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I use RoboForm as my password manager. This is an entirely on the computer program and storage and is quite secure. I don’t trust storage of passwords in the cloud or on off-computer sites. I make a copy of all of my passwords on paper and place them in a bank safe deposit box. I change all important passwords with totally random, long passwords every three months, especially those involved with finances and personal and health matters.

Regarding your article “Does disk compression kill performance?”: I used disk compression up to now only in separate files, such as photos and documents. I took the plunge on a rather full disk and did the whole thing. It took hours, but the results were spectacular. I decreased the used space from 399 GB to 81.2 GB and the free space was increased from 186 GB to 504 GB. That is a change of almost FIVE times. And, as you said, I cannot see any degradation of processing time. Thanks a million for your suggestions and for this and your previous article on this subject.

You’re going to View update history, not Installed updates (which is available as a link at the bottom of Windows Update, or at the top of View update history).

At Installed updates, a right-click only displays Uninstall.

Bruce

Thank you. I never noticed the installed updates annotation before. Guess I need new glasses or something. Anyway, you solved my problem.

When I go to Windows Update, installed updates, KB 2823324, and right click on it, I do NOT get the option to delete. The only two options are View Details and Copy Details. I get this on any of the installed updates not just this one. Is there a solution to this?

I agree and defragment my computers with almost no fragmentation. It really does help speed. I was only saying that Microsoft DOES have a recommendation of 10% even though that is, as you say, pretty high. Thanks for you comments.

Fred, You stated “Oddly, Microsoft doesn’t specify what percentage of fragmentation it deems worth fixing.” Microsoft DOES say how much fragmentation you should reach to be worth fixing: Over 10%. You can find this in Help by entering Defrag and selecting the top item about halfway down the first screen.

Interesting article. I tried the exact same experiment with McAfee, probably one of the most complete AV on the market and my results were:
Startup Time: 65 seconds
Shutdown Time: 13 seconds
The amount of disk space and memory such a program uses is almost without meaning when there is so much of both on any modern computer. My up and down times were quite good for such a large program.

Cute idea. I agree with you that the ribbon stuff is silly, but no one gave me a vote when this was introduced. Maybe someday MS will come to their senses and return to simple menus again, but I’m not holding my breath.

You had one little typo in your excellent article on the Ribbon, but it caused me some problems until I realized what you meant to say. In the paragraph labled STEP 5, you said to highlight “Next” on the left pane when you meant, I believe, to say “New” in order to follow the steps you described to place a “New” icon on the ribbon under the Home tab.:huh: