results now.

That is something that is REALLY weird, the BIOS doesn’t list it as a device. Yet, I know it is a RealTech variant…though at the moment the only way I know that is from the spec label affixed to the outside. Unless I overlooked it somewhere in a dark back alley, that is. I don’t remember a BIOS having as many pages as this machine is showing.

Yes, that is what I meant. Device Manager is not showing anything for either a RealTech b/g/n device, or an “unknown” device. The machine is only showing an entry for a RealTech Ethernet network adapter.

I have discovered the Skype Preview is more than “slightly rough around the edges”, thanks to my Win10 Mobile phone. Preview does not access the contact lists from multiple accounts at the same time, for instance a pre-Microsoft Skype account that I happen to have and my Microsoft Account. So you should not be surprised that your “presence” label in the Preview is completely different from that in the “classic” desktop Skype. I thought I had to add my contact list fresh on the Preview, when one of my test contacts messaged me asking who I was!

You are quite welcome, Miv!