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How can I best automate in Windows 10 the following: 1 trigger: when I connect to internet 2- action: Avast free launches, settings menu is selected (click on top right) and then update option is selected (on left column menu)? Possible with task schedule or other tool that I do not need to...

I just deleted them, apparently no problems

Windows 8.1 ASUS A55A with drives C & D I bought the PC with Windows 8 preinstalled I did both a recovery drive & a custom recovery image in April 2014. I think I checked the option to delete old disk images or similar (I do not remember clearly this) Now when I look at disk management I see...

Windows 8.1 Asus A55A with drives C & D While last windows malware removal tool (MRT.EXE), signed, is in C:/ drive, I found in drive D:/ 5 folders with cryptic names containing each one an older and unsigned MRT.EXE file, each of around 86 megas. This looks strange to me: windows automatically...

Warning If you set UAC to Always notify me, then you will not be able to use the refresh and reset Windows 8 features. These features require UAC to be set to the default or lower level to work. Oh, oh I find the "always notify me" reassuring still it is good idea to just set UAC to default and...

it is just to read what is inside, not to edit them

K55A.bin. My PC us Asus model A55A, which in fact = model K55A. But same character appear in bootmanager.sys if I remember correctly.

Windows 8.1 64b Some files, when open with notepad, can be easily read in English. For other ones, I get characters like the ones bellow. How could I read these characters, is there any online translator for this? or I should learn basic C++ or other means? Many thanks ‹¦<J#wûH€=WŒÁþÄM...

Do I sum it up correctly? For a most cautious approach 1) I do a new recovery drive with with option copy contents from recovery partition after each Windows 8.1 SP, so if I need to do a refresh I will have all dlls etc, not just the ones of previous windows 8.1 versions 2) I do a disk image fo...

Windows 8.1 64b with 3 users: administrator, standard & guest While I intended to restrict the access of guest to "public" folder, I discovered the following: For folder C:/Users/Public, I have the usual permissions: administrators, creator Owner & System, plus twice the 3 following ones...

I did it with the option copy contents from the recovery partition to the recovery drive Later I did create a disk image for drives C & D and saved it in the own hard disk. What should I do now to be sure that in case of catastrophe I can have my PC as it is now?

Windows 8.1 pc bought in 2013 with windows 8 bundled (so no installation DVDs, no activation key communicated). upgraded to windows 8.1 in 2013. I made a recovery USB (system image) on 1st April 2014. If I need to boot on this USB, my PC will be again exactly as it was on 1st April 2014?

Update Windows 8.1 I have seen my last bootlog. dxgkrnl.sys loads once and thenfails to load 4 times. I have only one dxgkrnl.sys signed by microsoft and insystem32\drivers, with its pair in WinSxS. I have other non-signed andgenerally smaller dxgkrnl.sys, I do not know their origin, not...

Windows 8.1 Chrome Avast I note that the boot log indicates that driver dxgkrnl.sys failed to load 4 (separate) times. It could be loaded 1 time an attempt in the middle of the failed ones. Nevetheless the PC seems to work fine. Is there anything that I should do or check in my PC? Many...

Windows 8.1 Chrome Avast Hi, After uninstalling Mcafee internet security mfeelamk.sys keeps loading at boot. Can I 100% safely remove it? Could it still be usefull? Many thanks, Arturo