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Are we back where we started? No error? No foul? No changes? No proposed changes? No panic? No impending doom?

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File Explorer Current Information

For now, the following advanced settings are no longer available:

1. Always show icons, never thumbnails. (default off)
2. Display file icon on thumbnail. (default on)
3. Display file size information in folder tips. (default on)
4. Hide folder merge conflicts. (default on)
5. Hide protected operating system files (Recommended). (default on)
6. Show drive letters. (default on)
7. Show encrypted or compressed NTFS files in color. (default off)
8. Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items. (default on)
9. Use Sharing Wizard (Recommended). (default on)

These options are no longer listed ion Folder Options, but they can be changed using the Windows Registry.

Source:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/06/16/microsoft-is-removing-some-folder-options-in-windows-11/

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262. When using DOS commands, switches may be used as part of the command. A switch is a forward slash (/) followed by a letter; a switch includes the slash and the letter. “A switch modifies the way MS-DOS carries out a command.”

Source:
Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft MS-DOS 6 Concise User’s Guide, 1993.

In this example, /s is the switch that denotes include sub-directories.

XCOPY C:\Users\Public\Pictures /s E:\Test\Pictures\

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I used the “Run” command. File Explorer has taken a step backward.

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261. If you decide to start a big hunka-hunka computer project, consider starting earlier in the week so you can get help during regular hours if you have difficulties.

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“In computer engineering, computer architecture is a description of the structure of a computer system made from component parts.”

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_architecture

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The file folders: Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, and Videos are actual file folders that exist for each user profile. If there are user personal data in these file folders, the file folders are necessary.

I find the Library tedious, but have left it in place. On at least one occasion, I managed to have duplicates of Library entries and managed to delete them (without deleting my necessary file folders associated with the Library entries.) I strongly suspect that the average user is confused by junction-point. Inside the average user Documents Folder, there is something that looks like this:

These are not folders and they will never open; however, they confuse the heckies out of the average user:
My Music
My Pictures
My Videos

In answer to your question, I would consider “the Home folder, the Quick Access folder, the “Libraries Folders” Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures and Videos” changes to be cosmetic, but difficult for the average user. Deleting or moving files or changing folder names in this context is beyond the scope of the average user. User profile data would remain intact, but presentation would change.

I have, no doubt, botched my argument several times in the above paragraphs. The user profile personal data would remain intact regardless of changes made to the shell.

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Some computer changes are cosmetic in nature; other computer changes are structural in nature. This on-off switch is cosmetic and can be changed at will or as needed or not needed. Sooooo, go play with it and see what it will or won’t do, and how you like it or don’t like it.

Cosmetic you get to change; structural you don’t get to change.

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260. Be persistent and patient in solving your computer challenges. What you don’t see as a solution one day, you may see as a solution the next day.

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259. Remember that computer experts are sometimes wrong. If you’re not sure about an answer you have received, it’s a good plan to ask for a second opinion or an alternate method.

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258. Here’s your challenge: Determine what tasks you want to perform with your computer and how to perform those tasks

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Try this procedure:

• Open an administrative command prompt (CMD)
• Type: DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
• Reboot

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https://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB5027573

The only files I see for KB5027373 are dynamic files with .cab extensions:

As folks say around here: Do what?

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“TotalAV Antivirus Pro includes the real-time protection component missing from its free edition, but even with that feature restored it won’t challenge the top competitors.”

Source with further information and other antivirus review links (2021):
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/totalav-essential-antivirus

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