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Can one tell Microsoft Defender SmartScreen which websites to trust? I don't want to close Microsoft Defender SmartScreen entirely.
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Microsoft Defender SmartScreen is integrated primarily with Microsoft browsers, such as Edge, and does not function in the same way with other browsers like Firefox or Chrome. Users cannot directly configure SmartScreen to trust specific websites, as it operates based on a set of predefined criteria and reputation scores. While some users express a desire to maintain SmartScreen's functionality without disabling it entirely, the ability to customize trusted sites is not supported.
Well, the date has now passed, and Windows 10 is no longer supported.
Hopefully, the readers of this forum have done one of the many ways this issue can be handled.
If not, do a YouTube search and a smorgasbord of solutions will be returned.
What I want to mention is that I chose to use a debloated Windows from a debloater. There are many available options, e.g., Chris Titus Utilities (I used a product called Velotic, which also features AI to prevent your computer from overheating etc...
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/858tb-of-government-data-may-be-lost-for-good-after-south-korea-data-center-fire/
858TB of government data may be lost for good after South Korea data center fire
Destroyed drive wasn't backed up, officials say
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2025/10/02/FPWGFSXMLNCFPIEGWKZF3BOQ3M/
G drive as in GONE drive.
I've been having problems for the past few weeks with the display on my Dell computer. I bought the computer new back in 2019 or so, which makes it about 6 years old. My monitor is a 27" HP monitor that I bought for another computer (an HP Pavilion), recently demised, back in about 2012 or 2013. As far as I can tell, the computer, which is running a 10-core Xeon Scalable processor, is functioning as it should.
The first symptom was that the screen would go dark, which I would attempt to...
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