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There training the AI bots on AskWoody.
You should be ecstatic they think the content is that valuable!!
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🙂

System file checker syntax:

In an elevated Command Prompt (run as Administrator)
sfc /scannow

I too retain my copper-based landline. I live in an area with annual hurricanes of varying strengths (depending on the distance from the eye) and lots of trees. It is not unusual for the power to go out for extended periods, and even the cell towers as well. Plug in a POTS (older touch-tone phones here too), powered from the substation, and I can communicate with my not-local kids.
Back when most computers had built in dial-up modems, I was even able to use the Internet when others were out. (Do you remember how slow the connections were??? 🙂 🙂 )

I’m running Macrium 8 on my Win10 22H2 and Win11 23H2 (and on Win11 on several I take care of). Works great so far. Haven’t ventured into 24H2 yet – we’ll see how that does eventually.

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PKCano wrote:

You can remove the “Resolved” tag

Remove the Resolved tag. The thread had already been reopened (don’t know by whom).

My Firefox 136.0 settings look like this now (attachments OK here)

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I usually put updates in a temporary place – a place I don’t intend to leave them. Once you install the update, you no longer need the file(s). If you need to update again at a later date, you will probably need a later version and need to download it instead of reusing the earlier one.
So your desktop is a place you can easily find it, and delete it after the install.

DEFCON 1 & 2 mean don’t patch with updates that have not been classified with higher DEFCON numbers.
DEFCON 3 means patch wit caution.
DEFCON 4 & 5 mean go ahead and patch with the current patches.

The DEFCON System is explained if you click on the “MS-DEFCON System” button in the Menubar at the top of every page.

Done.

 

My answer here.

 

If you use TRV (or InControl) to trigger the update from Win10 to Win11, it will keep your files and apps AND the IDs as they are currently set up. It will preserve Local IDs if that’s what you currently have, or MS IDs if that’s what you have.
Where you have to worry is if you do a clean install you may have to go through the OOBE asking for the creation of new IDs.

*Good idea to be sure the h/w drivers are up to date ahead of time.
Be sure your PCs are Win11 compatible AND be sure you have a current full disk image of each with a verified bootable Rescue disk made by the imaging software BEFORE you start. You will have 10 days to roll back if you have a problem.

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glnz

It sounds like it did not boot into the correct profile.
In Control Panel\Power Options\Choose what the power buttons do turn off fast startup
Then try forcing the computer down by holding the power button down until it turns off a couple of times and see if it boots back into the proper profile.

b wrote:

No File Explorer, Control Panel, Windows Media Player, Notepad, Paint, Calculator, Calendar, Solitaire, Xbox?

Nope. Those are Windows apps. You can’t install them on MacOS.

For testing and AskWoody info mostly and in VMs.
NO COPILOT, NO UWP CrApps (other than the Store which advised not to remove), NO Edge even in the VMs.

I don’t have ANY MS Apps on my MacOS. NO MS Office, No Edge, NO CoPilot.

Who’d want to put Microsoft stuff on a Mac, anyway!

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