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Second Copy can monitor files and back them up as soon as they change, up to 25 versions.
https://www.secondcopy.com/
Although at least its last thought was hopeful, if misguided.
I find that programs that constantly monitor the system like that, slow down your computer...sometimes by a lot.
Yeah, I haven't tried any such things since I got this machine, but in the past it's not worked out well for me. Super appreciate the suggestion, and hopefully it can help someone else... I think my best bet is just taking it as an annoying lesson learned when it thankfully wasn't anything critical and being more cafeful in the future.
Back in the '70s I worked on some major brand of, what were called at the time, "Mini-computers" that had a feature that everytime you saved a file with the same name, it appended a number to the name(i.e. a primitive archival mechanism). It was a workable idea, except for the fact that back in the '70s, a file system's capacity was measured in the high Kbytes or low Mbytes. If you weren't careful, then before you knew it, your multiple recompilations and production of intermediate files quickly ate up the disk space.
So then, you'd have to go inspect the file directory and delete the excessive number of earlier versions. Even at the time, I'd thought that it was a half-baked idea, but it did come in handy to prevent accidentally overwriting files.
Complaint: Today was local grocery day. I'd been putting it off for a while because I didn't have the energy. But lack of bananas was causing me to start having leg cramps again, especially at night in bed, when I can't get on my feet quick enough to stifle it. So, I had to go to the local grocery for bananas (for the potassium) and a few other perishable things. I made it there and back, but it was a chore. I don't know where, but in the last few months, my get-up-and-go, got-up-and-went.
Non-complaint: Before I started toward the grocery, I decided that since there was nobody in the other half of the house now, and that there was still an overly full, big, wheeled, garbage bin behind the house that needed to be taken to the curb today for tomorrow morning's pickup, I was going to have to be the one to do it. Oof, it was heavy but I managed to wrangle it away from the fence, and across the backyard, up the slope to the driveway, and halfway down the rock strewn driveway before I had to stop and catch my breath.
But right then, the new neighbor started driving up the driveway. I knew him from his previous tenancy, we greeted, and talked for a moment and he said he'd take care of the garbage from now on. So, YAY! 
And then off to the grocery I went, already tuckered out. which probably contributed to my "Complaint" above.
I found out that Walmart sells frozen bananas, that, well, are frozen. That is good for smoothies for the new blender I got.
Oh, I was looking at my coffee grinder. Apparently I forgot one of the most important rules regarding coffee grinders. That is the one about don't touch the metal blade with my bare fingers. Well, I did that and also moved the blade until I saw this mysterious red liquid on my finger. Oops my bad.
That depends on how many files you monitor, and at which interval you check their status. With this program you can select only the files you want to monitor, as well as at which interval they should be checked. And you'll have to monitor a good number of files (like maybe hundreds) and check each file's status at a very short interval (like every 1 second), before it starts using any significant amount of resources.
I think the problem program was DropBox...I asked my tech guy about a slow down, and he told me to check if something like DropBox was monitoring my drive, and sure enough...it was that! when I turned off that feature, system sped up a lot!
Well Dropbox is known for using a lot of resources, it's also doing other things than just monitoring files.
BSoD are always fun! I mean annoying.
I think I saw something about Windows 12. Wonder if my HP will run it. That is my hp laptop.
I don't think there's a 12 yet. But 11 is on the horizon for my laptop. And desktop. MS is dropping support for 10 next year some time. Some don't mind, but I have no intention of taking a chance on gaping holes in the system! The day they drop support for a platform is basically declared a holiday for hackers!
Every Geico commercial is the worst commercial I've ever seen.
I'm not worried. I'm still using a not fully updated Windows 8.1 on this PC, and have for over 8 years now (same install), with UAC disabled all the time. Never been hacked or had a virus. Just using Windows Defender, Malwarebytes Premium, and an anti-keylogger.
Actually I've been on the internet almost daily for 30 years now, on all Windows versions since 3.1, often on two or more PCs simultaneously. I've had 3 virus in total, last one over 10 years ago I think, none of them caused any damage. If you do the right things and avoid doing the wrong things it's not a big issue IMO.
I have three older machines that can't be made hardware ready for Windows11. So, they'll stay at Win10, but they rarely go on the Internet anyway. I also have three machines that are hardware capable of Win11. One, the least capable, has already been upgraded to Win11 to allow me to get familiar with Win11's peculiarities. I'll probably upgrade the other two machines when the time comes. Hopefully by then all the early bugs will have been flushed out of it. But of all my machines, only one pokes around on the Internet much, and I'm paranoidly cautious. My other two modern machines have tasks that don't need them to even be on most of the time, and when they are on, they rarely use the Internet. About the only time I have more than one machine on at a time is during update day, and during backup day when I transfer archive copies of data to other machines and external hard drives.
At this point in the game, I'm quite satisfied with the speed of mid-grade machines. Nothing I do anymore requires state-of-the-art machines. 64KB is enough memory for anybody.
You are joking, right? I don't think that even Win8.1 would load on 64K!
I think that comment (by Bill Gates himself) became a joke after the very next operation system was released!
You may not know what's on your system, as far as viruses and such. I haven't had any problems, that I knew of, either. But when I have hardware issues and take it to the tech I trust, almost every time, he finds something! No anti-virus software is totally effective. Like you, I know how to stay safe, but I'd venture to say that so do many big businesses. And yet, I read about one major hack afer another lately. Seems almost one really big one a month. I'd prefer to be safe. I just need to ask my guy why my PC is not able to upgrade to Win11. Probably something small that needs to be upgraded.
I would not trust someone who finds something wrong every time. I stopped going to an automotive dealership because they found something wrong with one of the tires every time, and the tires happened to be the only part of the car not covered by the warranty.
The only time I've had a virus is when I let my brother use my computer. The web browser warned him the website was unsafe. He asked me how to bypass the warning and I told him. He promised he wouldn't download anything from the website.
Brother also has my Amazon password. There are probably people in various parts of the world using my account to order cans of diced tomatoes daily. He doesn't care about my privacy either. I'll bet he's looking at my order history and seeing all of the sex toys I've ordered. I'll bet he wonders why the entire order history is just sex toys and diced tomatoes... so many diced tomatoes...
...the one thing that makes older systems incompatible is they lack a TPM2 module which is required for Win11. There are articles which claim that one can run 11 on an older system but it requries making changes to the registry as well as the system will no longer be guaranteed to recive updates (like security patches), and generally is risky so I wouldn't recommend that route.
Still on 7 Pro here with Norton 360 Professional and other utilities until I can scrape up all the funds to upgrade.
Currently looking at a price tag f 814 USD for A Ryzen 9 5900X Arctic Freezer 34 CPU cooler, ASUS ProArt ATX AM4 motherboard, 64 GB (2 x 32) Corsair Vengeance DDR4 3200 memory (upgradeable to 128 GB), Samsung 970 EVO Plus Evo Plus GB NVM SSD (boot drive) and Win11 Pro OEM..
Keeping the original case, drives, PSU, and have an RTX3060 12 GB in still the box (that isn't compatible with the current MB's ancient BIOS).e.
Going to miss Win7 as it's been so elegant, reliable, and almost "invisible".compared to the latest versions
I must admit I have to agree with this wholeheartedly. The only problem I have with Win7 is its intrusion into drivers for the printer port - can't do real time control of CNC machinery with Mach4 as the OS interferes with the output timing. Have to use XP instead.
Regards,
Richard
What is wrong with reheating scrambled eggs? I'm eating reheated eggs this morning. I used the range not the microwave.
Reheating scrambled eggs is OK if they were originally cooked and stored properly.. -- Google --
Perhaps I mispoke concerning "every time". It did happen a few times, though. And he doesn't charge me anything to take care of it. He's a really good guy...otherwise I wouldn't bother bringing it there anymore.
Allstate Mayhem Commercials are the best.
No, but they also report false positives quite often. Especially some, which seem to work by the principle "better safe than sorry". If an AV program fails to detect a virus it's also bad for its reputation. In general it's a good principle I guess, but it also hurts software developers (several AV scanners, e.g. Norton, don't like the apps I write myself, because they are obfuscated (code encrypted)).
I've actually had to exclude Visual Studio (which is made by Microsoft themselves) and its folders from being scanned by Windows Defender, because it sometimes quarantines the executables Visual Studio creates, right after they've been compiled, where they aren't even obfuscated yet.
Malwarebytes is very aggressive, I had to ask the company to whitelist one of my own websites which it claimed to be infected. The only thing there was on the site was a temporary front page, with a few lines of totally harmless HTML code displaying the domain name.
They are very funny! Flo in the Progressive commercials is also funny. Sometimes, the ads are better than the program content!
Norton will also mark something as suspicious or dangerous if it's a new program and not many copies are out there yet.
I think Nathan's hot dogs are so much cheaper at Walmart than Regal. I made the mistake of getting a hot dog at Regal. Not much better than the Oscar Meyer hotdogs I have at home.