Recent content by MisterEd

You said you had a hardware change. What change was that? Was the Windows 7 key Retail or OEM. Technically only only Retail keys can be moved to a different computer. Whether Windows setup considers your computer new or not depends upon what hardware was changed. You could try calling Microsoft...

Sometime in September 2023 Microsoft officially pulled the plug on the free upgrades from Windows 7 and 8.1 to Windows 10. Most people now just buy a cheap key online. You can buy either a Windows 10 or Windows 11 key as they are suppose to work the same. A year ago I bought a Windows 11 Pro...

I have three computers with Windows 10 and two with Windows 11. From time to time I have switched from local to MS accounts and then back to local accounts. Right now I think all my computers have local accounts. To me it is just a personal preference. I prefer local accounts. The same goes for...

Sorry, I was commenting on your recommendation to the OP. I edited that post to clarify this.

This will work but I recommend that the OP try this instead: It is even easier if the you use Wi-Fi Protected Setup as mentioned on page 101 in the manual. Once you select that you immediately go over to your router and press the button on it to start Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) on it. Many...

The Full Webpack only adds optional software. I always unchecked these and didn't install these anyways. Why install this when the Basic Webpack contains everything you need to print/scan/fax?

The basic driver installs the HP Printer Assistant app. You can access it from an icon it installs on the desktop. When you double-click on the icon it brings up the HP Printer Assistant app. You can Print, Scan, Fax, or run printer diagnostics Tools. This is the menu shown if you select Scan.

Start with connecting the printer to your router with WiFi using the WPS setup. That is the easiest way to do it. Install the following driver from HP on each computer: HP OfficeJet Pro 8720 All-in-One Printer series Basic Driver - IT Professional Use only...

If I were doing such a setup I would use identical GPUs. That way you would be using the same drivers. You wouldn't have to but identical monitors would make things easier to configure. BTW, back in the late 1990's I used to set up systems that had 2, 4 or 8 monitors. The motherboard had 1 AGP...

Enable or Disable Hyper-V in Windows 11 To create the Windows 11 virtual machine in Hyper-V is another matter. I would have to create a new thread for that. Here is a summary... I use the New Action to create the Windows 11 virtual machine. Notes on creating the Windows 11 virtual machine...

Open the Control Panel to see what option your Power Button has when you press it. I just checked and found out that my ASUS laptop power options were at the default settings where holding the power button down only puts it in sleep mode. I changed that to Shut down in the Control Panel. You...

Laptop #1: CPU: Ryzen 7 2700U w/Radeon RX Vega 10 graphics RAM: DDR4-2400 8GB(2x4GB) GPU1: Radeon RX Vega 10 (RAM: 1GB dedicated; 3.5GB shared) GPU2: Radeon RX 540 (RAM: 2GB dedicated; 3.5GB shared) Laptop #2 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 6800H w/Radeon 680M graphics RAM: DDR5-4800 32GB(2x16GB) GPU1: AMD...

Many times Windows update will find and install drivers when you install Windows. However, these drivers aren't always the latest. You should check the website for the motherboard and see if any of the drivers are newer than the ones already installed. If they are then download and install them...

I suspect you just downloaded the first driver you saw which was the MediaTek one. However, if you click on See All Downloads then will see that there are both MediaTek and Realtek drivers available.

I think people are trying to be too clever about this. I have installed Windows 11 Pro 23H2 several times and was always able to start with a local account. Note I used no special workarounds doing this. I even had the Internet connected for each one. When the Windows 11 setup asked me to log...