An update was attempting when the computer died, but the message that pops up, that I can no longer remedy (I've fixed it a couple of times in the past) is "Diagnostics Policy Service is not running." When you use the cmd line and go to the Services list, there it is, and not responding to administrator status, not letting me restart it, etc. And when this isn't running, the computer won't talk to the world.

When I put all of my files and programs into the new computer that will arrive next week, I'll fight with a lot of files that may need to be moved over, because simply plugging the external drive will mean having to go through steps to claim the files (they will be protected by the identity of the previous computer that wrote to them.) It may be easier now, I'll have to research it.

My email is in Mozilla Thunderbird, but it's gmail accounts. Gmail doesn't like Mozilla, so we'll see how setting up those accounts now is (and transferring the data, which I learned is stored in a way that it can be transferred pretty easily.)

The new computer will have Win10 Pro installed on the SSD boot drive.