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One HP laptop needed the webcam to be disabled, so face and fingerprint work. My more recent ASUS laptop, without fingerprint reader, continues to work fine in the dark without disabling the webcam device. Strange.

I have not had any success using the registry method with MR8.

Revo Pro takes the process a step further. Install the program from within Revo Pro. During the process it makes a record of all files and registry entries added/updated during the process. Then when an uninstall is performed from Revo all these are removed/restored.

Try running HD Tune, its free, on both PC's to see if the disk performance is significantly different.

You are likely experiencing bit-rot on the SSD where cells loose their charge and it takes longer to read data from those cells. This happens when a cell has not been written to for a long time. Keeping the battery charged and/or turning on the laptop will not correct the situation. Two...

Trying to tame this beast on the latest 24h2 26100.4061. RMB only gives this: On another PC, same version, I have tried all the tricks, .bat files to get Spotlight active for the Background (no icon and only the bais 4 photos). It is only active for the lock screen. What an pile.

The Event Log was helpful when I had a networking issue between the Intel driver and the OEM router/modem. It allowed the conflict to be identified/isolated so that the appropriate pressure could be applied to the OEM to replace the device. Yes a rare situation.

Web site omission. The link provided goes to that specific utility.

Portable SSD are fine for backup purposes even though bit-rot is real. Bit-rot occurs when the charge in a cell drops because of write inactivity. Reading the data or powering on the drive is not enough to prevent this happening. Writing restores the cells. Do the following to keep you drive in...

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Performed the updated and ran my usual scans and cleanup scripts. All looked goo, but then noticed that Copilot was no longer installed. Not sure if this was from the WU or the scripts. Not worth doing a system restore to identify when it was removed. Anyway, just reinstalled it from the MS store.

Like everything in life there are trade-offs. The clone approach above keeps the functionality stable and should be a fairly fast process but retains all the baggage, bloat, and put off the migration to Win 11. The fresh start will take longer but allows an inventory of programs to be...

@hcccs I assume you are booting from the SSD. Over time the capacitive charge of the cells, that contain data, loose some charge. This results in slower read times, and could be contributing to your slow boot time. See this discussion for more detail. One way of "refreshing" the boot drive...

I have replaced the battery in my HP laptop twice so far with a non-HP battery from an agent in Canada but likely sourced from China. They have performed just as well as the original. The original was replaced when it would only hold the charge for about 50%. The first replacement lasted as long...

Did a first time trial run of HSB. Some observations: 1. Would like to be able to operate in full screen for the main program and the sub menu windows. 2. Credentials for a network attached Windows PC that is identified as "Joe User joe.user@outlook.com" requires username as Joe User, not...