I have used compressed drives for several years on data drives (never on a system drive). I have never had a drive problem caused by compression as far as I know, but it is possible. I don’t consider it a problem though. My data backed up a variety of ways and in different locations. I use...
Click on the one drive icon in the taskbar either visible or hidden
Click on settings
Un-select the buttons
go through rest of settings and set to your choice.
I have several VM's running most of the time. Some are set to automatically backup using Macrium. The auto backups sometimes fail because of permissions issues, but manually initiated backups always work if I do everything right.
I have used one drive for years, and I have quite a few files that I keep on One Drive, either as a backup, or for easy access from anywhere. I use a different approach to using One Drive. I don’t allow O. D. to backup and sync ANY of my folders except the One Drive folder. Anything I want saved...
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a while now, and am reasonably satisfied with it. I got frustrated with lack of applicable results in a particular search and temporarily switched back to Google. Since the results weren’t any better, back to DDG. I switched from Google to DDG because of the...
First thing I do when I install a new drive is to open One Drive settings and turn off the backup function.
The One Drive menus vary somewhat between various Windows installations, but the capability is still there.
Below is the procedure for W11 22H2
1. Click on the One Drive Icon.
2...
I installed a clean version of W11 Pro a few weeks ago and didn't activate it until a few days ago. I used a previously used W7 Pro CoA (retail) and it activated without a problem.
I used Office 2003 up to last year, and it worked pretty well, but switched those systems to Libre Office. I still have Office 2010 installed and working on one system.