00:13:43 Chris Taylor: All members in good standing as of March 31, 2022 have had their membership expiry date extended by one year at no charge Want to join the OPCUG? - https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ Want to present at Q&A? Give us your material and we can create slides, or we have a PowerPoint template you can download and use: https://opcug.ca/downloads/Q&A-Template.potx Send in questions, shares, etc SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 00:15:44 Lawrence: Good graphic, though Windows 10 didn't have to do much to be an improvement to Windows 8 😁 00:15:58 micheline: Hi Alan. I was hoping you would respond to my post "Rooting your Android Device" 00:16:37 Chris Taylor: Windows 12 coming in 2024? https://www.pcworld.com/article/811274/windows-12-2024-microsoft-windows-11-features.html 00:16:47 Lynda: Great graph Chris! 00:17:37 Chris Taylor: Microsoft's Driver Verifier https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/devtest/driver-verifier 00:18:08 Tom Trottier: I keep gettng blue screens on W10... 00:20:13 louise: I had the stop code: WHEA Uncorrectable Error. The same day as The Rogers problem. My computer has bite the dust. 00:20:50 Lorraine Boulay: Do I have to install Windows 11 in order to install Windows 12 when available? 00:23:03 Chris Taylor: 7 cybersecurity tips for your summer vacation! https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2022/07/15/7-cybersecurity-tips-for-your-summer-vacation/ 00:25:34 Chris Taylor: New version: Zoomit 6.0 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/downloads/zoomit All the Sysinternals tools https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/ 00:26:32 Timothy: If you are worried about bringing a laptop across a border, bring an older laptop just for travelling. 00:28:23 Tom Trottier: 😎 00:29:07 Chris Taylor: Google Translate https://translate.google.ca/ 00:29:47 Tom Trottier: And if you speak it in Chinese...……….. 00:32:14 Lawrence: Kudos Alan, great solution. 00:32:15 Chris Taylor: Copying info from Office docs obtained from network (previous discussion of the problem) https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20201007_PowerPoint.pdf 00:32:19 Natalie: Also good for visually impaired assistance. 00:33:46 Tom Trottier: https://www.bing.com/translator also can read out text 00:36:24 Chris Taylor: ABC's of Alphabet's self-help study program https://guidebooks.google.com/home 00:37:41 micheline: I some times use the screen copy feature of ABBYY FieReader PDF which converts the image of text to actual text 00:40:14 Alan German: @Micheline - I didn't see your Rooting your Android Device post. I will take a look. But, rooting Andoid is generally not for the faint of heart! 00:41:08 Alan German: @Lawrence - Kudos for the read-aloud tip goes to Bill in London, ON (who is on tonight's call) 00:41:20 Tom Trottier: fwiw, Foofar2000 lets you sort an any field/tag and search any text. 00:42:04 Natalie: One more for text to be read aloud: Win 10 Narrator (toggle on for info: Win logo + Ctl + Enter). 00:43:25 Chris Taylor: &Tom - foo**B**ar2000? (b rather than f) 00:44:09 Tom Trottier: bob, what if you keep your Libraries, including Music, on a separate drive? 00:46:06 Tom Trottier: fwiw, I have Music major subdirectories: Composer, Performer, Speech and some other minor ones 00:46:46 Chris Taylor: @Tom - if you have relocated the namespace for your libraries, the example will follow with the new location. If you are just manually specifying a different drive/path when saving things, iTune won't know about that and will still save it in the namespace for the libraries. The long and short - just come up with a location that makes sense for you. 00:48:22 Tom Trottier: You can add cover art to each music file, but for albums, if you add a "folder.jpg" file to the album directory, it shows up in Foobar200 player 00:48:54 Alan German: @Micheline - "In the first few years of Android’s existence, this was a fairly simple procedure on most devices." That certainly wasn't my experience on a Moto G3 but I didn't try with "most devices". I documented the process in a series of newsletter articles. 00:51:24 Tom Trottier: Rather than copies, you can create Hard Links 00:51:46 Tom Trottier: Or perhaps shortcuts 00:54:40 Alan German: @Tom - Maybe lots of people don't know how to create hard links. How do you? 00:57:05 Chris Taylor: @Alan - https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/131182-create-soft-hard-symbolic-links-windows.html talks about creating hard and soft links and what the differences are. But basically... 00:57:08 Chris Taylor: mklink /h "Link" "Source Target" 00:57:16 Chris Taylor: will create a hard link. 00:57:39 Chris Taylor: Must run a CDM prompt as Administrator to create a hard link 00:57:42 Tom Trottier: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/131182-create-soft-hard-symbolic-links-windows.html 00:58:57 Tom Trottier: https://www.ghacks.net/2010/09/25/duplicate-file-hard-linker/ 00:59:14 Alan German: That's a cmd prompt - search for cmd (i.e. cmd.exe) and Run as Administrator 00:59:30 Chris Taylor: Oops yes CMD 00:59:36 Chris Taylor: And in my example 00:59:42 Chris Taylor: Substitute Link in the command above with the full path with file name and extension you want created as a hard link at. Substitute Source Target in the command above with the full path of the file with extension that is the target (source) you want the hard link pointing to. This is the actual location where everything will be saved at. 01:00:00 Chris Taylor: For example: mklink /h "C:\Users\Brink\Desktop\My Documents Link.txt" "C:\Users\Brink\Documents\My Document.txt" 01:00:26 Tom Trottier: Hard Links only work on NTFS disks, and the links/files have to be on the same disk 01:01:47 Tom Trottier: Actually, every NTFS file consists of data and a link. A second hard link just adds another link 01:02:21 micheline: From vhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_link 01:03:50 faber ichelle’s iPad: Thanks Have a nice evening. 01:04:39 Lorraine Boulay: Question: I tried to do a backup using My Passport Ultra. Dropbox started at the same time and, I think, was doing a backup also. How can I stop Dropbox from doing that? 01:04:39 Tom Trottier: With links, the data gets deleted only when the last like is deleted 01:04:46 Tom Trottier: last link 01:05:18 Bill: Thanks Chris, Alan and Bob. Great night! 01:08:40 micheline: My computer srashed. I'm back on now, but list all the chat msgs 01:09:14 micheline: Did anyone answer the question about har links vs shortcuts? 01:11:00 micheline: That should read: I lost all the chat msgs- did anyone answer the question about hard links vs shortcuts? 01:14:31 Tom Trottier: Hard links look like files to the OS 01:14:54 Tom Trottier: Shortcuts are "shortcuts" 01:17:43 Natalie: Thanks 🙂