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Looks like dev on DNS666 has stopped effective March 2021; they recommend DNSNet. I do have a Samsung phone. When you say Samsung has an option, is that if the Samsung browser is used? I use Chrome. Where would I find that option?

My working drives are all SSDs, but I have 2 spinning drives in the case. I have a 5.25" power controller to which these are connected, so they are off most of the time. I use them alternatively as near line backups - 1 each 10 days or so. I have been using Syncback since Handy mentioned it here...

Thanks Merc.

Any suggestions for Android?

About 20 years ago, I had a serious case of maybe carpal tunnel. I bought a standing vertical mouse with an embedded trackball, I think. Used it for a few months, things got better, went back to a regular mouse. No problems since. The weird mouse is in a box somewhere. Probably a PS2 connector...

I was actually able to remove the boot NVMe after removing the video card; there was sufficient space under the CPU cooler, and the slot is farther below on the motherboard than I guessed with the video card in. After playing with 3rd part heatsinks and silicone thermal pads, my findings are...

Super!

How does the setup of 3 fans behind 3 others work? I guess they are blowing out?

Long ago I had created a virtual machine with Technet W7, upgraded to W10, then to W11. It was not activated. I tried the above suggested method and it activated! 👏 Thanks Merc!

Thanks Merc & Sed. My motherboard has 2 NVME slots, and I seem to have removed both the provided NVME heat sinks at the time of installing the MB 3.5 years ago. My boot drive is a 512 GB WD_Black SN850 NVMe SSD (Sorry Merc) and idle temp is 45-46C. Unfortunately it's behind a big-ass Noctua...

Is a thermal pad required between a heatsink and an M.2 NVME SSD? Doesn't make sense to me. 1. There is no flat, machined surface; only discrete chips with spaces between them 2. The chips are anyway covered with the manufacturer label. Who knows what it's made of.

Done. Tried AOMEI Partition Assistant again, with the Copy OS option. I rebooted and tried to boot from the external NVME enclosure with the bigger NVME. It booted. But this option did not copy the Recovery Partition. So ditched this. Isn't it amazing that clone disk does not actually clone it...

Sorry was out all day yesterday. On the laptop I have a paid version of AOMEI Partition Assistant. This low cost version does not allow creation of a USB bootable version, so it reboots into Windows PE and does the job. I guess I'll have to search for a free version of something that will clone...

Cloned the entire drive. First time, I expanded the Windows partition on the destination drive during cloning. Didn't work. Second time cloned as is. Didn't work.

I bought a cheap laptop in 2021. It came with a 256 GB NVME SSD and W10. I decided to replace the NVME with a 1 TB. I did a disk clone a couple of different ways, but laptop does not boot, saying there is no boot drive. The Information page of the BIOS sees the new 1TB NVME. The boot screen...

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Ow! I'd better check if I need to update too. Thanks.

Is everybody here on W11? I'm still on W10. I guess I need to get off my ass one of these days and switch. My W10 was upgraded free from a Technet W7. MS stopped allowing such W10 installations from upgrading to W11. I'll have to buy a copy of W11 which I don't mind, but am resisting the new...

Thanks guys. I'll leave well enough alone. If it ain't broke...

I built a new system in 2021; Asus ROG Strix X570-F Gaming + Ryzen 9 5900z, etc. Last updated the BIOS in early second half of 2021. Asus released some crappy BIOS updates after that that bricked motherboards, so I haven't done any updates since. System is fine and stable, and I didn't want to...

If the PDF form is made correctly, Adobe Reader should be able to fill it out - no PDF editor required. If it was designed to be used as a paper form, you're outta luck; will need a PDF editor to create text-boxes for your responses. I believe there are free PDF editors available; Google.

Yeow! Get well soon, Handy. We're all getting older. It's funny how one's mental image of oneself remains the same, but one is much, much older.

Doing good, Handy. Life goes on. Standing by the sidelines, watching the world get crazier and still more impossibly crazier!

It is truly heartbreaking to see what America has become :cry::cry::cry:

This is strange! My wife and I traded in our S22+ handsets and got S25+ 512 GB! I don't understand why the Plus gets dissed so much online. It's got a much bigger battery than the S25 and is quite a bit less than the Ultra. For us, it's in the Goldilocks zone.

Hi all, good to see you all still here and doing well. I've been visiting on & off without being logged in, but decided to say Hi now. It's been several years, but awesomely, my old login and pw worked immediately. Thanks Handy for keeping them alive!

So I'm not allowed to express an opinion on something I saw? How do you know it's fake? Because I brought it up? And I guess Snopes has an army of people doing real-time updates.

All right guys, attack me personally. It shows how immature and warped you are. SD, where did I bring up immigration? I quoted the guy saying racist things. I guess that's ok with you? I didn't follow the election as closely as you did, and appointments Trump made. PM me your mobile # and I'll...

I've been getting very disturbing videos thru Whatsapp. Today there was one where a reporter (white but not American) is talking to a white official who openly says blacks and pygmies are less intelligent that Caucasians. The official said several other repugnant racist things. I don't the...

Many Android phones have an option in the pop-up menu in the calling screen that allows you to block a number. Easiest way is to block as soon as you received the call. That number will never be able to call you again. Of course this does not prevent a call from a number you haven't blocked yet...

I never have (Singapore, Malaysian, Cathay, etc.) and probably never will. Besides didn't ask for airline suggestions :)

Pronto. He's been missing too long. I've respected his privacy till now, but will email him soon if he doesn't show up. Where are YOU, Nitsirk? Update please? I'll be happy to attend if y'all send me a ticket :)

Been meaning to post this. This problem was never there in W7, and is specific to W10. I mostly have multiple Excel files open, and most of the time, a browser window as well. In this scenario, I cannot Alt-Tab out of any Excel window; it takes two Alt-Tabs at least. I find this extremely...

Ha! Interesting, because my Epson scanner (paper/film) only works in XP. I used in in W7 64, then now in W10 64, inside an XP VM. There are posts I made earlier about trying to solve this issue when I first moved to W7. There is, BTW, 3rd party sw that will work with almost any scanner in any...

How would he carry it? :)

Didn't read the whole thread. I used VMWare Converter to convert my W7 live install to a VMWare Player-compatible VM. About 6-8 months ago. Both are free downloads (registration required) at VMWare. Be aware though that as soon as you start it up, Windows will ask for a new key since it assumes...

SD, stop baiting him, bad boy! Lunar, don't mess with the battery, it could explode. Dispose of it properly.

From stuff I've read int he past (Eneloop thread on CPF, etc.), Thomas Distributing is the safest place to buy Eneloops from, original stuff guaranteed. For the reasons SD mentioned a couple of posts above, buying from Amz is dicey. I buy Eneloops from Thomas, photographic stuff from B&H...

But Amz has been dicey for some items. Like Eneloops, for instance. And SD says for memory cards.

When Nortel went under, same thing happened; a lot of customers got burnt. It was a great company that went off-track in the last few years of its existence. Avaya was badly managed from the beginning, surviving only because of their near monopoly position. Not surprised this has happened, only...

1. Uninstall Thunderbird 2. Uninstall Windows Fax and Scan 3. Reboot 3. Install Windows Fax and Scan 4. Make it use email; hopefully it will find one of its own - Outlook 5. Install T-bird

Whatever floats your boat, mate.

Does that make it bad? Many times, newer models perform worse than older ones! It is not bass heavy! The XB3 is; the B in it stands for bass. The SRS-X55 is heavy and powerful, so it needs to be placed on a firm surface, or the stuff it's placed on will buzz.

I know most of you think online reviews are crap (and they mostly are), but I run through them to get an idea of the product & service. It seems every manufacturer is making TVs that last 2-3 years at best. The dissing is uniform: LG, Samsung, Sony, Panasonic, etc. Everything seems to fail -...

BTW, I paid a tad under $140 for the SRS-X55; it was about a third off from its usual price here.

Well, I'm a tad late to the party! About 4 months ago, I got my daughter a JBL Go; it was our first experience with Bluetooth speakers, and it was cheap, so I bought it on a lark. For such a small thing, it sounds amazingly good. After the initial amazement wore off, it was clear it lacked...

Thanks all, guys, I already figured that better featured / higher-end TVs are Smart TVs, and I may end up buying one of those and not using the Smart features. Only problem is they also cost a lot more and I'll be paying for features I won't use to get features I want. Choices and decisions!

The price delta here is not insignificant, jtr. It'll only make sense from a future-proofing point of view, and we all know how that will go. Their whole idea is to have you spend every couple of years. Still I'll check into the 4k stuff. The SUHD stuff is way too much. Pretty much my own line...

Our trusty, rusty, 10+ year old LG CRT TV is slowly giving up the ghost. It has cold start issues. It's the power supply, and I'm told it's not available. Considering there's little to no 4k content here, I'm inclined to just buy an HD (1920 x 1080, just so there's no mis-communication on my...

Late, I know (was traveling), but Happy Hols and Happy New Year to all!