The Bleeding Edge

The software: Quicken Premiere 2017. The OS: Windows 10 Pro. After several months of working, one of the accounts to which I connect using DirectConnect has stopped working. When I invoke One Step Update, Quicken prompts me for the password to the account (and only that account … [Read more...]

I fired up TrueImage 2017 on the second Dell Optiplex 5050. I chose disk recovery, selected a backup, then checked the box next to the image I wanted to use. Then, this happened: I moved the error window aside to see if I'd made a mistake: Apparently not. There's … [Read more...]

When I was trying to get Dell to declare the first Optiplex 5050 bad enough to return, I ordered a Lenovo small desktop as a potential replacement. It arrived at about the same time as the replacement Optiplex, and I set it up while I was attempting to migrate the settings, docs, … [Read more...]

In the previous post, I reported on setting up a Dell Optiplex 5050, discovering that it had an intermittant problem, and receiving a replacement. In this post I'll discuss transferring the first machine's configuratio to the second. There are in general three ways to migrate … [Read more...]

My wife's Optiplex desktop was getting long in the tooth, so I decided to upgrade. I ordered another Optiplex Small Form Factor machine, configured fairly simply: i7, 16 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD, 1 TB spinning rust disk, AMD graphics upgrade. It arrived last Friday. I set it up … [Read more...]