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ON SECURITY By Susan Bradley With over a year left before Windows 10 stops being supported in its current fashion, are you reviewing its health and we
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Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher
I noticed that one option for a user with a smaller Windows drive that can’t be replaced with a larger drive…make space by moving installed apps to another drive.
For this I use Application Mover from Funduc Software. It moves the entire installation, including registry keys/values and shortcuts; no need for symlinks. It’s $15US. One license is good for all your personal machines.
If there’s only 10% free space, any new writes will be made only in that 10% area.
That is not how wear-leveling works.
In the article you state “Get the fastest Internet connection you can afford.” I will disagree. Get the fastest internet you need, not afford.
I dropped my internet speed from 800 Mbps to 150 Mbps. I have noticed no difference in anything that I do. A full 4K stream can be done at 25 Mbps, well within the 150 Mbps, which support four streams easily.
Most downloads and web pages are restricted by the server, not the recipient’s bandwidth. For a household to require 800 Mbps is generally unreasonable.
Internet has even been required for certain HP printers mandating constant Internet access as well as an HP+ subscription. The good news is that it appears that HP has relented on the mandate and is relaxing it for certain printers.
That’s great news and perhaps the beginning of the end of what, IMHO, is a lousy policy.
However, Susan, the embedded link you have in the quote above to the substantiating article goes to a page that’s in German and has no option for getting the page in English. For those who don’t speak German, is there a way to get a link to that article in English, or should we try running it through Google Translate or other translation option?
I found a link on The Verge about this: https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/9/24195022/hp-plus-laserjet-office-printers-instant-ink-toner
That article at Tom’s Hardware is based upon a Twitter post that’s linked to in the article itself. Please see Susan’s response to someone else who posted the same thing in a different thread here. The other person posted a link to an article on Yahoo! Tech that was based upon the same Twitter post.
Basically, tread lightly with those articles.
I will agree. A house hold may have 2-3 PCs, 2-3 smartphones, tablets, streaming devices/smart Tvs.. Internet speed matters.
OK. I have four PCs, three internet connected printers, three smart TVs, two smart phones, three tablets, 12 smart plugs and switches, six security cameras, two Apple TVs, and two smart watches. Half a dozen people in the house at one time including guests with devices of their own. No one complained or noticed any speed problems.
When monitoring the speed on my mesh router network the downstream traffic rarely hits about 30 Mbps. Upstream is even less. Downloads are restricted to the offering server and their load, not my internet speed.
Rather than having high download speed I would rather have symmetrical speed as I upload a lot of images to a private website.
In my opinion fast internet speeds are only marketing gimmicks and if the truth were really known, 200 Mbps is more than enough for all but a few households.
Dropping my speed from 800 Mbps to 150 Mbps saves me $40.00 a month, $480.00 a year (plus tax). That is substantial savings for no real noticeable degradation in performance.
They are running windows 3.0 and windows 95
I read that Southwest Airlines was running Windows for Workgroups 3.1. Windows 95 and Windows 3.0 did not have networking unless significant add-ons were installed.
Each subscriber should evaluate their individual needs.
Not all ISPs/connections are created equal and “faster” is NOT always better.
Consider the ISPs download AND upload speeds, ISP bandwith transfer limits/speed throttling/fees (after certain limits are exceeded), CGNAT/forced multiplexing of IPv4 addresses, IPv6 support [or lack thereof], the need to possibly purchase new hardware to realize speed improvements (ONT/modem/router/switches, NICs), contract requirements, speed caps imposed by host servers, etc.
For many users, the cheaper “slower” plans will literally be just as good as the “faster” plans with the bigger price tag.
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