HarryTri

I don't know how many are informed about the KRACK vulnerability of WPA/WPA2. Have a look here: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/krack-affects-everyone-heres-what-to-do-now/ Microsoft October security patches for Windows 7, 8.1 and 10 are addressing this issue. For Windows 8 I used the Windows 8 embedded October security patch (which must be the same for the Windows Server 2012 one, at least they are reported to have the same size in the Microsoft Update Catalog).

Maybe out of topic but I think that the PCs' connection we are talking about is more accurately described as "ad hoc" connection.

In the Adobe Flash Player era YouTube's videos were FLV ones. Does anyone know what they are now (in their original form)? I have the impression that they are MP4 but I'm not sure at all.

What do you mean by "client area"?

I totally agree but I still prefer Windows 8.

With only it's own updates Windows 8 is as stable as always. With the Windows Server 2012 updates I don't know (JodyT can talk about that).

Oh, I see.. Anyway, 1.46 GB aren't so much for today's disks (personally at least I can live with it.)

What are these other "components"?

In my experience if a program is not working well with no apparent reason, and especially if it can't be fixed, then it is time to start from the beginning (restoring from the recovery partition or a disk backup image). There must probably be more and deeper problems in your system that will emerge with the time (at least that is what happens to me).

The only thing I know is that the Windows Update cleaning of the Windows 8 Disk Cleanup utility removes all the superseded Windows Updates. I don't know if this is what you want or it is something else. There is also this: I don't know if the /resetbase switch does really something more.

I use Macrium Reflect Free for creating backup images too and it never let me down also. It has the verification option so that you can be sure that you have a precise disc image.

I agree with you. If you have seen some episodes of "Mayday" you know that "failsafe" isn't really failsafe. I think in this world nothing can be really failsafe.

I will tell it in a simple way: the meaning of your writing isn't clear. You must work on improving your English. Sorry.

Normally it can't. Something must have gone bad with the file system, if I were you I would just format the SSD and reinstall Windows. Sorry if it looks harsh but I'm afraid that trying to do anything else will just be lost time.

If the backup is completed despite this error message you can just ignore it.

Don't worry, God protects us even if we don't know/understand it.

Sad to see a liberal forum as this, where somebody can say how bad is Microsoft's "telemetry" for example, being closed.

Strange, they are present in Windows 8 that I am running, and since ntoskrnl.exe depends on them they must still be present in Windows 10 too.

Yes, Internet Explorer 11.0.11 (if you can find it). Personally I have version 11.0.7, see below:

Have you turned the showing hidden files option on?

What exactly do you mean by aligning the partitions? You aligned them by cylinder, by MB or is it something else? And... why did you do it in the first place? It's better not to do such dangerous things without a serious reason.

I think that at the time that Windows 98 were released there wasn't even the idea of a language pack...

Alternatively you can disable the five scheduled tasks that are included in the Task Scheduler>Windows>Setup folder, it will totally do the job.

For monitoring traffic: NetBalancer (free for monitoring traffic, just a prompt to activate when you open it after the trial period expires). You can see which application communicates with whom, when and how much it uploads/downloads (with Windows 10 we reached the spot where the uploading is more suspicious than the downloading...).

Just don't trust any Microsoft's product from 2015 and afterwards.