00:11:15 Alan German (Treasurer): Questions and shares welcome for Q&A next week. Send info. to SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 00:11:59 Chris Taylor: 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 00:19:00 Chris Taylor: File Explorer layout https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/permanent-windows-explorer-folder-view-settings/4e6da9a0-5958-4f8e-bb74-82bf584669c5 WinSetView https://lesferch.github.io/WinSetView/ 00:20:12 Tom Trottier: It's the Zombie Apocalypse!!! 00:20:42 Tom Trottier: If you have indexing on, sometimes green bar 00:21:03 Micheline: I get that when I search in 00:21:28 Micheline: File Explorer 00:21:38 E O'Driscoll: I just joined...I see my question. I may be looking for a file that doesn't exist (?). Thanks for the discussion. 00:21:50 Lynda: I get it sometimes when copying photo files. When I close and check it has actually copied them, just the green bar doesn't stop. 00:23:03 E O'Driscoll: Oh yes...the antivirus might be at work. 00:24:07 E O'Driscoll: HOw do you know when you have "indexing on"? 00:24:29 Ed Morawski: When you normally have a shared drive between PC's at home (or remote) and the share fails (on bootup, for example) then when File Explorer tries access the (non-existent) drive you'll see the progress bar and le explorer will hang. 00:27:42 Jeff Dubois: I get the indexing bar on my primary Win 10 machine which also syncs to a NAS. I use Total Commander as a result. 00:28:53 Chris Taylor: Video DownloadHelper https://www.downloadhelper.net/ 00:29:45 Tom Trottier: FWIW, you can pay for Youtube Premium for about $100/year - no ads, can download to PC/phone, and some videos get more bandwidth/. 00:32:40 Chris Taylor: uBlock Origin (I think it was Tom who mentioned this) can eliminate ads in YouTube videos. The default config seems to do it. Can be downloaded at the Chrome web stroe. Go there with any Chromium-based browser and it will install into that browser - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin/cjpalhdlnbpafiamejdnhcphjbkeiagm 00:38:29 Tom Trottier: also firefox 00:38:59 Chris Taylor: Photo editing with PhotoScape X http://photoscape.org/ps/main/download.php 00:43:31 Tom Trottier: Analog spotting - Spotone 00:44:48 Tom Trottier: It's a healing rush, but cures soles too.... 00:45:41 Tom Trottier: brush 00:47:10 Tom Trottier: Or Pixel Magic Eraser.. 00:49:16 Stew Bruce: For some of these edits there was a countdown from the software. What sort of hardware are you demonstrating this on? 00:51:59 E O'Driscoll: Amazing application! Looks easy to use too. Probably very powerful once one works with it. 00:54:01 Chris Taylor: Change Linux boot menu https://linuxnorth.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/grub2-revisited/ Grub Customizer https://linuxnorth.wordpress.com/2020/01/12/updating-the-grub2-boot-menu/ 00:54:34 Tom Trottier: Explain GRUB 00:55:39 Chris Taylor: system requirements for PhotoScape X 00:55:44 Chris Taylor: Operating System: Windows 10 / macOS 10.12 or later Memory (RAM): 4 GB of RAM required. Hard Disk Space: 700 MB of free space required for full installation. Processor: Intel Pentium i3, Multi-core GHz or higher. 00:56:45 PeterK: Thanks, Alan 00:57:18 Tom Trottier: https://download.cnet.com/mydefrag/3000-18512_4-10701976.html will speed up hard drives 00:58:37 Chris Taylor: PC Manager download https://pcmanager.microsoft.com/en-US 01:00:26 Chris Taylor: Silverlight end-of-life notice https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/silverlight-end-of-support-0a3be3c7-bead-e203-2dfd-74f0a64f1788 01:01:15 Chris Taylor: Cortana end-of-life https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/11/23828311/microsoft-shuts-down-cortana-windows-11 01:02:40 Chris Taylor: Manage drive space with Storage Sense https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/manage-drive-space-with-storage-sense-654f6ada-7bfc-45e5-966b-e24aded96ad5 01:03:02 Tom Trottier: If you have a hard dirve, simplest speedup is SSD 01:03:35 Tom Trottier: If nly 4GB RAN - increase. 8 nice, 16-64 better 01:03:39 Tom Trottier: RAM 01:04:30 Chris Taylor: When Alan started down this rabbit hole, he was having a problem with low disk space as opposed to performance. 01:05:06 Jeff Dubois: Question: Today both Nancy and I received an SMS notification messages on our respective cell phones which read "deeplink". I did not click on the notification (Nancy did though) but I did go into my text messaging program and there was nothing there. Any ideas? (I thought a deeplink was a redirection link used in marketing.) 01:05:37 Tristan: The local user information listed in disk cleanup, is normally the user profile data (Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Photos, etc). 01:06:24 E O'Driscoll: Slow computers - at least two in my family. Thanks for the tips. 01:06:53 Tom Trottier: Still Word is reinstalling each time i start 01:10:19 Micheline: tOM asked: Explain GRUB 01:12:29 Tristan: These days, instead of dual boot, I install Windows and use Hyper-V to create a Linux VM. That way I can use both without rebooting. Can of course also do the opposite and use a Windows VM in Linux. 01:14:16 E O'Driscoll: Thanks for a great presentation lineup. 01:14:22 Allison: Thank you! 01:14:36 Ed Morawski: Great meeting! 01:14:58 Jeff Dubois: Deeplinks can be marketing redirects.