Forgot to mention, I am able to log into this Notebook I'm on now at home with only a Microsoft Account and no Internet connection. I was able to log onto it yesterday at the hospital 40 miles away...

It probably has to do with how the programmers wrote the program. Maybe also involved is how a program was installed on a computer with 2 or more users set up, whether installed only for current...

For recovering data I have used 2 methods. One is to pull the drive out and put it into a Drive Dock connected to a different computer and copy user data. The other is to boot to a Linux Mint...

Win10, just like my Win7, will not automatically die at the EOL, just won't get much in the way of updates if any at all. I'm keeping Win7 usable by keeping the Anti-Virus up-to-date as long as...

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It's been a long time, couple decades [Lotus 1-2-3], since I saw that happen and it was because the user had created the column headings in Row 1 but didn't lock the cells and they were indeed...

My LibreOffice Calc [spreadsheet] shows .ods as the default format when choosing Save as in the File menu.
Some of the file types that LibreOffice can work with, there's many more listed that can be...

Several years ago my church was given 4 Dell Latitude E6410 Notebooks that had been removed from a network but they forgot to sign them out first and also forgot give the passwords to the BIOS. I...

A consideration would be if all 4 monitors have to show the same thing or if all will display different data. I have an older custom Win10 Pro with a PCIe X16 NVIDIA GeForce GT 610 [Display adapter]...

Actually it's not 100 but could be 2 or 3. Two computers on a shelf are the same but once sold and set up by a User things change and suddenly they are no longer exactly the same.

I don't have a mouse, Wired, Wireless or Bluetooth, that has the horizontal scroll for characters but I do set the computers for 1/Single line vertical scroll, easier for me for me to read documents....

Don't know about your area but a subdivision in mine had fiber run to the property but only to a terminal device, didn't change the wire going to houses. It did provide better bandwidth.

I like Portable Apps as there is no install, usually come as a .zip/compressed file, just decompress into a folder on whatever drive desired. Don't have to make any adjustment of the 5 text files...

Before doing anything I run Tools on Properties of the C: drive to check for errors then I run Optimize/Defrag to get all the files contiguous to each other which gives free space all together.
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Good plan, I'm also keeping a Win10 Desktop and Notebook plus a Win7 Desktop for referring to.

Won't be cheap, came across this on:
Microsoft Extends Security Updates for Windows 10 Beyond 2025 (for a Price) | PCMag

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I have the unsupported upgrade on a couple 4th Gen i5 Notebooks, a Dell Inspiron 15" and an HP Envy 17", haven't seen any issue with last half-dozen Patch Tuesday updates.

Have also seen...

I use the Tilde ~ on files and folders when I want them showing at the top of a list, haven't had any issues. That symbol is not on the list of those that can't be used in Command Prompt or naming...

Yep, saw that announcement from Microsoft itself some months ago, not long after Win11 was released, Oct. '21.
Couple posts about it in this forum:
Future version of Windows?
Is there an official...

SSDs are the type of drive and can be either SATA or NVMe M.2 connections or the soldered-on type. I have computers with HDDs and SSDs that use the SATA connection and the M.2 connection. Two...

Have you the drivers from Lenovo for the keyboard? Windows Update may have them, look in the Optional section.

Only experience I have with a monitor with an HDMI input is a 27" ASUS which actually has 4 inputs, HDMI, DVI, DisplayPort and VGA, selectable via a switch on the monitor. I do have 2 TVs that can...

I disconnected my NAS in Total Commander then Clicked Net, then Network Connections and got this:

Been there, done that. Last failure I had was an HDD in a self-powered USB case and the interface in the case failed, lost everything on it.

I got a new Dell Vostro Notebook over 2 years ago that came with 8GB RAM in one slot, found a 4GB module in my salvaged parts that mostly matched except the speed. I plugged the 4GB in and did no...