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    mubs replied to the thread Windows 11.
    As usual, you da man, Merc! Thanks a mil! I'm trying Small icons and 100% scaling. Will probably get used to this. You know, I've...
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    mubs replied to the thread Windows 11.
    What's with the blimp-sized desktop icons in W11? Any way to use "Small Icons" like W10? Sheesh. I've set display to 100% instead of the...
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    mubs replied to the thread Windows 11.
    My bad. The ISO is 24H2. Was a typo. It's from April. Thanks Merc.
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    mubs replied to the thread Windows 11.
    A couple of days ago I downloaded the W11 22H2 iso, Rufussed it with some options to a USB stick. Did an in-place upgrade on my desktop...
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    mubs replied to the thread Windows 11.
    I used Windows Update on the laptop to upgrade from factory W10 to W11, so the update definitely came from legit sources. As I found...
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    mubs replied to the thread Windows 11.
    Thanks Merc. Why do big companies do stupid things like this, DD? According to Wikipedia, MS installed a version of W11 on my laptop...
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    mubs replied to the thread Windows 11.
    The beast has been slayed. In the VM, the "Install VMWare Tools" was grayed out, so I assumed it was already installed. In fact during...
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    mubs replied to the thread Windows 11.
    Thanks Merc, will look into these.
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    mubs replied to the thread Disk Issues.
    I created a VM Win7 Technet key --> 10. Worked Fine. Did an in-place upgrade to W11; didn't activate. That VM showed a lock icon on it...
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    mubs replied to the thread Windows 11.
    My VMs created from scratch work well. All VMs are on an NVME SSD. I was probably an early adopter of Workstation (2001), but have been...
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    mubs replied to the thread Windows 11.
    I used VMWare Converter to make a VM of my live system. I gave the VM 6 cores out of my 12-core Ryzen 9 5900x; gave it 32 GB. It's...
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    mubs replied to the thread Windows 11.
    Is there a latest / greatest guide to de-crapifying W11 after it's installed? I plan on an in-place upgrade.
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    mubs replied to the thread Disk Issues.
    Thanks Merc. I suspect it won't activate because my install is a Technet W7 upgraded to W10. When I tried this in a VM, W11 did not...
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    mubs replied to the thread Pi-Hole?.
    Having Private DNS on hasn't caused any issues for me. My phone is a Samsung 25+ running One UI 7.0. I'll keep DNS66 in mind. Thank you...
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    mubs replied to the thread Disk Issues.
    My hardware is from 2021 and fully compatible with W11. It's a toss up between upgrading my W10 installation and using the massgrave...
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