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They have upgraded the PC Health Check App to get rid of false negatives and to tell you why it isn't upgradable when that is the case. Download V2.3 of the app for these new features. Charlie

You can see the hardware requirements here: Windows 11 Specifications - Microsoft A couple of things to check are whether the graphics are WDDM 2.0 and Direct X 12 compatible, whether the Trust module is TPM 2.0 and whether the BIOS is UEFI/Secure Boot. The i3 shouldn't be an issue unless the...

Windows 10 does not automatically mount VHDs after a reboot. You must go into Disk Management and "Attach VHD" (or equivalent) to mount the VHD so that OneDrive can see it. Attach VHD on Startup Automatically shows how to do it automatically at startup.

She also thinks the Shuffle was adorable.

Note that both versions can be linked to the same notebooks - so you can use the eraser to call up the OEM app to take quick notes and then look at them in the Office 2016 version if you need to do HW recognition. Also, HW is searchable in the OEM app as long as it has been indexed in the Office...

PWM is not a "cheap, crappy" way to dim LEDs. It is the standard way to do this. LEDs do not have much of a curve when it comes to brightness vs current.

Did all of the above, multiple times. I ended up fixing it by re-installing the OS from DVD (from downloaded 10565 ISO).

Unfortunately it didn't fix everything for me. I got my SP3 in a funny state. It is booting OK but the store and store apps will not run. They are greyed out in the Start menu, and attempting to run them says to check the store. It was like this before the firmware update as well. The bad patch...

Does anyone know if the new Pen nibs on the SP4 pen will work in an SP3 pen?

I've been using OneNote with a pen since 2004 and I love being able to quickly search through all my notes. It is the whole reason I started using Tablet PCs back then. Now that I can also sync those notebooks with my work laptop, phone and iPad through OneDrive making those notes available and...

It may also be driven by security policies required by one of your email providers. When I enabled access to my work email account in the Windows 10 Email app, this triggered certain requirements due to the security policies at work. The same thing happens on my iPhone/iPad - the device must be...

I also use Drawboard frequently and have seen no issues with Windows 10 through all the TP releases. They just released a new version (4.1.1) which changed the UI to be more Windows 10-like among other things. This version removes the 5 file restriction (yay!) and the premium tier so now...

After doing a little research, it appears that Parted Magic actually does use the ATA commands to issue the secure erase. In fact, it looks like it can do an enhanced secure erase, although I'm not sure how it specifies the erase algorithm. There is not a standard way to do that among SSD...

Just to be clear, that thread is incorrect. Windows does not issue an ATA Prepare Erase/Execute Erase in response to deleting partitions in Disk Management. Deleting partitions and reformatting is sufficient for doing a clean install of the operating system, but it is nothing like what a secure...

SSDs are accessed by logical address, not physical address. The mapping between LBAs and PBAs is handled by the SSD's controller and firmware. This is done to improve the performance and endurance of the SSD. Secure Erase of an SSD ensures that every PHYSICAL bl0ck of the SSD is erased and the...

Been running W10 for months on an SP3 with no SD card issues. I would look at the properties on the device showing the error in Device Manager and try reloading the driver. Or delete the offending device and then do a HW scan to re-find it.

Are you trying to activate a Windows 10 purchased key or activate Windows 10 with a Win 7 or 8 key? The latter will not work. You must upgrade Win 7 or 8 to Windows 10 which will automatically generate a Win 10 key for you. Once it is upgraded, you can do a clean install and the key will remain...

Yes, the SP3 has a pro version of Windows 8.1, so the Pro version of Windows 10 is the proper version to download.

Information on the various versions are here and which one applies based on what you are upgrading can be found here about half way down the page: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/media-creation-tool-install?ocid=ms_wol_win10

I downloaded the patch from the link WinBeta provided but it would not install on my machine, as I already had KB3074683