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Not there for me.  (Win10 Pro) Found it at Settings / Taskbar / notification area / Turn system icons on or off / Clock

 

For what it’s worth, Microsoft itself is the price leader for Office Home 2024 at $129.99.  https://www.microsoft.com/en-bs/microsoft-365/p/office-home-2024/cfq7ttc0pqvj

 

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Kathy Stevens

I too have tried this fix before and it (still) doesn’t work for me.  (Win10 Pro) I will note that Excel 2016 has adequate ‘hot’ widths but most (e.g., FireFox) don’t.  Later I will try a Restart. I don’t think that has been mentioned as being needed.

 

I’ve had the same problem for about 3 weeks.  Other browsers don’t appear to be affected.  I assume it’s Google messing with FF.  It’s happened in the past occasionally but clears up after a week or two.

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bbearren

Thanks for your post.  I have 2 accounts, an MS and a google, and the mail is *not* combined!  And I don’t see a way to combine them.  Not that I want to.

And thanks for tip about changing the order of the icons at the bottom.  Keep up the good work.

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Will Fastie, Peter Deegan

Paul T has the right idea: use the switch on the monitor. The 3 switches mentioned are all unsuitable for electrical and/or safety and/or mechanical reasons.
[Details given if anyone wants.}
0.3W standby, even at Calif rates, is ~80 cents a year.

Thanks for pointing me to Opal.  I’ll give it the real test tonight. One minor problem:  running it causes Windows (10pro) to pop up “Windows protected your PC” and I have to click thru Run anyway.  No big deal.

If this is a “Windows Desktop App,” and I think it is, then it has “permission to use all system resources. You can’t use the Privacy settings to control what capabilities these apps can use.”  [https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/app-permissions-aea98a7c-b61a-1930-6ed0-47f0ed2ee15c]

I got to this by:

1.  At the OP’s link for ShowKeyPlus, click on “Get in Store app”
2. In the little window that appears, click on “Get”
3.   In the little window that appears, click on “More details”
4.   In the window that opens, scroll down to “Additional information”

5. Read “This app can / Uses all system resources.” and the “Permissions info” link gets more details.

I’m a light Facebook/Messenger user on Android, and have denied all 7 Facebook and 9 Messenger permissions, and both  work (as well as they can without access to Contacts, camera, etc.).

For my light FTP needs I use Filezilla and Total Commander. I too have been using TC since the 90s as my file manager. It just works and is still actively developed. I use it so much that I’ve paid for 3 copies over the years out of guilt for paying so little for so much.  By the way, the March release isn’t the “final” version. It’s the final release of the then-current beta cycle.

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doriel

Nothing that I know of.  If I remember correctly, Susan earlier complained of getting the same MS message (paraphrasing, “The update isn’t quite ready yet.”) on her Lenovo too.  I figure MS fixed a problem it had with Lenovo.  Anyway, it works, or at least doesn’t noticeably break anything.

My 3 year old Lenovo just got the 2004 update after saying for quite a while that it wasn’t ready yet. No problems. The camera driver was also updated. Haven’t checked to see if the camera still works.

Win 10 Pro 2004 (sneakily installed itself a few days ago with no apparent problems)

Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2016  from MSI

Toggling the setting in Update didn’t work for me either.  What did work:  open Word, go to File / Account.  Mine has an “Office Updates” drop-down box which has an “Update Now” choice.  That worked.  It updated.

Works for me. The black box has 5 tiles (“Tops apps”) for programs that I have recently used.

Most recent updates:
Feature update to Windows 10, version 1909
Successfully installed on ‎1/‎27/‎2020

January 14, 2020-KB4532938 Cumulative Update for .NET Framework 3.5 and 4.8 for Windows 10
Successfully installed on ‎1/‎27/‎2020

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woody

Here’s a post I left on Jan 17 (on the Ask Woody Blog, if I understand the forums hierarchy correctly).

I can be as angry at Microsoft as anyone, but updates (a few days ago) from W10Pro-1803 to 1809 went without incident and so far, without subsequent problems. They also installed much faster than previous updates – maybe 25 mins instead of hour or hours. I thought I had updates stalled, but apparently not. I am annoyed at Microsoft being coy about what it is about to do. Thought Patch Tuesday was happening.

Computers: Two-year old cheap Thinkjet, and 2-month old home made box (Asus Z370-A motherboard). Both with run-of-the-mill software: office 2016, VLC, the usual browsers, bunch of email clients, etc.

So, all in all, a decent experience, with unused backups.

Jan 29 Update: still no problems

I can be as angry at Microsoft as anyone, but updates (a few days ago) from W10Pro-1803 to 1809 went without incident and so far, without subsequent problems.  They also installed much faster than previous updates – maybe 25 mins instead of hour or hours.  I thought I had updates stalled, but apparently not.  I am annoyed at Microsoft being coy about what it is about to do.  Thought Patch Tuesday was happening.

Computers:  Two-year old cheap Thinkjet, and 2-month old home made box (Asus Z370-A motherboard).  Both with run-of-the-mill software:  office 2016, VLC, the usual browsers, bunch of email clients, etc.

So, all in all, a decent experience, with unused backups.

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