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    Hard Disk Issue (spinner)

    After a reinstall of my PC one of my disks appeared as " Disk 1 Dyamic Foreign " I really need the information on this disk or I would just have formatted it. Windows Canary 2 x 4 TB HDD 2 x .5 SSD
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    Excel Icons

    I have a number of Excel icons on my desktop some of them allow me to change the icon to one of my own icons and others don't give me that option Anyone got an fix
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    Netflix

    thanks DVDR_Dog I suppose I will have to load Chrome although I am not keen on anything - Google
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    Netflix

    I am getting an error code of M7701-1003 can anyone help resolve I have tried most of what its giving me online My OS is win11 25324 ( windows insider Dev ) Ryzen 7 5800 - 8c 16t Brave & Firefox both up to date
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    New member but old computer user

    I also was a DOS man but used DRDOS not MSDOS i was anti microsoft back then but now i am a Windows insider Dev Channel
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    Slow opening

    Defraged the drive - ( it did not need it ) some more results on a 30Gb Movie Spinner drive Power DVD 3min 35 sec Spinner drive VLC 3min 36 Copied the movie to a 950 EVO Power DVD 37 Sec VLC 37 sec so no difference on playback programs - all down to the type of drive
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    Slow opening

    the spinner is a sata drive internally connected and any tests i have done on it show no issues
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    Slow opening

    Here is some info i collected Using VLC (the supposed best media player) results from Task Manager CPU : 2% MEM : 3.7 % Disk 1 : 97% ( where the video is installed ) time to start watching 10 min 50 sec I installed Video Inspector and when i ran the same video it took the hughmongus time of...
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    Slow opening

    No it is not just movies but they are the largest of files so it is more noticeable I will have a look at video inspector anyway
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    Slow opening

    Thankyou for your answers 1 I don't use anti virus other than Defender 2. sfc /scannow has no integrity violations 3. DISM shows no problems 4. All the movies are on a 2TB spinner along with nothing else
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    Slow opening

    When i click on a folder it takes 5 seconds to open. When i click on a 32Gb Movie it takes 5 minutes to open can anyone help Ryzen 7 5800 RTX3060 16Gb Ram
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