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The term “data” is a convenient label meaning “any use”.

cheers, Paul

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Andy M

You have not configured TB correctly to use Hotmail. Nothing else going on here.

See if this article helps: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/microsoft-oauth-authentication-and-thunderbird-202

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All partitions should be Simple on a PC. Anything else is server / playing territory.

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Andy M

All email providers check email when it arrives. If the email does not have the right authentication the email will be silently dropped and you will never see it.
This is a 2 way thing, the email sender must have authentication, the receiver must implement the checks so that it allows “not quite right, but probably OK” email through. It seems MS have a higher bar / crappy implementation.

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We can’t get to the Moon, Mars etc any faster – physics gets in the way.
And if we did go faster it makes it harder to stop at the other end.  🙂

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Computer Learner wrote:

how do I remove the “Restart Required” notice

This pops up after patch / update installation to tell you that a restart is required to finish the installation. It can’t be removed.

Computer Learner wrote:

will it install version 24h2 again?

Not if you run GRC InControl – and then reboot.

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I never clean the registry. It is a database and does not affect the performance of your computer. Cleaning it, on the other hand, can cause issues if the wrong thing is cleaned.

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PL1

I just want lower power devices and better batteries so I can run my house entirely on solar / wind. The rest will be what it is.

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dataman1701, Charlie

I would test booting in UEFI before restoring anything. It might just work, or give you a meaningful error message.

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I’d roll back to 10, then use GRC InControl to prevent update past W11 23H2.
https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/ms-defcon-4-mixed-bag-for-march/#post-2760233

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Well spotted, I missed the logical partition.

According to Macrium you can restore that partition and change the type to Primary.
As you already have an image it should be simple.

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Andy M, PL1

Doing the conversion won’t break anything, but then converting your BIOS to UEFI may be an issue, especially if the correct disk drivers aren’t available. This is why you make an image.

Run the validate command and let us know what it says.

If the change doesn’t work you have the option of restoring to MBR or installing afresh in UEFI.
As the PC doesn’t meet the specs it might be easier to reinstall via Rufus.

You can mount an image backup to restore specific data if required, or use your other backups.

cheers, Paul

When MS fix the worst bugs.  🙂

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Fred

It’s the way we install all Windows upgrades / re-install Windows. It will offer to upgrade and you select “keep everything”.
Nothing “not good” about it.

As always, make an image backup first.  🙂

cheers, Paul

For Windows to boot in UEFI it needs a small boot partition, which you don’t have.
I don’t know if the conversion program will create the boot partition, but you can run it and see what it does. (Use the “mbr2gpt /validate” command to test.)

cheers, Paul