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Tell me more... I have all my parent's old photos and slides and am wanting to digitize them. Everything I research seems to point to that specific scanner as the best for the job. I purchased a stand-alone slide/negative scanner but am not that impressed with its overall quality (it's not...

I moved from MS Office on both my and my wife's computers to Libre Office a few years back and couldn't be happier. No more "Ribbon" interface, is compatible with all our old Office files, and has all the "features" we need and then some (frankly, WordPad does as much as we need for general...

That racket is likely due to a bad bearing in the fan. There's little you can do outside replacing the unit and Dell *loves* proprietary PS designs. Makes it difficult and usually a bit on the expensive side to replace them. BUT - that one looks pretty standard. Here's a replacement on...

I wound up having to purchase my wife a new laptop as one of the hinges *pulled out of/broke off of* the screen back plane!! It was *9* days out of warranty and Dell wouldn't budge in spite of it being an obvious manufacturing defect and being told it was a Christmas gift. So... they wanted...

There's little to nothing "Pro" adds that a typical home user needs. The biggest item is possibly the Group Policy Editor - something few home users need. And anything it does can be done via registry edits. Home also doesn't support Hyper-V but there are better, and free, 3rd party products...

Windows 11 is vastly superior to Windows 8.1 (just about anything MS but Vista is, so...). You'll find many things easier to do/find than on 8.1 - once you get used to the slightly different GUI. That said - I vastly prefer Win10 over Win11. If I were purchasing new I'd look at the...

Yes, those are Type "A". Type "C" ports are more common on portable devices (laptops) simply because they're smaller and allow for smaller cases. The whole race-to-the-lightest/smallest-device trend that can remove compatibility in favor of "portability." The adapters Walter mentioned are...

Where possible I remove any "HDs" completely before recycling. All are either keep for archival reasons, wiped and used as an external drive, or added internally to another system.

That "Microsoft Account" is only required for the initial set up and log in. Once you've logged in that account can be easily converted to a local login - no more ties to MS via the login - and if you need multiple local accounts they're easily created. The primary "benefit" is MS has a record...

Yes - the "official" end-of-support date. However, that generally means few, if any, feature updates. Win7 machines were supported for a full 5 years past EOS with "critical" updates and the few VMs we still have in service (to run software that just won't work at all on Win10) get critical...

Because most software is now distributed digitally, even boxed - it'll be on a flash drive or just have a dl link, and the majority of people just don't use optical drives. You can sometimes customize a desktop to add one but it depends on the manufacturer and model. Most systems still come...