Evolv-ing Thread

[dwcraig1]

Booyeah! My first LiPo.

One of the new to me mods from a very generous ECF'er!


I'm going to have to look into a silver Supreme V3 when they drop.
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Mine is still waiting for the new DNA250 board to be installed, it's been so long that I seem to have forgotten about it.

 

[CMD-Ky]

It appears to me that altering the services, update and medic update, does also stop the Microsoft anti-virus updates. It to me that out of date AV definitions is a real problem. MS = either take everything we want to shove down your throat or we will send you nothing. What a company!

@tiburonfirst
I am certain that an a/v program is necessary if both services are off.
I opted for:

Webroot Discount – Save Up To $50 on SecureAnywhere Products | Webroot

Webroot, $18 one year, one machine
Beware, this is auto renewed but this "service" is easily cancelled.

 

[dwcraig1]

Can Windows Defender not be manually updated with the services off?

 

[CMD-Ky]

Can Windows Defender not be manually updated with the services off?

I do not think that it can be updated. I tried a manual update several times and nothing happened. Generally when I have manually updated in the past there was a prolonged 'search'.

 

[BillW50]

Can Windows Defender not be manually updated with the services off?

Nothing slows my computers down more than Windows Defender. At least when Avast scans the drive, it will pause and use a low priory and let you work. Not Defender, it claims the drive is theirs and whatever you want to do with the drive is just going to have to wait until its finished. The larger the drive, the longer the wait. About an hour wait with a 1TB drive. I love to rip it out by it's roots.

 

[dwcraig1]

Nothing slows my computers down more than Windows Defender. At least when Avast scans the drive, it will pause and use a low priory and let you work. Not Defender, it claims the drive is theirs and whatever you want to do with the drive is just going to have to wait until its finished. The larger the drive, the longer the wait. About an hour wait with a 1TB drive. I love to rip it out by it's roots.

Well my 1Tb drive just finished scanning with Defender in 37 seconds. It is a SSD, BTW.

 

[BillW50]

Well my 1Tb drive just finished scanning with Defender in 37 seconds. It is a SSD, BTW.
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Good for you dwcraig1. I use SSD on some of my machines. None of them are Windows 10 machines though. You know what it would cost to upgrade all of my machines to SSD? It would be in the thousands. It would be like purchasing a Mac ($$$).

And then that darn TPM (Trusted Platform Module) blocks any cloning software from running on my Windows 10 machines anyway. And if you mess around with it, Windows 10 loses its activation key and you have to purchase another copy of Windows 10.

And just buy SSD drives to make Defender happy? Pure rubbish!

 

[dwcraig1]

Well here is a full scan in progress, ET...about an hour. I stopped it but will go back and complete it as it found something on my C drive.

 

[dwcraig1]

Just buy SSD drives and make myself happy.

 

[mikepetro]

Good for you dwcraig1. I use SSD on some of my machines. None of them are Windows 10 machines though. You know what it would cost to upgrade all of my machines to SSD? It would be in the thousands. It would be like purchasing a Mac ($$$).

And then that darn TPM (Trusted Platform Module) blocks any cloning software from running on my Windows 10 machines anyway. And if you mess around with it, Windows 10 loses its activation key and you have to purchase another copy of Windows 10.

And just buy SSD drives to make Defender happy? Pure rubbish!

I clone my Win 10 SSD frequently. In fact that is my preferred disaster recover method when attempting Windows updates. I use Acronis software, it clones perfectly, and never lost an activation yet.

 

[BillW50]

I clone my Win 10 SSD frequently. In fact that is my preferred disaster recover method when attempting Windows updates. I use Acronis software, it clones perfectly, and never lost an activation yet.

I use Acronis for my non-Windows 10 machines. But I can't use it with my Windows 10 machines because the hardware won't allow Acronis or anything else besides Windows 10 to run on them. I am glad you have no such thing on your machine. Built your own?

For me to clone these drives, I have to pull them out and clone them on one of my non Windows 10 machines. Then put the clone drive inside of the Windows 10 machine and I am not even sure that would work.

 

[dwcraig1]

Just to let everyone know there is no discrimination of color here, in fact here's a picture af a couple of my best buds,

 

[BillW50]

Just buy SSD drives and make myself happy.

And your wallet lighter.

 

[dwcraig1]

I use Acronis for my non-Windows 10 machines. But I can't use it with my Windows 10 machines because the hardware won't allow Acronis or anything else besides Windows 10 to run on them. I am glad you have no such thing on your machine. Built your own?

For me to clone these drives, I have to pull them out and clone them on one of my non Windows 10 machines. Then put the clone drive inside of the Windows 10 machine and I am not even sure that would work.

I clone mine when replacing existing hard drive with a new one. Plug the new one in via USB and clone it then install it. Gee a Windows computer that runs only Windows, I have never heard of those.

 

[BillW50]

I used to do what you do for my non Windows 10 machines mikepetro. But I can't do that on these Windows 10 machines. So I have cloned machines. Two identical machines of each model.

 

[BillW50]

I clone mine when replacing existing hard drive with a new one. Plug the new one in via USB and clone it then install it.

That's how I used to do it too.

Gee a Windows computer that runs only Windows, I have never heard of those.

New thing which I am sure they plan on being on everything in the future.

 

[dwcraig1]

So I'm running a full scan now, it's making my I7 computer almost not usable. It took 20 seconds to "like" the above post. This time ET is almost 4 hours.
Edit: I canceled it

 

[dwcraig1]

My headlight conversion kit is starting it's journey from here:
MOUNT-ROYAL, PQ CA
I'm pretty sure it's not California

 

[mikepetro]

I use Acronis for my non-Windows 10 machines. But I can't use it with my Windows 10 machines because the hardware won't allow Acronis or anything else besides Windows 10 to run on them. I am glad you have no such thing on your machine. Built your own?

For me to clone these drives, I have to pull them out and clone them on one of my non Windows 10 machines. Then put the clone drive inside of the Windows 10 machine and I am not even sure that would work.

Yes, I have built every computer I have owned in the last 25 years, except for laptops.
At my last job we had about 100 Dell computers running Win10, cloning them wasnt an issue there. We used HDClone for those.

 

[CMD-Ky]

@mikepetro

Why do you prefer to clone rather than backup? EaseUS ToDo has that capability but I have not used it.