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I use neither of the two that you suggest I’m “probably” using. I’ve used Firefox for a very long time and I haven’t seen a reason to use any of the others [ in fact, chrome isn’t even installed on my system [win10/pro]]

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Could you clarify?  As I read it the copilot stuff was only a win11 thing and we win10 folk wouldn’t be bothered with it.   If so, what is the “date” you refer to for win10 folk.

Since some of us are hanging onto win10, I think you need to have two defcons – one for 11 and one for 10. I’m guessing that the defcon 1 doesn’t apply to use 10’ers, right?

great catch — I didn’t see the missing space.  Still didn’t work:

I tried to follow the direcdtions in the website and I got

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>vboxmanage modifyhd “e:\Virtualbox VMs\win10\win 10.vdi” –resize 25000
0%…
Progress state: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED
VBoxManage.exe: error: Failed to resize medium
VBoxManage.exe: error: Shrinking is not yet supported for medium ‘E:\Virtualbox VMs\win10\Win 10.vdi’
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED (0x80bb0009), component MediumWrap, interface IMedium
VBoxManage.exe: error: Context: “enum RTEXITCODE __cdecl handleModifyMedium(struct HandlerArg *)” at line 816 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp

WHy is shrinking not suppported???  I’m running 6.1.44r156814

Thanks for pointing me at vboxmanage .  I *think* what I want is “modifymedium”. \  What am I doing wrong.  Here’s my VDI:

Directory of E:\Virtualbox VMs\win10

09/02/2023 12:15 PM <DIR> .
09/02/2023 12:15 PM <DIR> ..
09/01/2023 07:09 AM <DIR> Logs
08/28/2023 02:22 PM <DIR> Snapshots
09/02/2023 12:15 PM 6,845 Win 10.vbox
09/02/2023 12:15 PM 52,452,917,248 Win 10.vdi

It says it is 50 or so gigs, which is correct, but as I posted, it *thinks* it wants 150gigs.  when I try to run it I do:

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>vboxmanage modifymedium –compact “e:\Virtualbox VMs\win10\win10.vdi”
VBoxManage.exe: error: Could not find file for the medium ‘E:\Virtualbox VMs\win10\win10.vdi’ (VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
VBoxManage.exe: error: Details: code VBOX_E_FILE_ERROR (0x80bb0004), component MediumWrap, interface IMedium, callee IUnknown
VBoxManage.exe: error: Context: “OpenMedium(Bstr(pszFilenameOrUuid).raw(), enmDevType, enmAccessMode, fForceNewUuidOnOpen, pMedium.asOutParam())” at line 191 of file VBoxManageDisk.cpp

so I don’t know what to do — that’s the correct path but it gets “not found”.   and I also tried feeding it the .vbox file and it couldn’t find that, either….

I’ve done all that but it won’t let me make it any smaller than 125 gigs.   Attached is my attempt and you can see the red ‘!’ when I tried to make it 50 gigs

Thanks — I figured out where the memory was going.  My Virtualbox VDI had ballooned to 150. megs [and when I exited it all the mysterious missing memory came back].

My problem now is that I can’t fix it.  I opened the Virtualbox manager and selected the VM, clicked on tools and it showed me the nasty vdi, and it clearly said “Virtual Size 150gigs” and and “actual size 48gigs” [which is exactly right — it is supposed to be a 50gig VM].  But when I try to shrink it with the “size” slider, it won’t let me get below 125 gigs.   [and , indeed the size of the .vdi file is 50gigs].   I’m not sure why it won’t let me fully shrink it.

No — it’s now been a couple of *hours* and it still  says “microsoft work starting”  and still banging away at around 3% cpu.  I just checked and I was surprised to see that I had *two* dead Words running — the one now and one I forgot about from earlier.  Lemme kill both and try again.

I just tried to start Word, rather than open a file.  Same thing – it said “word didn’t stop cleanly do you want to start in safe mode”, I said no, and I’m back in my 3%cpu, “starting”.

I just tried it again but said “yes” to starting it in safe mode and it sprung to life instantly.  I exited it and tried Word and the same thing “starting”

I wonder what it’s doing…..

 

I noticed something for the first time: there’s a tiny downarrow above the “start action” button and that dropdown lets you select what actions to take.  the default is “block”, but on the list is “delete” and for the first time when tell virus and threat protection to do a scan reimage is *gone* and “0 threats found”.. So think it is now gone.  YAY

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I just tried again, but in a more controlled test — I did a scan and #@$%@#$% reimage was still there.  So I did a  “take action” and got the “feel free to use your system while we take action .  And then it came back with “no current threats” and “1 threats found”.  I guess that implies that it found one and *now* there are no current threats. Except when I click on the “scan” button ..my old friend reimage is still there.. apparenlty the “take action” didn’t actually resolve the mystey of reimage.

Do others have this problem?  Or has my system gotten haunted by a ghost..  Would trying the “offine defender scan” perhaps deal with it?

 

I’m not sure what I’m running.. I expect it is just Windows Defender .  The notification just says “application and browser control” and when I click on it I go to “Virus and Threat protection”  — I’m guessing that that’s “defender”.  In “threats found” it lists the PUA… stuff and there’s just a button for “Start Actions”.  I’ve done that several times and if it is *really*  a PUA and if the “start actions” actually removes it, what does it mean that it reappears a week or so later?   If it’s real and coming back it’d make me wonder if I have some deeper virus buried  deep inside my system

 

Ah thanks.  I didn’t even know there was a “windows search”  I think that now that I know about it I’ll probably forget about it :o)

How odd that that the XDA-developers knows about it but support.microsoft.com doesn’t.

I know about the master patch list.. what I don’t know is how to *use* it.  The only updates I’ve ever done have been via clicking on “Download” on the Windows update page.  I don’t know how to get windows update to show me all the individual updates and select which ones to install

Are there [simple?] instructions for specifying which updates to install and which to skip?  All I’ve ever done was wait for the all-clear from you and then do an update — I’ve never done an update omitting one item.

Wow — that’s bizarre and baroque.  But it works…  thanks

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