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I finally got it working putting together several sets of suggestions I found on the Internet. In case someone else has a problem with Google Drive for Windows here are the steps I took to get it working again:

1. Click Settings > Preferences. Click the gear icon and click Disconnect Account.

2. Uninstall Drive for Desktop.

3. Delete the My Drive folder in C:\users\ivan and create a new folder with a different name.

4. Go online to drive.google.com and delete the Computers folder.

5. Reinstall Drive for Desktop.

6. Tell it where the new folder I created in step 3 is.

7. Go to settings, preferences, Google Drive Folders from Drive on the left side and change it from Stream Files to Mirror Files.

8. Add back the folders to be synced.

Thanks for the suggestion but it is a desktop and the fast startup is disabled. I always keep it disabled because it has caused a problem when I restore a disk image.

[WSIHipschman]

Here is the message I get from Xplorer2 when I try to shred a file.

I’m not sure the screen shot is showing in this post. The message I get is “Shredding files on SSD media doesn’t make sense; it is ineffective and reduces the write life of your drive. Continue with shredding anyway?”

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Thanks for all the replies. In response to Paul T, I am concerned because I have two separate programs which are telling me that I have SSDs rather than hard drives. The Xplorer2 file manager has a file shredding utility which warns me that shredding files on SSD media doesn’t make sense and is ineffective. I posted on their forum and they have not had anyone else report this.

I confess that I just tried my image backup program again and this time it did not issue a warning about restoring an image to an SSD, maybe the previous time just a glitch but I’ll try again to reproduce it. Anyway, here is the information on the drives. I notice it doesn’t name the manufacturer, but it is Western Digital.

Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model WDC WD20EZAZ-00GGJB0
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 4
SCSI Bus 1
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 1.82 TB (2,000,396,321,280 bytes)
Total Cylinders 243,201
Total Sectors 3,907,024,065
Total Tracks 62,016,255
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #1, Partition #0
Partition Size 100.00 MB (104,857,600 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 1,048,576 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #1
Partition Size 885.84 GB (951,168,592,384 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 122,683,392 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #2
Partition Size 976.56 GB (1,048,574,951,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 951,292,264,448 bytes
Partition Disk #1, Partition #3
Partition Size 505.00 MB (529,530,880 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 1,999,868,264,448 bytes

Description Disk drive
Manufacturer (Standard disk drives)
Model WDC WD20EZAZ-00GGJB0
Bytes/Sector 512
Media Loaded Yes
Media Type Fixed hard disk
Partitions 4
SCSI Bus 0
SCSI Logical Unit 0
SCSI Port 0
SCSI Target ID 0
Sectors/Track 63
Size 1.82 TB (2,000,396,321,280 bytes)
Total Cylinders 243,201
Total Sectors 3,907,024,065
Total Tracks 62,016,255
Tracks/Cylinder 255
Partition Disk #0, Partition #0
Partition Size 100.00 MB (104,857,600 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 1,048,576 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #1
Partition Size 885.84 GB (951,168,592,384 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 122,683,392 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #2
Partition Size 976.56 GB (1,048,574,951,424 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 951,292,264,448 bytes
Partition Disk #0, Partition #3
Partition Size 505.00 MB (529,530,880 bytes)
Partition Starting Offset 1,999,868,264,448 bytes

Thanks all for the responses, especially for the info on where to find a clean filezilla installer.

I may have stumbled into a good workaround for seeing the perfmon report: Type “computer” in the search field on the Task Bar and select the Computer Management App. Select Performance under System Tools from the tree on the left. From that point there seem to be several options, including Open Resouce Monitor, which show various graphs and reports.

Thanks again to both of you for the suggestions. I have been playing more with the on-line properties dialog and have found some short cuts which allow me to force inheritance with  a lot fewer clicks. This will make it feasible to do what I need manually so I’ll just do it that way.

Thanks to both of you for the replies.

Rick, I am a rather cautious person and even though the programs you listed are probably safe, I was hoping to do this without automated registry edits or installing unproven software. If I can’t I will try one of them.

Anonymous: I just tried that. The inheritance goes for a while and then hits one of several folders where it stops with the error shown in Error.png (attached). If I look at the folder properties I find that it apparently has no owner, i.e. the attempt to have it inherit ownership failed. I can fix the folder manually, but then I still end up having do the same with every file in it. If I fix all those files I just get the same kind of error with another folder. There are too many to do them all manually.

IHip, did you uninstall all the Canon Lide 110 material before re-installing?

No. But in the process of installing the new drives it put up a message saying “uninstalling old drivers.”

Installing the latest drivers for the Canon scanner did not resolve the problem. I’ll keep looking for an answer, but for now I think I’ve exhausted all my possible solutions.

I do have Greenshot (a screen capture program) installed and it does sit in the system tray. I have the latest version and it has worked perfectly.

I also have a Canon LIDE 110 scanner which I always keep plugged in to a USB port. It does occasionally fail with a connection failure in the midst of scanning. In response to your suggestion I have installed the latest driver from Canon (I did have an older version) and will post later to report if that helps.

No other (driver?) updates listed, or failed updates?

The only other failure in the Reliability Monitor is svchost.exe_stisvc.

I haven’t used the Reliability Monitor before. There was nothing related to graphics or Chrome. Interestingly and unrelated, it shows multiple instances of Keepass, my password manager, crashing even though it has never had a problem. The Chrome crashes do not happen while using Keepass to enter a password.

Have you tried using another browser with these same web sites? What happened with for example with Firefox or MS Internet Explorer?

Unfortunately there is no consistency to what sites crash Chrome. If I go back to the same page that was active when Chrome crashed it sometimes crashes again, but usually it doesn’t. When I get sick of Chrome’s crashed I occasionally switch to Edge and it hasn’t crashed yet.

It’s possible that something like ‘bad’ video drivers are behind this, what graphics card or CPU/motherboard chipset do you have?

My PC has an Intel Core i5-4570 processor with built in graphics running on a Gigabyte motherboard. There is no separate graphics card. Is it likely that I need new drivers for the processor?