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I have a bare bones Pentium-based PC hooked up to my Samsung TV that is used for streaming content.  I did an in place update to 24H2 and other than it taking a long time, I have not seen any issues at all.  I built a new workstation a month ago and did a clean install of 24H2.  Since I don’t game my GTX 1660 Super GPU works fine for all my needs and there were no issues after installing the current NVidia driver.  Once I got all the apps reinstalled, the system has been working well and is much faster than the retired PC.  I have 24H2 blocked on my wife’s PC; that one is still runing 23H2.

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Will Fastie, Will Fastie, Cybertooth

The easiest way around this IF you are doing a fresh Windows install is to use Rufus to prepare your install USB drive.  Rufus allows you to turnoff Bitlocker automatically so it will not be active when Windows installs itself (I believe it sets the Group Policy for you).  There are other options with Rufus as well.  I used it to set up my new Workstation last month and it was very easy to do.  You can get Rufus at the link above and there are YouTube tutorials if you need them.

I am surprised there is no mention of Password Safe.  I have been using this for years both on my PC and Android phone.  It is open source and offers lots of options in terms of how long the password should be and what characters should be used.

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windbg, Tom in Az

Those of us who have photography printers are locked into the companies own print cartridges.  A full set of ink for my Canon Pro1000 costs $687.

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wavy

I anticipated this and ordered the parts for a new workstation in mid-January. Parts arrived by the first week in February and the PC was built and is up and running. The Intel CPU was made in the US but final assembly was in Vietnam. Two Samsung drives were assembled in Vietnam. Case was made in China as was the motherboard. CPU heatsink was made in Taiwan. I repurposed the GPU. Power supply came from the Philippines.

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Kathy Stevens

All 3 of the PCs that we have are home built.  I always update the BIOS after building since right out of the box, motherboards may have a BIOS that is outdated.  When a new BIOS is available, I will check to see what benefits it provides.  In many if not most cases it is a minor improvement, usually improving memory handling.  There are seldom security fixes.  In this latter case, I always update.

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PL1

I just did an install on the new workstation I built.  Downloaded the ISO from the MSFT site and prepared the USB stick with Rufus as I did not want Bitlocker enabled. as @RetiredGeek notes, you are asked for the version that you want to install.  My existing key is linked to the Microsoft account and was easily transferred over to the new PC.

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RetiredGeek

There are several websites that I use where this pops up including Amazon.  It’s not enforced as you can simply hit the cancel button and continue on to the site.

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Lars220

I built a new workstation to replace my over 6 years old PC.  Since I was doing a fresh install of Windows I went with 24H2 and used Rufus to prevent Bitlocker from being enabled.  The install went perfectly normal and I have not seen any issues at all over the past three weeks of use.  I still have to hook up my Canon Pro-1000 photo printer and will do that this week.  My HP Deskjet installed right away.  I have a second PC that is hooked up to the TV and only used for media streaming.  I did a simple in place upgrade to 24H2.  Although it took a bit of time there have been no issues but of course the PC does nothing more than stream to the TV and the external DVD/BluRay reader works fine.  It may be that the major issues people are seeing come from an in place upgrade.

A lot of DIY computer builds are done by gamers, hence the proliferation of lots of websites that test builds and components for that community.  I don’t know of many games that are ported to MacOS (I’m not a gamer and have played exactly one game that came bundled free with a GPU that I bought maybe 12 years ago).  Most of my work is photography, financial analysis, and office work (though retired, I’m chair of a modest size non-profit).  I’ve been building my own PC workstations since 2008.  I’m free to choose the components that I need along with the amount of RAM and storage.  I can realize a significant savings over buying a comparably configured Mac system.  DIY is not for everyone (and I don’t know what the percent of Ask Woody users who build their own) but the savings are real.

 

I’ve been on a PC almost since the time of its introduction.  It was the standard for office work in the jobs I held.  I’ve been building my own workstations for 15 years now and the ease of customization and cost are far cheaper than buying an Apple product.  That being said, the one place Apple really shines is with their Macbook and the Fourscore program for music performing.  I’ve been a choral singer for years, and this piece of software on a Macbook Pro is revelatory.  I have probably 300 choral pieces and songs on it, all easily organized into set lists.  I don’t have to lug around folders of printed music any longer!!!

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Will Fastie, rc primak

Got the answer I needed!!

@Drcard:))   Many thanks, this solves my problem.  Right after the install, I set up a separate data account with my old PST file.  I just checked to see how easy it was to transfer an email to the PST account, and it was quite simple.  I think this will solve my problem and allow me to keep the synch feature that IMAP provides.

 

I saw that site when I was researching this the other day.  I do understand the major differences between the two types of service.  My question has to do with the synching.  At some point an email in my Yahoo inbox will be deleted from the Yahoo server.  Will this email disappear from my OST file when it synchs or will it remain?  If I am using IMAP, how do I preserve critical emails?

I figured out the problem late last night.  Outlook automatically set up the Yahoo account for IMAP and created an OST file which is not compatible with PST.  Since this is a third party email provider and I don’t worry about synching to multiple devices, I guess I can set up a POP account which should use the old POP file.

I’m wondering what other uses do in this case.  Have most people migrated to IMAP???