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Have you tried disabling all your add-ons using Troubleshooting mode as suggested by @fishingfool ? If the problem doesn't occur with all add-ons disabled then turning half of the remaining disabled add-ons at a time (sort of a binary search) should locate the offender quickly. I found...

Per @fishingfool's suggestion I checked add-ons I'm using for both FireFox and Edge since the same problem occurs with both browsers. UBlockOrigin was the only add-on common to both so I disabled it on NEWSMAX and have not had a problem since - will take a couple days to be certain but it seems...

While visiting NEWSMAX.com, after viewing from 2 to 8 articles I will get a "Secure Connection Failed" with no reason given. This happens with Firefox (my normal browser) and with Edge. This began a couple months ago. I'm running Win 11 23H2 22631.4317 with Firefox 131.0.3 When the failure...

If you're sufficiently enthused it is possible to try to query the TPM chip directly. I did this to update an older TPM chip so the firmware revision was acceptable for Win11. The method and tools I used are described here: How to Update TPM Firmware using Windows You can ignore most of my...

I use SyncBack Free to backup my files along with Hasleo to back up the system. It takes some fiddling to set up the SyncBack backup profile(s) initially. Then it can be scheduled or one click backups of your data.

Is the automatic purge of Defender History broken? I tried setting the days until purge according to the first 3 methods in this tutorial. I first tried reading the days with Powershell and it returned nil indicating automatic purge was disabled. So, per #2 in the tutorial, I set the days to 15...

When there is a loud POP there generally is some visible evidence of the failed part. So a bright light and a magnifying glass have a good chance of finding the failed part (if any) on the motherboard. Check both top and bottom, including traces which may have functioned as fuses. Also, remove...

I use the Free Foxit Reader. You need to be careful when you visit the page to get the Free Reader rather than the free trial. Also, during install uncheck any added offers. Foxit has worked well for me for several years. In Explorer, clicking a PDF brings up a preview of the first page...

I had the same question. It seems LogoFAIL exploits vulnerabilities in the image parser built into the UEFI. I'd expect that disabling display of the logo would mean the parser wouldn't run so these parser vulnerabilities couldn't be exploited. However, I assume the LogoFAIL installer...

I use Open-Shell because I'm used to accessing a specific group of programs via the menu that pops up along the left edge. Win11 provides a bonus group of programs that now pop up at screen center. Best of both worlds.

I'm running Win11 22H2 with Hibernate disabled. I have a shortcut on the desktop named "Sleep" with a target of : C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState 0,1,0 Double clicking this shortcut puts the computer to sleep, no batch file needed.

I got one of the $7.75 TPM modules from China with the bad Infineon 5.0.1089.2 firmware. Gigabyte doesn't provide a firmware update method for the TPM chip so I poked around on the net and found what was needed to update this firmware by combining info from a couple places. A crude outline of...

Spectrum Cable

I just went through something like this. Had an Athlon quad core that didn't qualify for Win11 so I bought a new mobo, a ryzen 5 5600G, memory, and an m.2 ssd. Tried to boot the old sata SSD on the new system with no luck so disconnected the old drive and installed Win11 on the new M.2 drive...