Recent content by Piyono

Brilliant, thank you.

This is cool but you should check out LICEcap by Cockos. I use it frequently for creating tiny, animated-GIF screencaps when OBS would be too much hassle. Stretch a window over all or part of your screen and invoke the record command. Done.

Holy crap, Merc. How long have you been holding out on me? This is a veritable goldmine! 😂

Yes. It was the subject of this thread. I lack discipline when it comes to backups. Most nights I'm too lazy to even plug in my USB drives for a local backup. But how is Macrium different than something like Clonezilla or DriveImage XML? Is it automated? Does it have a huge installation...

It's an i7-6700HQ, so 6th gen. Still does the work so I'd rather not spend the money.

It's security theater.

Okay; Plot twist: A few months ago I tried to access company email on my P50. I went through the 2FA rigamarole but was ultimately unable to gain access. The next workday, my local IT guys told me that I'd unwittingly enrolled my machine in MS Intune and said they'd un-enroll me. Shortly...

Oh, I've been using Rufus forever. Didn't know it could do that. Sadly, I started dicking around with swapping drives and at one point when I plugged the drive in question (nVME) back into its slot, the computer booted into a sort of blue screen error which I've thus far been unable to resolve...

My computer tells me it won't run Windows 11 but if I know OS enthusiasts, there's probably a workaround.

I ran a file comparison using Beyond Compare between the P50's current drive and the previous drive (of which it's a recent clone) but there were tens of thousands of differences which I couldn't possibly parse in any meaningful way. I'm thinking maybe a registry comparison would might provide...

The remote IP address appears to belong to Microsoft.

Here's another TinyWall screenshot from after a fresh reboot. Dunno yet if it reveals anything meaningful about my situation. Note that one of those svchost processes is now using IPV6. Also note that the remote address is now .217 instead of .216

TinyWall didn't solve anything directly but I filtered its connections window to show only active connections and it displayed an svchost process and something called MuseHub (which I promptly uninstalled). Then later it briefly showed MsSense.exe. I looked up the remote IP address...

New observation: 07:15 Invoked Windows 10's Network Reset function. Didn't work. I'm thinking of installing a third-party firewall like TinyWall to see if it doesn't knock something loose.

Also, the time on the P50 keeps slipping four hours ahead for some reason, even though I keep manually setting it. Speaking of which, I'm falling asleep at my desk so I'm going to have to pick this up in the morning. Thanks for all the help so far, fam. 🙏💤