Recent content by MichaelDSM

@Ghot: thank you for another tutorial :-) I don't plan to do an In-Place upgrade on either machine that I'm working from. I'm writing this from my older HP Win 10 laptop while I have the new Win 11 HP laptop open next to it. I haven't installed much on the new machine yet, which is why I was...

Thank you for that. I'm going to have to do some studying and get back to you. If I were to deviate from the factory reinstall process as the tutorial instructs, I don't even know my activation code at this point! :-) Note: I've only read a little of the tutorial. Also, I did clean installs on...

Lol - I was too! I had one because of having created a free OneDrive acct years ago, then didn't access it for so long that they froze it! And not because I hate all things Microsoft like some people - I don't! All in good balance, though. I mainly just didn't need the MS account - until I...

Wow, thank you for all that @Ghot ! I have bookmarked each of those initial pages for future reference. Of course I didn't have time to click into and read all of the Windows 11 Tweaks items, but I looked the entire page over, especially scrutinizing the File Explorer section, and I didn't see...

In my slow migration to a new Win 11 HP laptop, I've realized that I've gotten by for years with scant understanding of Windows UAC, permissions, hierarchies, etc. Somehow, just making my account Admin level has avoided access restrictions since at least as far back as Windows XP, so I got by...

I just started up a new Win 11 today (my first, and using factory setup). It would appear that Win 11 forces you to use MS account credentials the first time - correct? I didn't see a choice. Anyway, after going through minimal setup (I skipped and deferred a lot) and getting over the shock of...