MozartMan

About 3 weeks ago.

Well, it is October 1, 12:25 pm EDT. I just opened Cakewalk by Bandlab and it activated. I don't know how long it will last though.

You are welcome.

I use blue USB 3 port in my PC. I have Inland Performance Plus 1 TB NVMe SSD in that enclosure that I linked to. I use it as the 1st backup drive. The speed is amazing. Inland is Micro Center brand. My 2nd backup drive is 4TB WD spinner.

I use NVMe drive as backup and use this enclosure: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MNFH1PX/ Works great.

@Mr No Name Thanks for the article. I uninstalled that.

If you have extra PCI-e 4 slot/s you can install more M2 disks using this adapter: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07JCFHCVN/

@Glenn Stanton I agree. It is impossible to remove M$ big brother from Windows, but at least I was able to minimize that as much as possible with this W10Privacy tool and some other tools and manual edits of registry and group policy.

There are tools to disable or minimize "ET Phone Home" features in Windows. Here is one of them: https://www.w10privacy.de/english-home/

Glenn, You can disable Windows Ink Workspace. Here is tutorial: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/55771-enable-disable-windows-ink-workspace-windows-10-a.html Or you can use Ultimate Windows Tweaker: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimate-windows-tweaker-4-windows-10 https://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimate-windows-tweaker-5-for-windows-11

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You are basically correct. They are selling VLKs and used product keys.

Well, Mycodes24 website was created on May 8, 2023. If you look at their Contact Us page here - https://mycodes24.com/home/contact-mycodes24/ you will see that it is very strange looking address with numbers 208 and 9515 before the city. Very weird looking address for United States. Then on the same page you will time display which is in 24H format which is used in Europe: Also on the second image it shows Trustpilot logo. There is no information on the Trustpilot website about Mycodes24 company: https://www.trustpilot.com/search?query=mycodes24 Then I put some product in the cart and went to checkout and what do I see in terms of payment options? You see Coinbase, NihaoPay, PayTR, and Payrexx. Also, there is identical deal happening on CNet website now through StackSocial: https://www.cnet.com/deals/get-microsoft-office-2021-lifetime-license-just-33/ And here is a big thread about MS Office deal through StackSocial: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/has-anyone-purchased-microsoft-office-pro-2021/f6ca0653-cc5f-4ef9-a4ae-4ea91124bd21?page=1 So, the deal itself for MS Office 2021 is basically a scam selling VLKs or used product keys. I think it is enough red flags. PS Forgot to add. Here is fine print on Groupon page: Here is caveats print on Cnet page:

That mycodes24.com is very suspicious website.