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In Will Fastie’s Column on OneDrive in the 3/24 email:

My Microsoft Surface suddenly started displaying the same desktop as my Lenovo laptop.  I don’t want that either – the two computers are used for different purposes – as Will’s are.

I also discovered that Desktop had been turned on in OneDrive’s back on both computers.  When I turned Desktop off, most of the icons on both desktops disappeared!  That was not the action I intended.  Searching different Desktop folders on my Lenovo, in Users turned up nothing.  The disappeared icons were just gone.  Some were shortcuts to internet sites, that were also still ‘Favorites’ in Edge, so I got those back by copying the address from Edge.  But I’m having to manually rebuild the rest.  Bummer.  I guess that’s one way to clean out my desktop.

Working now.  I found the Print Spooler Service – it wasn’t running.  Got it started and the printer is working now.

Yes, the HP LaserJet is the default.

Thanks Joe,

That’s what I needed.  So, I can still check to see which computers are capable of running Win 11, but I won’t run the upgrade until the 24H2 issue is resolved.

Yes, I saw today’s post, hence, my question.

My question is really:

When I upgrade a Windows 10 computer to Windows 11, will 24H2 automatically come with it (in a business setting)?

If so, then I should wait to do the upgrade until the issue with 24H2 is resolved.

Just “upgraded” an iPhone 13 to IOS 18.  Email is not updating but hasn’t updated since Nov 24 (it’s now 12/5).  I was going to try resetting the password but I confused as to where to do that in the iPhone.  There’s a “Password” app now, that I’ve not seen before but I’m not sure that’s the right place to reset the email password.  I use ATT.NET for email, not iCloud, so resetting the phone’s password (Apple password) won’t fix this ATT password.

 

Ok, discovered another OneDrive problem.

My laptop now has folders from my desktop added to it.  My desktop is registered under the same Microsoft ID.  If I even wanted to use OneDrive, I absolutely DON’T want files from both computers combined in OneDrive – each of my computers (have 5 in use, some part time & not all at the same time) should have it’s own files & not combines with the others.  At the moment, only 2 seem to be connected to OneDrive (&I’ll make sure the others don’t get connected to OneDrive).

 

I have also been using Quicken for a long time – starting well before it changed over to Quicken.com.

Electronic connections:
I don’t use Quicken’s electronic connection to financial institutions – I’d rather do that myself, so I understand the details of every entry & every line item on credit card transactions. In particular, Quicken’s ability to download my credit card data. That sounded great at first. Then when I tried that, it brought over way more than what shows up on my credit card statement – it brought over EVERY credit card entry, up to my last credit card transaction from yesterday. So my payment for the monthly statement is one amount, but the total of the download is a larger amount. How do you reconcile that difference? Also, the Categories that Quicken auto-selected for the downloaded transactions were maybe 30% correct – so I had to review every transaction to adjust the Categories. I also add Memos to credit card transactions, so I know what I purchased, not just the vendor, so I have to touch every entry anyway. I did that download once, then when I saw what it did, cancelled that ‘feature’ and deleted all of the downloaded transactions. Downloading transactions does not save much time, if any.

Reporting:
I often need to look for a transaction, sometimes just searching for the Payee, sometimes a certain Category. If I wrote a check, the search works fine. If it was a credit card transaction (which is 90% of the time), the report simply shows the total credit card payment & I have to manually dig down into the credit card details to find the line item I was looking for. Quicken won’t show me the line item that fits my search criteria. When I asked Quicken about that, I was told I have to use the electronic download method to do credit card entries. Well, I’m not going to do that for the above reasons (download brings more than the items on the statement).

Constant ‘updates’
I don’t open Quicken every day, more like twice a month, maybe even once a month. Often, I bring Quicken up to date with my checkbook only once a month during my bank statement reconciliation. Most of the time, when I open Quicken, it wants to ‘update’ itself. What could change that Quicken needs to ‘update’ its software multiple times a month? Maybe the list of what it can connect to electronically? Since I don’t do downloads from banks or vendors, I don’t need their latest list. I have some investments but they are all handled by the investment firm I use. I track those in Quicken at a very high level, not every security. But I still have to let Quicken ‘update’ itself nearly every time I open the software. That usually only takes a minute or so but then, it askes me if I want to continue opening Quicken! – Well, I clicked on the Quicken icon, so Yes, I still want to open Quicken – why are you asking?

Other:
I use the “Memo” field for most entries, always for credit card entries (for what was purchased & date). When the “Tag” field was added some years ago, I couldn’t figure out what to use that for, so I don’t use that.

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I went into ‘Installed Apps’ and removed several “Corel” apps – all I could find.  Rebooted.  Today the ad came back.  I left the popup running and ran Task Manager and it showed “Corel Update Helper (x86)”.  If the ad is not running, it doesn’t show in Task Manager.  That Corel Update Helper is not in the ‘Installed Apps’.  I found a Corel folder in both C: ‘Program Files’ and ‘Program Files (x86)’.  I could try deleting those folders, but I’m guessing that might just cause something else to not be happy on startup.

Any more ideas?

I’m trying to follow Brian Livington’s Passkeys articles.  In the second articles, he says to create a passkey on your device.  OK, How do I do that?  There’s no “Passkey” app on my new laptop, but it came with Windows 11 and I’m sure it has the TPM chip.  So what do I click on to create a passkey?

I tried all these suggestions – none worked.  Biggest problem is that once I’ve pinned the “.exe” to the taskbar, “Properties” is no longer available on the right-click menu.  So, I can’t change the link back to .xlsx and I can’t change the icon. (The icon is not a big deal to me, but the link has to be changed back to .xlsx)

This is a new computer, running Windows 11 Pro, 22H2, never had Windows 10 (no left-over remnants of Win 10).

OK, maybe I did this wrong, but:

I renamed the file worksheetfile.xlsx to worksheetfile.exe.

Pinned that to the taskbar = OK.

Renamed worksheetfile.exe back to .xlsx.

Attempted to modify the Properties of the shortcut on the taskbar to link to the .xlsx but there was no way to modify the shortcut – & since it’s trying to find a .exe, it can’t find the file cause I renamed it back to.xlsx.  So = didn’t work.  What did I do wrong?

Many thanks for the quick response, though.

I had Outlook on my iPhone at one time, but never set it up and eventually removed it.

I bought a LabelWriter 450 Twin Turbo in May 2020.
I couldn’t get “Dymo Connect” to connect to anything – because I don’t use Outlook. My email is the web client for .att mail and Dymo Connect won’t connect to that. What I use the label writer for is usually not in my contacts list anyway. I couldn’t add addresses to Dymo Connect. A call to tech support and they told me I could use the older “Dymo Label” software to manually add addresses. I downloaded Dymo Label v.8 and it works fine. I have to lookup the +4 zip codes on the USPS website so the barcode will print correctly, but other than that, the label writer works fine.

But when this one dies, I guess I’ll have to see if another company makes something similar, since it seems support for Dymo is dying as well.

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Printer “Offline”, but it’s not.

Very recently, on my Lenovo P520c Desktop, when attempting to print, my HP LaserJet Pro MFP M227 is “Offline” according to the computer (it’s not offline).  If I reboot the computer, what I ‘sent’ the printer prints – with no further action on my part.  My laptop (Lenovo W541) would print OK, but today, it’s doing the same thing.  After sending a print job to the HP printer, the computer says it’s offline.  If I reboot the laptop, it prints – with no further action on my part.  This just started *very* recently.  I suspect a recent Widows-10 patch messed with something.  Anyone else seeing this?

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