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Thanks - Heheh, once I got the drive lettering straightened out the reserved volumes were showing and I have no way to go back and determine why they were not, earlier. But, I do know I did not change (ie., allow / disallow) hidden items’ viewing.

I’ve been very busy loading up the new machine with programs, getting “Wavosaur” (audio file editor / recorder) to work*, and resolving minor problems.

*There seems to be NO way at present to get good recording levels from many sources off the web using Wavosaur: the program has a pretty intuitive & not too complex interface, and is very useful, but... it has no easy way itself to boost a recording level. That can only be adjusted in Windows Sound Settings, which often turns out to result in recordings 8-10 dB below the -3 dB level — way more “cushion” than is usually needed. Plus one has to turn “Windows” sound way up and whatever one is using for powered speakers or headphones way down, making adjustments on those latter often “touchy”.

(This problem shows up on every computer I’ve tried Wavosaur on.)

Then (I’ll likely post about this one), there seems to be no way to get some exe files to show up in the “all programs” list in the Start Menu. I can add such exe’s** to the Start Menu “tiles”, but not to the “all programs” list. Weird.

**Example are “IV_player” (a very handy & lightweight media file player), as well as the aforementioned “Wavosaur”. I understand why Windows doesn’t want to list every exe file in “All Programs”, but why one can’t add one to the list I don’t know... Maybe because they don’t (AFAIK) get a key in the Registry? Hmmm....