Recent content by KenY7744

Thanks for all the suggestions. 🙏 To all who asked for error info, I will try the iso/Rufus method and report on the success or failure info. Ken

Antspants, seems like you're saying that the hardware requirements have changed for 24H2. I've been running Windows 11 for several years.

Device name SurfPro Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6650U CPU @ 2.20GHz 2.21 GHz Installed RAM 16.0 GB Device ID FC7A2665-313C-421C-9E1A-5DD7A6D30BDE Product ID 00330-62845-91537-AAOEM System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch Pen and touch...

Thanks for your suggestion, Winuser. Due to problems on the HDD that I don't want to spend hours trying to track down, putting a fresh clean install on the SSD is the way to go. I don't want to duplicate the problems on the new SSD.

Thanks Kari. You have answered my question. So I don't need to use up 3 licenses to have MS365 on my desktop, laptop and Surface Pro4. I guess that explains why all three devices access the same 1Tb OneDrive. I suppose that I could use another of the 6 licenses using a different email...

Thanks for your suggestion, but I'd rather not clone the HDD because there are issues on it that I don't want to spend lots of time trying to track down. It's easier and quicker to just do a clean install of Win10 and then install apps as I need them. I have Acronis Cyber Protect which has a...

Thanks for your suggestion, but I don't want to clone the HDD because of some issues I can't resolve. Rather than spend endless hours trying to figure out what is causing the issues, I would like to start over with a fresh clean install of Win10. The main reason for putting in the SSD is not...

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

Thanks. I will try that idea out.

I have an old HDD in my Win10 PC with an instance of Microsoft 365 installed. I have the 6-license version of MS365 and all licenses are being used. I want to swap out my HDD for an SSD. I will be swapping SSD and HDD back and forth as I build up the new SSD with all my software, so that I can...

So... just install Win10 on a formatted drive from install created by Media Creation Tool? And will it automatically activate via digital product code?

Thanks. I don't think my new PC will have a 12th gen CPU.

Seems like the pattern is holding: One very good OS followed by a not-very-good OS. To wit: XP was good. Vista was not. Win7 was good. Win 8.x was not. Win10 was good. Win11, not so much. Half-baked, not well thought out. It might yet morph into a decent OS, but right now I'd like to stick with...

I will be getting a new Dell desktop PC with Win11 Home. Will I be able to downgrade it to Win10 without having to pay for a new Win10 license?

I believe what you need is ExplorerPatcher. Many folks here use it. GitHub - valinet/ExplorerPatcher at 5f9681dc1dcdd80aeae1d2ac05ef5a14b29352c3 I don't think there was any mention in the Wiki of the capability of increasing the taskbar to 3 rows of icons with ExplorerPatcher.