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In an elevated Command Prompt run:
DISM /online /cleanup-image /RestoreHealth
sfc /scannow

I ran both of these, and now Win11 is successfully installed. I had to plug in an external drive because I didn’t have enough free disk space, but that was the only hangup. Thanks for the tip!

Paladium wrote:

We need actual, factual alternatives to M$

Well, Libre Office comes to mind. Except that Writer does not have as good a document overview  as Word (View/Navigation Pane). My solution is to use a standalone version of  MS Office.

The author says

Office 2024, 2021, 2019, and 2016 users are saved from this upheaval.

Gee, what does that suggest about how to avoid hassle and save money?

 

 

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I find that Google Messages For Web works like a champ. I gave up on MS Phone Link quite a while ago.

I use MS Office 2016, which includes its own version of Outlook. That version appears to be completely separate from Outlook (new), which is also installed. Under what circumstances would Outlook (new) replace or interfere with my Outlook 2016?

(Sorry if this is not posted in the right place. If that is the case, please tell me where to post it.)

 

Will Fastie wrote:

Ascaris wrote:

Definitely not.

Regrettably, certain sites important to me require Chrome. Otherwise, it would not be installed on any of my PCs.

Just curious, what sites require Chrome. Will they not work with another chromium-based browser?

astro46 wrote:

does edge save comments with the pdf? can be viewed in different pdf viewer and see comments?

 

Yes and Yes. I can see the highlighting when I look at it in Acrobat Reader, and I can see comments too.

I use Edge for reading and annotating PDF documents. It’s easy to highlight portions of text with different colors and to add comments.

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Will Fastie

Please do a review of Opera as compared to Chrome and Edge.

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berniec wrote:

I’ve used Firefox for a very long time and I haven’t seen a reason to use any of the others

Unfortunately I have encountered several sites that don’t work properly with Firefox, so I switched to Opera on my Windows machine. On my Mac I use Safari.

I run the old Windows Backup and Restore on my Win 10 22H2 machine. Works fine, just like it did in Win 7. I didn’t even know I had the so-called Backup program that Susan mentions. It has never popped up or bothered me. I guess I’m lucky.

 

The ThinkPenguin Penguin T4 GNU/Linux Laptop requires an external plug-in dongle for Bluetooth. I want Bluetooth built in. Why is that so hard?

Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you were talking about Linux replacements. Corel Paintshop Pro does not run on Linux.

The author says “we found a pleasing replacement in Corel PaintShop Pro.” Please tell us what the replacement is.

I created a USB boot drive with Universal USB Installer for Ubuntu Mate, but my Win10 Pro with UEFI would not boot properly with it. I then used Balena Etcher, which the Ubuntu docs recommended, and it worked just fine.

https://etcher.balena.io/#download-etcher 

Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.

Etcher is a powerful OS image flasher built with web technologies to ensure flashing an SDCard or USB drive is a pleasant and safe experience. It protects you from accidentally writing to your hard-drives, ensures every byte of data was written correctly, and much more. It can also directly flash Raspberry Pi devices that support USB device boot mode.

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