krism

@garlin - I hear you on the reserved storage but I will leave it alone for now. Never knew that, though - thanks. Currently at 36.7GB...

Yes, exactly. It was kind of a foolish question since everybody's is different. Have to remember what yours was then, and compare to...

clean install 44.2GB used, still early, busy setting it up, sorry, give me a bit! :) (RUFUS and MS win install are vastly improved - easy.)

I just tried Brave and it worked - after I shut everything off.

I do not store personal files or the .exe etc files (used to install all my stuff) on the C partition - that is all on the E partition...

Where would I find "system restore"? I have win backup shut off. I use Terabyte to image my partitions and drives and that backup goes...

I used to spend all my time on linux so didn't care, now, for a while, I am back to only win 11. Linux partition is erased. Seems...

I uninstall Edge right after win11 install.

That is good generic advice for any situation. I had it on my to do list anyway, so disabled all extensions and work first time but not...

I found the number of cookies on a site went down when I finally added ghostery, so it's a keeper for me. I think the site I was using...

yeah, don't know what's doing it. Just tried it on Brave and it didn't work there either. Something that it needs is being blocked. I...

Yes to all. Cancel that. Frustrated because (as it turns out) my CITI bank site wont show "alert settings" if I have installed uBlock...

I disabled the ai stuff for google searches: " chrome - google - AI stuff chrome://flags gives you Experimental - search "ai mode" and...

no thanks.

any security issues? I am NOT logged in to google. I am using Tab Shelf vertical tabs and uBlock Origin Lite extensions (and a couple...