Recent content by lettersquash

Hi guys, I'm asking about my partner's laptop (so not the data in my signature, but the following): Device name LAPTOP-EKQVLFOK Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1035G4 CPU @ 1.10GHz 1.50 GHz Installed RAM 4.00 GB (3.69 GB usable) Device ID ED485D3F-0C4D-4D2F-AE90-77DBE9865814...

Thanks, that solves the mystery - I began to wonder if I'd imagined it! Thanks also @dacrone and @das10 for those details on how to do this for various files. I've learned a few things. I asked the same question on the AutoHotkey forum, and they suggested I reinstall the AutoHotkey IDE...

Sorry, but this isn't the issue, as I explained. That routine changes the "default app", which is the one that launches a file of that file type. There should be at least two default apps (and certainly were in earlier versions of Windows), to say that a particular file is run/launched by one...

I distinctly remember setting default editors for some file types like scripts separately from the associated execution program, but I'm not sure how I did it, if it was in Win 7 or 10 and Microsoft has removed the feature. All I find now in the settings is "default application" for a file type. Has Microsoft...

That's fine now, it's automatically activated! Thanks again - this is a brilliant forum.

Yay, I can hardly believe it! I thought the first thing to do was post here from my 2nd L390 Thinkpad with the SSD swapped over. Thanks everyone who helped with this. I think I'd have bottled it without you. It was a bit nerve-wracking as it booted up, but it just did a bit of a system update...

Wow, that's kind of you, S. Is that to burn to a USB drive, like is it a bootable Windows (WinPE?) with Backupper - I saw that was one of their options to create. And would I need to put it as an option in the boot records in BIOS first, i.e. before any possible issue arises? I read the...

Thanks spapakons. Yeah, I'm basically doing a full backup of the whole disk, but there are two methods, cloning and making an image. I've done the latter, which I think is the same only compressed. Hard drive imaging vs. cloning: What's the difference? This is not for use as the system disk...

OK, I've got the new L390 - looks great - and preparing to swap my SSD from my old one to this new one. Sorry if this is all overkill, but I just want to take a belt-and-braces approach to this. I have created an image of my whole drive using Aomei Backupper, as well as some of the most...

Great stuff, cheers, this is looking like it's worth doing. I much appreciate your answer, thanks. It wasn't someone saying it can't be done, it was some warnings in the user manual, most likely just covering themselves anyway, and me getting hung up on details! PC problems make me very nervous...

Thanks - yeah looking again in the user manual, the shorter one just fits into a bracket so it fits the same as the long one. I also realised I was wrong about the memory - it isn't soldered. I was confusing it with the L390 non-Yoga, which opens to 180 degrees (never saw the point of that!)...

I've never quite got my head around how the licensing works. Presumably the licence is stored on the SSD, but does Windows check if the motherboard is the right one? I vaguely remember something about the Windows licence being registered to a particular motherboard. They will both be licenced...

No, that's what's different. I'm buying the same model of s/h laptop, but it has half the storage and a fresh installation. My thought was to save time and keep my bigger drive by taking the smaller drive out of the 'new' machine and replacing it with the bigger one from mine, complete with all...

That's interesting. I wonder how they knew what the issue was. Mine started reporting that there was no battery detected. The local shop changed the battery for a new one, to no avail, and ran a bunch of tests to analyse the system and hardware, and that failed to find anything. They said this...

Can you just swap your old/current SSD into another machine and boot it up, instead of starting from scratch with Windows and setting it all up the same? I know you can clone SSDs to swap to a bigger one. I'm not sure what issues there are with the Windows certificate, for instance - does it...