Windows 10 Issues, Problems & solutions

I suddenly can't print from Firefox. Edge or any program but not Firefox!

 

ratchet,

In Firefox, does "Microsoft Print to PDF" work?

 

Thank you for the reply! I can't find that option.
Brian, I restored to my 9/4 image and the issue is resolved. I have no idea what I may have caused it!

 

So, who's got a list of reputable apps to easily disable/block a lot of the user info and activity being sent off? I know of Spybot Anti-Beacon, and Safer Networking is legit. There's a O&O ShutUp10. I think O&O is reputable, I think. The other ones that I've seen I'm not sure about.

According to a few posts that I've read, changing settings alone will not stop a lot of it, and a modified host file will not stop a lot of it.

 

I have not used anything other than O&O ShutUp10 as that did the job for me. Once you run it & choose what you want to disable reboot & run it again as sometimes disable telemetry 3 of 3 doesn't stick the first time.

 

Excellent.

"Microsoft Print to PDF" is one of your printers in Win10.

 

I've been trying Edge today and notice deleting [or Clearing] ;

• Browser history
• Cookies and saved website data
• Cached data and files
• Download history
• Form data

- is also sometimes removing Passwords. This for me will be a major reason NOT to continue with Edge, as I can't use a password manager with Edge.

 

Because the period of one month for a free return to the previous OS has expired, I have cleaned the remnants using the Disk Clean-up and CCleaner. I have noticed, though, that Windows.old folder still sits on my C:\ drive. This folder contains only two files with the following paths.

c:\Windows.old\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\ST_Accel.sys
c:\Windows.old\WINDOWS\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository\st_accel.inf_amd64_cc67767f2cecfd96\ST_Accel.sys

How to delete these files and is it safe?

 

I had to be offline to delete that folder. A WinPE if I recall.

 

So, it shouldn't cause any troubles deleting them?

 

I deleted it a month ago. No problems.

 

Cannot delete them even if being offline. It says it is used.

 

It's been a month. I vaguely recall I might have used TeraByte Explorer on the WinPE to delete it. It's a paid app, part of TeraByte's TBOSDT Pro. It will delete anything, even the entire Windows folder.

You could try deleting it from a Linux boot disk.

 

Thanks Brian but it is beyond my knowledge so I will leave them where they are. They don't take any disk space.

 

Easy. That's fine.

 

http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/windows_10_tracking_disable_tool.html "
Windows 10 Tracking Disable Tool is another helpful option for privacy concerned users to disable the native tracking within Windows 10".

 

Sometimes if it will let you rename the folder ,you will be able to delete it.Dont know if it will but maybe worth a try.The old folder is just that ,so should be safe to delete the entire folder.

 

Thanks, tried it but renaming the folder still doesn't allow to delete it.

 

Fix: Taskbar Auto-Hide Feature Not Working On Windows 10 (intowindows)

 

Even Unlocker cannot handle these files/folders. They're very stubborn and firmly sitting on C:\ drive.

 

@pegas Try IObit Unlocker.

 

Sorry, forgot to say that I already tried it. Problem is that neither unlocking application identifies process which locks the files. It looks like the files aren't locked but in fact they are and you cannot delete them. Strange.

 

@pegas That is strange indeed. It looks like you're stuck with the files.

 

Yeah but I take it easy. These two sys files occupy only 163 kb, so I don't care disk space and my Win 10 Pro works flawlessly. I'm just curious if they're erasable or not.

 

Click on the Taskbar/Properties/Taskbar click auto-hide the Taskbar and the icons like IE right click on the icon and unpin from task bar