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Old 31st Mar 2018, 23:11
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Mac the Knife

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Never heard of THAT! Some thing majorly wrong with your Windows install, I suspect…

First of all, do nothing for a few days, lots of Windows hiccoughs go away on their own so long as you don't fiddle with it.

Then you can check your basic Windows files by typing "sfc /scannow" from an elevated (Administrator) command line.

You MAY be able to do a "System Restore" to an earlier point in time, but this never worked for me since Windows 7.

You can waste hours and days chasing the error (and probably not find it) or you can gather all your passwords and app. install keys and "Reset" Windows (Settings -> Update and Security -> Recovery -> Reset).

The whole fandango is now so complex that finding the corrupted entry in the Registry or your User Profile and fixing it, is only for masochists like me, buried under thick books purporting to document what is really going on inside.

Sometimes I succeed…

Mac ;-)

[Linux is MUCH easier to fix]
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