Recent content by jimbo45

@gunrunnerjohn I agree with an old laptop - but just saying it COULD be used if needed. But this I found as a far better solution : Actually why not get a "MiniPC" - similar price on Amazon -- I've got a number of these boxes now all doing various jobs - they even come equipped with Windows...

If need any sort of "Non Windows server" why even BOTHER with proprietary expensive things like that. Even an OLD 15 year old Laptop running ANY version of Linux can give far better options than those "QNAP" OS things. @gunrunnerjohn @Jabiru For simplicity simply install either Fedora or...

Hi there That seems to have fixed it Thanks !!!! Will mark as solved Cheers jimbo

Hi folks Added -- Kubernetes seems a possibly way of doing this -- also seems to be able to "isolate" Windows apps too. I like the idea of using Docker containers - this seems to be a way forward and can be very efficient Anybody managed to get Windows running inside a docker container --...

How "Authorized" is "Authorized". There are plenty of sellers out there selling Windows and Office for what seems rediculously low prices. Some of these seem to work decently (including with updating" for years - other smight be "Pirate copies", and yet others might be "legit VL copies or OEM...

Hi folks Using Outlook in Office Pro LTSC 2021 I've added the a gmail account -- that's been working OK fror ages but now I -- I am suddenly getting Gmail messages sent to both the inbox and the Important folder - any way to stop this or even not have an imprtant folder at all -- I've tried...

Klarna for Office Pro Plus LTSC 2021 UK £19.85 -- Never heard of klarna but might be an acceprable risk !!! Cheers jimbo

Hi there @colinp have a nice glass of single malt scotch or nice wine or beer and then read this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-time_pad Perfect for Sun Morning !!!!!!! Cheers jimbo

Hi folks So far so good. Installed directly to physical vhdx file as well - Physical disk geometry EFI partition - NTFS partition with single vhdx file and enough physical space left on HDD for a paging file. Attached the vhdx file , created a gpt partition on it (no need for an extra efi...

Vuescan keeps a lot of these old scanner working !!! Even on Win11 (as do using an older OS as a VM) -- I still have an Agfa 35 MM negartve scanner == absolutely brilliant for digitising old kodachrome slides (those kodachrome slides with full colour still look wonderful when digitised and...

Hi folks Don´t forget also if you originally installed and built on an external device and copied to internal one then re-set the "PortableOperatingSystem" reg key back to "0" or you'll get a "Windows cant be installed to a USB device" when you try and run WU !!!!! (Note - Easy way to...

Can't find anything wrong with this build -even video apps work fine --e.g BBC iPlayer on Snooker world championship in Sheffield U.K -- Males US Pool look like a really pointless game !!!! Cheers jimbo

Hi folks latest version of Rufus (4,7 - or 4,7p if you prefer portable version) fixes errors / failures that used to occur regularly if you wanted to create a USB drive from a W11 install ISO and selected some of the W11 customisation features such as bypassing sec boot and TPM etc. Cheers jimbo

Forget all that stuff. !!! - Why make things so complicated !!. Just use dism /Apply-Image and have done with the whole B/S -- Dism /Apply-Image will install to almost any hardware whatsoever including physical vhd(x) files with / without TPM , including loads of "unsupported" CPU's and to...

Cheers jimbo