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There is a lot about Microsoft products that I love.
Quick Assist is a godsend for me as the IT guy in the family, I have been able to help my mother and sister with various issues thanks to it, and without needing to guide them through configuring Teamviewer or the like (installing ANY kid of software when the user is already confused about UAC is not a good thing).
Office365 has literally saved my career. I had a bad PC crash some time ago where my ancient platter drive got destroyed, and unfortunately I had a lot of important documents including contract-related data on it. My in-house backup to the Synology NAS (through Previous Versions) had silently failed so the copy there was too old, but OneDrive held a copy that I was able to redownload on the new PC.
While I have minor gripes with OneDrive in how it uses the same Documents folder that has been abused by software since the 90s as a dumping spot, so space can easily run out for the free plan, that can be worked around and it’s essentially being given to all users for free. Of course I now pay for myself and my family for extra storage with the family plan so even that space issue is gone.1 user thanked author for this post.
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winget search -q “” gave me a list of over 4500 items of which I recognized about 20 and many of which have a Name or Id that seem to be a bit questionable…
If you did a winget search, you searched all available packages.
winget list will return only what you have installed (and is recognised).
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fTPM is firmware TPM, where there is no dedicated TPM chip but instead the CPU emulates one.
Many if not all fTPMs have at least two banks, one for SHA1 keys and one for SHA256 keys. If SHA1 and is enabled and SHA256 not, it is not a TPM 2.0.
If SHA1 and SHA256 are enabled at the same time, Windows11 may write the SHA256 hash with the SHA1 bank and fail.
So for optimal compatibility SHA1 needs to be turned OFF in the UEFI for any system with an fTPM.
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I would advice against installing Windows 11 on a computer without TPM 2 (or other requirements) as Microsoft has stated that these computers will not be able to update to the release version. This will leave these PCs in the sad state of running a beta build where the only option is to go back to Windows 10, which is only possible without a full reinstall if the previous version of Windows still exists on the hard drive. The longer the time from the Win11 beta install, the more likely this folder will be cleaned up for space.
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An Internet passport will let any government, any enterprise, any web site.. track you easily.
It can also lead to China-style ‘social credit score’ where dissidents are easily denied access to the Internet.
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For the record, the ‘new’ way to get to the Folder Options and make it so that Windows shows hidden files and extensions is to click File on top of a file explorer window, then selecting Change folder and search options.
This will bring up the same Folder Options dialog where you can opt to show everything.
I also recommend turning at least Hide protected operating systems back on after it is no longer needed for any casual user, as otherwise they will see multiple files and folders they cannot and should not interact with.1 user thanked author for this post.
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I can’t resist.
USB is an absolute mess. There is also the annoying practice that started with USB 3.1 where retroactively USB 3.0 was renamed to USB 3.1 Gen1 — and now with 3.2, what was USB 3.0 is now USB 3.2 Gen 1×1, what was USB 3.1 is now USB 3.2 Gen 2×1, and USB 3.2 is USB 3.2 Gen 2×2.
It’s almost as if they want to make it as confusing as possible.
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