New Acer Aspire laptop.

[dave.king1]

Perhaps have a wander through this part of the windows world and see if you can find something that changed around the start of your problems.

Tread warily because the wrong change here will cause havoc

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...istry-settings

Edited to add, have a look here

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...6-673ae0563e50