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Chkdsk is – at current patch versions as of today – perfectly safe and sometimes needed for use on SSD’s.   There was a kerfluffle a few months ago with a bad patch, assuming one has patched beyond that it’s good to go.

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One more thing to try before I recommend the reset option:

Run the checkdisk utility and reboot to force a C: drive check. The command is:

chkdsk c: /f

You’ll be asked if you want to run this on the next boot cycle, answer Yes.

Reboot, let chkdsk run by NOT touching any keys.

If the above fails, I would recommend a repair install. Short step version is download the latest ISO for your version (or higher) of Windows 10 or 11 and run the setup from your profiles desktop (NOT from booting from BIOS onto the install media.) Choose to keep your files and programs. It will restore everything and keep your stuff intact.

If you need more info about that idea, let us know!

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mpw

The securityhealthsystray in your startup is part of Windows Defender.

The odd looking entry in your second screenshot = I have no idea. Looks suspicious. I would keep it disabled.

Given your computers name change, I suggest wiping the old VSS snapshots. This command will do the task nicely:

vssadmin delete shadows /for=C: /all

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mpw

Can you try that command again?  My apologies for including the cmd prompt in front of it in my illustration.   

Just use:

vssadmin list shadowstorage

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mpw

c:\> shutdown /r /c “One hopes this is not the end of Fred’s story.”

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MHCLV941

What’s the output from an elevated CMD prompt with this function? (Similar to the one you screenshotted but different.)

c:\>vssadmin list shadowstorage

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mpw

If you open System Properties and view the System Protection tab, do you see any repeated or orphaned drives?  (A common issue when cloning or restoring.)

If so, highlight them and clear them.  They should disappear if successful.

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Well . . .  that’s super annoying!  A paid subscription, personal, family, or business, should be free of any advertisements in my humble opinion.

I would totally tolerate it for a free product – devs have to make a living somehow.

Then again, this is also starting to happen in paid (full retail) editions of other things like the OS.  🙁

Not liking this bright new future much.

 

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I have never seen this particular popup from any of my or my clients Office 365 edition software. (A mix of E3, E5, and some business standard and premium editions.)

Are you willing to let us know which version / edition of the subscription plan you are using to license the Office applications?  Is is a personal or family paid plan?  Or the “Free” edition?

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The Files GitHub page offers a “sideload” download, which bypasses the MS Store but still installs in the “UWP App” mode.  That process also requires the user to enable developer mode in Windows Settings.

There does not appear to be a traditional installer.

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PowerToys has been part of my new system install process for years.

A good landing page to bookmark for this set of tools is the release list, which always shows the latest version on top.  (the article linked directly to a previous version)

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/releases

 

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Lance Whitney

In native GP, even with the latest official ADMX updates, we can only restrict read/write on a per user basis, or read/write/executable on an entire client machine basis (all users on that workstation.)

As of yet, we don’t have a way to edit the list of executables.  There are third party addons, but none I am able to recommend here.

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If the above excellent suggestions above don’t help, there is one more odd detail I’ve run into in the past where network shares don’t behave in Batch File access under an admin account:

Uncheck the option to “Run with highest privileges.”

You may have to adjust permissions on other folders the admin/user account used by the batch file needs to access.

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Likely that the account that’s running the task scheduler job does not have permissions to view or access the network share.  Unless you specified a user account, it’s using the local machine system account by default.

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I feel the best solution is for you to upgrade your subscription to the Family plan, and invite your spouse to the plan so they can have their own license and OneDrive file storage.  It’s about a $30 per year difference in price, but you can get it much cheaper if you watch for sales.  HINT:  you can also find legit discounted subscription codes and stack them to get multi-year subscriptions and save quite a lot of money.

@peterdeegan described how to do that legitimately here:

https://www.askwoody.com/newsletter/a-sweetheart-of-a-patching-month/#microsoft-365

 

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