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RottenApple wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 7:32 pm

powerboatr wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 1:20 pmwant a laugh? i never really paid much attention to the windows one drive, I thought it was a space on the hard drive to portion data as a backup point,,,NOPE i turned on the new computer, logged into my microsoft email and BOOOOOOM it started downloading all the stuff from my other machines one drive, it brought over everything except my firefox stuff, which i figured out a few days later.. i had no idea. so i called ms and they said with my 365 account i get xxxxx gb of one drive storage in their cloud. so now i make sure important files are in the one drive path

I'm not sure if you meant using OneDrive to save applications or not, but just in case..... This won't protect most applications. While you very well might save the actual program files, the Windows Registry settings those applications need to operate will be gone. Which means the app has to be reinstalled anyway.

Now, if you're referring to documents, spreadsheets, pictures, etc. (i.e. - "data" files), then you are absolutely correct.

yep actual files, it was refreshing. last computer upgrade i spent weeks migrating files over to the new machine
office suite continually updates and it just topped off those programs
we are plain bagels and dont have programs from many other places except forscan. or adobe

oohrah wrote: ↑Tue Oct 26, 2021 12:06 pm

C-dub wrote: ↑Fri Oct 22, 2021 6:06 pm I don't think I will be interested until they stop servicing Windows 10. My laptop is at least 7 years old now and I've noticed some issues lately. Things are getting slower or taking longer. I might be getting something new in the next year or so. I've been backing up photos and things on external hard drives. Maybe it will come with W11 installed when I do.

Same issues with my laptop. Took it to BestBuy and swapped out the platter drive for a SSD. They were able to save all my data, but lost the apps (I had to re-install). Well, worth it, like a new machine again, and cold boots in under a minute.

want a laugh? i never really paid much attention to the windows one drive, I thought it was a space on the hard drive to portion data as a backup point,,,NOPE i turned on the new computer, logged into my microsoft email and BOOOOOOM it started downloading all the stuff from my other machines one drive, it brought over everything except my firefox stuff, which i figured out a few days later.. i had no idea. so i called ms and they said with my 365 account i get xxxxx gb of one drive storage in their cloud. so now i make sure important files are in the one drive path

never thought about linux, i may try that on my old xp machine.
forscan works with just about every OS system.

thanks for the idea

thanks all
yes i still have a great pc that has xp on it. i use it to run the program forscan for my truck. it always runs great since 2004, just has battery issues...as in it last 3 minutes even with a new one

this pc i am on now was just upgraded with a ssd last month when the drive failed and it runs IMO ten times faster now , in fact too fast

i bought a replacement at office depot last month and it runs circles around the one i am now and is up for the free 11 upgrade. 11 has stuff i wont ever use, and not sure about their comments at windows about being more MAC like with rounded edges , more apps from android and smoother gaming..i dont play games on the computers.

windows stated 2025 would be last service date on win 10. so i have time to see.


as far as the ssd drives.....fast boot up is FAAAASSSSSST that alone made the 132 dollars worth while

anybody do the upgrade yet?
i have 2 pcs , one is brand new as in 3 weeks , the other is 4 and has all the requirements except some weird tid bit i am resolving about the screen

i am on the fence about upgrading one but not the other.

i see win 11 is more focused on groups, games and using apps from the ap store. cortanna is intrusive enough