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Recommendations... The fact that you couldn't finish the BitLocker decrypt tells me that there was some issue with the drive reading or writing to a particular spot. If this happened to me, I would consider the drive "suspect" and definitely replace it if possible. Regarding the "disappearing drive issue", it seems like Dell has actually come up with a fix for this — it was to remove the switch from the motherboard altogether. If you replace the drive, you will know pretty quick (within a few hours) if it is going to be subject to this issue. If the PCIe4 drive is your boot drive, the issue will probably manifest itself as a system lock-up. (Mouse might move around, but nothing will work, probably similar to what you saw when it was locked up with the BitLocker decrypt.) If it is a problem, you can just immediately move the drive to one of the PCIe3 slots as a temporary fix, until you put a permanent fix in place. The permanent fix would be something similar to what I did to keep the switch pressed down, or having Dell replace the motherboard.

Have you tried scrolling with the touchpad? Using two fingers will perform a scroll.

Ah, I forgot about Fn+Left/Right for home/end, but I was really frustrated with that because I tend to use shift+home/shift+end for "select to beginning/end of line"... and occasionally even Ctrl+Shift+Home/End for "select to beginning/end of document"... and throwing more keys into the mix for those combinations just drives me crazy. I also use Alt+PrntScrn a lot but having it as a Fn key doesn't bother me, probably because I'm already used to it from prior laptops. One thing that I wanted to mention is that you can use the dedicated keyboard "menu key" in place of Shift+F10 to bring up the right-click context menu. On this system it happens to be mapped to Fn+right ctrl.

Not that contested either.

TrueCrypt was discontinued the better part of a decade ago and may have unfixed security vulnerabilities (example: article). VeraCrypt is a fork of TrueCrypt that is still maintained. https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/Home.html

Pleased to kick off an owner's thread for the Dell Precision M6700. Release date: July 24, 2012 Intel 3rd-gen CPUs ("Ivy Bridge") Up to 32GB DDR3 memory NVIDIA Kepler Quadro GPUs (K3000M, K4000M, K5000M) This machine is near and dear to my heart, serving as my personal daily driver for nearly a full decade. It is highly tinkerable! With a MXM GPU slot, you can fit in a Maxwell GPU like the Quadro M5000M or GeForce 980M with little trouble, bringing it forward a few years in terms of graphics performance. (Pascal and Turing GPUs are also feasible, but with more work required.) With an mSATA slot and the ability to install a 2.5" SATA drive in the optical drive bay, you can fit in up to four SATA SSDs. The system was released at the tail end of the Windows 7 era, but received a BIOS update adding support for Windows 8 features like UEFI seamless boot and UEFI secure boot. It still works great with Windows 10 today. NBR owner's thread System review by Bokeh Quadro M5000M upgrade thread Quadro P5000 upgrade thread NGFF Wi-Fi upgrade thread Precision M6700 driver RSS feed

It's probably "Device Encryption", a minimal version of BitLocker. See: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/turn-on-or-off-device-encryption-in-windows-11.1424/

Lazy-load image placeholders have no height. When they get filled in, the layout of the page changes, and if you aren't consuming the page top-to-bottom then it will be noticeable. This page describes the issue (and a fix which seems a bit complex to me). https://css-tricks.com/preventing-content-reflow-from-lazy-loaded-images/ If you have disabled lazy loading, it seems like it is still happening — maybe it is just loading all of the images in right away without waiting the user to scroll, but the page is still loading first with images "missing" and they are getting filled in moments later. This is what is causing the "loading scroll jerk". [Edit] Checked out some HTML coming back from the server and it looks like images are set up properly, with "src", "height" and "width" attributes which should not cause a lazy load or lazy load jerk. Unless, I wonder if this is causing the problem.

I think that it may yet have to do with image loading happening late. The "unexpected offset" of the scroll seems to be line with the height of images loaded in further up in the page.

Playing around with this. Here's the JavaScript to correct the scroll after load. If you can find a place to put this so that it fires when the page is fully done loading then it's a workaround. [Edit] Can we also please fix code blocks in the inverted theme, thanks 🙂 if (location.hash) { document.getElementById(location.hash.replace("#", "")).scrollIntoView(); }

If you actually disabled lazy load... I'm still having "loading scroll jerk". Annoying because it breaks anchors, or links to a specific post in a thread. If I try to open the oldest unread post, or if I hit a bookmark to a specific post, it loads to the right spot briefly and then scrolls way off so I have to scroll down to find what I wanted. (Firefox + Inverted theme, if it matters.) Easy example I just picked out of a hat. This link should take you to the second to last post on the first page of this thread. It lands there briefly and then throws me up to like the 7th-to-last post. Never had such a problem with NBR. There is something happening during/after load that is throwing it off. If the cause can't be determined, it might be fixable as a workaround with JavaScript (reset the scroll to the anchor after load is fully done).

For me, Windows 11 insider build 22557 brings a notable plus and minus to the table. Plus: Start Menu now supports "subfolders" or groups of pinned items (which I complained about being a regression from Windows 10 in the OP). Minus: Taking away more user choices. Similar to Windows 11 Home edition, Windows 11 Pro edition now requires internet connectivity. If you choose to setup device for personal use, MSA will be required for setup as well. You can expect Microsoft Account to be required in subsequent WIP flights. (...And why would they require MSA, if not for some form of user data collection?) https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2022/02/16/announcing-windows-11-insider-preview-build-22557/

Try this. Open up "ODBC data sources (64-bit)" (Start Menu search) Double-click "MS Access Database" then click the "Select..." button. Blast from the past Windows 3.x file browse dialog box. Yes, yes I do... 😁 And thanks for that note about the 7X60 fingerprint reader under Linux. I knew that they had it working with XPS and 5000-series systems but not 7000-series systems (I seem to recall us digging into this around the 7X60 launch). Glad that this is finally getting addressed.

They were indeed saying this when Windows 10 was new, planning to just release periodic feature updates and make Windows 10 a sort of ever-improving rolling release. There was a time when I was expecting them to eventually drop the "Windows 10" name and just start calling it "Windows" since it would be continually refreshed. Really, it doesn't matter that much what it is called, it is meaningless now and just up to whatever Microsoft's marketing department decides. Windows 11 is in many ways little more than a slightly larger than normal "feature update" for Windows 10 (...tied in with a system requirements hike). Incidentally, the version number under the hood — that you see when you open the command prompt, or in a web browser user agent — is still 10.0 as well. I have considered a switch to Linux. I ran Linux full time for a while (some time ago, 2008-2009), getting very familiar with it and that helped me out a lot with work later on. It would be fine for a basic system if you just need a web browser, generic office software, file management, etc. It's gotten a lot easier to run Windows games on Linux in the last few years, as I understand it, but I'm not really up for a potential "battle" every time that I want to get a new game to work, there's other software that I'm pretty stuck to that doesn't necessarily run great on Linux (Quicken, Lightroom, Outlook+Exchange, iCloud for Windows), and it is just plain less hassle to do some types of things in Windows (BitLocker, Storage Spaces).

NBR Precision M4600 owner's thread NBR Precision M4600 GPU upgrade thread Precision M4600 driver RSS feed

Sorry that I can't offer confirmation, but I think there is quite a good chance that this will work. I'm not so familiar with the ins and outs of the HP ZBook line, but I know that Dell Precision 7000-series works with both ECC and non-ECC memory if a Xeon CPU is installed. This is true for all generations where Xeon has been offered (6th gen - 11th gen). Intel supports it, so it seems like it would work with HP systems unless they went out of their way to block it.

How did you find it? (Just curious.)

So, the news today is that Microsoft has published their first major batch of Windows 11 "upgrades" including: Android app support (in preview) Mute & share buttons available from the taskbar Taskbar clock now shows up on secondary monitors Weather on the taskbar Refreshed "Media Player" and "Notepad" applications Some of these come down through the Microsoft Store, and some come in this month's "optional" Windows Update patch (and they will also be rolled into next month's "required" patch releasing March 8). Microsoft article Ars Technica — "Microsoft will tweak Windows 11’s UI and features pretty much whenever it wants" So on one hand, great, they are improving the platform. On the other hand, they are forcing changes on people. You never know what you're going to get. I want to be in control of when feature changes happen on my system; patches that "add features" or otherwise change the user experience should be separate from security updates. That's really the core of a lot of what I feel is wrong about the direction that Microsoft is taking Windows. Honestly, I'd like to see more reactions from the business community and IT folks supporting big businesses. They haven't really gotten on Windows 11 yet, but I can't believe that they'd be happy about this direction. Yeah, pretty much... "Technical" Microsoft is much more interesting than "bean-counting" Microsoft and they clash together sometimes, as we are seeing with Windows here, but sometimes it even happens with the dev stack. (To their credit, Microsoft did end up reverting their decision described in the article here, after public pressure from the dev community.) Just as soon have them relax the requirements for Windows 11, since as I mentioned, there's no real reason for them to be what they are. They could keep support for Windows 10 going through the end of 2031 since they will be issuing patches for Windows 10 LTSC anyway... Not sure if they will really make any changes though. The main reason the Windows XP support got extended past the originally published end date was because it took them so long to get Vista out, Vista was a pretty big change, and Vista left a pretty negative first impression; that people got really entrenched in XP, in businesses in particular. They could have a similar situation happening here, in particular depending on the business community's reaction to Windows 11; too early to tell. (Also there's a real chance that "Windows 12" could be released before Windows 10 support ends, especially if Windows 11 ends up with a broadly negative reputation.) I won't deny that Windows 11 looks "better" than Windows 10 in general. That's one of the things that got me excited when I first saw it. I do like the new snappy animations as well. I'm aware of products like StartIsBack; I actually started using Start11 when it first released in anticipation of a Windows 11 upgrade. I did not end up doing the upgrade, but I'm keeping Start11 around because I know that it will allow me to keep the Windows 10-style tile Start Menu after I eventually upgrade (once an LTSC version is available). In any case, this only solves part of what I'm complaining about — Start Menu, and Taskbar to some degree. And really, I don't want to have to spend time figuring out how to "work around" changes in the platform that I don't like — especially when such changes could be forced down with little warning, at any time.

The system should have come with a plain metal plate heatsink for all of the NVMe drive slots (even slots that shipped without a drive in them). You should use that heatsink with your new drive. Don't run it without a heatsink at all. If you move the original OEM drive from the PCIe4 slot to one of the PCIe3 slots, swap the heatsinks around appropriately so that they stay with their original slots. The PCIe4 slot heatsink is a bit different than the PCIe3 slot heatsinks. There is rather little clearance. I'd assume that a NVMe drive that comes with a heatsink attached is intended for desktop use. I still think that it might be beneficial to put some thick thermal pad on top of the PCIe4 slot heatsink in this system so that there is contact between the heatsink and the chassis (like there is with the PCIe3 slots). This would probably be better if you have the chassis without the SSD door. (I have not tested this to see if it really makes a difference, though.)

It's not for warranty purposes. It's basically for security, so that the device owner can know if someone has opened the chassis (to I dunno, make a copy of the drive, install a custom hardware or a tracker, ...). [Edit] Ninja'd

This one has a 180W power adapter included. I'm not sure how important it is but I think you'd want some overhead so it can give a full 130W of power to the system. (The 130W version would be more appropriate for Dell systems that ship with a 90W power adapter.) https://smile.amazon.com/Dell-Monitor-Adapter-450-AEUO-4W2HW/dp/B01C8PHWQY There's no USB-C to USB-C cable. The dock cable is "permanently attached" to the dock and there is only one USB-C end that you have to worry about. (Most of the pictures don't show this but the one with it mounted behind a monitor does.) The 130W power supply is not just for charging the battery fast. Today's mobile CPUs can use over 90W of power for turbo boost. If you connect an underpowered PSU then it could throttle the CPU performance. The like button is more obvious if you switch to a dark theme. (There is a "Theme" drop-down at the VERY bottom of the page.) They're working on fixing this...

All cool. It's probably better this way, people are used to "Enter" just doing a regular line break and not a full paragraph break. Just wanted to make sure that I'm not going to have to go and "unfix" them...

@Hiew I noticed that the extra paragraph line break that you get from hitting the "enter" key is gone. The change affects old posts retroactively. Was this intentional? If so, is it intended to be permanent? (Doesn't bother me either way but it did "squish up" the long Windows articles that I had written, links in signature, and I had to go and fix them up.)

I rather doubt that you will be able to boot from it directly. The BIOS won't know to look there for a bootable drive. Chainloading might work though. (UEFI boot loader installed on a SATA drive, but OS installed on the NVMe drive.)

Look on Amazon for a Dell WD15 dock. $135. It's a bit older but it should work. It can do 130W power delivery, and it supports 2× 1080p displays at 60 Hz (plus USB, audio, Ethernet).