Recent content by Odos270

I guess nobody's getting where I'm coming from. I'm 10 months into a bad run of depression with the last 6 weeks being suicidal. My brain refuses to work. I can not comprehend the simplest things right now. Might as well be trying to tell me how to administer an MRI. I downloaded the media...

I guess it's time for the 16lb sledgehammer. Beat the damn thing flat and toss in the dumpster. Absolutely no program I've tried will test the drive. Half of them won't even show the options for testing the drive. There is no option of taking it to a shop. I can not afford it.

Well....................... drive is a Seagate. I downloaded SeaTools, but there's an issue. It starts scanning for drives. When it scans for USB drives, it just sits there. And 20 minutes later it's still sitting there. I killed it (Task Manager) and unplugged all my USB drives. Then started it...

I keep doing sfc and chkdsk /f and both say that there are errors. And both say that they can't fix them. I've not attempted to downgrade. With XP you could see/review the updates. Now they just shove them down your throat. Like they did for the upgrade to 10.

I guess Microsoft was trolling me. I've been using a dark theme since 8. Taskbar is black with white text. After the update, the text was changed to black. How could black text show on a black background? I had to change the text color to light blue, then back to white. Now the clock shows...

I understood about logging out. But do I have to log back in?

OK, this will make me out to be an idiot. I've never logged out of a computer before. And, what name/password would I even use to log back in with? Thanks for your patience, for the last month my brain has turned into mud.

I have a legal copy of 10 that I downloaded from Microsoft sometime back. It's not updated. I downloaded as an ISO and extracted it to a thumb drive. But can't find the original ISO. I guess I must've dumped it. Oh man, I really don't want to do a fresh install. It'll take me days to put this...

SFC found errors, couldn't fix. DISM couldn't fix.

Oh joy. Open Command Prompt and it's full screen and the font is so big it's blown off the screen. And it was pinned to the Start Menu, not anymore. Something else it fugged up. running sfc now. If that doesn't do it, I'll do the rest.

Major brainfart. Not an upgrade. It was an update. I don't know what Windows stuffed me.

Nope. Clock is set to On. And I just found out something else. I did a screen cap (win key + prt scr). It saves in My Pictures. Well, I tried to go into the folder and was denied. I had to mess around and change permissions to allow me in. Until I do the same for both My Videos and My Music...

What a mess. Took some time but I got a bunch of it cleaned up. The major problem is that the clock isn't showing in the taskbar. There's a blank space where it should be. If I mouse over the space, it will show time/date. If I click, the calendar will come up. I've done internet searches. Fun...

Sorry about not getting back. I wasn't notified of new replies. I found the issue. The TV was using 16x9 as the display. I set it to "Just Scan". That cured the problem.

I was having several issues so I did a full reset of Windows 8.1 (that was a nightmare). When I went to update, it offered me Windows 10. I bit the bullet and did it. The exact same thing happened this time as the first time (which is why I reverted back to 8.1). On the desktop, if I place...