Recent content by martinlest

The instructions seem to show that you do exactly that? I've made the image now, at any rate. Thanks (both) for the advice.. over the next day or two I will 'digest' what you have said and make a restore/boot media, but I imagine it's going to be pretty much as it was with Macrium :-)

Ah, I see. My memory is that I did do that with Macrium, but it was many years ago, I may well have forgotten... I'll have a go tomorrow at making the image - I have the Hasleo software now.

Well, I didn't know that, although the 'Windows 7' epithet caused me a raised eyebrow (or two!). What does that mean exactly, in practice though; that a restore will likely not work? I could certainly use Macrium instead - I have had it on my PC for years and have made backups before. My...

Not 100% confident about what I have read browsing the internet, so may I ask here (my go-to site for many years for Windows questions)... My PC (for flight sim only, in essence) is Windows 10/Windows 11 dual-boot. I lately installed all my software onto Windows 11 and the Windows 10 drive is...

Yes, I have been doing that - after a while the manually-added exclusions will cover everything I need, so that I won't have the slight annoyance of these constant (at the moment) false positives.

Hmmm... JFYI.. BitDefender has spent its first few hours active on my PC by 'disinfecting' it of my precious and perfectly harmless vbs files (many of which took me hours, if not days to write and perfect!). Fortunately, it isn't hard to restore them and programme exceptions.

Exactly the same here!

I'll go with the free version for now (not a fan of annual subscription purchases). I shouldn't tempt fate by saying so, but the last time I had any issues with malware or viruses must be over 15 years ago. I am careful, fairly 'savvy' (I like to think!) and the PC in question, being used for...

Yes, a shame. As I said, I let 'Everything' search for any remnants and Revo to clear the registry: about as 'clean' as I am going to get it, I think. The Defender problem looks to be a known bug - I have wasted a lot of time trying to fix it, to no avail. It works fine on the Windows 10 part of...

(y).. Yes, BitDefender and Malwarebytes look good. I have the setup.exe for the former, but haven't installed it yet. Seems so (as per my previous post). :rolleyes:

Yes, I did use the advanced option. It seems that the blank Windows Security screen is a very common problem - I have spent an hour reading through threads and it seems that it is a Windows 11 bug. Thousands of people, according to Microsoft agent, have been afffected, in 23H2. I have tried...

Some advance: having found and deleted many Avira registry entries in safe mode (as above), I was able to reinstall te Avira Security - and then delete it with Revo. Unfortunately, Windows Defender still doesn't work: the window opens witrh just the shield logo and closes after about half a...

Thank you, but I'm afraid that is all a bit 'above my pay grade'. I managed to delete remaining Avira registry entries by using msconfig/selective startup, but no change to Defender as a result.

Yes, I should have used Revo - I do have it. Too late now of course. I am not going to reimage the PC or take drastic measures. I have just spent two days moving my flight simulator setup from Windows 10 to Windows 11! I shall probably just install BitDefender and leave it at that. There are no...

.. if I ever get it working again :unsure:. I have tried a repair, then a reset and reinstalled via 'Terminal' (Powershell); then run sfc... but although the Defender Firewall seems OK, Windows Security (Defender) still just brings up that blank page + logo... nothing happens and there are no...