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[SOLVED] Plagued by Windows 10 problems

Thanks again for your help. I've installed the update 'Hide' option for this issue and submitted a donation to sysnative. We'll see whether and how how Microsoft responds to this sreios issue. Go well.
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- Post #21
- Mar 5, 2024
- Forum: Windows 10
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[SOLVED] Plagued by Windows 10 problems

Amazing!!!! Out of sheer curiosity, while I had my VPN App running, I tried Windows Update and, HEY PRESTO!! It appears that my PC was set to its current geographic location (I moved to another country since the original Windows purchase) and, when the VPN is set to either US or Australia, the...
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- Post #19
- Mar 5, 2024
- Forum: Windows 10
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[SOLVED] Plagued by Windows 10 problems

Still stranded! After yesterday's FIRST result and the Update Troubleshooter giving false hope, I reverted to the SFC & dism routines but still no success. Both sfc and dism indicate widows is error free. Frustration overload,
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- Post #18
- Mar 4, 2024
- Forum: Windows 10
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[SOLVED] Plagued by Windows 10 problems

Further update after today's FRST attempts attached
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- Post #16
- Mar 4, 2024
- Forum: Windows 10
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[SOLVED] Plagued by Windows 10 problems

I hope this gives the information needed
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- Post #15
- Mar 3, 2024
- Forum: Windows 10
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[SOLVED] Plagued by Windows 10 problems

I'm not sure that i correctly understood what you meant by "run those commands from FRST instead". This is what I did: (i) Loaded your file 'fixlist.txt' to the directory location of FRST64.exe and selected the Scan button, (ii) attached resultant .txt files. The contents are beyond my level of...
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- Post #13
- Mar 2, 2024
- Forum: Windows 10
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[SOLVED] Plagued by Windows 10 problems

For some reason the BITS.txt file is empty (I changed the %userprofile% command to c:\users\msi as the %...% format gave a command error).
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- Post #11
- Feb 29, 2024
- Forum: Windows 10
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[SOLVED] Plagued by Windows 10 problems

sc start BITS showed no error, no response actually. Here's the response from Windows Update: I do appreciate your tenacity and assistance, hopeful of getting to the bottom of this ridiculous fault.
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- Post #9
- Feb 29, 2024
- Forum: Windows 10
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[SOLVED] Plagued by Windows 10 problems

FRST64 Run completed log file attached
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- Post #7
- Feb 29, 2024
- Forum: Windows 10
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[SOLVED] Plagued by Windows 10 problems

It looks like you still have Malwarebytes Firewall installed AFAIK I only have the Malwarebytes Windows Firewall Control app, not the actual Antivirus app. I installed it because the Windows Security environment is diabolically difficult to manage for a layman like me. I'll keep your...
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- Post #6
- Feb 29, 2024
- Forum: Windows 10
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[SOLVED] Plagued by Windows 10 problems

After loggin in it mysteriously appeared! :confused:
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- Post #4
- Feb 29, 2024
- Forum: Windows 10
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[SOLVED] Plagued by Windows 10 problems

Thanks for this, I've applied the FRST.exe tool but can't see where I attach the FRST.txt and FRST64.txt There doesn't appear to be an icon in the above selection that would attache the files
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- Post #3
- Feb 29, 2024
- Forum: Windows 10
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[SOLVED] Plagued by Windows 10 problems

Hi, I hope you can point me in the right direction. My problem involves what appears at the core is the inability to connect to the Windows (and Windows Store) Update Service. The problems seem to have resulted from an exercise I conducted in late 2023 to find a replacement for my Checkpoint...
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- Feb 22, 2024
- Replies: 21
- Forum: Windows 10

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