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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.

Is this a secondary drive an independent mechanism or a fourth (or fifth) partition on the "boot drive"? According to what I've read, you simply toggle it off and on. I don't imagine the encryption goes much beyond the pathways necessary to access the drive.

Most recommend disabling Bitlocker before doing the backup. Some commercial tools (AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional, MiniTool Partition Wizard) claim to work without that manual step. If you weren't provided with a Bitlocker password (much, much shame on Dell), you need to seek out a...

After telling us three times that you don't want them in alphabetical order, we're well aware of what you don't want. You haven't made it clear what you want. Try stating your desire in a single, complete sentence. "Like it was before" is not a valid answer.

To be more specific, the control panel got a visual remodel/restructuring from its Windows 7 (or XP or earlier) foundations. The new elements of the control panel are perhaps a little deeper down in the tree than they used to be. Setting up a printer or a scanner is much more convoluted than...

Where does Microsoft, who has a long and storied history of radically underestimating the practical system requirements for Windows, get off telling us that machines that run Windows 11 just fine aren't allowed to? Let the user decide when their old hardware is no longer good enough!

That's not a huge reason to upgrade now -- especially as Windows 11 becomes more and more like Windows 10 if it had been finished. Recent reports have suggested that Microsoft may offer extended Windows 10 support to individuals beyond the current 2025 cutoff rather than limiting it to...

Given what little you gain with Windows 11, would these kinds of incompatibilities be worth it for households with only one or two computers? Windows 11 is by no means a quantum leap in technology that should be experiencing these kinds of problems. I think of Windows 11 as being very much...