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    Question Pairing Logitech keyboards & mice with PC and Dongles

    Already tried that in part. KB & Mouse worked for a bit then no KB and mouse went wonky.
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    Question Pairing Logitech keyboards & mice with PC and Dongles

    Okay, boys and girls. It's time to play the Match Game. As I previously mentioned, I have two wireless keyboards ans one wireless mouse. I also have three non-unifying dongles and three unifying dongles. So which will work with which? The * signifies unifying dongle. SERIAL NBR MODEL...
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    Question Replacement for ScandAll Pro (Fujitsu)

    I have the 2008 version of Fujitsu's ScandAll Pro (Or is it ABBYY's?) Under win10 it ran just fine. Under win 11 on my new pc (not by choice, mind you) some of the settings won't work, such as scan area and paper size.I'm using a Fujitsu fi-6130 I bought from our church. Is the better scanner...
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    Question Remotely accessing NAS as though on home network.

    Right. I'm away a goodly bit and would like to be able to access my NAS remotely as easily as I do from my home network. I've 6 shares mapped as virtual drives that my win10 and (believe it or not) win11 pcs access via ethernet. I also have wi-fi networking at home so my wife's ipad and my fire...
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    News Dude, where's my GPU? — Microcenter customer gets backpack-stuffed box instead of RTX 5090

    Hmm...NVidia is just down the road from that store. Maybe the switch occurred at the factory?
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    [SOLVED] I cannot access my NAS with Windows 11 ?

    FINALLY! I got the bad boy to see and map my NAS. Answer #4 @ https://windowsreport.com/windows-11-nas-not-showing-in-network/ seemed to to the trick. NEVER had this problem under win7 or win10.
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    [SOLVED] I cannot access my NAS with Windows 11 ?

    nothing seems to work. I'm running 24H2 Build 26100.4061. I do NOT use one drive NOR do I use a mictosoft account. I tried evey solution at...
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    [SOLVED] I cannot access my NAS with Windows 11 ?

    My one month old new PC has (unfortunately) Windows 11 preinstalled. My NAS, WD My Cloud EX4100< is running SMB3 and SMB 1 is enabled under Windows 11. I read the notes at https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/filecab/accessing-a-third-party-nas-with-smb-in-windows-11-24h2-may-fail/4154300...
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    Question Find images of specific items on pc

    I got lucky and found the pix i wanted. Now to scan the other umpteen thousand.
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    Question Win11 desktop destroyed by win11

    I'm finally getting around to setting up my new mini-pc after having it a month. I had just gotten my desktop icon in place as well as all my utility app icons. When I closed Firefox, EVERYTHING was gone. It was hard enough finding the settings in 11 to set things the way I have set them since...
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    News The Lucky Miner USB stick is a $24 Bitcoin lottery ticket, with 210.7 trillion-to-one odds of mining a BTC block in a year

    Fret not, dear hacker, for some semi-literate saps will jump on the devices and dream of untold riches. That can disappear in a Flash.
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    Question Find images of specific items on pc

    I've been scanning about 10+ years of photo prints onto my NAS (RAID 5). I have about 1TB in the one directory. Each photo is around 2MB. I'm trying to find photos of a specific topic, i.e., automobiles.The pix are scanned in using a Fujitsu fi7160 in batches by developed date. Each batch has...
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    News Trump tariffs will hit consoles, monitors, and laptops hardest — U.S. imports 66% or more from China

    Apparently no one in Washington remembers what happened after passage of the Smoot-Hartley Act. And what happened ten years later.
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    Question Time to replace old faithful - New or refurb?

    I NEVER had any security problems with win7. I didn't get patches, bug fixes, et cetera every week under 7 and only slight more under 10. I've yet to see any convincing reason to use 11. I realise mictosoft will force its sycophants to cripple their software so it will only work on 11, just as...
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    Question Time to replace old faithful - New or refurb?

    1) The description said nothing about the OS 2)Win10 may fall off but I won't use win11. Period. 3) There's more than a little different. Start screen sux. More nags. More fault, security holes, more bloat. Mandatory mictosoft account for more spyware and data theft. OneDrive. Nag screens...