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Do you need to make 1 for each computer? or can a recovery drive be used on any Windows 10 computer if it is the right version?

I use Windows 98% of the time, but have long had Ubuntu or another flavour of Linux installed on an old notebook. Just to play with, use now and again.
There are some excellent programs available free in Ubuntu that have features you need to pay for in Windows.
A few times it has “saved my bacon”, when a USB has been unreadable for some reason in Windows, Linux has always read it.

Thanks for your reply. I have done a complete reinstall since that time, because the computer was getting very slow etc. Got rid of several programs that were not used etc, goes much faster.
The same thing did happen again after that, and I fixed it by doing a repair install of the Foxit preview handler used to preview pdf files in Outlook.
Maybe that was the cause of the problem always……I’ll never know.

Thanks Joe. I got up this morning and thought well I’ll give it a try. Uninstalled Foxit using Revo Uninstaller and installed Adobe Reader.
The problem has gone, all actions can complete no problem.
The Foxit was a new version, just been out a few days, so maybe a bug in it. Strange that Nitro has the same problem.
Really appreciate your advice.

I haven’t, but I’m not sure it would work. I have installed FreeCommander as an alternative file viewer since my first post above, although it is rather different to use than Explorer. Using that I can preview, rename, copy or delete pdf’s fine. Also tried uninstalling/ reinstalling Foxit again- no change.
It would seem to be a Windows problem rather than a problem with the pdf software.
Also done sfc /scannow, nothing found.
Is there any registry setting that could get corrupted so that Windows doesn’t know which program runs the PDF files? When I tried NitroPDF, the whole computer would freeze for ages, had to use task manager to end process.
Last 2 options would be a repair install or clean install I suppose.
Thanks Joe