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You might see it in the old Programs and Features, View installed updates. KB5015684.

M365 Business Basic and a perpetual licence is fine, have had several clients work that way.

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Ratters1960

Thanks for the feedback. I think I’ll get it updated before the year is out. I was hoping to maybe get another year out of this phone and then replace it with something newer, but the battery is showing degradation so the end may come sooner than that.

Great article. I still have a soft spot for the old stuff. I have some old hardware that I sometimes dig out as a hobby, including two Compaq 286 and 386 portables!

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Ben Myers

You’d want to check for the null first, such as with the following if statement:

if (aStringVariable != null)

I personally don’t bother with the Yoda thing, I think it makes the code more awkward to read.

Thanks for that, I didn’t know that it was that easy! Every day’s a school day.

Option 2 may not be feasible. It’s no longer possible to downgrade Firefox without creating a new profile, so going back from 106 to 102 would be destructive. If I recall correctly, they did move XP users to 52 ESR but I don’t think they downgraded from a newer non-ESR version.

WD Red Plus or Red Pro. Don’t go with the standard Red range. As RetiredGeek said, they’re SMR drives and are unreliable in RAID arrays.

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Michael432

I installed it on my work laptop (I know, I know!) but all fine, no hiccups.

It has been change for the sake of change since Windows Vista. I really feel like Windows 2000 or maybe XP were the last releases that really innovated.

It would never happen of course, but my vision would have been to leave the XP UI largely unchanged and build on that with newer technologies.

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cyberSAR, DrBonzo

Never had an issue with their hard drives either, this was an SSD that was acting up for me. It was a Blue.

I love the idea of ReactOS but progress on it is glacially slow. I remember coming across it about 20 years ago.

My personal experience with WD SSDs isn’t a good one. I had a 1TB Blue for about two years when it suddenly slowed to a crawl. Any existing data was being read extremely slowly (although correctly) whereas newly written data would be fine. I ended up replacing it with a Samsung SSD and restoring from my backup because it was a lot faster than trying to clone the WD, which would have taken several days.

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Nibbled To Death By Ducks

WSraysig wrote:

So it looks like I got almost all the options that I need for Win11 on Hyper-V by using Gen 2 and tweaking the settings for memory and processor cores. The only one I’m stuck on is TPM enabled. That is still not working on my new VM. Leaving that aside for a moment I’m stuck with the install of the operating system (Win11) from an iso. It’s pretty obvious I’m in over my head here.

I got Win10 installed on VM1 somehow. I wish I could remember how that went. But this new VM doesn’t seem to want to recognize the iso when I attempt to connect. . Any help is appreciated.

VM2-settings
VM2-startup-screen
VM2-Virtual-boot-summary

Do you see a TPM setting under Security? I don’t have a client Hyper-V setup to hand but it should look like Susan’s screenshot above.

You need to shut down the VM to have all options available. I can see from the second warning that it’s running.

Also, you should use a Generation 2 VM for Windows 11. That looks to be a Gen 1.

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