Recent content by WildWilly

@Scott There is no need for any third-party tools: In light of this I'm a bit surprised Disk Management doesn't show it. Whatever. It's a useless partition as far as I can tell. I kind of vaguely remember reading somewhere what it is. I think it's a leftover from a past era. I wouldn't...

Control Panel . . . My observation is that a lot of functions that used to be available in Control Panel are no longer there. The equivalent or near-equivalent functionality is now available in the new Settings dialog. But some things are still functional in the Control Panel. My sense is...

Thanks for your post, @hsehestedt but I needed that advice a year & a half ago. It's actually no help now since I've had a functioning W11 comfortably installed & working just fine for the past year & a half. At the time a year & a half ago, I had the necessary network driver sitting on a HDD...

You mean this? https://www.elevenforum.com/t/new-local-account-method-access-unused-setup-screen-s-mode-supported.29973/ I think that doesn't apply to me. S mode means secure, yes? I turned that off as almost the first thing I did after I got this system running. I am not restricting myself...

Interesting . . . Thanks for that explanation. Now I have a mnemonic: cxh = Cloud Experience Host. In effect, MS has invented a new web protocol. We've got https, ftp (if anybody remembers that), nntp (if anybody remembers that), & whatever others there are or were which aren't coming to...

This seems like the right place to ask this. I feel fortunate that I installed W11 about a year & a half ago & I have managed to use it successfully without having to reinstall it. I've dutifully kept Windows Update happy by always running whatever it gave me. I'm up to Windows 11 Pro 64-bit...

Oh geez. Single quotes. The one thing I didn't think to try. Anyway, the point is moot now, at least for me, since I renamed the interface. But your advice is probably now just hiding here in the weeds for some other lost soul to use to get found. The background, which I thought was...

Well over a year ago, my close friend :D @garlin gave me a Power Shell script upthread here for displaying the network status dialog. Things have changed & now I have this: C:\Users\WildWilly2>ipconfig Windows IP Configuration Ethernet adapter Ethernet: Media State . . . . . . . . . . ...

By the way, to follow up my posts earlier in this thread, it turned out I had 4 DIMMs of 32G each go bad. I suspect there was something fishy about the LEDs on the spines of the DIMMs. I have replaced all 4 DIMMs with DIMMs that do not have LEDs on them. In addition, I had to change some...

It occurs to me that this might be informative. At a command prompt, execute this: set >"Q:\Useful Files\Environment Variables.txt" Now, maybe you don't have a Q-drive. Pick a drive letter that you actually have. Maybe you don't have a directory named "Useful Files" on your Q-drive. Pick a...

I had reason to get into my BIOS & I do believe I disabled secure boot at some point in the past. I don't remember doing it. There's a setting somewhere in the BIOS that says it's set for other operating systems. I think that's the flag that says secure boot is disabled. I don't recall why...

Oh no. I'm not having any problems. This system is working fine. I don't have Bit Locker turned on & that's how I intend to keep it. I was just adding my experience to the soup here. I'm curious now about secure boot. I need to check that in my BIOS next time I go to boot. News . . ...

Well . . . I'm not so sure about secure boot. I found this: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11-and-secure-boot-a8ff1202-c0d9-42f5-940f-843abef64fad They talk about: Go to Settings > Update & Security > Recovery Ain't no such thing. It appears to be Go to Settings >...

@zbook Local account I'm pretty sure secure boot is off. That's a BIOS thing, right? I'll have to look that up. I assume it's supported. It completed successfully. Doesn't that mean it's supported?

I can say that a simple update from W11 23H2 to 24H2 did NOT turn on Bit Locker on my system. The posts in this thread got me a shade alarmed, so I hunted around in my Settings for the relevant information. I have never turned Bit Locker on & it's still not on. On a faintly related topic, the...