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Shane:
Sorry for the late reply, I have been slammed with computer repair customers and I still have multiple to get to this week as well!

I havent done the research yet for the dynamic disks, but to be honest, if the drive is working fine I wouldnt worry about it.


--- Quote ---Yesterday I was on my laptop, deleting files and copying new versions of the files from a USB stick onto the laptop and all of a sudden the mouse led a life on its own and it looked like the laptop got all crazy for half a minute, changing the layout of Windows Explorer. Then it stopped. A few files were moved about. What was that?? Is that normal? I thought it was in tiptop shape? :( Shane, to inform you: me and Boggin fixed the laptop so well that the sfc scan came out 100% clean and I did Windows Repair and all.
--- End quote ---

What do you mean exactly? Was the screen changing size? Or was the window you had open simply resizing?

If it was the whole screen changing size, this happens when the video driver is being updated or it crashed and restarted, the driver that is, not windows, sometimes a driver can crash without killing windows and windows will restart it. It also happens when installing a new driver and Windows is loading it.

If it wasnt the whole screen but instead the window that was open that was resizing, I have had customers who had the shift key stuck down, or some other key, and because of that it caused a lot of odd things that made them worry.

For my customer she couldnt understand why everything she clicked on selected everything, and so on. Turns out for her, her batteries in her wireless keyboard where really low and for some odd reason Windows thought the shift key was still being pressed, in fact even sticky keys popped open (Which you do when you hit shift 5 times in a row)

So you can see how something as simple as a stuck key can cause odd things, because there is a lot of combo key + mouse that Windows can do.

Shane

Lady:
Thank you, Shane, for taking the time to write all this.

I decided to leave my dynamic discs alone. They don't seem to create any problems. The C: disk with Windows is basic, that's the important thing.

By now I know that Windows can do really odd things indeed. That issue with the laptop was the mouse doing things by itself, I had no control over it anymore. And last week I lost my dictionary files on my laptop (only the uninstall files were there???) Really strange. But then and there I decided to not put any energy and time anymore into minor things that are odd. I just re-installed my dictionaries and blessed the little Window-devils.  :cheesy:

Last question: the sfc /scannow on my desktop (W7) only came up with some missing sample files like Windows videos which we couldn't repair with SFCFix.exe. As a last servicing, wouldn't it be a good idea to do a Windows Repair and then make a system image backup? I just ran CrystalDiskInfo and the external and internal harddisks are fine and the SSD is 100%. Yay!

Do you think Windows Repair would do only good? If something goes wrong, can I go back with a system restore point?

Lady:
Boggin, can I ask the Lenovo Customer Service in Holland for a clean installation cd of W8.1? I mean, that would pose a problem with license keys, wouldn't it? I have a license key and if they send me a cd-rom then I would have two? How should I phrase such a request?

Boggin:
The disk Lenovo would send would be an OEM Recovery disk which would be a copy of the Recovery partition on your laptop.

There's a section in this article in how to create a Win 8.1 ISO disk, but where did you get the Win 8.1 key from as it was my understanding that with Win 8/8.1 that the key was built in and no longer came on a sticker key.

This article has been updated since I last read it, so read it carefully so as not to end up with a Win 10 disk.

 https://www.winhelp.us/non-destructive-reinstall-of-windows-8-and-8-1.html

Lady:
Thanks, Boggin. I read it quickly and think I can do that.
Don't have time though right now. I'll report back. :)

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