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As someone who has managed and fixed them before: From a perspective of "I need something cheap/light to just get on the internet with"/"I need a cheap laptop for my kid to do school work" - great! From a perspective of "I need something longterm for a variety of things" - you're better off...

https://www.comptia.org/faq/a/how-long-does-the-a-certification-last To be fair this makes sense. While a lot of fundamentals are the same, there's a huge difference between what was current in 2009 and what IT is like 15 years later. The idea of what Microsoft Azure does now would have seemed...

Unless you're using a retail copy (which is very unlikely), when Windows 8, 8.1, 10 and 11 get activated, the key gets tied to the motherboard - if it's a computer you bought off the shelf (ie Acer, Dell, etc.) the key is saved into the computer's hardware and it will detect it. The ID Jesse is...

Windows 10 support ends October 2024. Windows 11 is no less usable than Windows 10 (and a free upgrade).

My friend, Vista was already slow on good computers. Windows 11 is literally 10 in a shiny new package. It performs no worse, nor collects more telemetry than 10. Even the bloatware (like Disney+, Spotify, etc.) is just an ad; it isn't actually installed until you go to use it.

That's... not entirely true, and is affected by a lot of factors. Generally when passwords are cracked really quickly, it's a combination of: - known passwords - dictionaries - known hashes The failure at that stage (especially with hashes) isn't at all to do with the length, but the integrity...

There's a tonne of business reasons not to upgrade. When you're supporting a lot of industrial software/hardware and/or in-house applications that are millions of dollars to replace, you're generally in favour of sticking with what works. We had 4 computers we had to keep isolated (and still do...

As someone who has lived in a rural area my whole life, and is a sysadmin for an agricultural company that spans a large region including "middle of nowhere" kinds of places - this is actually a very good thing. These places have farmers with literally no internet options. Shutting down older...

Buy a very high res screen and cameras, factor in the costs of producing the miniature phone hardware... you're probably breaking even, if not ahead, with the phone. You're still going to have dead components, processors lacking features that won't be supported by newer software (eg TPM2.0...

It's a very wide combination of things, partially driven by greed. In IT we have a software/hardware development software that feed into each other as a vicious cycle. When new hardware comes out, software companies want to take advantage of those features. So they jam as many features as they...

If it's already running 7 perfectly fine and doesn't have a mechanical hard disk... it'll probably run okay (as long as you have at least 4GB of RAM). I only just replaced an antique OptiPlex (approximately that old) that was running two specific apps; we put an SSD in it and ran Windows 10 on...

If you need taskbar labels - upgrade to 10 and wait for the new build of Windows 11 when they (hopefully) put that back in (it's currently enabled in the Dev channel). Otherwise there's no real reason not to go straight to 11 (do a fresh install, mind you - especially if your processor is...

Windows 7 and 10 (and even moreso, 11) are so closely related that there should be none. Any incompatibilities would have to be really specific software that requires something really old - again, only a handful of cases that require that and they should only be used in very extreme...

There's a handful of factors at play: - the size of the data (being LOGOS I assume it's like 50 TB) - your download speed - the upload speed of the server you're downloading from - anything handling that data inbetween (largely your ISP, their provider and everything happening between other...

I don't know how technical your brother is, but just in case he pushes back, make sure he knows: - Office 2003 has over 70 vulnerabilities, most of them very dangerous; and it's really not that hard to accidentally open yourself to them. This means any viruses or compromised documents that you...

Both Wacom and CakeWalk's support forums would be able to help you, no doubt. As for Word: yeah, don't use it. Uninstall it. It's been out of support for nearly a decade (ie it stops getting security updates). Download LibreOffice. It's free, it's very similar to Office 2003 in design, and it's...

Assuming you re-downloaded everything, it's probably just changes been made between versions. And assuming you didn't backup your configs, these are the default settings for each of these. Cakewalk very likely installed the new VSTs but either the config or VSTs were overwritten when you...

Cleared your cache/cookies? Disabled anything that might be blocking elements on the page?

It was good in the early days of multi-tabbed browsers.

Edge. It's there, it syncs with our organisation Microsoft accounts, it works. It's one less thing to keep updated for vulnerabilities.