Things improve! I have just uninstalled Norton Ultra to replace it with the windows 10 builtins; previous experience has made this seem hard and risky. Hopefully not now it would seem.
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Mucking around until it breaks
This took a lot of time, I wanted to reduce the occurrence of my BSOD “UNEXPECTED STORE EXCEPTION“. This involved reinstalling my anti-virus product, changing it’s passwords and then repairing my fingerprint reader driver as a result of a Code 19 error on my fingerprint reader. I then worked through the steps suggested here. This…
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W10. Home vs Pro?
What’s the difference between W10 Home & Pro? Here are my notes?
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Skype & Windows 10 (Versions)
I originally wrote this in 2018, the solution to the system freeze was to use a W10 reset function. I had to revisit Skype & W10 in May 2020. 2020 This time round I originally identified a problem as Skype failing to open the video window, or failing to write it to the screen. I…
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Restore Points for W10
This looks pretty simple.
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SCP Toolkit.
This i.e. SCP Toolkit can really muck up your config and with windows 10 can be hard to fix since you cannot force a safe boot from a hard reboot. They say “ScpToolkit is a free Windows Driver and XInput Wrapper for Sony DualShock 3/4 Controllers”.
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New Home IT
Originally written on the death of my first XP system. My problems were compounded when I moved and with the expiry of Windows XP, I need to move my desktop systems on, to Laptops it seems! 😎
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