Jim Rockford

Great news. The command was successful if no error message. Without the Settings page to verify, you could open an app that normally...

I tried Option 3 and it seemed to work. I entered the command at an elevated run prompt and I received no feedback, negative or...

Option 2 would be for the same setting in option 1 if you wanted to try it instead. Options 3 and 4 use a group policy that override...

Thanks for this comprehensive discussion of Windows location services. I stopped by here after spending considerable time over on this...

I just tried turning location services off via settings, and the settings app crashed. In particular, when I went to Settings > Privacy...

First, many thanks for the issue root cause and fix. My CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal was over 224 GB and time to wifi was 4 - 5...

I just made an account to say THANK YOU to @Jim Rockford and everyone who helped him to go through this process. I had the identical...

I think I've got a better explanation of the difference between the two sizes: The larger size (report 197+ gigs) was dated 5/6/26...

The difference between the two reported sizes is because DB files can be sparse, or "holey". Meaning you ask Windows to reserve a...

I went ahead and ran the script using Power Shell running under PowerRun. Here is what happened: PS C:\>...

OK. I get it. Thanks! When I go to the Git Hub site and select download, the file has a .txt type, not a .ps1 type. Am I doing...

PowerRun exists for one reason, to open a CMD or PS window with TrustedInstaller rights. You can't tell the external difference between...

I'm not an admin, so I'm a bit hesitant to do as you describe above. If the risk of running this script is low, then I'll do it. Right...

Ah, OK. Here are the result of running the dir command in PowerRun: Directory of...

I ran an elevated command prompt and got the following results: C:\Windows\System32>dir...