On Sat, 22 Sep 2018 17:27:06 +0100, ? Good Guy ?
wrote:

On 22/09/2018 14:45, slate_leeper wrote:
I wrote recently that the start menu was working again. Well, after
the next system reboot, it went back to icons only. Anything typed
produced a white box, with the typed letters otherwise ignored.


I think you'll need to start producing images or short videos so that we
can follow what exactly is happening. I have never seen a Windows 10
machine giving so much trouble to anybody. In your case you have a
brand new machine with very powerful processor so it is even more
puzzling to me.

It looks like you may need to return the machine to the retailer or if
you can't do that, you may need to buy a new machine from DELL or HP so
that it has a warranty of 1 year (default) and you can extend it to 3 or
4 years by paying a small fee.


I Already have the extended premium warranty. Dell was able to solve
the problem back when the 1803 update would not install even from the
ISO disk. (see previous posts).

I have to conclude that the the problem is with the hardware so start
with the hard disk as it is not recording and/or retaining the data.

There are about 950 million users of windows 10 and very few of them
have ever complained like you have. Are you in the habit of downloading
pirated stuff like software and pdf books? If the answer is yes or
sometimes then it might be the main source of problems. There are two
pirates frequenting these newsgroups who are posting links to these
dodgy sites so be careful what you do with them.

No on the downloading. Yes on the tinkering. That is why I now keep
logs, so I can "untinker" if necessary. Always been a go-faster guy. I
used to spend thousands to make a race car a tenth-of-a-second faster.
Now I spend hours trying to bend a computer to doing things my way, a
tenth-of-a-second faster. I am also a "privacy nut." Just the way I
am. Sorry.

On the other hand, nothing I have had problems with is unique. Google
searches show many are having the same problems. And nothing I have
done SHOULD have caused problems, since I am simply adjusting settings
provided in Windows-10.

-dan z-


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Someone who thinks logically provides
a nice contrast to the real world.
(Anonymous)