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AFAIK you can’t turn off the schedule without turning off file history – but why would you want to? Set it to once a day (the largest allowed interval, I think) and it will do its thing. You can always run it manually any time you like (if you don’t want to wait a day). It will never over-write anything, but only save changed copies. You can control the folders it monitors, and the files are easily recovered, and as they are stored in plain folders you can easily copy the history elsewhere, eg a USB dive that is only occasionally connected.

Note that it is not intended for backing up the OS.

I would not trust a Windows upgrade to not overwrite data on a connected external drive, so I’m with the OP in unplugging the drive except when in use. Too many stories of upgrades overwriting disks other than the system drive to trust with data I cannot afford to lose.

Having backups in the same physical location as the PC is also a disaster waiting to happen. What happens when your house burns down?

So, I’m 100% with you on this. The only thing is that this has been going on for a lot longer than Office 2016! I had a system on Windows 7 and Office 2010, and it is endemic to those versions as well.

Does this sound familiar? You are navigating around the file system and pointing at something with your mouse when… a fly-out prompt jumps up, obscuring the very information you were attempting to find! This is most prevalent on special file types like My Pictures.

Or how about this. You are editing a document using Word or Excel. You are using the Clipboard, when suddenly enhanced clipboard functions pop up in a mini-window. And you cannot ignore the stupid mini-window! It’s in the way, it won’t close, you have to select something from the “helpful” clipboard window. Your smooth and efficient editing process is disrupted by some programmer who “knows better” than you.

Arrrgh!! All this assistive tech started with the application tooltips, many years ago.

To close the mini-window just hit Escape.

1 Mine opens with a new file in less than 3 seconds. If your’s doesn’t there is something wrong with the setup.

3 Never happens to me. If it is, there’s something wrong with the Windows setup. Windows 10 runs faster on the same hardware than Windows 8.

These are mu experiences with my own PC at home and my PC at work. I’m not saying others are not seeing problems, but that they are fixable.

This is something I feel I should know. However, I’m just not sure….:(:

Can I do a bit-by-bit backup of my main 32-bit hard drive to a separate source, reformat the main drive to 64-bit, and then copy my backup to the (now) 64-bit drive and have everything still load and run properly?

Of course I could bite the bullet and do the reformat, then reload all my apps. But that’s pretty daunting.

This is probably a whole different question, but what app does the best job of a bit-for-bit backup? I’m told Windows 10 can do it. I used to use Ghost, but that was long ago, in a galaxy far, far away.

Thanks for any help/suggestions/recommendations.

foxaroni

32 bit vs 64 bit doesn’t refer to the format of your disk.

You are on the right track but there’s a couple of issues. In general you can’t simply backup and then restore applications, they must be installed from original media/files.

You can do an in-place upgrade but I strongly advise you to do a clean install on a freshly formatted drive. You will have to make certain you have backups of all data files like the content of Documents, Pictures, Music, Videos before you start as well as the media or files you will need to reload your software.

Good Luck

Browni is correct. In address, C:UsersDesktopAppDataLocalMicrosoftWindowsI NetCache , Desktop is the user. While I appreciate the time taken by cmptrgy, the fact remains Disk Cleaner is reporting occupying stuff that isn’t there.

There are a lot of reports around the web about Disk Cleaner reporting values that are incorrect.The consensus seems to be that it causes no problems.

That folder name suggests to me that there is a user called desktop on the pc :confused:

Or someone typed the entries instead of copy/pasting them!

Thanks Bundaburra but I’ve done that so many times along with the other ways that I mentioned earlier.

I did try it again and sure enough had the same problems with Photos and Edge. However, edge has NOT touched the *.pdf program that I use.

Fred

Fred,

Where are you opening the files from? Local or online?

As I stated in my #28 post “Method 2: Rename Microsoft Cortana System folder” at http://www.technicalnotes.org/disable-cortana-in-windows-10-completely/
seemed to work to stop Cortana.

BUT after renaming the Cortana folder as instructed multiple errors appeared in Event LogAdministrative Events each time Win10 started up (indeed Cortana didn’t show in Task Manager, but in this case the cure seems worse than the disease)..

Why is this a problem? There are always a stack of events logged because of missing options or files. It’s been that way for years and they cause no actual problem in Windows.

The only people that seem to be interested in them are the scammers that use the Event Viewer script.

I encourage working with h Webapps, In the sense of security. Recently heard about an Infection on office files. Office online and Gdocs are safe from such viruses :huh:

Trouble is that they are incomplete. It’s pointless and frustrating having half an application when you commonly use all of it.

I considered that but when you go there to download drivers realtek warns you:

“Audio drivers available for download from the Realtek website are general drivers for our audio ICs, and may not offer the customizations made by your system/motherboard manufacturer. To be sure you obtain the full features/customizations provided in your original audio product, please download the latest drivers from your system/motherboard manufacturer’s website.”

Should I not accredit what they say?

Yes, but the important word is “may”. They don’t say it will be a problem, only that is may.

After further pondering the headline, I think that my fundamental concern was that the phrase “as easily as” seemed misleading or nebulous. Perhaps the phrase “as well as” would have been a better choice.

That would be no good. It wouldn’t cause a bunch of people to go and tell everyone that will listen that their password are history and the world will end if they don’t use 200 character passwords with 100 non-printing characters. Which as far as I can figure out is the purpose of headlines.

Hi all

I’m using Word 2013 and have just now discovered that a few of my (long) existing documents has text which is configured to act as a collapsible menu (how they got in there, I’ve got no idea) and until a few days ago I had no idea what a collapsible menu even was.
Now, I know how to revert the text back to the way it was & get rid of the arrow, but whenever I disable the “collapsation” the “collapsation” the whole title loses its bold formatting and changes the font size. I can only change the ‘de-collapsation’ process wherever it appears in the document, does anybody know whether it’s possible (and how to) remove all instances of collapsation throughout the entire document simultaneously and without changing any existing formatting?

It sounds like you have the view set to Outline mode. Have a look at the left hand end of the View tab of the Ribbon.

I found out, like youse guys, awhile back that chkdsk is not a file finder; I learned to use tools like Piriform’s Recuva to recover deleted files, and I use FileSeek free [moved to Pro later] for finding folders/files and sometimes a text string within files.

Why would you think it is? That’s never been it’s purpose.

True, but with the all or nothing approach, if a bad patch borks your computer, it’ll be hard to fix since you can’t uninstall individual patches!

The simple answer is don’t install them. It’s worked for me for many years now.

The whole sentenece is an interpretation of what Microsoft actually announced. You need to read the article which contains the Microsoft statment.

Just did and it still doesn’t say patches will be forced on us, only that you either install all patches or no patches. I can still decide not to install them.