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Woody’s become an involuntary beta tester for the Afterlife v. 1.0 upgrade.  Surely he prepared a good O.S. backup to reboot and restore his soul in the next world.

Condolences to those who feel his loss.

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Kirsty, SueW, Myst, Cybertooth

“Clippy” returns with a vengeance!

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Cybertooth

Windows 11 22H2 and 22H3 unmanaged PCs may start to see Copilot.

Susan, is Microsoft releasing Windows 22H3, the LeapYear edition?

Or is this a fat fingers flub? 

 

Oh. You’re talking about cable cutting.

By “dropping cable,” I thought you meant running wires through walls and crawlspaces.

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Netgear A6100 WiFi adapters (USB dongles) stopped working part way through this month’s updates. Naturally, the update process stalled as soon as the internet connection was lost. This happened on an old laptop and an old tower PC, both running Windows 10 Home Edition 22H2.
Neither machine would complete the Windows April updates until I hardwired them into a LAN connection.
After the Windows updates completed, I downloaded and installed the newest Netgear A6100 software (version 1.0.36), but after installation, the Netgear Genie doesn’t seem to run and I have not figured out how to activate the A6100 adapters.
Will look into reinstalling drivers tomorrow when I’m awake.

If you’ve been a customer of your ISP for a long time, consider calling them up and seeing if you can get a cheaper/faster deal. You may not want to call today, as chances are their staffing is lower today and thus you’d have longer wait times.

I’ve had good responses when calling customer support hotlines on big holidays and extremely odd hours (such as Saturday night at 11 pm PST).  There is often one technical support representative handling the one or two calls that happen to come in simultaneously.  Sometimes the tech helping me after hours is authorized to do higher-level fixes when the higher-level support techs are off duty.

Of course, my calls did not involve sales representatives, who are often slammed on holidays.

 

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SueW

Thanks, Paul.

That’s the configuration I’ve been using. I never felt right about sharing the WiFi on the ISP modem/router.  And I’ve never found more than minimal WiFi performance from the ISP’s router.

I do need to get on the guest network idea for IoT devices.

At 3m53s into the video, though, Susan admits that sometimes she wants to use her ISP wifi directly, instead of the WiFi through her own router attached in front of it.

I don’t understand what value there is to maintaining two WiFi networks on separate routers. Seems like just asking for interference between the two.

Thanks, Susan, for more good advice to the clueless. There are probably more out here than anyone would care to admit.

In the video, you mentioned that you have your own router behind the ISP-provided router/modem. I am curious how you have this configured, and what advantages are available through your arrangement.

Do you have active WiFi through both the ISP router and also WiFi on your own router? Or is the second router’s WiFi turned off, so that you just use it for Ethernet LAN connections?

Is there a particularly good home configuration for separating insecure IoT devices from the computers to protect sensitive personal data?

[Latka]

Yes, Paul, but I didn’t realize the command prompt has been relegated to just another app controlled by UAC.

I am old enough to remember (cough, cough, Win 2) when using a command prompt meant having direct control of the operating system; and apps controlled popup windows.

Now the command prompt is in an “app” and the O.S. is controlling all the windows.

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Now it has worked on both machines.  On the first machine, apparently it wasn’t enough to run the command prompt while signed into an admin account.  Apparently the right-click to run as administrator is required, whether it is signed into an administrator account or not.  Go figure.

I ran the command prompt while signed into the administrator account. I will check it again tomorrow.  You may be right about recent updates, as I checked it last week.

I am going to try it on another machine, too. Unfortunately, the machine is 12 years old, so this may take a little longer.

Susan,

This did not work for me. Not sure why. After the last command “/update user” the pop up screen said “you’re up-to-date.”  There was no downloading and reinstalling.

Using Microsoft 365 subscription and Version 2103 (Build 13901.20336 Click-to-Run) Current Channel on Win10 Home Edition Version 20H2 (Build 19042.867).

Thanks, Susan.  You come up with the most practical suggestions for the weekend.

PKCano wrote:

make a full disk image of your computer and a data backup BEFORE you start

I need assistance in translation.  The EaseUS Todo Backup Free 13.0 utility offers several backup options:

1. Disk/Partition Backup
2. System Backup
3. File Backup

Which of these options would perform a “full disk image” backup?

For “data backup” would I choose the File Backup (option 3)?

OscarCP wrote:

A somewhat related idea (the Universe inside a locket that is itself inside another Universe)

See also, Whoville, in Horton Hears a Who, by Dr. Seuss.

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OscarCP