Hello to all.
I'm curious to know where is the Ram Memory and processor information stored
on a win 10 pc?
Many thanks.
Ron KR3DOG

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You still have not answered what type of updates were being applied that triggered this collapse.

If they were Windows Updates, your smartest move at this point would be to use the rollback option.

I really suspect you have a major hardware failure of some sort that was coincident with, but not caused by, what you were doing.  There should be virtually nothing in the world of updates or drivers that would take out internet connectivity (and particularly if it's both WiFi and ethernet wired), USB ports, and an optical drive all at the same time.

You are in a situation where your range of options is extremely limited.
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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041
The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it. 
       ~ Lawrence Krauss

It is long past time that this question stop being asked, as it has been covered, again and again and again on this very group.  And it's been stated on all those occasions that Feature Update rollouts take months, in all cases.  See group Admin Notice, dated May 29, 2020, entitled: A "Public Service Announcement" Regarding Windows 10 Feature Updates & How They Work

The algorithm that decides whether a given system is "ready for the latest feature update" is insanely complicated, not public knowledge, and is known to change based on what Microsoft is learning from system telemetry from systems already updated.  That information has been known to reverse the "ready for the latest feature update" status on specific hardware to "not ready" when an unexpected problem exhibits itself in the field that was not found during testing, and these do happen.  It is not possible for Microsoft or any other major software maker to test for every possible hardware configuration that exists out "in the wild."

You get a feature update either when Microsoft deems your machine ready and you are presented with the Download or install link in the Windows Update Pane of Settings, or by forcing it otherwise.  No one can ever tell you, definitively, why your specific machine has not yet been deemed ready because the criteria can and does change as any Feature Update roll out proceeds.

Hamit put it much more succinctly, "Don't know how MS decides these things."  And unless you happen to be on the development team for Windows Update itself then you can't possibly know, either.

You get it when you get it, period.  At least if you wait for Microsoft to present it to you under Windows Update.
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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

        ~ Madonna

Mária,

         Depending on whether by "system updates" you mean provided by Microsoft via Windows Update or not, the information I have at the beginning of Britechguy’s Standard Advice Regarding Windows 10 Issues and Their Repair may be helpful for rolling back those updates.  Since you have no sound, and I presume you depend on same, you will need sighted assistance not because someone who's blind cannot do the roll back independently if they have a functioning screen reader and sound, I don't know how you could do it without that.

          If you're talking installing other software, drivers, etc., sourced elsewhere, then restoration from a system image backup would be the easiest option.  And not to rub salt in an open wound, but this is another teachable moment about why it's critical to take full system images at regular intervals.  Having system images to restore from is the easiest and cheapest insurance of getting back a functioning system quickly when stuff like this happens.
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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

        ~ Madonna

It is long past time that this question stop being asked, as it has been covered, again and again and again on this very group.  And it's been stated on all those occasions that Feature Update rollouts take months, in all cases.  See group Admin Notice, dated May 29, 2020, entitled: A "Public Service Announcement" Regarding Windows 10 Feature Updates & How They Work

The algorithm that decides whether a given system is "ready for the latest feature update" is insanely complicated, not public knowledge, and is known to change based on what Microsoft is learning from system telemetry from systems already updated.  That information has been known to reverse the "ready for the latest feature update" status on specific hardware to "not ready" when an unexpected problem exhibits itself in the field that was not found during testing, and these do happen.  It is not possible for Microsoft or any other major software maker to test for every possible hardware configuration that exists out "in the wild."

You get a feature update either when Microsoft deems your machine ready and you are presented with the Download or install link in the Windows Update Pane of Settings, or by forcing it otherwise.  No one can ever tell you, definitively, why your specific machine has not yet been deemed ready because the criteria can and does change as any Feature Update roll out proceeds.

Hamit put it much more succinctly, "Don't know how MS decides these things."  And unless you happen to be on the development team for Windows Update itself then you can't possibly know, either.

You get it when you get it, period.  At least if you wait for Microsoft to present it to you under Windows Update.
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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

        ~ Madonna

Sarah,

          My central point being that you cannot "pick and choose" if you literally have the setting to Always show all icons in the notification area set to ON.

          You can only pick and choose when it is set to OFF.  What you originally described is a logical impossibility, not a practical one, but you'd have to have this setting toggled OFF and then have all the individual icons toggled on if you wanted all showing but the capability of putting some into hiding if you were to so choose.

          The Always show all icons in the notification area is an all or nothing affair and if it's ON then you get everything, period, with no option to shove any individual items into the overflow area reached via the notification chevron.

          As to personal preferences, that's just what they are, and I'm certainly not going to attempt to tell you, or anyone else, what works best for them.  I'm willing to make suggestions about trying different options, but the one(s) ultimately chosen are entirely a personal choice.

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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

        ~ Madonna

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 02:09 PM, Joseph Lee wrote:

Windows+Pause  (for opening Settings/System/About in 20H2 or Control Panel, System Item in 2004 or earlier)

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That's a completely new one on me!  By the way, laptop users, most of you will not have a dedicated Pause key.  On many (but not all) laptop keyboards the Pause key is the FN+Right Shift Key, so the shortcut becomes WinKey+FN+Right Shift Key.   If your keyboard happens to have it somewhere other than Right Shift, and does not have a dedicated Pause Key, then you'd still use WinKey+FN plus whatever the location is on your particular keyboard.
 
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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

        ~ Madonna

Hi Hamit.  Your disk space isn't as acurate as you would expect because as your disk gets formatted for installing windows, data such cache and other formatting gets written to your disk in addition to your windows files.  These take up space, so your disk of say 1000GB has already got a few gb of it's space occupied.  Also you must take into account that if 1MB = 1024KBS and not 100KBS as is usually expected, then space taken up by formatting and windows is far more than expected.  So if your installation occupies say 2GB of space, then 2048MB of your disk space has already been taken, hence your perceived discrepancy.  And last but not least, different Operating Systems, for some reason have slight differentials to their way of calculating disk space and applications sizes.  Mac and Windows are just two such examples.  Hope that helps.  Cheers!

Hi there friends. So checked the SSD. I cleaned it a bit as wel so now I have 677 GB of 901 GB free. I find the 901 GB thing interesting as it’s a 256 GB SSD. Why is it reporting like this? Shouldn’t it say how much of the full 256 has been used? Or does it not care to report all the GBs eaten by Windows and all the Dell stuff crap or other wize. I just mentioned this because with mine and Bill’s out of memory problem someone said something about you should keep the SSD half empty. So I guess I should according to that keep what ever 256 devided by 2 is free of the SSD. Thanks. Just want to clear all things I myself maybe doing before packing the XPS back up and sending it off back to Dell.

Belarc Advisor is a fabulous utility, and I use it all the time when I have a greater interest in software on the machine than hardware.

I find Speccy much better if it's strictly hardware and OS related specs that are needed, and Belarc Advisor much better when you want a software inventory.

By the way, and not pushing Speccy any more than I have, but the fact that it can save its report in plain text format does make it significantly easier for many screen reader users to deal with that report afterward.  I honestly don't know whether Belarc Advisor has that too, as I've never tried to get anything other than the report it generates that is presented in your default web browser.  If anyone knows, please share.
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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

        ~ Madonna

Belarc Advisor is a fabulous utility, and I use it all the time when I have a greater interest in software on the machine than hardware.

I find Speccy much better if it's strictly hardware and OS related specs that are needed, and Belarc Advisor much better when you want a software inventory.

By the way, and not pushing Speccy any more than I have, but the fact that it can save its report in plain text format does make it significantly easier for many screen reader users to deal with that report afterward.  I honestly don't know whether Belarc Advisor has that too, as I've never tried to get anything other than the report it generates that is presented in your default web browser.  If anyone knows, please share.
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Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

        ~ Madonna