Windows 11 requirements

[alwaysFlOoReD]

It won't quit working. Just stop receiving updates and such. So eventually it will be much more likely to be hacked, depending where you spend time.

 

[scotts90ranger]

Part of the situation is solved, I pulled the trigger on a refurb Lenovo computer tonight, $300 and I'll have it Friday supposedly... Also I'm on Chrome and it looks like making a file of the bookmarks is simple enough...

I might salvage my current computer and keep it for the shop or something, we'll see...

I remember when computers and the internet used to be more exciting and now it feels like more work trying to avoid hackers and getting scammed one way or 17 others... sure lets use 74 steps of verification and have 87 separate characters for a password... and sure the Indian guy named Dave calling me (I'm 43) about my medicare benefits has the audacity to be mad at ME for being cranky that he called ME . Ok, I'm done with that tangent now...

 

[sgtsandman]

great. this is a 2012 .... touch screen. likke 4 screens i have put in it too. you aresaying that its going to quit working in two days because windblows 11......

It will still work. There just won't be anymore patches or updates for it. There are people out there who still use windows 3.11 and windows 95/98 for their business.

 

[scotts90ranger]

I just hate scammers, even more than Microsoft... Being the computer I do my banking and paying bills on and such I just don't want to deal with the pond scum (or it the settling pond for a cattle yard?) of the world...

 

[mr_manny]

2 factor authentication is your friend

 

[scotts90ranger]

I get it but I don't want to (another way of saying I will but I shouldn't have to)... it makes me angry sometimes thinking of the list of passwords sitting in front of me that has like 60 on it... We need to redistribute the dishonest earnings of congressmen to the elimination of hackers, or at least introduce them to the fornication of cacti...

I'm years behind at work but they forced server drives through Teams which is seriously dumb, I sync'd one of them to my desktop but it promptly used all but 8gb of the local disc. This act keeps me from accessing the calibration files I use on my tuning laptop which is super convenient. They got me a new computer that is tied to my work account which is fine but our work accounts are locked out of installing software (at least for me anyway, I could get an admin password but have to put it in for any action), the software I need to install has a license that is very intense and costs a couple grand most likely to do which will involve going to a different version of the software most likely which will involve more setup... but since I'm behind I don't want to stop to do it and it's a complete pain in the rear since I will have to contact a guy in Spokane and the company in Detroit I think to get it transferred to the other computer. Not to mention it's a computer with a smaller screen so all my screen files will need to be reworked so I can see stuff... I'm not computer illiterate just exhausted on things anymore. The IT guy recently asked why we have so many old files on our servers and wants to purge stuff over 10 years old... not sure what universe he lives in but I access some of it all the time and we get calls for 20 year old engines...

Ok, rant over... like I said computers are exhausting anymore...

 

[oldgeek]

It will still work. There just won't be anymore patches or updates for it. There are people out there who still use windows 3.11 and windows 95/98 for their business.

There was a company in Texas that was still using punch cards for their accounting, it just worked. But the company that made the cards went out of business in 2013, so they probably had to update.

 

[oldgeek]

I get it but I don't want to (another way of saying I will but I shouldn't have to)... it makes me angry sometimes thinking of the list of passwords sitting in front of me that has like 60 on it... We need to redistribute the dishonest earnings of congressmen to the elimination of hackers, or at least introduce them to the fornication of cacti...

I'm years behind at work but they forced server drives through Teams which is seriously dumb, I sync'd one of them to my desktop but it promptly used all but 8gb of the local disc. This act keeps me from accessing the calibration files I use on my tuning laptop which is super convenient. They got me a new computer that is tied to my work account which is fine but our work accounts are locked out of installing software (at least for me anyway, I could get an admin password but have to put it in for any action), the software I need to install has a license that is very intense and costs a couple grand most likely to do which will involve going to a different version of the software most likely which will involve more setup... but since I'm behind I don't want to stop to do it and it's a complete pain in the rear since I will have to contact a guy in Spokane and the company in Detroit I think to get it transferred to the other computer. Not to mention it's a computer with a smaller screen so all my screen files will need to be reworked so I can see stuff... I'm not computer illiterate just exhausted on things anymore. The IT guy recently asked why we have so many old files on our servers and wants to purge stuff over 10 years old... not sure what universe he lives in but I access some of it all the time and we get calls for 20 year old engines...

Ok, rant over... like I said computers are exhausting anymore...

I made the unfortunate mistake when I was younger to be able to "fix" computer issues at our shop. Now I'm old and am still expected to be the IT guy. Our network is two computers. We just got new machines, Windows 11. I had the old ones set up to daily sync files between the two. Now, Windows updated and broke it all. I'm reading of the same issues others are having. I have never used a NAS. But that's the direction we are going now.

Brave new world. Where's the bloody Excedrin?

 

[mr_manny]

Sounds like you should look into an tool called Cygwin (open source).
As I used to say back in the day, installing Cygwin makes windows suck less

Trust me, you will thank me later

 

[scotts90ranger]

I made the unfortunate mistake when I was younger to be able to "fix" computer issues at our shop. Now I'm old and am still expected to be the IT guy. Our network is two computers. We just got new machines, Windows 11. I had the old ones set up to daily sync files between the two. Now, Windows updated and broke it all. I'm reading of the same issues others are having. I have never used a NAS. But that's the direction we are going now.

Brave new world. Where's the bloody Excedrin?

I also wasn't paying attention at work and ended up important, it really sucks sometimes, I also blinked and am no longer 25... that one is really annoying...