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A problem with YOUR email (I’ve got it too), and you cannot resend it ?

REALLY?

PKC – I think you have come up with the answer!
Under Windows Update for Business (which I haven’t touched previously)
there was the entry 360 which I have changed as you suggested.

Now we shall wait and see…

Many, many thanks

Admin account yes. Domain joined? Tis just one PC not linked to any domain name.

All the settings in Local Group Policy Editor – Windows update
are set as Not configured

Settings in Group Policy are as they were.

I have looked at them over the last 24 hours but decided changing the settings wouldn’t help.
Same with Registry

It is indeed 17763.914

Hi, You are right about the version.
Computer has been updating -up to date at 10:25 this morning.
Pause is off.
Metered connections is…Off

G.W.,

My suggestion would be to download and install EasyBCD (scroll down for the free version). This will allow you to identify the two drives and boot to either one.
After you have it setup I’d also install it to the other drive.

Then if you want to keep the swap files from interfering with each other you can use this registry hack (apply to both boots) to hide the non-booted drive from use.

Key: HKLMSYSTEMMountedDevicesOffline
Value: DosDevicesE:
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1

Note: you’ll apply the registry fix as shown on the original drive (Changing the E: to what ever drive letter your system assigns to the non-booted drive). Then boot into the cloned drive and apply it again with the appropriate drive letter.

Once this is done the booted drive will show as C: in both setups!

This is what File Explorer looks like on my Dual Boot Win 10/7 laptop when booted into Win 7:
44703-LaptopWin7

The Registry on the Win 7 Boot:
44704-LaptopWin7Registry

File Explorer when Booted in Win 10:
44705-LaptopWin10

The Registry on Win 10 Boot:
44706-LaptopWin10Registry

BTW: I’d also recommend you d/l iReboot it makes switching between OSes much easier!

HTH :cheers:

Not being fully conversant with the ways of this forum not sure my thanks would get to you so adding them here as well :rolleyes:

Hi, What I have done at this point based on mrjimphelps reply, is disconnected existing drive whereupon Windows re-lettered the drive to C: but I then had to F8 and tell it to look for the Boot manager on the new hard drive.

However I shall be studying your reply with a view to going down that road…

Many thanks :rolleyes:

I would put in one drive at a time, to see which drive letters they have. My guess is that each one will be labeled C:., when there is only one drive at a time in the computer.

In other words, Windows, not you, assigned the drive letters, so Windows will make the “correction” on the letter used for the drive when there is only one drive in the computer.

Thanks man. You were right. Windows re-lettered the drive to C: but I then had to F8 and tell it to look for the Boot manager on the new hard drive. :rolleyes:

Would encrypting backups, as with EaseUS ToDo Backup, make them any safer or would Ransomware see through that and ‘over’ encrypt.
(Thanks Fred for an awe-full lot of interesting/useful articles over time.)

Why DON’T Windows Secrets vet / evaluate advertisements before posting them? That I would have thought should be a prime requirement. It degrades your own value by not doing so.

I started moving to LibreOffice (LO) and was just about ready to pull the plug on MS Office 2007 when LO started corrupting files, making them inaccessible, so much as I like its simpler feel it is it that got dumped.

Interesting how different 2 people’s experience can be. I relied on ATI but then when I needed to restore an image it it failed miserably, claiming “insufficient space” when there were gigabytes available. But that believe it or not was the least of my problems. I could have reformatted my disk and rebuilt its contents in less time than I spent while Acronis customer services tried to solve the problem (approx. 4 weeks).:( They had me doing things most PC users couldn’t and they even took remote control, all to no avail so in the end I decided to uninstall the program. And that’s when things went from bad to worse.

Tried to uninstall it (more than once) and it never achieved more than 5%. They provided a special Cleanup tool (which kinda suggests they know their uninstaller isn’t up to the job) and it was little better. After running it I had to reboot, but before doing so, I was expected to review a whole load of keys in the registry and remove all Acronis driver keys; and to do similar in the UpperFilters and LowerFilters and so on. That done I checked and found entries left under programs; and the start menu; and a Registry cleaner found a further 378 bits of debris remaining!:mad:
Having sorted that, they said to reboot and then re-install the latest version of Acronis True Image. They had to be joking.
Not only couldn’t I trust it any more but getting rid of it is a horrendous rigmarole!

Slight variation but Patch related : I have had to restore to a much earlier image of Windows (7 as it happens) because the most current one turned out to be corrupt!!! My question, that comes from this is, as you SB say at the start of your column Regularly updated problem-patch chart “This table provides the status of problem patches reported in previous Patch Watch columns. Patches listed below as safe to install will be removed from the next updated table.” Does this mean that patches NOT listed are safe to install?