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Probably highly suggested to install the GPU with case on it's side so plug it in vertically. And take every precaution to add supports if at all possible.

I'm a bit leery of Nvidia high end GPU's. I keep updated on Nortwest Repair, Northridge Fix, and a few others on YouTube. All the same. Fried power connectors. Tendency to crack where the main board connector latch is on them. A bit scary. Companies ditching warranties and just reflowing the...

Rebooting the pc should not be an issue. Really. Actually a habit, or SOP back at work was to completely shut down a computer. Count to 5-10, and then hit the power button. But those computers were full of custom software that communicated with peripheral cards, etc. A reboot didn't always, for...

it...is...simply...not...there. and no modded uefi available that may insert it. Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U

https://tech-latest.com/ghost-spectre-windows-11/ https://www.tweaktown.com/news/90388/windows-11-superlite-is-custom-build-that-disables-telemetry-and-bloatware/index.html https://www.easeus.com/backup-recovery/ghost-spectre-windows-1124h2.html it's like ex-lax for your older pc with a...

Always one in the crowd. Most will upgrade Home as that's what 99.99% of what a consumer buys. Right? All I remember from a previous install was that you could not readily bypass the MS account login at first boot. And in later 11 Home versions. Many things including the Administrator account...

It's been a few months since I installed Windows 11. Last I remember if you disable all network devices. Pull cards, disable them in bios/uefi. Then you get an in-your-face option to create a local account. Bypassing the stupid create or login to a MS acct. A few minutes of a web search probably...

Dell schmell. I like them. I fix them. One thing that cheesed me at work. A server blade puked one day. Bad PSU. Ended up snipping the mobo connector from the Dell psu, splicing it to a robust ATX supply. And it lived like that for eternity. Did the same for at least two other desktop pc's...

This Asus Q552UB with a Crucial 1TB SSD has been damned nice. Sans a battery or two for 35 bucks, and melting a gazillion heat peened-over rivets to replace the keyboard. The SSD has like 36k hours and 9.5k power cycles and shows good health. Except for a lid close and sleep. Almost never gets...

Wow. Storage Exec. kicked me in the teeth a few years ago. Ran my Win 11 OS for awhile before installing it. Rebooted into nothingness, Windows install USB couldn't fix it. Only thing left to do was hook the drive to another working pc and grab all of my stuff. Tnen rebuild the OS. Ghost Spectre...

...in Acronis. I've used a lot. And I mean a lot. Of cloning tools. First thing in mind is. Okay. I cloned it and I have me bluddy keys. But did s**tlocker generate keys based on the drive firmware, serial number, volume number. Throw it all in a cook pot and spit out a key? So even if...

Like 'ole Harshy said. You'll have to dig deep within Dell to find a business class prebuilt pc that allows for adequate expansion. And pay for it you will. Nvidia EVERYTHING is having a very difficult time with the newer graphics cards. And warranty denials are rampant. For each and every...

Well. When I got in the graphics department for an electric sign company in the mid nineties. My workstation was a 386. Rendering something to send to plotters, vinyl cutters and out to the shop to the CNC router. Hitting render would be a lunch break thing. I got pretty good fast. One day a...

Damn Dell. Not known for expansion ports either. There are in fact 1394 to USB 3.0 adapters. Shop and choose wisely. Read independent reviews first. 1394 is supposedly unavailable by default in Win 11. But apparently can be easily. If you have the appropriate chipset. And if you ever move that...

Dell has always had me wary. Proprietary power supplies. Their own idea of form factor. Bloatware. Funky cooling methods. Minimal bios/uefi settings. Great for the guys and gals who need a pc and are blinded by the cool cases. And folks making the likes of the Nvidia 4XXX GPU's ditching warranty...

I use Thunderbird. Works for me.Has forever. Everyone else at work used Outlook. An email server my give you some or as much account control on their end as they wish. A hill of beans if you associate your local email client with one. I like being able to use T-bird offline or searching for...

I agree on that. But some people at the place lived on it. Some actually used it as a defacto standard. For a time the billing dept. used Excel solely for customer tracking and billing purposes with all of the garbage formulas and macros that made no sense to me at all. Until one day a peddler...

To TheForce. I would be interested in knowing the applications that you believe won't work under 11. The migration from XP to 7-8, etc.certainly did kill a lot of peripherals that worked just fine. Graphics cards, BT dongles, USB card readers. My Radeon All in Wonder tuner/GPU card. I'm sure a...

...Done that for years. By using Administrator as your regular login. It's highly unlikely that you're going to use a long password with a string of *, _ , characters. Or unprintables. I believe even now, Windows has hidden control userpasswords2. Services have disabled things like function...

Nope. Even required when "run as administrator".

Another annoyance with 11. When click on a .exe or .msi installer and it just sits there. Right click on the file and unblock it.

The context menu. Right clicking, in the case of file extraction using 7Zip, require an extra dip deeper. The start menu being in the center of the task bar. Both easily fixed. Running a .msi installer sometimes requires you to set an unblock in the properties. Some installers must be run as...

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Just an FYI. Run a command prompt under Administrator and type manage-bde.exe and hit enter. It will give a list of bitlocker options. manage-bde -status will list your drives and status. All of the options are listed to manage the encryption. If your secondary drive is locked and you remove it...

I have done a lot of drive clones. Yes. If you have a bios HDD password. Disable that so that you can boot straight into the OS w/o any enter password prompts. Bitlocker has to be disabled. It's there to keep someone who steals your pc from accessing the encrypted data. You are free to manually...