[dba-Tech] Widows 10 issues

[Rocky Smolin]

Can you reload the OS? Maybe that would work around the problem.

r

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From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Tina N Fields
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2018 10:25 AM
To: dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] Widows 10 issues

Hi All,

My friend, Jeanne, has a Windows 10 laptop computer.

Suddenly, it started taking upwards of 20 minutes to boot up. Suddenly, it no longer recognizes her Logitech V220 cordless optical mouse. 
Suddenly, it no longer sees her external WesternDigital hard drive.

I found the solution to the slow boot - it is the fast boot feature that is the culprit. Disabled that feature and the foot time is back to normal.

Explored the mouse thing. In the Device Manager, the USB receiver entries are all marked with the warning info icon and all claim that no drivers have been installed for this device. I've searched for updated drivers for the mouse and cannot find them. Some sites claim to have the necessary drivers, but require  registration and payment - and I'm not going there. Logitech support doesn't appear to provide any drivers for this mouse. When I delete the entries and then insert the USB receiver-sender device, a pop-up tells me the device is being set up, but the mouse is never recognized. Does anybody have experience with this? It happened suddenly, as though some recent Windows update broke things - maybe rewrote a DLL somewhere that this mouse was relying on.

Explore the hard drive issue, so far without success. The drive is powered. It was recognized in the Computer drives the last time I had looked - a couple weeks ago, I think. It simply does not appear any more. I've tried plugging it into different USB ports - same result: 
nothing. I took a flash drive and tried it in all the USB ports. That works just fine, so I don't think it is faulty ports. I'm going to get another cable and see if it is possibly just a sudden cable failure.

Sorry to be so long-winded. Does anybody have a suggestion?

Thanks,
T

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Tina Norris Fields
231-322-2787
tinanfields-at-torchlake-dot-com

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