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Another problem you might run into when restarting after a year being turned off is that the Lithium coin battery on the motherboard that keeps the BIOS/UEFI settings active might become discharged. In this case, you’ll get an error message immediately after startup, the internal clock will be set to some date in the past, and you’ll have to re-enter any non-standard settings. The most common problem areas will be setting the disk controller to the correct method (ACPI or RAID), and setting the correct boot method (secure boot UEFI or classic BIOS).

[rbailin]

One problem we ran into after one of our PCs (2004) updated yesterday:

Password protected sharing setting for this PC was turned on automatically on our private, peer-to-peer office network. Went into network shared settings, turned it back off and all is well once again.

This has been an ongoing, sporadic and random “feature” since at least 2018 after certain cumulative updates, according to Google searches. Personally I’ve only seen it before after some early Win10 Feature updates or Win7 to Win10 upgrades.

Bob

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jburk07

My experience is similar to Kathy’s:

I selected all possible settings just to see what state my installation was in. I then attempted to change one of the more innocuous settings by clicking on it, which seemed to do nothing. I then tried Apply settings which shouldn’t have done anything because I didn’t change any settings. However, one of the settings in 12.0 is “Remove all pre-installed apps” (now renamed “Remove Bloatware” in 12.3).

Instead of removing just pre-installed apps, it removed *all* MS Store apps, along with any saved data for those apps. No problem, I could just reinstall them from the Store. Which is when I discovered that not all Store apps are saved in the Store library (but Candy Crush certainly is!). I couldn’t remember all of which ones were missing, and even the ones I did manage to reinstall had to be reconfigured (easy for Weather, difficult for WinOTP Authenticator).

In addition, changing some settings and then changing them back did not revert Windows to its previous behavior. Some privacy settings and windows update pages still displayed “Some settings are controlled by your administrator” when they didn’t appear before.

I’m sticking with Ultimate Windows Tweaker 4.7.1 which has a more intuitive interface and a warning to at least create a system restore point before making changes.

What can you do if an older system doesn’t support booting from a USB drive, only a CD or DVD drive?