Recent content by AK6DN

Ditto. I have a QNAP TS-451+ with four WD RED Pro 8TB drives running since 2019 and still going strong.

LOL my unsupported-by-Win11 Win10 computer with an 8c Xeon CPU and 128GB of memory runs just fine, and I will keep on using it for Win10. It also runs Linux just fine too, when I dual boot it. It won't update to Win11 since it is TPM1.2. It runs VirtualBox just fine under both Win10 and Linux...

I have separate System and Data drives. I use Macrium Reflect on a schedule to do disk image backups every other day (incremental daily, differential weekly, full monthly) to a local backup drive, and then copy the backup drive to a local NAS, and copy monthly backups to an offline USB drive in...

23H2 is Win11, that is (currently) not included in the Win10 ESU program. Only Win10 22H2 is included. So when Win11 23H2 goes eol the only option (currently) is Win11 24H2. ISTR Win11 24H2 is slated for EOL 11-2026, basically the same EOL date as WIn10 22H2 plus the ESU 1yr option 10-2026. So...

So Microsoft has just removed MORE CPUs from the officially supported Win11 compatibility list ... https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/24/microsoft_win_11_cpus/ So some systems running Win11 now may not be 'compatible' with Win11 24H2 going forward in the future.

So when you use it with Windows can you make it smell like :poop: ???

IDK I'm still running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on one of my systems since 2016, it will go off support in 2026.

Sort of like the Ubuntu Linux LTS release cycle, is that what you are asking for? https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle

Why? v8.1.8325 is the current, maybe last, version of 8.1. Unless there is some massive bug (unlikely at this point) it will probably stay the last version.

Indeed I totally agree. I'm staying with Win 10 as long as I can. I have Win 11 in a VM if I absolutely need it for something. Win 12 UI will probably be just a blank window and you type requests to Copilot to do everything. No mouse, no ICONs, no windows, nada. Or maybe just a screen with a...

134.0.1 is the latest FireFox release. 136.0a1 was a nightly build from 1/6/2025 There is no 136.0.1 build yet. FWIW making a Mozilla FireFox profile account and using profile SYNC is the way to go IMHO

v8.1 and earlier all have perpetual licenses; they were not subscription licenses like vX is. At some point Macrium may stop issuing any bugfix updates to v8.1; IDK they may already have made this decision. So it may (not) get further updates, but should still continue to work as is. Just like...

NCH Software shows up in my Win 10 Programs and Features installed programs list. The programs are under individual names like 'Prism Video File Converter', and the Publisher is 'NCH Software'. Maybe you need to display/sort by the Publisher column...

So now Microsoft says this ... https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/windows-itpro-blog/tpm-2-0-%E2%80%93-a-necessity-for-a-secure-and-future-proof-windows-11/4339066 Per Microsoft TPM 2.0 is now a "non negotiable" requirement to run Windows 11. So my older, perfectly fine 128GB 8core Xeon 3.7GHz...

Microsoft's own advice from the MSN article ... so I am bypassing that step and sticking with Windows 10.