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Thank you doriel,

When I first went to create a restore point I eventually came to the screen your link showed.  I then enabled system restore on my c: drive. The strange thing is that I was not able to create a restore point until today.

Anyway I was able to create a restore point. I probably need to do a clean install. 

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My main home pc is one of those high end ryzen gaming systems you mentioned and met all the requirements including TPM 2. I mentioned in another thread my initial upgrade resulted with a broken windows firewall. A second reinstall fixed that. Probably related to it being an upgrade install and not a clean install.

FYI – in case anyone else runs into that.

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Hi folks,

Sorry about the long absence. I just recently celebrated my one year anniversary of my retirement. Some of you may recall it was an unexpected retirement. LOL

Of course I updated my main home pc but I had an issue with a broken windows firewall with the first try. I tried the usual attempts to fix, sfc, dism, troubleshooter. No good. I finally reran Setup a second time and all is now working as it should be.

I have my backups in order so I look forward to a clean install soon. c-ya!

 

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Tracey thanks for keeping things together for as long as you have. It really has been quite a run….

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I remember walking 5 miles uphill in heavy snow to the local software store to check out all the cool stuff on floppy disk. Rows and rows of software in boxes. I always kept seeing these awesome books from Woody which we all have copies of in some form.

Susan Bradley is/has been without a doubt the person that I have respected and looked first for up to date I.T. information during my career.

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woody

He had many battles and overcame them. But the past caught up with him. Bless Eddie and his family.

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Microfix, Fred, Myst

It’s all good and someday we will all sit around the campfire eating beans……maybe

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Myst

Sorry for the drama folks. It is a dramatic way of showing how a a person of high security may be terminated prematurely without consideration of both parties involved. D’OH! It’s all good and the ball is in my court. I’ll be in touch of course but I am now officially retired. Party on Garth!

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SueW, Pepsiboy, Myst, woody

Some sites are worth paying for. 

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wavy

Disclaimer: I had a feeling ad blockers might come up in the discussion. Please support sites that have ads that are not obnoxious and such. It is an important source of revenue for many sites.

I never had a problem with banner ads but a lot of ads are in your face, obnoxious and will even trick you by throwing another ad as you are about to click on something which then sends you to a place you didn’t want to be.

Thanks gang!       (never heard of Andy Rooney?)     

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Could it possibly be that they held up the release of this patch to fix a known issue?……Nah 

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We have a bunch of Latitude laptops and fortunately I am only aware of maybe 3 laptops that had this issue. I’d have to go back and check to see if they were all the same model, but I don’t believe they were. As mentioned these are not new Latitude models but laptops that were all around 3 years old.

It kind of reminds me of when Dell had a bunch of Optiplex PC’s that had “bad Caps”. Capacitors were swelling and going bad on the motherboards. But it only affected some models for a limited period of time.

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doriel

Unfortunately this is not exclusive to Surface devices. We have had a few Dell Latitude laptops in where the bottom of the laptop started to bulge causing the bottom cover to start separating from the rest of the laptop. These would be Latitudes that were 2 – 3 years  old.

After a few of these I did some digging and Dell is aware of the issue and their comment was “there is no danger from the swelling but it is recommended that the battery be replaced.”

We were not comfortable allowing someone to use a laptop with this situation so we replaced the batteries.

So something with the make or manufacture of laptop style batteries is causing this among some portable electronic devices.

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Elly, Nibbled To Death By Ducks, FL Jack, woody

I would be curious if anyone tried removing flash from windows 10 and then re-enabling it in order to fix the situation.

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Hey folks, I’m not seeing an August service stack update for server 2012r2 in WSUS. I triple checked just to be sure but not seeing one.

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