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The newest AskWoody Plus newsletter — including a new LangaList item — is now posted. You can read it for free, here. In this issue: WOODY’S WINDOWS WATCH: Another patching debacle — how we got here BEST OF THE LOUNGE Keeping on top of the DejaBlue threat LANGALIST: Spotting fakery in system specs DROLL TALES: LABS: Can’t connect to…
Back after Summer break, the newest AskWoody Plus newsletter — including a new LangaList item — is now posted. You can read it for free, here. PRODUCTIVITY: MS Word and Google Docs now play nicely together BEST OF THE LOUNGE: Choosing a backup solution for the home LANGALIST: Oops! Recovering a file after a factory restore DROLL TALES…
The AskWoody Plus newsletter is on a two-week Summer break. But all previous issues are archived here, and for now, they’re open and free. Click on over! Some recent highlights: LANGALIST: Many ways to track down a PC’s energy problemsBEST OF THE LOUNGE: BlueKeep exploitation expected soon?PATCH WATCH: Wrapping up July Windows and Office updatesWINDOWS 10: Windows 10 gets better at…
(Answer requested by Pavlov Pascale) Sure. If you have deep enough pockets, you can even buy USB pen drives up to a full 2TB — that’s TB, not GB — in size. Two terabytes is huge capacity in a pen drive, but the price is likewise outsized — something like $1000/TB, or roughly 10x more…
In a word: No. On this page, Microsoft states (emphasis added): “Starting with the May 2019 Update, the system requirements for hard drive size for clean installs of Windows 10 as well as new PCs changed to a minimum of 32GB.“ That’s Windows itself. MS Office also needs room, although the space requirements vary by type…
It depends what you want to use as the HD source. If the source is another PC or similar device (smartphone, tablet, laptop…), you can likely use any remote desktop, screen sharing, Twitch-type screen-streaming, or any similar type of app (that both devices support) to display whatever’s on the source screen on your Win8.1 PC’s…
Your question touches on two separate things. First, yes: Cloning can perfectly replicate everything that’s on a PC’s disk. If the PCs are truly identical (as in a managed corporate setting), and the OS is licensed for it, then you only need one Master disk image, which can then be deployed/installed more or less simultaneously…
The AskWoody Plus newsletter is on a short Summer break. But all previous issues are archived here, and for now, they’re open and free. Click on over! Some recent highlights: LANGALIST: Win10’s 18-month ‘service life‘ complicates updatesWINDOWS 10: Create an MS Family to share your computing resourcesBEST OF THE LOUNGE: Microsoft quietly adds new telemetry to Win7 patchPATCH WATCH: July updates…
I think the only place it still costs that much is at the undiscounted Microsoft Store. With just a little shopping, you’ll find prices half that; and only a small or nonexistent price differential between Home and Pro. (In fact, checking prices today to write this piece, I see Amazon is selling Win10 Pro for…
A classic hard drive is a complex mechanical assemblage consisting of a circuit board, one or more spinning platters, a spindle, a hub, bearings, several read/write heads on actuating arms, at least two electric motors, and miscellaneous wiring, connectors, and other parts. (Examples.) In contrast, a SATA SSD contains just air and a circuit board….