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Thanks Susan. I’ll be able to discuss those items with my friend who has to decide what will suit him best as I’m sure he’ll have future use to rely on.

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Switching from S Mode

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Switching to S Mode has been completed shortly after Alex23’s recommendation.
With that said, I’ll use the Windows 11 forum for future dealings on her new HP PC 15-dy2000 (2D115AV).

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I wasn’t with her when she bought it. She bought it as a recommendation from her girlfriend. My friend told me she bought the laptop for about, $375.00, I don’t remember the exact cost plus she purchased a 3-year warranty. But then this was the first time I experienced S Mode: I didn’t realize it was that way until eventually later on. So, I just learned the hard way, that from now on, I’ll be ready to find out up-front. Now I need to find out how to change from S Mode to Normal Mode.

On re-enabling Sleep Mode or and/or hibernate, great advice especially since I’m in I’m in tune with that.

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The laptop is an HP PC 15-dy2000 (2D115AV)

EDIT. We finally got together yesterday, and everything was going well but everything looked so different but eventually I found out it was in S Mode. I didn’t know that up front meaning I was ignorant of that fact. My friend decided she wanted a Microsoft account and that went well. Before I left, she started WU’s even though there was a long list of them. I told her no matter how long it takes, do not use the laptop for anything.

Later in the evening, she called me and told me the screen turned white followed by turning black a few hours later. She shut it down & started back up: naturally still black.

I told her to leave it down but start it up in the morning: it will start up ok.
— She just texted me to let me know it started up ok & WU’s are continuing.

I’m thinking of changing Sleep to never.
— Is that a good idea?
— Anything else.

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Hi Paul, I will make an image backup when the set-up is completed. I used to call that a pristine image backup.
— I’ll be doing that on my external drive but that’ll be it for the time being.
— I told her I’d be willing to create an image backup once a year, but she’ll have to buy an external drive.

Good recommendation for a password manager. Actually, I should do that for myself.

Document backups is also an excellent recommendation. Thanks.

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@tfw, thanks for taking the time to post your explanations. Even though my friend will not use Office 365 since she just wants to be a simple user, your information interests me.

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“Libre Office. It’s compatible with all Office formats, and best of all it’s FREE.”
I didn’t know it was compatible with all Office formats: that’s great.

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I went back in to see how I can have the title of a document centered in the header. I copied the title of the document into the header, and it landed to the far right up against page X of Y. Pressing the space bar, the title moved toward the center and that was it.

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I did run into a snag the first time I tried it, and I didn’t know why it didn’t complete properly so I started over. The 2nd time it worked but I’m not sure if I followed each step exactly but whatever I did, it worked on the file I wanted to have it work on. WinKey +. (period) 😊👍

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@Drcard:)), it was well explained & it came out fine.
I wanted to add the thumbs up, how do I do that?

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The computer shop still has my friend’s laptop and is saving the data as the laptop doesn’t boot up.
For my part I thought it would be involved but with your recommendations as a simple user I understand your recommendations & I’ll be able to do that for myself if it’s ever needed.
Thank you for your advice.

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windbg wrote:

A compromise would be to require everyone posting here to have a unique handle and login but allow them to remain “anonymous”. This would be useful to tell one anonymous poster from another. Their email address remains private except to site administrators for these non-paying accounts. Makes it easy to warn or block someone who violates the posting rules and less need to pre-approve these posts from these mostly private non-payers.

[ For many free accounts I use, they don’t have my real name or any correct demographic data provided by me. (But I am sure someone could figure it out, as least manually.) ]

I believe Anonymous users are handled very well.

At the same time though, I agree with oldfry based on
“This would be useful to tell one anonymous poster from another.”

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Mr. Austin

Everything went fine
Create installation media for another PC.
Used an 8GB FAT32 flash drive as recommended: it took up 4.28GB.
Although it isn’t an ISO, I’m fine.

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Thanks everyone. My system isn’t blue ray dual layer discs capable.

I’ll continue using USB flash drives and won’t worry about comparing each process.

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