Recent content by Strydoma

This upgrade to Windows 10 has been anything but smooth for me. I am ready to pull my hair out! Ever since doing the upgrade, whenever my computer starts up, the first screen has my name (and email address) and an Administrator listed in the bottom left hand corner. Why 'Administrator?!' I...

Thanks, again! Gave that a try, but it didn't help the situation. Man, this is so annoying...

Certainly! It is a Hewlett Packard Pavilion Slimline s5-1020 And I've tried to get HP's help, but they just throw their hands up and say, "Sorry, don't know what to tell you!"

Thanks so much for your reply. I've just checked my machine, and it says there are no updates available. So, I'm assuming that I have the most current updates, patches, etc.

On July 30th I upgraded by computer to the Windows 10 operating system. Since then, however, my CD/DVD drive is not detected and/or recognized. The icon on my desktop has a big question mark on it. If I click that, I get the following error message: The item 'E:\' that this shortcut refers...