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Then you either need a new e-mail address or a mail service that cleans out all the garbage and provides you with an exception list. Network Solutions may be talking the big talk but any self-respecting monitoring service should be trapping most of that spam.

Not only does the code exist but as they discover workarounds, they are "addressing" (disabling) them. The early solution was to scan for the executable file of the utility by file name but now they're going deeper. Flexibility will not be tolerated until two or major releases down the road...

My big concern with e-mail is that mess that is Outlook (or, as I prefer, Outluck) for those that are under Microsoft's Office curse. Webmail probably isn't as immune from attack as one might hope. E-mail remains a fairly big attack surface no matter how you do it. Unless your e-mail is being...

Anyone that is using Excel for data collection and manipulation deserves every moment of frustration they get. This is what web-based application software is for. The big benefit to web-based stuff (at least the applications that don't involve Microsoft tools) is that your data is independent...

If you don't use machine #3 to do anything other than your video applications (no e-mail, no web browsing, no web apps), you can run it as long as the hardware holds together (assuming other computers on the networks are maintained). If you run any Adobe software (and I mean any), make sure you...

61 "issues" not counting two Edge emergency updates issued previously. Expect more Edge updates very soon. Some of these "quality improvements" reverse/correct issues created by the April 2024 patches.

Windows 11 is losing ground in the Windows marketplace according to statistics from GlobalStats while Windows 10 is gaining share back: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide...

In order to more easily dismiss some of the UAC stuff, you must have a password on the account that you're logged into.

I was reading the Security Updates release notes and the latest Patch Tuesday addresses 149 issues. Quite a few of them are for SQL Server (37, mostly threat 8.8/10) but that's got to be nearing some sort of record for Microsoft malfeasance.

Unless something has changed, you don't get a pop-up in Vista or 7 telling you that it doesn't recognize/trust the source. I pretty sure that's a feature of Windows Security (Defender) that is present in Windows 10 and Windows 11 unless you replace it with a third party security product. The...

There are a number of YouTube videos on addressing Windows Update bugs. As always, avoid any solutions that land you on a microsoft.com domain.

Did you gain anything of significance as part of that transition? Did anything become more complicated? Windows 11 is up to 28% of the Windows marketplace after being on the market for 30 months.

That should depend on how much RAM and free storage space it has along with how well Windows 10 is serving your needs. Changing versions for the sake of changing versions has never been a great idea -- especially if the machine in question wasn't designed to run the newer version. It seems...

I'm not seeing anything unusual at this time. Just today I turned up my thermostat (Alexa, tell Ecobee that I'm cold) and polled my weather station (Alexa, ask WeatherLink the current conditions).

Servers are a whole different can of worms -- especially the ones running Microsoft's ever-miserable Exchange Server where things go bad quicly. If you look at the breakdown of the patches, many of them aren't for Windows proper. They are for Edge, Office and other flea-bitten Microsoft offerings.

This has happened more than once. There's one that started not too long ago that involves Bitlocker requiring a lot more space on the system restore partition than is available by default. Microsoft doesn't seem to spend a lot of time testing their updates. That they want to get rid of...

Does the patching of 73 vulnerabilities (including two zero-days) come under the heading of "quality improvements"? The keywords for the features are "Moment 5".

Isn't that the definition of Windows? Everything Microsoft does to "unclutter" Windows seems to result in lost functionality until they reclutter it.

There are hundreds of thoughtful reviews/comparisons on the Web. The Verge recently updated theirs and PCMag did one in November.

It appears that they've done away with cellular Kindles altogether.

The "Compare with similar items" chart shows the price to be $89.02. You never know what you're going to get with component pricing from one day to the next.

Did this price include a budget for a NVME USB adapter? Amazon lists a number of them for as low as $9.99. Have you considered using your temporarily using your second M.2 slot instead of a USB adapter? I reason that it has the potential to be faster.

I prefer to encrypt what needs to be encrypted rather than having that overhead of everything being encrypted slow down the machine for all time.

The variables are mostly the same. Only the sequencing changes.

Dell also says that it can take 20-120 minutes. I'm not convinced the other solutions are going to be a whole lot faster -- just that they do it on-the-fly. I think it comes down to how much value you place on having the drives encrypted.