Recent content by SoFine409

You’re 100% correct. I just setup 5 gmail accounts on Thunderbird on a Mac Mini and had absolutely no problems whatsoever. As a matter of fact I set up multiple filters/rules for each account and they worked flawlessly unlike Outlook which never worked right in all the years I was using it.

Here is what AI says: Windows Event ID 41 indicates your system rebooted or shut down unexpectedly. It is a "symptom" rather than a root cause. Because the PC lost power before it could finish saving logs, this event simply means "the PC didn't shut down cleanly". [1, 2, 3] Common Causes Power...

It means that the drive is neatly full but in this case it’s really nothing to worry about as windows will manage this for you.

I tried to set up a new Mac Mini M4 today with MS Office so I could just import my pst folders from my old Outlook and surprise, surprise MS pulled the plug in being able to import pst files. My solution was T-bird. It successfully imported all my Outlook pst files without issues and set up my...

If you know how to open your PC, you can just disconnect the power cable from one and they try booting. That should tell you which is which. One you find out just label them both with a piece of blue tape and a marking pen,

Two days ago I noticed that Chrome was taking a very long time to load web pages. It only happened on first web site I loaded. Edge didn’t exhibit this behavior. I tried all their suggested fixes and nothing worked. Since I have all my setting, links, and login info saved to my Google Account...

After the 2026/02 fiasco, I'm pleased to see that KB5079473 installed without issue on my daily driver. 3 reboots and everything is working as it should. SFC and DISM Checkhealth are both OK. What an unexpected and pleasant surprise. It's really sad that this isn't the norm anymore.

I tried twice to install this update. Both times the PC restarted twice and on the last restart it undid the update and rebooted. Both unsuccessful installs took well over 30 minutes each. SFC and DISM were completed without errors. I consider myself luck that I didn’t get stuck in a boot loop...

Over the years this forum and its predecessor the Win10 forum, have been an invaluable resource for me. The members are the absolute best!

WuMgr runs only when you open it and click on Search for Updates. You don’t have to run it and even after you instruct it to search for updates you select the update you want or simply close it without installing anything. You can even tell it to hide any update you wish. Your control is...

System image, hands down.

Head over to gethub and download WUMGR by David Xanotis. https://github.com/DavidXanatos/wumgr I’ve been using it for several years. It lets you decide which update to install and when to install them. I use it on all of my PCs.

Move to Linux! Sorry, I just couldn't resist saying this. Actually, I'm trying to decide if I should use Mint as my daily driver. I recently installed Mint V22.3 and it looks pretty compelling.

This is Microsoft’s phased feature update strategy. Instead of just turning it on for everyone it’s rolled out in stages. Feels kind of like we are glorified beta testers.

Banakia is a parental time control program. Info is here Babaika's Parents Time Control Portable If you download the zip file there is probably an uninstaller included. I think it’s written in Visual Basic so the Apps section of Windows Settings might have an uninstaller entry.