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So very weird, a few days later bluetooth was back. I can’t explain it. Both BT mice were just working again. I had already rebooted several times previously. I assume BT is back in device manager, too.

 

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Jlewis wrote:

Never Combine and Show Labels on the taskbar is back in the latest Insider Preview builds (Dev Channel) and seems to work great.

Jlewis wrote:

Never Combine and Show Labels on the taskbar is back in the latest Insider Preview builds (Dev Channel) and seems to work great.

That would be fantastic. Can’t wait.

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All I really want is a way to taskbar items from stacking.

I’m very hesitant to install anything that messes with the base operating system.

I was using the free explorerpatcher for a long time. It solves a lot of irritations. Then the latest windows update ended up not being compatible with it and explore would crash over and over again before windows would finish loading. The only solution was to reinstall windows (keeping data). Nightmare!

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Thanks. These are just two personal stand-alone email boxes, no exchange, and the server is the hosting company’s shared mail server.

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It turned out it was my backup router. Thanks all. I did end up testing an open source program called freefilesync https://freefilesync.org/ which did a great job doing what replicator does. However the scheduling interface is much more intuitive with Replicator. And I’m going to use global exclusions to probably cut down many of my replicator backups by half. Thanks all.

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Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I believe I have resolved this issue, and here is how:

I installed an open source program called “freefilesync”.  https://freefilesync.org/

It had the same timeout problems.

This turned the issue away from karen’s replicator, to something else.

Recently I had switched to my older (but not old) backup router because my newer one needed rebooting too often.

I swapped in the newer router and hooked up the same usb3 hard disk to it.

Freefilesync was able to complete the backup with no issues, and very quickly.

I conclude my older router is the issue.

I will use Global Exclusions option to cut down the time on my replicator backups though, because replicator spends an awful lot of time backing up various firefox and chrome temporary files.

Thanks all.

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I’ve happily used Karen’s Replicator for years.

We’ve been having such a problem with replicator lately.

I am using the latest version.  Windows 10.  Backing up to a network drive, a usb drive attached to my router.

Nothing has really changed, same router, same usb hard drive, same computers. But of course, windows has applied numerous updates.

Note we have two matching Acer Aspire laptops, set up pretty much identically, both backing up to the same USB drive over the same wireless network.  We are experiencing these same symptoms on both computers.

Here is what is going on.

Replicator loads at startup.  When the backup starts, it runs for a while, then goes to “not responding”.  Even when it is the only program running after a fresh reboot. The program seems to hang for a long while but eventually will start copying again.

On my wife’s laptop Task Manager shows the little green leaf and gives the message when mousing over, “UWP Process Group  is suspending process to improve performance”. I don’t know if that is related.

As of right now it takes weeks to backup a 100gb folder, it used to take about several hours the first time, then about an hour or two only to check for new or changed files and only copy those.

Anyone problem solve this?

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Oops.  Thanks for your patience.  Attached.

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I ran the crystalmark as you suggested but not sure how to interpret it.  Please see the attached.

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A little updated in case anyone is still trying to help me.  I plugged in a definitely USB3 seagate expansion drive, and ran a backup.  It started fast then slowed down to 40 hours.

I wonder if it is the kind of M.2 drive I updated to.  My i7 laptop is a few years old and can’t use the latest M.2 drives.  This is the one I used: https://amzn.to/3iUWuq4

Western Digital 1TB WD Blue 3D NAND Internal PC SSD – SATA III 6 Gb/s, M.2 2280, Up to 560 MB/s – WDS100T2B0B

Thanks.

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Thanks for the input everyone.

My laptop is an Acer Aspire V17 Nitro Black.  Aspire Vn7-791G 76Z8

I’m 99.7% sure it has 2 usb2 ports and 2 usb3 ports.  2 of the ports have blue inside them and I believe that means USB3.  Not sure how I would tell which are which otherwise.

I plugged in a 1tb MicroSDXC card with adapter into the SD slot and backed up to that.  This took 40+ hours.

I have a WD internal hard drive in a cheapie plastic external usb enclosure, with USB3 connectors on it. This also takes 40 hours (I did not let it finish).  The enclosure is no longer sold on amazon (404) but This was the item description: 2.5 inch Hard Drive Enclosure QGeem SATA to USB 3.0 HDD Box for Samsung Seagate SSD 1TB 2TB External HDD Case.  Found it on aliexpress though: https://www.aliexpress.com/i/32824723962.html

It might be the SD slot is super slow compared to usb3.  It might be I’m using the wrong USB port (2 instead of 3) – how to tell which is which?  It might be my cheapie plastic external usb hard drive case is not true USB3 even though it has a usb3 connector and claims to be.

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