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I didn’t find it mentioned so here’s a tip: Use right-click + “Open link in new tab” (or pushing down on the center mouse scroll button) to open a new link from the list on the right (or anywhere else, for that matter). The usual left click replaces the page you are on with a new one, but it’s often convenient keep it immediately available in the original tab.

Probably everybody using WSL and Woody sites knows this, but maybe not. I suppose ancient tips like this should be under Tips for using the Lounge, so I’ll copy it and see if I can start a new topic.

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Elly

Thanks for the advice. With two active dogs, we get lots of outdoor walking, often in the local woods . . . we get less precipitation than you might think.

Smart and lucky to have the dogs, especially in (semi-)retirement. We have cats, and while they do go for walks with me it’s not the same as keeping up with a dog. Nice also to have a pleasant micro-climate. Good to know you’ve lucked into making some good choices and aren’t going to fade away in front of the computer!

As a pensioner with a small rural property in Slovenia, I must thank you for your term as editor with a friendly warning:
Go out for a walk around your farm or area every day! It might be uncomfortable out there in the Pacific rain forest, but do it. Especially in winter, it’s too easy to miss the rare sunny spells while you check e-mails and follow all the links on your favourite news and tech sites and suddenly realize it’s totally dark outside and not just cloudy. “Mañana” does not help the waistline, especially if there’s a good cook in the house.

Thanks again, and Merry Christmas!

Sudo, I tried your instructions but as I managed to try before, trying to upgrade the driver didn’t work after getting to the Device Manager your way either. I did find a way out of Device Manager but immediately forgot how I got to File on the menu bar and then down to exit. I did it once, though, so there is a way.

I also managed to get to settings and Update using Tab and Return and arrows and got the latest (here in advance reply I can’t read and refer to previous posts) update mentioned, but restarting so far has not connected the mouse or the keyboard. The Lenova Pointing Device says something like “cannot connect, error 10,” (I know, I should write this stuff down for the record instead of just pushing the next buttons) while the HID compliant mouse (?) says “This device is working” even though it’s not.

While the laptop sits there on whatever screen I’ve managed to reach, there’s a slow and steady “pink, pink, pink” noise—not a bing or a ponk but a soft short pink—as though, my speculation, something inside is looking unsuccessfully for a place to connect.

Bottom line is that the new cumulative update hasn’t brought back the mouse and touchpad.

You could try this to see if you can get your mouse working again.

Thanks. It’s well past midnight here but I’ll try on the laptop tomorrow. I did manage to get to the mouse settings box but reinstalling and uninstalling, etc., didn’t help. And I can’t tell if it made anything worse since the mouse and touchpad weren’t working anyway.

If you open Windows Explorer, right click on This PC and select Properties then System Protection that will open System Restore.

Can’t do much clicking without the mouse working . . .

No problem on my pc, but my laptop keyboard wouldn’t work after the update, possibly because the update didn’t complete properly (checked with winver). After a successful subsequent update, happily it did and the keyboard started working. Only problem then was that the mouse and touchpad stopped. No cursor on the screen at all, Set to show where the cursor is, the Ctrl button just gets empty circles in mid screen. Before the upgrade revived the keyboard, the cursor was working so Solitaire was still possible. I live in hope that both keyboard and mouse will both work upon some future startup. In the meantime, I’m trying to learn to navigate various screens with guesswork keyboard shortcuts. Solitaire is actually possible, but really (!) tedious. It’s a Lenova Ideapad, incidentally.

When/If I get desperate enough, I’ll use the reboot troubleshooting ideas in the last WS issue and see if I can do a system restore.

Thanks, Bruce! The Enable reg file worked and I now have the icon in the hidden icons box. I’m not sure OneDrive is starting with Windows at bootup as it should, but it appeared this morning later after I clicked to allow the startup in my Kerish Doctor program (which is probably another and completely different discussion). We’ll see what happens at the next bootup. In any case, it’s currently loading a large folder of pictures, and I’ll see later whether I can access OneDrive properly with my laptop.

Realized it was a link. Read the page. Tried playing with copying files to OneDrive folder. Went to website. Deleted some, left some. No change back on my pc yet. Going to take much more playing around to come even close to understanding how this works. May never happen! Files I deleted on site are still on my pc in OneDrive folder. Maybe gone later? We’ll see. And there’s no double cloud icon anywhere on my taskbar, including the hidden box.

See “Set where your files are saved” and “Find and move your files” at Files save to OneDrive by default in Windows 10

Obviously, Wiiiindy is sharper than I am. Where can I find “Set where your files are saved”? I’m using WPS Writer as a Word alternative, no MS Office at all on my Win10 AU machine. I can save stuff to any folder I want, including OneDrive using the Save to/F12 button. I’d like the option of duplicating or backing up some files on OneDrive but I don’t want to lose the normal save to my local hard drive in the process.

I’ve used Pegasus since the late 1980s or early 1990’s with total satisfaction. Meets Jonah’s local storage requirement and has all the bells and whistles such as spam filtering one could desire. I don’t actually use them since I’ve been using MailWasher for almost as long.

Sorry about the tiny troll, BH. Are you up working in the Fort from south of the border? I’d expect a tweet from the Master but I’m not on Twitter.

I gather a stored image or SR are the only ways to resurrect a program uninstalled by mistake. I just wondered if Reset would do the same thing.

Does Refresh roll back to a previous state or does it “just” heal system errors? I recently noticed that Geek Uninstaller listed two separate versions of Firefox, the 32-bit one and the 64-bit one. I figured I didn’t need to waste space on the 32-bit version, so I uninstalled it and all the additional stuff attached. Imagine my dismay when I found the 64-bit version had also disappeared along with all my settings, bookmarks, history, and an online banking certificate! No Firefox at all, nada, as the folks across the pond might say (who says immigration doesn’t contribute positively to culture? Actually, even over here in Europe we know who says that . . .).

The Refresh and Recovery don’t seem to be designed to go back to before an uninstall operation, though it does appear you don’t have to lose any existing programs (files should be on a backup anyway, so who cares if they disappear, right?), which is great if you’re a giveawayoftheday fan with lots of neat software that can’t be renewed for free.

Anyway, I used System Restore to go back a day—pure coincidence it was scheduled to run the day before I did the uninstall—and got my Firefox back with all its bookmarks, history, etc. But, oddly, not the certificate, which cost me €10 and a drive to town to re-order in person at the bank.

I have the Win 10 AU (no updating problem using the manual, non-ISO method a week or two ago), which still has the Win 7 association on the System Restore procedure and no clear (to me at least) directions for finding and starting the operation. It’s odd that the steps I go through and screens I saw don’t match anything I’ve read about the process, sort of like getting the AU without the All Apps taking up real estate on the Start screen: I have to click the hamburger to get the full list to appear. Which I like, of course, but everything I read said the displayed full list was standard.

Anyway, I finally got SR started and all was well eventually after the “leave the room and do something else to keep from screaming while watching the dotted wheel go round and round endlessly” break. But the question is, is there a simpler alternative method to recover from a mistaken uninstall?

Possibly the plethora of problems is related to your original upgrade, but for what it’s worth, my recurring update of the Logitech driver only started after the Win 10 updates of May 11 and 12.

This really is bizarre, isn’t it? Three different drivers installing non-stop and annoying three Canadians (New Brunswick, Ottawa, and an ex-pat in Slovenia). And who says Microsoft isn’t tracking us?