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If you’re trying to connect to a wireless network, the F7 button toggles you in and out of airplane mode, according to the User Guide.

Zig

You name your drives to avoid confusion when, e.g., cloning or replacing drives, or after a major error, when you need to restore drives. Windows sometimes changes drive LETTERS, but you can keep track of which drive is which by giving them NAMES (e.g., System, Data, Backup). Go to File Explorer, Right-click on each drive, go down to Properties, and, voila, there’s a box to enter the Name.

Zig

A little off-topic, but it would be good practice to NAME your C: drive (e.g., System) to avoid drive confusion in the future.

Zig

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Morty

Not sure what’s going on here, but I note 3 things:

a) The file in question at one time was in Windows.old, which is best removed by using Disk Cleanup.

b) One of the shortcuts has two “dots” before lnk, which might be contributing to the problem.

c) another of the shortcuts seems to be a duplicate “(2)” of the shortcut mentioned in b), above.

HTH,

Zig

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Morty

Okay, PK, you got me! ??FTFY??

Zig

Somewhat:

Windows 10 Forum: still 14-15 seconds
Windows Maintenance Forum: now very quick
Code Red Forum: now very quick

Zig

Woody,

My thread seems to have been hijacked by a discussion of VPNs. ??Any progress on the signin delay?

Zig

AC,

Agree with anonymous; no need to buy paid editions of these programs. The free editions will do what you want.

Zig

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AlphaCharlie

Mixer,

First things first – try a different USB cord.

Zig

PMFJI, but I don’t think you need Rufus to make a bootable thumb drive if all you’re going to do is to install Win 10. Just boot from the stick made with Media Creator.

As to the blurry fonts, try disabling “use hardware acceleration” – see if that helps.

Zig

Bernie,

Screen savers are SO 20th Century (and waste power), but the possibility of screen “burn-in” does exist. Just set your screen to turn off after a selected time period under “Power & Sleep.”

Zig

PMFJI, but does Macrium Free offer a DIFFERENTIAL (as opposed to incremental) backup option?

Zig

In some cases, blurry fonts are caused by using hardware acceleration in your display settings. My Win 10 computer (actually the video card/monitor) doesn’t allow hardware acceleration, so I can’t give you concise details where the setting is. If you have the setting , simply uncheck “use hardware acceleration.”

Rick,

‘not so smart shutdown’  – Is this the same as Fast Startup??

Zig

[Zig]

Welcome back, Rick ; I was among those sorry to see you (and your expertise) go.

Bill Zigrang

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woody