Comments by "drescherjm" (@drescherjm) on "Ask Leo!" channel.

  1. This is one reason I never follow links in emails even if they look genuine. Instead I just go to the site and see for myself if there is anything I need to address.
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  2. Interesting! As an IT person for 28+ years I usually know most of what you show but this one slipped by me in that I didn't remember it allowed you to view more than 1 folder in a single virtual folder view.
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  3. Before Visual Studio 2015 there was no compatibility between msvc runtime. Each new major version of Visual Studio had a new runtime so if you have old software you may need older runtimes.
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  4. I switched to Ventoy a few years back. It seems to work with most ISOs I have tried and comes with a nice menu that allows you to chose what ISO to load during boot. After you install the bootable part on your stick you just dump each iso file you would want to boot into a the root folder of the stick. On windows it creates 2 drive letters for your stick 1 for the boot code and a second for your files and ISOs.
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  5. On a related note it's pretty creepy to get facebook friend requests from people you know who have passed away.
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  6. 0:32 I really wish that the OS would in 2025 be able to tell the user what application or process was using the drive and preventing the safe ejection. I have run into this issue a thousand times as a person in IT. 9:58 I do the same. I can tell you there are times where rebooting or even logging out isn't a good option and you need to leave for a meeting or something ASAP you have to quickly check again that you don't have anything using the drive then if you don't find anything you need to pull the drive.
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  7. One large problem you may encounter while doing this is licensing. Your purchased license for some of your software may not transfer to the new machine. In some cases you will have to deactivate the license on the old machine to be able to activate it on the new. In other cases the software company will require that you purchase a completely new license for the new machine even if you promise them you are going to recycle the old machine.
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  8. 2:17 This is why I never click on email links that send me to a site that I need to login. Instead I login using the normal method and check my Messages when I hit that site.
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  9.  @askleonotenboom  At work 50% of the PCs in my department are not officially supported. There is no way we would be replacing half of our computers because Microsoft decided to arbitrarily not support this older but fully functional hardware that is fast enough for the tasks it's being used for.
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  10. How often do you find that DISM or SFC actually fixes the problem? As a person in IT responsible for dozens of machines at work and otherwise my success rate with either of these have been very very low.
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  11. All storage devices can and will fail eventually. One way to have 3 copies of your data is to get 2 external drives. Keep 1 at home and the other one at work or some other secure offsite location. The one at home use for regular backups. Every month or so switch the 2 external drives.
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  12. I was very frustrated in the distant past when Google made it more difficult for my old eyes to read the text on their mail. I complained on their forum because the change intentionally removed quite a bit of the contrast making it much harder for me to read and causing me eyestrain. They didn't care. Their excuse was they had limited resources to work on the GUI. I told them in that case please just leave the interface alone instead of intentionally designing features in their UI that are harmful to people who don't have perfect eyesight.
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  13. I switched from AOMEI Backupper free to EaseUS Todo free for Windows desktop backups years ago after AOMEI free broke my usage of a networked storage in an update. The products seem to both work the same so the transition was easy.
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  14. I do this every day on my job as a lead software engineer who also has been the lead network administrator for our division for the last almost 27 years. Your video sounds like I could tell the exact same story.
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  15. I do the same. I don't trust my cloud based password manager to protect my financial sites because they have been hacked multiple times.
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  16. As a person who has just had my 27th anniversary as a programmer / system admin doing medical imaging research, I very much don't like change when it forces me to have to relearn something to be efficient again or when features I like are removed or when the the user interfaces changes just to make it look different. If there is change I want it to be for a positive reason.
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  17. For IT dates would be useful in many searches. I mean if I search for a problem in samba I don't ever want to see results from the 2001 because its most likely completely irrelevant to the current version.
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  18. Good advice. Although I don't work a help desk I know some people who do. I can say one very important requirement to being a person who is in a help desk position is dealing with extremely frustrated users. One case is many times the person has been on hold for 10s of minutes to hours which makes the user even more frustrated because of the time they have invested in the problem. As a person who will potentially have this job it's important to understand that some of these extremely frustrated users will lash out at you even if you aren't even a part of the problem. While you don't have to take all the abuse you get you will have to be a person who can take some level of abuse.
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  19. 1:02 Oh my! I laughed when I saw this title because I have a 25 TB OneDrive account at work (imaging research). I currently have no single desktop PC or workstation where I could download all the data but thankfully I rarely need to download more than a few hundred GBs. I have part of the folder tree set in explorer to not synchronize on my most used PCs and I have disabled indexing on the archive to avoid some of the performance problems.
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  20. I have a 25TB OneDrive from work. We used to have Box and the PC software was so much better for 10s of millions of files in terms of performance. I have had to work around performance problems since the switch. I have had to use rclone to upload some of my data since neither the builtin support or the web copy and past were very good at handling uploading a million files and several hundred GBs of data in one go.
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  21. Each individual satellite could easily keep some revolving record of the last X sites visited for each customer who used a satellite.
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  22. It's a good idea but it can't be your only backup method.
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  23. You mean random IP address? They will have a record of what IP address is assigned to what mac address of the modem or router that you use to connect to their service. How long they store that record is a different matter.
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  24. My answer (as an IT admin and software engineer with 50+ SSDs) for the title question is the expectation is longer than you will want to use it if you purchase a reputable name brand 5XXGB or larger SSD and you are using it for normal desktop usage / not deliberately trying to kill it. I have Intel SSDs that I purchased around 2009 that are still working fine although they are small 40GB / 80GB and have been demoted to other usage because a modern name brand usb-c stick is faster.
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  25. I have that but its not supported everywhere.
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  26. I was using AOMEI for years but the free version does not seem to be able to write to a NAS anymore (tested on multiple machines). I switched to EaseUS which works similar and the NAS destination works.
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  27. My biggest fear with encryption is losing the key. My second biggest fear is securing the copies of the key.
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  28. Not exactly the same thing but you can force files to be on the cloud only instead of in both locations: https://www.theexperienceblog.com/2017/09/26/use-attrib-to-pin-and-unpin-files-and-folders-for-onedrive-on-demand-sync-in-windows-10/
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  29. Most likely its this is not even necessary or helpful with an SSD since once a block is trimmed it won't be read back using normal methods. This is the reason why recovering deleted data from SSDs is unlikely at best. For a hard drive the answer is totally different as the data is usually retained after deleting.
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  30. Someone could also use public wifi or some other internet connection that is not in any way associated with the individual and then use a random / fake mac address to connect to that wifi making it extremely difficult to track down the individual.
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  31. This is very good advice. I will pass it on to those around me who could be susceptible to this type of attack.
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  32.  @ChibiKeruchan  Then your wife throws away the shampoo bottle because it's empty. I mention this because I can't keep an empty bottle anywhere in the house. My wife will detect it and recycle it. No matter where I try to hide it.
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  33. How is the space handled for Pop3 or Gmailify? My primary Gmail account is always close to the 15GB limit and the interface keeps asking me to pay for extra storage.
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  34. Thanks a lot! I have had to use an extension on the logitech receiver a few times to prevent this issue however I have never looked into the source of the problem.
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  35. Doesn't your ISP give you at least 1 email account? I get up to 10 per with my ISP and although I don't use most of them for actual email they do serve as recovery accounts.
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  36. I would say that encryption makes the process more difficult but not impossible.
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  37. One thing about the nuclear option is some software may require you to have your license codes handy. You may not have these codes readily available years after paying for such software. I have run into this problem when helping friends where they purchased software online years ago and upgraded but lost the codes.
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  38. How does that connect to the internet?
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  39. My first thought is this scenario may not even be an infection of your PC as someone could have obtained you address book in a different manner.
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  40. At work for some unknown reason our company customized installation media for MS Office while installing disabled the "Network List Service" after a reboot. This happened on every single PC we installed. After this service was disabled the Network icon did not show on the task bar. And if you got to the network settings page it would crash in a second or 2. Windows Update would report a failure code while looking for updates. After several hours of trying the troubleshooter / just fix it, SFC /Scannow, DISM ... nothing helped. It took me many hours to find a post about this which lead me to check and see that indeed "Network List Service" was disabled and that reenabling it fixed all of the issues. I then after some testing found out that our Office installer was the cause. I don't know if this was something someone in software licensing did or what but it was quite a frustrating problem.
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  41. For me the #1 cause of constant disk activity is OneDrive. At work I have a 25TB account. I made the mistake of putting 6TBs of work data in it with several million files. The problem is it takes hours upon hours to detect changes. We used to have a Box account before and it did not have this performance problem with so many files. That is part of the reason why I am in this situation. My company switched away from Box to OneDrive to save cost.
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  42. In my use case where I have an enterprise 25TB account that contains tens of millions of files OneDrive has become a serious performance problem. We had originally used Box and had migrated to OneDrive over a year ago as a cost savings as the price of Box greatly increased after our contract ran out. Anyways my problem is that OneDrive will often take several hours searching for changes were this was not an issue at all with Box. I have reduced the issue somewhat by moving large portions of my data to folders that don't sync but it's not great with my workflow as in IT I have a half dozen machines I use regularly.
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  43.  @almuric1baggins337  Too much work. I have around 400 hundred accounts. I also as a person in IT use 20+ devices on a given day which can limit the options.
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  44. After my mother passed away, I obtained her phone and after having it for a few weeks I decided to have my old phone disconnected and just go with her phone and number instead of switching my number to her better phone. The reason is I was getting unwanted calls daily and her phone does not get any. With that said my old phone was not connected to any online accounts so I didn't have any issue switching.
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  45. For the most part I no longer partition hard drives since their role has changed over the years. What I mean is HDs are now usually data storage used in raid arrays or standalone backup devices and not used for OS.
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  46. In addition to dictionary words I like to mix in company or product names + acronyms + stock tickers to the mix of words and probably a few symbols and numbers + some upper and lower case
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  47. I have used rclone for a couple of years. I use it because I have a 25TB OneDrive account and I find that it's not easy to mange that much data with either of the official methods. I believe I installed it from winget on my windows machines and distro packages on several different linux systems at work and home. I have not used the rclone mount command on windows however after seeing this I may try it to see of it improves my OneDrive usage. Edit: WoW! Mounting appears to be a way better experience in my use case! I am going to switch to not using the work OneDrive in Windows and instead mounting the O: drive as it avoids the crazy long sync process I have with 10s of millions of files and is much faster to update and load files.
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  48.  @nigelogilvie9450  Maybe a bit strong but they intentionally made a change that was harmful to older people and people without perfect eyesight and didn't want to revert the harmful change.
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  49.  @askleonotenboom  I tried to reply to the other comment on this yesterday but for some reason it didn't go through.
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