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The other and possibly more common reason in this age of “cheap stuff from Amazon” – you’re using a charger that can’t supply the wattage your laptop needs to run and to charge at the same time.

If your original charger specs out at 90 watts, that $10 replacement that says it delivers 60 watts *might* deliver enough juice to keep your laptop running, but it sure won’t charge the battery, or at least not at any meaningful rate.

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EstherD

Just to clarify:  after a reboot, you login, and then the machine just sits there, correct?

NOTHING is running, right?

No VPNs, no streaming services, no torrents, no browsers, no web servers, just dead network silence?

What’s the primary purpose for this PC?

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Cybertooth, satrow

Oh, I agree – but don’t blame GoDaddy for selling the cheaper O365 packages. (I’m sure they’re not the only ones doing so – Microsoft certainly “sells” the same garbage directly.)

Microsoft determines the feature set, right?

The biggest difference: access speeds are slower to the cloud, and you have less control over its operation than you did with the mainframe of yore.

Susan, you’re just looking at the difference between an Enterprise (E5) plan and an individual one (GoDaddy) – sort of like comparing Windows 10 Home to the Enterprise version.

One quick take-away from this thread (and I’m figuratively looking in the mirror while I type this) – ALWAYS give the complete hardware and software picture when initially presenting the issue.

It’s very easy to let our own biases control the information we present; I probably wouldn’t have initially mentioned the existence of the separate (and later determined to be dying) data drive if I were Cybertooth – after all, it looked like something Windows-related, and that was certainly confined to the boot SSD, right?

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Bill C., Cybertooth, satrow

You can also pin sites to your taskbar in Edge, then open the folder for the taskbar and move them to your Desktop.

That folder is C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar

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MrJimPhelps

Time to make a fresh data backup (if you don’t have one) & reinstall from scratch.

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BobbyB, Cybertooth

When you copied to the new SSD did you expand the C: drive to use the additional space?

When the system is running sluggishly, do you have any free space on the C: drive?

We’re running WSUS on Server 2016 in a pretty homogeneous Intel-based environment. We have a mix of Windows 7 & Windows 10 (approx. 100 PCs) and 60+ servers/VMs running 2008 R2, 2012, 2012 R2, and 2016.

WSUS is working fine for us.

Just a data point, not fan/hate mail.

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ch100

Windows 10 FaaS

(Failure as a Service)

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Cybertooth, Elly, HiFlyer

If it means I see fewer Watson commercials, it’s a HUGE win.

rc primak wrote:

And yet, in the real world, no crashes on the highway which can be traced to hacked cars. Still nothing but Proof of Concept and news story stunts. All your examples were staged stunts.

A successful hack attack wouldn’t be obvious; you’ll just have a dead driver in a “typical” accident.

If I help you cross the median and meet an oncoming truck, will anyone ever consider that you might not have been attempting suicide?

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JCCWsusser

I pay cash, have no credit card, and have two bank accounts. The one I use for shopping online and the monthly bills like electricity, insurrance etc. It has no overdraft credit and always only holds the money needed for a 1-month interval at max. It gets filled up by a second bank account that holds a higher reserve but has no online access.

When you say your bank account “has no online access,” do you mean that the bank itself does not offer online access for your account, or that you haven’t configured it?

The former would be quite secure; the latter is a security hole big enough to drive a truck through.

4458469 installed here (1803) via WSUS the day it was offered. It’s still listed in “Installed Updates” but the “Installed On” date field is blank.

Build number is 17134.286.

Strange.

Same version at home pulling updates straight from MS shows the expected Build number of 17134.319, and the “Installed On” date field is populated with yesterday’s date.

(Win 10 Pro at both sites.)

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woody