Re: Long term forum members - why did you leave?
Posted on 2024-10-20, 13:22
Relax, said the watchman, we are programmed to receive. You can check out any time you want but you can never leave!
Re: problems with dell optiplex
Posted on 2024-09-15, 23:34
And if I could just go but a copy on disk I could. I doubt any legitimate copy could be bought for 14-year old software. I don't see ebay sellers could be selling disks "used" since the activation software would already have been used. And like I said, even it it not used you are probably just …
Re: old movies
Posted on 2024-09-14, 17:36
I went though a phase there were I was buying and watching 70s movies. One was "close encounters of the third kind" which I had not seem since I was a kid I will have to say most of my movies are from the 80s and 90s And by the way - physical media forever
Re: problems with dell optiplex
Posted on 2024-09-14, 15:45
Re: problems with dell optiplex
Posted on 2024-09-14, 15:44
Re: problems with dell optiplex
Posted on 2024-09-14, 15:12
It's win7 It seems like my options are: 1. Install the dell reinstall program that creates a bootable USB reinstall drive. I did download it but not install. I *think* this downloads from the internet and not recovery partition. That office 2010 starter might or might not be there. It might not hurt …
Re: Suicidal behaviour: Going into Windows 11
Posted on 2024-09-11, 00:03
Re: Suicidal behaviour: Going into Windows 11
Posted on 2024-09-10, 23:05
I was thinking about this. If you have to have a micro$soft account to use Win11, I am willing to bet it requires MFA? So what happens if your phone is lost, stolen, compromised, whatever - at the point you would not even be able to get into your computer to access your files?
Re: Suicidal behaviour: Going into Windows 11
Posted on 2024-09-07, 20:25
I think that I may become even more entrenched with older computers. Hence my desire to fix the capacitor plague board (another thread.) That board used to run like a 2006 or 2007 version of PC linux. It was my internet computer for a long time - until it got to where I really couldn't get on the …
Re: Suicidal behaviour: Going into Windows 11
Posted on 2024-09-07, 20:21
Re: Suicidal behaviour: Going into Windows 11
Posted on 2024-09-07, 13:08
I appreciate the irony here. I am on a computer website bashing computers. Back into the 90s I was so into computers - always upgrading hardware - more memory, faster processors, bigger drives, etc. Not sure what happened. Actually I DO no what happened - it started with XP
Re: Suicidal behaviour: Going into Windows 11
Posted on 2024-09-07, 13:06
Re: Suicidal behaviour: Going into Windows 11
Posted on 2024-09-07, 12:40
How did this work out? Is is true that windows 11 actually has to connect to micro$oft to work and can't be used offline?
Re: problems with dell optiplex
Posted on 2024-09-07, 12:32
After some reading I downloaded the dell OS recovery app. Haven't installed it yet. As I understand things it downloads the image and burns it to a USB that you can boot from. So I guess up to that point no changes are made to your system. So I suppose no harm done up to that point. Does anyone have …
Re: capacitor plague finally struck home
Posted on 2024-09-07, 12:28
My solution is going to send it out to badcaps.net - I will pay the $$$ But first I have to find a suitable replacement fan for the heatsink. This board is going to ride again.
Re: It outsourcing everything
Posted on 2024-09-07, 12:26
I really don't like idea of having an "account" in general. Every time I get some spam text about my account with Amazon compromised I just laugh - because I have never ordered from amazon. That is just another way your information can be stored, hacked, compromised, etc. And what happens when your …
Re: It outsourcing everything
Posted on 2024-09-05, 23:42
Re: It outsourcing everything
Posted on 2024-09-05, 23:28
Yeah but the point is the way all this is going. It won't be too much longer before you have to pay a monthly fee to use your computer.
Re: It outsourcing everything
Posted on 2024-09-05, 22:52
Re: It outsourcing everything
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