Recent content by Ed McCauley

It seems I have 1 USB3.1 Gen2 port w/ Thunderbolt 3, and a USB-C connector; and 3 USB3.1 Gen1 ports w/USB-A connectors. Per your reply, I have 1 10Gbps port, and 3 5 Gbps ports. Q1. My options appear to be: 1. plug the first USB-C drive into the C connector (10Gbps), and the 2nd drive...

The SS port with the battery icon also has Powershare. Thanks for the link - this has more info than the manual I dl'd when I purchased the computer.

Dell Precision 3541 Laptop Device Manager --> System Devices --> Thunderbolt(TM) 15D9 Installed Apps: Thunderbolt(TM) Control Center Device Manager: USB 3.1 eXtensible Host Controller 1.10 Microsoft computer case: 2 inputs are marked with the USB-SS symbol 1 inputs is...

A quick perusal online tells me that Thunderbolt is "fast", but not much else. Given my Laptop specs: Dell Precision 3541 Laptop Device Manager --> System Devices --> Thunderbolt(TM) 15D9 Installed Apps: Thunderbolt(TM) Control Center would a "powered USB hub" allow me to connect two USB-C HDDs...

24H2 - Win 11 Pro My Dell Precision 3541 Laptop has only one USB-C port. I'd like to add at least one more USB-C port so I can copy directly from one External HDD to another. I don't need any additional USB-A ports, HDMI, microcard, etc. Can anyone recommend a specific option to accomplish this?

BD AntiVirus Plus Paid ver. I've added the flagged files into exceptions and run a new scan. BD skips the files and returns no errors. Still can't change from Read Only. Is there an "easy" to turn BD completely off? If so, it's not obvious within the interface...

Bitlocker is set to "off."

24H2 - Win 11 Pro A BD scan detected a *false* virus. There was no option to exempt this file from further scans, so "Take No Action" was selected. Without informing me or offering me the option, BD set the disk to Read Only. I can't find any option in BD to correct this. Diskpart is unable...

That sounds exactly like my experience. Thanks--I think you nailed it.

Is this type of failure known to occur with BD?

After several scans yesterday, DM still did not find any external drives.

When I finally got back to this computer today, BitDefender was scanning a "new drive" that it had detected. This was the sole external drive that I had left plugged in when I abandoned this computer last night. I wondered if it would eventually detect it without further messing around...

Win 11 Pro 64 bit 24H2 Dell Precision Laptop Windows no longer connects to any external drives. They show up in Device Manager, but are not detected by windows explorer, or disk manager virtual disk manager despite numerous scans. I've tried plugging in to every USB port on the machine without...

Actually, I use Duck Duck Go. What do you want to see in the Screenshot?

When I open the Downloads folder directly, it now displays un-grouped as I want. However, when I save an html page with the 'ms print to PDF command' the Download folder opens grouped. Tom