Thank you folks. This is great feedback!

Folks, I am looking at several used laptop options, some of which have Win11 Pro on them. I have never run Win11 and wasn't ready to make the transition (I tend to be one of those people that are...

Thanks folks. That makes sense. I'll use one of the imaging utilities that you folks recommended.



Just out of curiosity, are you referring to the embedded MS tool, "create a system restore...

Can you share tips on how to create a system image? And what exactly is a system image? What would I potentially use it for?

Yes, I will definitely post back with an update! And I may have a few questions once I get into it. Thank you so much for this great feedback!:-)

I'm buying a used laptop on eBay. It's advertised as fully functional with a fresh copy of Win10 Pro. My gut tells me I should retrieve the Win10 product key, wipe out the SSD, and reload windows,...

The process to enter the validation code is a little convoluted.

First install the software like normal using the License number and the Product number. After installation, is when the...

The image below is a simplified example of what I have. In other words, the cells of my spreadsheet have long character strings, forming one or more sentences per cell. How do I set up a search to...

I am working in Excel. My spreadsheet is several thousand rows long. It is filled with cells that have hundreds of lines of character text per cell (Excel was not the right app for this content,...

Your article said to save plum.sqlite. Effectively, I have done that when I saved the aforementioned directory. However, pasting plum.sqlite to the new machine results in the unfavorable behavior I...

I use Sticky Notes heavily. Before getting rid of my old Win10 machine, I copied the following directory to a thumb drive...



On my new Win10 PC, I tried to paste the directory from the thumb...

My gut tells me it is a problem on the machine in question. Said machine accesses the internet just fine. I can remote desktop connect from other machines to the machine in question. So it has...

Minutes ago, I successfully connected another Win10 laptop to said printer. So I don't believe the printer is the problem. How could I pinpoint where the problem is at?

I would like some help troubleshooting the connection to my printer. It was working fine and suddenly stopped.

It's an Epson NX515 printer wired to the router. Although it's an older printer,...

Problem solved folks! Once I realized I could not ping the remote machine, I disabled the firewall on the remote machine. I could then connect. I later re-enabled the remote machine's firewall and...

They are both on the same subnet. They are both on the private network profile.

I restarted "Function Discovery Resource Publication" on both machines. It did not help.
I verified "Remote...

I didn't think that was relevant, but it is called "main."

I would like some help troubleshooting my Remote Desktop Connection. My IT department has been unhelpful. I have 3 company machines, all Windows 10. The "remote" machine is Windows 10 Education...

Yes, you are correct that I have to search for it in the Start Menu. I did that. The app was completely gone. It was even gone from my System App list.

I have used the MS native Sticky Notes since Win7. Now I'm at Win10 v22H2 with them. Unfortunately, I don't back them up and take it for granted that they will load every day when I boot, until...

Yup, sounds fine to me. I had a hunch it was encrypted. I don't feel like running down that rabbit hole anyways, since I'm up and running regardless! Thanks a million for all of the help!

Hmm, this didn't get me very far. Method 1 decoded the file, but it just looked like a bunch of gibberish. It was a bunch of hexadecimal coding with no ASCII text in the right column. Perhaps, is...

Folks, we can call off the hunt! Yay! Last night, in a daze, while staring and waiting for my old slow PC, not even thinking about QuickBooks, I noticed a file in Windows Explorer titled,...

Quick update:

I haven't abandoned this yet, but got yanked away for some other things. Nevertheless, I downloaded Process Monitor and read the aforementioned ProcMon Ultimate Guide. I loaded...

I basically only use QuickBooks for its checkbook register and nothing else. I was not aware of these alternatives you mentioned, and will keep them in mind as Plan B. Do you know how/if the...