Recent content by PMB

With a 1TB boot device I think I will fade out long before the device fills up.

I have from time to time tried to make sense out of event viewer. I start looking, narrowing my time frame down to a particular event, and hours later I've made no progress. I don't think that event viewer has ever enlightened me to the source of an issue. I just plain don't understand it. There...

I have been plagued for years with that merry little tinkle moments after Windows has finished boot up. It is the same sound I get if I mistakenly jiggle a USB cable and temporarily drop a device. But I can't track it down. I admit I have many USB connected devices, of varying ages. I can't see...

The older HDD I bought in March 2019 as so I am thinking I need to be prepared for when it gives me trouble. It is a G-Technology 16TB G-RAID Removable Thunderbolt 3 connected to a USB 3.2 Gen 2 10 GB/s with a compatible USB cable that came with the drive Type-C to Type-C. This box has a pair of...

I am new to Robocopy and trying to learn as I go. I have two external USB connected hard disk drives, E: is a 10 TB (7.2 TB capacity) drive with 1.96 TB used space, G: is a 12 TB (10.9 TB capacity) drive and is new. The E: drive is 6 years old and I want to replicate the filesystem from E: to G...

Thanks. I had found this link and yes, it does describe in more detail what I was looking for. I guess it also made me wonder what else is possible. It's a case of I don't know what I don't know. I was hoping to find more context around this subject. I was surprised that I couldn't find a least...

Hi. I am trying to learn about Windows batch files and I am looking for some more complete documentation. I have found coding examples for pulling substrings out of longer strings and saving them in environment variables. See below example which demonstrates the substring syntax to extract the...

Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.26100.3194] (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Windows\System32>DISM /Online /Get-OSUninstallWindow Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool Version: 10.0.26100.1150 Image Version: 10.0.26100.3194 Uninstall Window : 10 The operation...

Hi, first post here. I had been holding off on the Windows 11 24H2 because I have seen numerous posts (elsewhere) regarding ACM and problems with ICC profile generation. I was waiting until that seemed to settle down. But this past week 24H2 crept into my system (uninvited). I have a two...