Recent content by Shambles Bank

I use CCleaner and I don't have any problems with it. But then I also use the onboard Windows Storage cleanup utility alongside it. In the last 24 hours (at time of posting), I've just discovered MS's own PC Manager App in the Microsoft Store. I didn't even know it existed. Initially, I...

Absolutely! For the same reasons as I decided to choose the EU DMA option so I don't have to put up with that pile of garbage known as Edge any longer and also why I use O&O ShutUp! to disable all of the telemetry guff. It's made my PC a much nicer experience. It's called helping yourself. I...

I’ve uninstalled Edge on both my desktop and laptop using the EU Region change method and it hasn’t broken anything at all. Edge also doesn’t get reinstalled during updates if you use the EU DMA method because MS aren’t allowed to break anything. I’m genuinely baffled why anyone wouldn’t want to...

Just uninstalling Edge (using OOBE Region swap method) and uninstalling Copilot saved me almost 10Gb of hard disk space. I didn’t/don’t need that junk anyway.

My PC all updated to 8973 without any issues, though it sat on 7 percent for around 35 seconds and it took no less than 4 restarts, but it all went ok and everything still works. Carried out a Temporary Files cleanup straight after. Checked O&O ShutUp!, no changes. All seems good.

I had a similar issue when I bought a TP-Link UE302C USB C to Ethernet adapter for my PC. It wasn't reaching its full download speed potential and I couldn't work out why. Eventually I discovered that by going into the Network Ethernet change settings for the Realtek 2.5 Gb E Family Controller...

Having read through this thread, I'd have already saved all of my files/programs/documents etc and carried out a full PC reset with a fresh copy of Windows. You could also then if you wished, take the opportunity to set up your device to a European Digital Markets Act country (such as Ireland...

I honestly think the DriverStore Explorer program is one of the best I've used. To recover over 2gb of space just by deleting nearly 120 duplicate drivers, is an absolute bonus.

I tried Windows Troubleshooter to see if it would sort out the update problem. It didn't. I didn't bother investigating any further, I just downloaded the 8894 package from the MS Catalogue and it then updated without any issue. I genuinely have no idea why the normal update route wouldn't...

I had this optional 26200.8894 keep popping up on the updates on my MSI laptop but it would fail to install and just kept popping up with the error code. In the end, I downloaded the package from the MS Catalogue and it updated without a problem. I probably didn't even need to worry about it...

Well, after running the program on my desktop and it finding 40 duplicate drivers taking up almost 600mb, I then ran it on my MSI laptop. The result of that, was 117 duplicate drivers that amounted to 2.2Gb. I literally cannot understand why there were so many duplicates, but there it is. I had...

Same here. No version later than 2605.14 on MS Store for me either. I'm not downloading it from anywhere else either. This being said, MSI Center for instance is currently on 2.0.72.0 on the MSI website, but on MSI Store, it's still on the previous version. Indeed there are a few more examples...

I've never used Driver Store Explorer before so I thought I'd give it a bash. It found 40 duplicate drivers at almost 600mb and so I let it do it's thing and it purged them. Many of them were old network drivers. There's still stuff there from old VPN providers I've used in the past so I may...

And some of the stuff in bank safety deposit boxes hasn't always come by legally. That's why on some of these jobs, the people who have lost stuff can't go to the police and complain for obvious reasons. It's called Karma.

It was there in my update list, I updated. I don't have a Dell, it did it's thing, it updated, everything still works, I don't care, it's just an update.