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Thanks Merc. We've pretty much stopped using CC. Even the ancient version did wonderful things like calculating the wedding anniversary, death anniversary, age as of this birthday, etc. Very, very thoughtful design; brilliant, actually. Subsequent versions broke a lot of things. I'll check for...

I bought an Epson Perfection 2480 Photo scanner from Staples for a very good price in 2004 when I was living in the US. It still works great, I still use it quite a bit. Only downside was, it came with software that was W98 compatible. So I ran W98 in a VM and continued using it. When I built...

Print quality on my 16-year old Brother HL-5350DN monochrome laser had become horrible. Print was always very light, in the driver I had to set density to max and it was barely readable. New original drums were impossible to get, and refurbished ones barely worked for a bit. Toner cartridges...

Thanks Merc. Any suggestions for a free PDF editor for Android? Only for deleting and cropping pages.

Thanks a lot, Merc. You made me remember how old I am.

Amen. I think I'm the oldest here.

Body is a semi pro - full-frame D700. Lenses are pro grade. I can try and sell them to camera rental places. Will have to take what they give. That's better than sitting in the dry cabinet. Haven't touched them in like 12 years. If I was in the the US, I'd send them back to B&H; that's where I...

I've used my Nikon gear just a few times, and they've been sitting in the dry cabinet all these years. Would like to sell them but not sure where / how where I live. Also too lazy to get off my ass. Probably has little to no value today with all the mirrorless stuff now in vogue.

My W10 build was running with Windows audio drivers. No probs. Now on W11, same machine, I installed Realtek's audio drivers for W11 provided by Asus. Every time I adjust volume up or down, there's a BING! Searched and tried a few suggestions, but they don't work. Any suggestions? Should I...

Do you guys use your systems with Memory Integrity on or off?

Yikes! Tons of real world experience speaking! Thanks Merc.

Doesn't the scale go up in steps of 25 starting at 100? How are you setting it at 130? Unless it works differently on laptops. BTW, Can't remember: who was Hawkeye in SF? The guy who used to scale it down and use tiny fonts on his screen?

As usual, you da man, Merc! Thanks a mil! I'm trying Small icons and 100% scaling. Will probably get used to this. You know, I've searched on Google massively the last few days for various issues. It's amazing how much ignorance and crap there is out there. For the icon size issue, the only...

What's with the blimp-sized desktop icons in W11? Any way to use "Small Icons" like W10? Sheesh. I've set display to 100% instead of the default/recommended 125%, but still don't like how everything looks. Desktop icons are too squished, and app windows are tiny.

My bad. The ISO is 24H2. Was a typo. It's from April. Thanks Merc.

A couple of days ago I downloaded the W11 22H2 iso, Rufussed it with some options to a USB stick. Did an in-place upgrade on my desktop. Went ok. Installed some updates, including the latest .Net and experience pack or whatever. After rebooting it said there were problems and uninstalled both...

I used Windows Update on the laptop to upgrade from factory W10 to W11, so the update definitely came from legit sources. As I found out, this was stupid; I should have downloaded the latest ISO and upgraded from that. I did subsequently download the ISO from the official link and got 24H2. Used...

Thanks Merc. Why do big companies do stupid things like this, DD? According to Wikipedia, MS installed a version of W11 on my laptop for which support ended on 8 Oct 2024. Awesome, no? :mad:

The beast has been slayed. In the VM, the "Install VMWare Tools" was grayed out, so I assumed it was already installed. In fact during the conversion of the live system to a VM, this is a question that is asked and I specifically said Yes. Also my physical DVD drive is connected to a power...

Thanks Merc, will look into these.

I created a VM Win7 Technet key --> 10. Worked Fine. Did an in-place upgrade to W11; didn't activate. That VM showed a lock icon on it. I used your Massgrave script to fix it. Anyway, will try inplace upgrade, and if it doesn't activate, will use the script. But would like to get the VM of my...

My VMs created from scratch work well. All VMs are on an NVME SSD. I was probably an early adopter of Workstation (2001), but have been using Player for many years. Don't know where dynamic RAM allocation is. Can't find anything relevant under Edit VM setting \ Memory. For Disk, Max Size 320...

I used VMWare Converter to make a VM of my live system. I gave the VM 6 cores out of my 12-core Ryzen 9 5900x; gave it 32 GB. It's unusable. There is so much mouse lag I couldn't even close a window or do anything. Task manager shows less than 3GB RAM consumed, but CPU maxxed out. Does...

Is there a latest / greatest guide to de-crapifying W11 after it's installed? I plan on an in-place upgrade.

Thanks Merc. I suspect it won't activate because my install is a Technet W7 upgraded to W10. When I tried this in a VM, W11 did not activate. But Massgrave fixed that. So I suspect I'll have to go thru the same for my live install. I plan to use VMWare Converter to make a VM of my live install...

Having Private DNS on hasn't caused any issues for me. My phone is a Samsung 25+ running One UI 7.0. I'll keep DNS66 in mind. Thank you very much.

My hardware is from 2021 and fully compatible with W11. It's a toss up between upgrading my W10 installation and using the massgrave script, or doing a fresh install and then using the massgrave script. MS has been harassing me badly the last few days to upgrade in place.

Thanks Merc. Private DNS is already on in my phone.

My version of W10 is upgraded from a technet version of W7. MS does not allow upgrade to W11 from this setup.

I need to get off my ass and move to W11 - my 2021 vintage hw supports it. I'm just dreading doing a complete fresh install of it, the amount of configuring required, and re-installing all the programs. Not a spring chicken anymore, and when you get old, patience is the first casualty.

Looks like dev on DNS666 has stopped effective March 2021; they recommend DNSNet. I do have a Samsung phone. When you say Samsung has an option, is that if the Samsung browser is used? I use Chrome. Where would I find that option?

My working drives are all SSDs, but I have 2 spinning drives in the case. I have a 5.25" power controller to which these are connected, so they are off most of the time. I use them alternatively as near line backups - 1 each 10 days or so. I have been using Syncback since Handy mentioned it here...

Thanks Merc.

Any suggestions for Android?

About 20 years ago, I had a serious case of maybe carpal tunnel. I bought a standing vertical mouse with an embedded trackball, I think. Used it for a few months, things got better, went back to a regular mouse. No problems since. The weird mouse is in a box somewhere. Probably a PS2 connector...

I was actually able to remove the boot NVMe after removing the video card; there was sufficient space under the CPU cooler, and the slot is farther below on the motherboard than I guessed with the video card in. After playing with 3rd part heatsinks and silicone thermal pads, my findings are...

Super!

How does the setup of 3 fans behind 3 others work? I guess they are blowing out?

Long ago I had created a virtual machine with Technet W7, upgraded to W10, then to W11. It was not activated. I tried the above suggested method and it activated! 👏 Thanks Merc!

Thanks Merc & Sed. My motherboard has 2 NVME slots, and I seem to have removed both the provided NVME heat sinks at the time of installing the MB 3.5 years ago. My boot drive is a 512 GB WD_Black SN850 NVMe SSD (Sorry Merc) and idle temp is 45-46C. Unfortunately it's behind a big-ass Noctua...

Is a thermal pad required between a heatsink and an M.2 NVME SSD? Doesn't make sense to me. 1. There is no flat, machined surface; only discrete chips with spaces between them 2. The chips are anyway covered with the manufacturer label. Who knows what it's made of.

Done. Tried AOMEI Partition Assistant again, with the Copy OS option. I rebooted and tried to boot from the external NVME enclosure with the bigger NVME. It booted. But this option did not copy the Recovery Partition. So ditched this. Isn't it amazing that clone disk does not actually clone it...

Sorry was out all day yesterday. On the laptop I have a paid version of AOMEI Partition Assistant. This low cost version does not allow creation of a USB bootable version, so it reboots into Windows PE and does the job. I guess I'll have to search for a free version of something that will clone...

Cloned the entire drive. First time, I expanded the Windows partition on the destination drive during cloning. Didn't work. Second time cloned as is. Didn't work.

I bought a cheap laptop in 2021. It came with a 256 GB NVME SSD and W10. I decided to replace the NVME with a 1 TB. I did a disk clone a couple of different ways, but laptop does not boot, saying there is no boot drive. The Information page of the BIOS sees the new 1TB NVME. The boot screen...

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Ow! I'd better check if I need to update too. Thanks.

Is everybody here on W11? I'm still on W10. I guess I need to get off my ass one of these days and switch. My W10 was upgraded free from a Technet W7. MS stopped allowing such W10 installations from upgrading to W11. I'll have to buy a copy of W11 which I don't mind, but am resisting the new...

Thanks guys. I'll leave well enough alone. If it ain't broke...

I built a new system in 2021; Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming + Ryzen 9 5900z, etc. Last updated the BIOS in early second half of 2021. Asus released some crappy BIOS updates after that that bricked motherboards, so I haven't done any updates since. System is fine and stable, and I didn't want to...