u/Lavendou

I was hanging out in Davon's Watch earlier and saw someone with an outfit style or costume that had a backpack on it and I thought it looked pretty slick. They left before I could ask, and I tried googling around for it, but no luck.

It looked like one of those old wood-frame backpacks, with a sack, a rolled-up bedroll below it, and a metal lantern on a stick attached to the side. I assume it was a costume - it looked like they were wearing a blue robe with a hood.

Also offering my daily prayer to Akatosh that ZOS gives us a backpack cosmetic slot someday.

EDIT: It was someone's Giladil the Ragpicker that was standing close enough to an outfit station that I mistook them for a player. The corresponding outfit is the Traveling Merchant costume.

Copy and pasted from r/techsupport since they auto-remove questions related to Windows 10.

Hello! Apologies in advance, since I'm not the most tech-savvy. This is going to be long, but it's been a bit of a process and I'd like to offer as much detail as I can.

The other evening I was using my PC normally, when suddenly I was unable to access a host of core windows functions, like start menu, most taskbar functions, Windows Security, settings, etc.

I can use file explorer and most applications normally, but as far as I can tell, anything under a certain umbrella of svchost functions just don't work at all. I can access control panel through a Run prompt, but not the settings application. When I try to access system information in the "System and Security" tab, nothing happens, but most other control panel options work as normal.

I can change the volume through control panel's audio settings or with keyboard shortcuts, but the taskbar widget won't bring up the volume slider, and I can't "Open Sound Settings" in the drop-down when right-clicking.

Date and time show correctly, but I can't click on them to open up the clock and calendar. It's like the core process responsible for handling all these just disappeared.

Based on ~~this post~~ a post I can't link because of PCMR rules, I used sfc /scannow followed by DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth commands in Command Prompt, but to no avail.

The followup recommendation was to use Powershell to execute this command:

Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppXManifest.xml"} to reinstall built-in Windows components.

I executed it, but returned this error:

Get-AppXPackage : The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it. At line:1 char:1 + Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopm ... + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Get-AppxPackage], Exception + FullyQualifiedErrorId : System.Exception,Microsoft.Windows.Appx.PackageManager.Commands.GetAppxPackageCommand

I opened up the AppXSvc in RegEdit and checked the startup value, which was 4 (stopped). I tried switching it to 2 (automatic) and 3 (manual), but to no avail pertaining to the Powershell command, and the startup value would always return to 4 (stopped) in RegEdit.

While googling around, I noticed that a number of users were reporting similar results in the last 2-4 months, pertaining to potentially-faulty Windows security updates. In case that was the culprit, I tried rolling back to restore points yesterday, a week ago, and two weeks ago (in that order) to no avail. I then tried uninstalling all Windows Updates since the beginning of 2026, except for Security Update KB5071959 (date 1/8/2026) due to it returning an error when attempting to uninstall. This didn't solve the issue either.

I considered that, given Windows 10's now-unsupported status, I may have gotten a virus, but I've done multiple full-system scans with multiple scanners, including Malwarebytes and ESET, and none of them got any hits for malware - which isn't necessarily conclusive, given malware's ability to remain hidden.

Some additional important information: I've had to do a wipe of Windows 10 once before on this PC in order to root out a particularly troublesome virus. While my copy of Windows 10 was genuine and activated, for some reason it was flagged as un-activated when the wipe was finished, and wouldn't allow me to verify/activate it, so I shrugged my shoulders and continued using it as normal since.

Moreover, and probably more pertinently - throughout my PC's lifespan I've tinkered with cmd, Powershell, Services and the registry several times to combat invasive or problematic functions. Back when I disabled or modified services, I wasn't in the habit of keeping proper records or backups, but they were mostly tied to disabling Cortana, News and Interests, Windows Update, and Windows Update Medic Service. I deleted 3 registry items that I kept backups of, which are Feeds, StateRepository, and WMedSvc. I restored StateRepository and WMedSvc via backup, but that didn't help my current situation. (Yes, I know mucking around that much with the system was unwise. Hindsight is 20/20)

At this point, as far as I can tell, my only remaining options are to do a repair-install of Windows 10 through an in-place upgrade or to bite the bullet and wipe the computer again.

If anyone has any advice or input, it'd be much-appreciated.

Anyone know the name of this outfit with a backpack?