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On my Dell laptop (system 1), I replaced the optical drive with a 1 TB SATA SSD yesterday. Boot time is about 10 seconds slower. Prior, there was never a disk in the old optical drive, but now that there is an SSD, it likely powers on the SSD, which could by why the boot time is slightly...

Hello @Fozzie Bear: By chance did you disconnect from the internet before and during your attempts to upgrade? Ever since 22H2 came out, I've always disconnected from the internet when doing in-place upgrades on unsupported devices. There is a chance that if you are connected to the internet...

First time I tried it, it just opened the settings menu. I rebooted the system and tried it again, where it still just opened the settings menu. Thinking I may have made an error somewhere, I deleted the shortcut. Then I remade the shortcut, then amazingly, it works like a charm. Now I open...

Being it's Patch Tuesday today, you can do the updates in Windows 10. If later you decide to upgrade to 11 on the unsupported machine, you can do the in-place upgrade from your Rufus flash drive by doing it from within Windows. Just insert the flash drive and run setup from the flash drive.

I rarely had problems with "Patch Tuesday" updates, but best to be prepared if something does go wrong. I always keep my systems updated with the latest updates and have backup plans in place.

I have my systems backed up and disk images made already in the event that the "Patch Tuesday" updates crash my systems. Just hope there are no issues with these latest updates.

Being you're still on 21H2, as @OAT suggested, just do an in-place upgrade to 23H2. I recommend using the MCT to download 23H2 and save it as an iso file. Then mount the iso file and run setup from there to do the in-place upgrade.

Back in the early days of Windows 10, MS had a tool you could download called Windows 7 DVD tool. One could either burn a DVD of make a USB bootable stick from an iso, but now, that's done in the MCT after downloading the iso.. Was able to burn a DVD, but now need a double-layer DVD for later...

With the family plan, each user can share files if they wish. I have a lot of music files and the SO has many videos and pics which we can share with each other. Between the two of us, we almost have 1 TB combined. We also have all those files backed up on external hard drives along with them...

Not only that, we need to bounce all spam email addresses and servers. If using Outlook (Office 365), one could have a rule that if one receives an email from a certain address, it could be deleted permanently, but that takes up much time eliminating each spam email. I also use yahoo and...

Follow @POLYSUS instructions. see screenshot below:

Same here. Prior to that, my ISP was providing McAfee, which was a resource hog. F-Secure also has browser plug-ins for Edge, Chrome, Firefox, and other browsers. It does a good job of blocking potentially dangerous web sites. If I wasn't getting F-Secure as part of my internet service, I...

Seeing that there were issues with the MCT, I downloaded the actual iso from the MS download site, which was 23H2. I updated one of my unsupported Windows 10 PCs to 23H2. Used Rufus to make a bootable usb with all the work arounds. Was successful in doing the in-place upgrade. I'll see how...

I had to download the enablement package to my laptop. Now both my windows 11 systems were updated to 23H2 via Windows Update. Time to do a general cleanup on those systems and make backup images. Maybe download iso later in case I decide to put 11 on my unsupported devices.

I just got updated to 23H2 on my system #2 via windows update. Update was quick. It's now version 22631.2506. Still don't have it on my laptop (System 1) yet.