Recent content by Fishmill

Type "system restore" into the search box; that should lead you there. No telling how much space it is using. Could be 10 or 20 gb, but you can control the maximum.

77 used; 39 available; not time to panic yet. How much of the 77 is taken up by System Restore?

How did you determine you had 186,000 bookmarks rather than 187,000? Did you find them in some particular folder?

Check the number of System Restore points that have been made. They are typically a GB or larger in size, but you can control how much space you are willing to allocate to them. I recently discovered that my allocation amount was about 25 GB...much more than I thought I had set it at. Within...

"More than one external drive"? To each external drive in separate operations? Or to one and then copy that to another? Using imaging or not? What software do you have in mind?

It might boot, but the longer term issue is how well it would work in the hours or months after that. Standard advice is to not do that and to instead do a clean install of Windows to the new PC, followed by reinstallation of your programs. That's usually a major pain, so you get to decide if...

You might consider making a new full image file just BEFORE accepting Windows Updates. If not more often.

Windows has built in capabilities, but they can be finicky. Microsoft encourages you to look elsewhere. "Backup" is a rather vague term. As you've hinted at, I'd try to divide it into 2 categories: backup of individual personal files and backup of your "system" (Windows and installed...

Most anything other than hardware replacement can be done remotely. But it would be on you to find and trust someone who could do it. Dell has presumably already done that, according to your earlier posts in this thread. Without success. We don't know at this moment what is going inside the...

You chose near the bottom of the Dell barrel when you bought it....for whatever reason. Minimum RAM; spinning hard drive rather than SSD; i3 Intel CPU rather than i5 or i7, etc. Even if you were knowledgeable and did a good job of maintenance, you would be hindered by the spinning hard drive...

CPU and 3 to 8 percent means that is the load on the CPU at that moment, very low. Over 90 percent not used. Memory 90 percent means 90 percent in use; 10 remaining. Not surprising. Right now, my Windows 11 PC is under a very light load and I'm using 12 gb of memory out of 32 total. The more...

The built in graphics of the current generation of Intel desktop processors is a lot better than Iris Xe. I don't know if your use pattern would find that advantageous. If you are satisfied with the graphics of your current all in one, you'd certainly be more than satisfied with the current...

Take a look at Dell EBT2250. In their "Tower Plus" series. https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-desktop-computers/dell-tower-plus/spd/dell-ebt2250-desktop https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-desktop-computers/dell-tower-plus/spd/dell-ebt2250-desktop/useebt2250wcto01?redirectTo=SOC It's a...

Have you deliberately rejected all other means of recovery from such problems?

You say Windows is working "fairly well". Wondering how severe your current problems are? If you had a recovery USB drive right now, would you use it?