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Attached are the various security-related windows.  No actual ownership is ever shown, and no attempt has ever resulted in being offered a chance to enter valid credentials.

I only ever create folders in one of two ways:  Click Home in the Ribbon, then select New Folder, or right click in empty space, Select New then Folder.  Can’t remember which way I used to create the Insurance Folder.

I’m fairly familiar with the change of ownership security properties, as I have to do it constantly when I schlep karaoke files between my home PC and the laptop owned by the bar where I run my karaoke show.  This Security screen is unlike any I have seen before.

 

Tried the Copy/Past option instead of drag & drop and up pops “You’ll need to provide administrator permission to copy this folder” and pressing the continue buttons leads to nothing useful

That was the first thing I thought to try.  It won’t let me copy it, either.  and if I expand the folder above Insurance, when I select the folder Insurance it says “Nope – go away” and won’t even let me view the contents of Insurance (two PDF files).

The solution was to right-click on the local folders item in Tbird, select settings, then browse to the local folders file location;  there were two choices – Local Folders and Local Folders -1.  It was pointing to the wrong one.  They’re all back now.  Thanks!

I loved the tactile feel of the original IBM 5150.  Plus it had the function keys on the left, where God intended them to be, so you could do <CTRL> and <ALT> + Function key combinations with one hand!

The only keyboard I ever found that rivaled the feel of the IBM keyboards was the Northgate OmniKey series of keyboards.  I worked in the IT department for Monterey County for 29 years, and when the OmniKeys came out, we started recommending them all over.  Unfortunately, in the Transcription section of the Admin Department, they didn’t work, because those typists were pounding on those keyboards at the frightening rate of about 160WPM and the OmniKey just wasn’t up to the task.

I’ve been through several keyboards since then at home, and I’m currently using an old Lenovo keyboard.  It’s a wired USB keyboard, noise level is low, and the feel is pretty good.

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That’s not a bad idea – next time I go up there (just went today, usually go once a week) I can log in with my administrative account and see of Chrome works there.

More info:  When I attempted to do a system Restore to an earlier date I discovered that the guy who originally built the system either never enabled system Restore (I didn’t even know it COULD be turned off!) or he deliberately turned it off for some reason.  So, that option is off the table.

He also gave the user the impression that because he set the C drive up with a mirror and configured the system so it could boot from either image, that she didn’t need to do backups.  It’s fine if a drive fails, but if something gets corrupted, it’s pretty much worthless.

Sigh…

Additional info. Attaching 3 photos – the empty “Chrome” window, results of the DISM command execution, and results of the SFC command.

Yeah, that doesn’t particularly help to ameliorate the current situation…

That’s consistent with what I’ve seen.  Part of the reason the drives move to my main computer is to add new content from CDs that have been ripped on the main desktop.  I’ve even had issues with new content actually disappearing from the drive once it’s moved to the laptop while trying to update the music database in my hosting program.  I actually have to go back and re-copy it from my server (win 7) to the external drive a second time…

The right click menu on these WD Passport drives never even displays the “safely remove hardware” option.  Can’t do it!

For those of us that have been using TurboTax, we’ve come to a crossroads.  The makers of TurboTax (I can’t ever remember if they’re still Intuit, or if Intuit is where Quicken went when they split), we have been given an ultimatum:  to use turboTax, you MUST upgrade to Windows 8 or higher; they will no longer support Windows 7, ostensibly due to security issues.

For TurboTax tax year 2019 (this year’s product) they gave us the same warning.  I’m still on Windows 7.  I started early, and had begun to fill out the income forms and bogged down in the business (schedule C) stuff.  Imagine my horror when no matter what I did, when I tried to re-visit the income sheets (I had some minor changes to make) every time I got to the point of entering my 1099 data it crashed!  There had been a couple of updates between February and when I discovered this.

Several re-tries and calls to TurboTax support later, I finally found a nonstandard solution.  Their recommendation had been to re-install turboTax from scratch.  Unfortunately, the first thing it did upon completion of the installation was to install all of the latest updates, which once again screwed the pooch.

My solution was this:  Start the installation, allow TurboTax to verify the license by entering the serial number, then unplug my network cable.  When the installation finished and came time to download all the updates, they failed due to no internet connection.

I was then able to successfully complete my taxes, without the bogus update applied.  As it happened, they actually published another update about a week before the extended deadline in July which solved the crashing problem, but they’ve made it clear that they have no intention of further supporting Windows 7 next year.

I’ve been using TurboTax since about version 4 for DOS, back around 1988 and I LIKE it.  Not going to find another product.  I guess whet I’ll have to do is install and run it on one of my Windows 10 laptops instead of my big desktop.

I have a mix of Win 7 and Win 10 devices on my network.  Without fail, every Win 10 fall and spring update breaks the network discovery again.

 

Up until now, I’ve been using the SMB method.  Next time it breaks I’ll try Bill Pallance’s solution and see if it helps.

 

Thanks, Bill!

 

I’ve got this problem occasionally, with an added complication.  When I upgraded my motherboard several years ago, in order to be able to set up a RAID 5 volume I had to put up with my primary boot drive also being RAID; it was all or nothing.  Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-Z270X-UD3.  So I created a boot volume with 2 identical 500G drives in RAID 2.  And therein lies the problem.

Every now & then I run into that “Insert Boot Media” error.  Problem is, when that happens, I can’t access the repair environment because it doesn’t seem to be loading the RAID driver to make the RAID C: partition available.  Even worse, the documentation on the motherboard CD/DVD leaves quite a bit to be desired, and I can’t even definitively identify the RAID driver file!  (it was pretty much dumb luck when I found it during the original build, and I neglected to write it down – I was just happy to get past the point of needing it!).

And to add insult to injury, when the machine is trying to access the recovery environment, and suggests I insert a disk or whatever with the necessary file, the only drive options I’m presented with are some weird drive letter like X: or Z: that doesn’t seem to correspnd to any physical drive on the entire system.

Any suggestions?

Yeah, my original problem was that when I went to xfinity.com to get into the advanced settings and access the port forwarding, none of those settings were even on the option list!  Just some BS informational setting!  Their tech support, after an hour and a half, basically gave up on it and said “they’d get back to me”.