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    8.1 laptop very slow to access the contents of external drives. Indexing problem?

    Windows 8.1 on an old Lenovo G780 laptop. Whenever I plug a USB drive (hard drive or SSD) into the laptop it takes maybe a minute to browse folders on the drive. So for example, once plugged in I can quickly see the folders and files, but if I double click on a folder the contents won't be...
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    Solved Can connect to local network but not the Internet

    I was using my laptop okay last night then all of a sudden the connection dropped (this was via a TP-Link Powerline unit). This happens at least once an evening so I power cycled the Powerline unit as usual and no luck. To cut a long story short, after some experimentation I determined that...
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    Windows 8 - too many updates to install, updates fail. Install one by one??

    I have a Lenovo G780 laptop which was having all kinds of problems (terribly slow boots, random freezes, etc) so I decided to do a "Refresh" update (all files kept intact, O/S is re-installed from files on the hard drive). This went well but now I'm having problems installing the updates (which...
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