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Passport Network?
I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1,
with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender and Windows firewall. (1) TB HD Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-33-3770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz Ram 12.0 GB System type : 64-bit operating system I also have I have a Dell Optiplex 780 Tower, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender and Windows firewall. Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" System type : 64-bit operating system and (external hard drives) (8500) WD BLACK SERIES WD2003FZEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (780) Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive I recently noticed a pop-up that showed Passport Network are available (not connected). I'm wondering if I should disable this feature since I don't use it. My question would be would this affect Win 7 usage in any way if I disabled this? Thanks, Robert |
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Passport Network?
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In message , Robert in CA writes: I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender and Windows firewall. (1) TB HD Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-33-3770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz Ram 12.0 GB System type : 64-bit operating system I also have I have a Dell Optiplex 780 Tower, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender and Windows firewall. Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" System type : 64-bit operating system and (external hard drives) (8500) WD BLACK SERIES WD2003FZEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (780) Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive I recently noticed a pop-up that showed Passport Network are available (not connected). I'm wondering if I should disable this feature since I don't use it. My question would be would this affect Win 7 usage in any way if I disabled this? Thanks, Robert I've never heard of Passport Network, and I've been using Windows 7 for a year or three, so I don't think so ... (-: -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously." - Hubert H. Humphrey |
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Passport Network?
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
(W7 'group added) In message , Robert in CA writes: I have a Dell XPS 8500, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender and Windows firewall. (1) TB HD Intel (R) Core (TM) i7-33-3770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz Ram 12.0 GB System type : 64-bit operating system I also have I have a Dell Optiplex 780 Tower, with Windows 7 Professional, SP1, with Spywareblaster, Malwarebytes, Avast , Windows Defender and Windows firewall. Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" System type : 64-bit operating system and (external hard drives) (8500) WD BLACK SERIES WD2003FZEX 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive (780) Seagate Desktop HDD ST2000DM001 2TB 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive I recently noticed a pop-up that showed Passport Network are available (not connected). I'm wondering if I should disable this feature since I don't use it. My question would be would this affect Win 7 usage in any way if I disabled this? Thanks, Robert I've never heard of Passport Network, and I've been using Windows 7 for a year or three, so I don't think so ... (-: Locus equals: @hotmail.com @live.com @msn.com @passport.com @passport.net usage of Microsoft MSA something email related... needs email expert to decode the source of the message... Paul |
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Passport Network?
Locus equals: @hotmail.com @live.com @msn.com @passport.com @passport.net usage of Microsoft MSA something email related... needs email expert to decode the source of the message... Paul I went ahead and disabled it: https://postimg.cc/XZVCWWcV Robert |
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Passport Network?
I went ahead and disabled it: https://postimg.cc/XZVCWWcV Robert The passport network icon is on the lower right and looks like a speaker. https://postimg.cc/KK1SWkkB Robert |
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Passport Network?
On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 9:20:59 AM UTC-7, Robert in CA wrote:
I went ahead and disabled it: https://postimg.cc/XZVCWWcV Robert The passport network icon is on the lower right and looks like a speaker. https://postimg.cc/KK1SWkkB Robert My mistake its called Passpoint not Passport. Robert |
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Passport Network?
Robert in CA wrote:
On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 9:20:59 AM UTC-7, Robert in CA wrote: I went ahead and disabled it: https://postimg.cc/XZVCWWcV Robert The passport network icon is on the lower right and looks like a speaker. https://postimg.cc/KK1SWkkB Robert My mistake its called Passpoint not Passport. Robert In the "Unified Wireless Application" menu, why not use the "About" item to get more breadcrumbs about what it is about. Maybe there will be some branding info in there. It looks like it might be a menu for some kind of wireless hardware in the computer. Paul |
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On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 11:43:47 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote:
Robert in CA wrote: On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 9:20:59 AM UTC-7, Robert in CA wrote: I went ahead and disabled it: https://postimg.cc/XZVCWWcV Robert The passport network icon is on the lower right and looks like a speaker. https://postimg.cc/KK1SWkkB Robert My mistake its called Passpoint not Passport. Robert In the "Unified Wireless Application" menu, why not use the "About" item to get more breadcrumbs about what it is about. Maybe there will be some branding info in there. It looks like it might be a menu for some kind of wireless hardware in the computer. Paul I have no idea what this is or how I got it. https://postimg.cc/qNvQ0Ysd Robert |
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Passport Network?
Robert in CA wrote:
On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 11:43:47 AM UTC-7, Paul wrote: Robert in CA wrote: On Wednesday, September 18, 2019 at 9:20:59 AM UTC-7, Robert in CA wrote: I went ahead and disabled it: https://postimg.cc/XZVCWWcV Robert The passport network icon is on the lower right and looks like a speaker. https://postimg.cc/KK1SWkkB Robert My mistake its called Passpoint not Passport. Robert In the "Unified Wireless Application" menu, why not use the "About" item to get more breadcrumbs about what it is about. Maybe there will be some branding info in there. It looks like it might be a menu for some kind of wireless hardware in the computer. Paul I have no idea what this is or how I got it. https://postimg.cc/qNvQ0Ysd Robert The Dell Updater might have put it there. I'd be checking Device Manager to see if there is an actual Atheros Wireless on the machine. If this is the XPS 8500, it might be a card with a couple coax connectors or something. I don't know if they'd use a mini PCIe Wifi card on a machine like that. Zotac likes to do stuff like that, but when they do, they put a couple coax connectors in the I/O plate area for it. (Zotac make home theater PCs for playing movies.) Paul |
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Passport Network?
Yes, this is on the 8500
I checked Device Manager but I couldn't find it. https://postimg.cc/94VrHdGv https://postimg.cc/n97JL5xT https://postimg.cc/grqp1CMk https://postimg.cc/q6C3vkgY In passing, when I get a new HD for the 8500 do I just switch HD's and insert the Win10 DVD? Thanks, Robert |
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Robert in CA wrote:
Yes, this is on the 8500 I checked Device Manager but I couldn't find it. https://postimg.cc/94VrHdGv https://postimg.cc/n97JL5xT === Dell Wireless 1703 bgn 2.4GHz https://postimg.cc/grqp1CMk https://postimg.cc/q6C3vkgY In passing, when I get a new HD for the 8500 do I just switch HD's and insert the Win10 DVD? Thanks, Robert It's a miniature Wifi module, fits in a socket. Although the part numbering scheme they use for Wifi, there could in fact be multiple form factors. So this is just a guess. https://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Blue.../dp/B00L36AGO0 Has two coax connectors. It is supposed to have Bluetooth on board as well. ******* If you pop in a brand-new hard drive and boot the Windows 10 DVD, that will do a clean install. None of your programs will be present, and will need to be added in. During the install, if you select the "Custom" option, you can use the menu in there to "create" the C: partition to a custom size. So if you want C: to be 100GB out of 2TB of disk, you can do it at that time, early in the install. While Windows has a "partition shrink" function in Disk Management, it can only shrink C: in half. If you did a clean install of Windows 10 *without* using the custom option, the C: partition would take up the whole disk. The shrink function could only shrink the partition later from 2TB to 1TB. If instead, you use the "Custom" option at install time, you can better adjust C: to the desired size. About 40GB is about as small as I'd go on a C: partition. That leaves 10GB for the installed files, and 30GB left over. The hibernation file, if you have a lot of RAM, takes up room on C: . On my bigger machine, the installer disc has a dialog that says "this install would benefit from an 85GB partition". And that's the greedy hiberfile talking. Windows 10 tablets come with a 32GB eMMC flash drive, so we know Windows 10 will fit something that small. The extra room leaves a little room for the next OS Upgrade version. If you made the C: drive 80GB in size, you could shrink it later to 40GB. As an example of the options you'd have. If you were a software developer, you'd probably want C: to be larger, to make room for Visual Studio. C: can be shrunk a lot more by third-party partition managers. But those cost money. I could easily take C: from 2TB in size, down to 40GB, with a real partition manager. It's just the Microsoft Disk Management that chooses to not move a certain kind of metadata, and that prevents more than a 50% shrink. There are some "free" versions of partition managers, but they're careful to not give you too many functions (or they would never get to sell you an upgrade). There is a free version of Paragon 14 for example. By using the custom menu during installation, you have a bit more control over the disk layout used. Then the end of the drive can be a data partition. Paul |
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Passport Network?
By using the custom menu during installation, you have a bit more control over the disk layout used. Then the end of the drive can be a data partition. Paul I like the custom option allot. I have 12 GB of RAM for a 2TB HD so what would you suggest the size for C:? The 80GB option sounds about right and like you said we can always shrink it further later. I may be able to do this nest month,.. we'll see. Robert |
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In message , Paul
writes: [] During the install, if you select the "Custom" option, you can use the menu in there to "create" the C: partition to a custom size. So if you want C: to be 100GB out of 2TB of disk, you can do it at that time, early in the install. While Windows has a "partition shrink" function in Disk Management, it can only shrink C: in half. If you did a clean install of Windows 10 *without* using the custom option, the C: partition would take up the whole disk. The shrink function could only shrink the partition later from 2TB to 1TB. If instead, you use the "Custom" option at install time, you can better adjust C: to the desired size. Immediate thought: can you use it repeatedly? When I tried, back with XP, the answer was no: there were some "files that couldn't be moved" (or similar phrasing), about half way up the partition. I found the free version of one of the third-party ones could do it no problem. (I used EaseUS's one - not endorsing it as such, as I didn't try any others; it was the first I tried and it did what I wanted, so I didn't try any others.) About 40GB is about as small as I'd go on a C: partition. That leaves 10GB for the installed files, and 30GB left over. The hibernation file, if you have a lot of RAM, takes up room on C: . On my bigger machine, the installer disc has a dialog that says "this install would benefit from an 85GB partition". And that's the greedy hiberfile talking. Windows 10 tablets come with a 32GB eMMC flash drive, so we know Windows 10 will fit something that small. The extra room leaves a little room for the next OS Upgrade version. I played with one of those in a store (I think it might have even been before W10), and looked at the usage pie-chart for C:; there was virtually no free space! [] C: can be shrunk a lot more by third-party partition managers. But those cost money. I could easily take C: from 2TB in size, down to 40GB, with a real partition manager. It's just I've used the free version of the EaseUS one on both XP and 7, though not 10. the Microsoft Disk Management that chooses to not move a certain kind of metadata, and that prevents more than a 50% shrink. There are some "free" versions of partition managers, but they're careful to not give you too many functions (or they would never get to sell you an upgrade). There is a free version of Paragon 14 for example. By using the custom menu during installation, you have a bit more control over the disk layout used. Then the end of the drive can be a data partition. Paul Certainly better to do it at installation rather than later. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Abandon hope, all ye who ENTER here. |
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