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However, my recommendation for Moneydance is because it works on pretty much every OS including MacOS, iOS/iPadOS and Android as well as Windows.

Yes MS Money Plus still works with Windows 11. Good suggestion for free software.

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teuhasn2

Will,

Went through a similar experience and replaced Quicken with Moneydance Have been quite satisfied with it for several years now. I recommend you try it out. I think you will find it is a good replacement for the old form of Quicken. No subscription required.

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Duggem, mcbsys, windbg

I try to comment but my comments disappear. So I’m signing off.

Deanna,

Thanks for the recommendation, but…

I tried the program. Looked promising. However, the “command line” kept vanishing and wouldn’t return until I uninstalled and reinstalled the program. Tried using Alt-Tab, where it appeared but wouldn’t come to the foreground. Tried the hot key. That didn’t work. Tried killing it with Task Manager but it wasn’t showing up in the list of applications or processes. So I uninstalled and reinstalled the program.  And then it did it again, so I uninstalled SlickRun one last time, deleted the installation file and am back to my old ways of launching applications and web pages.

FWIW, I am running W11 Pro on a desktop machine.

 

But we can hide it.

FWIW, I feel your pain.

My interest in PCs began with the giant manuals that IBM included with my 1983 IBM PC XT. If not for those manuals, I expect I never would have gotten interested in computers.

These days companies have gone eco-friendly and cheap by making information online only and hard to find. Onus is entirely on the end user to understand what they have and what it can and cannot do.

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Charlie

Thanks for the reminder.

Yes, it is a mess. It isn’t going to get better anytime in the near future, probably worse. Unfortunately, the golden age of streaming is over. Wish it weren’t so.

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opti1, Charlie, KB6OJS

Never liked PowerShell. Avoid it and still use cmd.exe. Works better for me. Less clutter in my head.

I think it’s a tie between my iPad mini and my Samsung Galaxy Watch 5 Pro. I use them both and often.

For me, the mini is the better form factor size in a tablet as compared to larger iPads or other tablets. It is easier for me to hold for extended periods and to work with. It is much faster than Kindles or Amazon tablets, both of which I own, but use sparingly.

The watch lets me monitor physical activity, motivating me to move rather than sit in front of a computer. It has excellent battery life for a high-end smart watch. It lasts three days in normal use before needing a recharge.

For my desktop machines, I keep my data on a different physical drive than my OS so replacing the OS drive and restoring the system takes me about half a day. One plus of having to do that is that all the cruft that built up in the older version of the OS is gone.

Of course, rebuilding/restoring a laptop is a different process as there is only one physical drive. Generally, if I have a laptop that experiences a significant system failure, I simply replace it with a new machine.

I don’t do full image backups. Takes too much time and energy and is of limited value in my experience. My data is stored in multiple locations. My apps can be reinstalled. Reinstalling Windows and Mac OSes is not too difficult these days, which I have done on multiple occasions through the years, so I’m good without a full image backup.

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WSlagunacreek

I ordered a new drive out of a sense of caution. The smart drive report says the drive has been on for 17184 hours, which is 716 days or a bit over 102 weeks.

It is faster for me to clone a drive than download my data files from the clouds.

I been playing with computers, networks, etc. for over half a century. I know it’s better to be safe than sorry.

I ran Smart drive software and found the drive is good. I ran Windows drive properties and found it reports no errors on the drive. I ran the Windows scan for drive errors, anyway. No errors reported.

As I previously wrote, I ordered a replacement drive and it will arrive later today. In the next day or two I will be cloning the drive, just in case.

However, the Upscayl software is dangerous. I won’t use and suggest other people avoid putting their systems at risk.