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Is it possible to downgrade the firmware from the latest version to a previous version? Samsung Storage Firmware On the Samsung support site it shows this Is it possible that the new Samsung 980s with the revised process have newer firmware? Firmware 4B4QFXO7 is mentioned here: Samsung SSD...

Sometime when a device was paired and used previously it would not connect the next day I tried. To get the device to work again I had to select Remove the device and then pair it again.

I found that Magician only shows the serial number for internal SSDs. It shows all 0's if the SSD is external. You can use CrystalDiskInfo to show the serial numbers for internal and external SSDs. You could also try to register the SSD on the Samsung website. You can't register it unless the...

Last December I replaced the motherboards and CPUs with totally different ones on two computers. One computer has Windows 11 Pro while the other is dual-boot Windows 7 Home and Windows 10 Pro. They both have local accounts. All three copies of Windows activated OK without having to reinstall...

You can control Smart Charging using the Surface app. You can control whether the Surface Pro charges to 80% or 100%. See Smart charging on Surface. This is what the Google AI Overview spit out. Naturally the AI doesn't always get thing right so it is best to double-check what it says.

These are my charge limit options for my Samsung S21 5G phone: Whether a laptop has the ability to limit its charge capacity depends upon the manufacturer of the laptop. If they want it they have hardware support and software to control it. I have an ASUS TUF Gaming (2022) laptop. It comes...

I agree. I have both a Password and a Pin also. When I log in Windows uses the last method I used. However, at the login prompt I am allowed to switch to the other method. If I switch then this becomes the new default.

Have you tried uninstalling Avast to see if that makes a difference?

May I ask why you are using two antivirus programs at the same time? Could doing so be causing your problem? BTW, I am have the paid version of Malwarebytes. I am not having any problems with GadgetPack 38.0.

I installed all my Windows 10 and 11 computers with a local account. I can switch any time to a Microsoft account and later back to my local account. No big deal because the location of my user data stays the same. The only problem is remembering the login user name and passwords for each one...

For my main computers I back up important data once a day and the whole drives once a week to an external drive. For redundancy I back up the whole drives once a month to a different external drive. All my backups are done automatically by backup software. I found out the hard way that doing...

Thanks for your response but that unit is too tall. I should have been more specific. My computer is under my desk. To the right of the computer under the desk drawers is the UPS. There is only about 9 inches of clearance under the drawers. Both the old and new UPSs are about 7.5 inches high...

You would have to challenge that. That means I had to do a real test. The UPS is still out in front of my desk because I had been testing it yesterday. To test it I simply unplugged it. The status said it estimated the runtime on battery to be 20 minutes. Note the computer was probably drawing...

You shouldn't complain if your computer doesn't have the latest Options+ release. You will eventually get it. I have Options+ v1.88 on this laptop while v1.87 on my desktop. I suspect that the Logitech servers would be overloaded if they tried to give it everyone at once. Does everyone use...

The battery is obviously not dead since it still passes the manually started self-test. I realize that doesn't mean anything about what might happen in the future. The UPS has an APC RBC17 battery. The equivalent battery from American Battery Company is cheaper. Has anyone tried batteries from...