See this post: https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/nirsoft-windeflogview-display-all-threats-windows-defender-detected/ cheers, Paul ..read more

I have loads of my favorite animated Shock Wave files on my old Win XP laptop.  They’re no risk there because it never gets connected in any way to the Internet/Web.  The SW files play nicely on MS Internet Explorer 7 ..read more

it’s better to delete those \Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash\ files & folders as it does not do any harm to the Google Chrome app rather than ignoring them since recent Chrome versions no longer support adobe/shockwave flash edit – heck I do NOT even have that \Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash\ folder in my C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default folder – so that Flash folder can be safely removed ..read more

I just ran a Defender offline scan and I have to say that MS should make it easier to find the results!! Maybe this belongs in the rant forum. I had to search online to find out how to get the results – apparently there are a few ways. The MS documentation says the result is in Virus & Threat protection, but I could find no indication of the offline scan or any results.  Perhaps no news is good news! One internet post said to go the event log, but I couldn’t find it.  Another said to go to C:Windows\Microsoft Antimalware\Support which is where I found a bunch of log files, most o ..read more

I think it’s safe to ignore Flash files these days. No current browser supports them. cheers, Paul ..read more

My Win 10 PC is updated and runs Chome. I found these (leftover) files and folders. Should I delete them? C:\Users\[user]\Documents\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\Pepper Data\Shockwave Flash\WritableRoot\#SharedObjects\NQKZHZAH\   ..read more

I use Rufus to create my Win10 ISOs onto USB flash drives and specify from Rufus whether the “target” system is an older legacy bios (non-uefi) or modern UEFI system. Rufus also lets me format usb drives as NTFS as well, something the media creation tool can’t do. https://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-windows-10-usb-bootable-media-uefi-support https://appuals.com/how-to-create-windows-10-bootable-usb-using-rufus ..read more

cmptrgy wrote: Although it isn’t an ISO An ISO is an image copy of a CD/DVD – also a USB these days. This allows you to backup/copy your install disks and recreate them easily. cheers, Paul ..read more

Everything went fine Create installation media for another PC. Used an 8GB FAT32 flash drive as recommended: it took up 4.28GB. Although it isn’t an ISO, I’m fine ..read more

When creating the ISO file remember to select ISO ‘for any PC ..read more