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If the laptop came with Windows it may have a key in the bios or a digital license.

It’s best to remove all but the boot drive when installing the OS. You don’t want the boot files spanning multiple drives.

Have you considered using a raspberry pi as a wireless print server for your old printer?

The newer HP laptops have such faint tiny model numbers on the back that are hard to read even with magnification in good lighting conditions

My recent HP laptop can charge via the USB-C port. I think that is the future with every device powered by a USB-C

Why?

Also when installing Win11 select English (world) to avoid a lot of bloatware. To start with a local account just enter a fake username and fake password when prompted for Microsoft account credentials

I got it through WU normal channel last week on my HP laptop. Make sure to select latest updates as soon as available

Yes except I went with the smaller nano 715 that has only a single usb-c.

What HP software could she possibly want? Most of what came on my HP was bloatware and trials. First thing I did was clean away all the crap and then installed a paid copy of MS Office.

Gaming is quite prevalent among young troops. If he doesn’t game, any laptop with modern i5 or i7 should work well. HeCI I stream videos to my TV with a $35 Raspberry Pi running Linux based OSMC and it works fine at 1080. You should ask him what he thinks he needs. He will likely also need MS...

mostly agree with DRU2. I’m retired military and civil servant. My organization did not provide CAC readers but you can buy for $10-15 in the BX/NEX or get the small filling ones like Identiv SCR3500 for about $15 online. I’m older and fairly presbyopic so I have a 15 inch laptop but if I was a...

I’ve used both HP and ASUS laptops with CAC sites. My son is in the Navy and has a MACBoo which he uses for CAC sites. Both of us have little folding USB CAC readers from Identiv. MilitaryCAC.com is a good source of information and instructions. Win 11 has native CAC abilities and you have to...

Glad you got it solved. Armory Crate is considered bloatware by many on this forum and on reddit. YMMV.