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URL in text msg is working today. I don't know why. The Phone Link version seems the same as it has been for a week or two. 1.22062.542.0

I have 2 problems with Phone Link when running Win11. These problems don't exist when running Win10. URLs in text msgs don't work right. I need this when I get my groceries via Instacart. Microsoft is aware of this and has an experimental version of Phone Link available. At least it did a...

Yes, now I remember why I'm using Macrium. The ancient but simple WD Acronis wouldn't uninstall completely, and neither would the newer WD Acronis Cyber uninstall completely.

I never needed any bootable stuff to repair anything. I have at least 2 bootable disks and I have at least 2 partitions on each disk that contain a Windows OS. So the only thing that would prevent my computer from booting up is a direct hit from an ICBM.:) At least that was the way it was...

I downloaded the latest Acronis from Western Digital. It looks the same as Acronis Cyber Protect. It is free for 5 years. I suppose other Disk makers have the same deal. Actually I think the Acronis is somewhat less confusing to me than Macrium.

It is a 24 year old DOS program, or at least it started out that way. It can do a lot of things that are probably done easier with newer software. What I use it for is to fix the partition letter after a Windows partition is copied to another location. I've used it dozens of times on my old...

One annoyance I have with various backup programs is when they confuse disk with partition. I'm currently using Macrium but they do this in a couple of places. P is not a drive. No drive has a letter. P is a partition letter. I know many people call the letters "Drive letters", but I find...

Twice I have used the free Macrium V8 to clone one disk to another, at least under certain conditions. My disks have two partitions that contain a Windows OS installation. The first OS partition on the destination disk seems to work okay. Apparently Macrium fixes the OS partition letter...

I avoid diskpart. Just thinking about using it makes me nervous. :)

How do you do that in 50 words or less? Does it involve diskpart?

It turned out to be later versions of PasswordSafe, a.k.a pwSafe at pwsafe.net. These versions lock themselves. I don't know why. There are a lot of options I could play with, but the whole thing seems goofy. I'm now using the old version I use on my old primary computer, and all is well.

I thought about that. I tried different versions of PasswordSafe, but the problem remains. The same versions work on my old computers. I have several Win11 and Win10 installations and they all have the same problem. I have several of the database files in various locations and with various...

Another thing to keep in mind is "fast startup". It seems that with multiple Win10 and/or Win11, you need to disable fast startup, or disable hibernate. Otherwise I get Windows "repairing" various partitions at startup.

I should explain that the PasswordSafe program can read the database file okay, but it can't save it. So no updates can be made. That's not a problem now but will have to be fixed before replacing my old computers.

Unlock-it says it is unlocked.