00:06:30 Chris Taylor, President: Welcome to all members and guests! 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 00:16:11 Micheline: How do I remove an expired MacAfee antivirus program that came with this laptop, and which is demanding that I renew my subscription? 00:16:34 Tom Trottier: Go to "add programs..." in settings 00:16:52 Tom Trottier: Just like going to Start to exit windows......... 00:17:15 Chris Taylor, President: File and folder encyption https://opcug.ca/Reviews/axcrypt.htm https://axcrypt.net https://alternativeto.net/browse/search/?q=axcrypt https://www.axantum.com/xecrets-file-ez https://listoffreeware.com/best-free-aes-encryption-software-windows/ https://www.2brightsparks.com/onclick/index.html 00:25:16 Chris Taylor, President: Importance of AI in security https://www.fastcompany.com/90974583/ais-importance-for-security-companies-and-consumers 00:25:21 Bill: How quickly does it encrypt? 00:25:23 E O'Driscoll: Alan: your file was small. Do you think it works OK for larger files? 00:28:23 Tom Trottier: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-67273099 And then AI could be used by the bad guys, too....without any rules. 00:28:47 Carol Pearson: i just noticed a AI companion at the bottom of the zoom screen. is this new? I never noticed it? 00:29:05 Timothy: Biden is bringing in rules for AI. 00:33:06 Chris Taylor, President: Can we speed up an old Windows computer https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/what-is-dism?view=windows-10 https://www.computerworld.com/article/3080839/repair-windows-10-and-11-step-by-step-guide.html 00:35:24 Tom Trottier: Wikipedia: Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) is a command-line tool that can perform a large number of servicing tasks. It can query, configure, install and uninstall Windows features such as locale settings, language packs, optional components, device drivers, UWP apps, or Windows updates. DISM can perform these tasks on the live (running) Windows instance, an offline instance in another partition, or a Windows installation image inside a WIM file.[12][13][14] Starting with Windows Server 2012, it can repair damaged or corrupt Windows files by downloading a fresh copy from the Internet.[15] 00:36:07 Jocelyn Doire: Windows updates is soooo slow on this machine and badly interfere with zoom :( 00:37:04 Chris Taylor, President: Windows 11 2023 Update (23H2) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/release-health/ 00:38:03 Tom Trottier: Winver command shows your current version # 00:40:05 Tom Trottier: Not on my win 11 22H2 00:40:12 Tom Trottier: no upd avbl 00:46:46 Stew Bruce: Sounds like a self-driving car 00:50:12 E O'Driscoll: Is Windows 11 free or do we pay yearly? 00:52:01 Timothy: Wake on Approach sounds like MS is watching you. 00:55:09 Bill: Would windows 7 or 8 be capable of running 11? 00:55:10 KWG: Is there still the equipment restrictionist computer doesn’t support update from 10->11? 01:00:00 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: I expect Windows 10 will extend the life cycle. 01:00:17 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: I think Chris is bang on here. 01:00:22 Tom Trottier: There's always 0patch.......... 01:01:12 Timothy: Currently Windows 10 will reach end of support on October 14, 2025. The current version, 22H2, will be the final version of Windows 10. 01:02:27 Timothy: XP hung around for a long time.' 01:02:38 Alan German (Treasurer): 46 01:02:43 Alan German (Treasurer): 46 01:03:58 Chris Taylor, President: OPCUG's online resources https://opcug.ca/google-groups-how-to/ https://opcug.ca/qa-archives/ https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/Q&A-Index.pdf 01:05:50 Chris Taylor, President: Timothy - for Windows 10, I don't care if they come out with a new "feature release". In fact I would be really happy if ALL they put out are surety patches, which they will do at least until Oct 14, 2025 01:06:21 Tom Trottier: or https://www.google.ca/search?q=site%3Aopcug.ca+resources 01:06:52 Tom Trottier: the "site:" works in google & ducduckgo 01:07:14 KWG: I have used all of these resources many times and found them very useful! 01:09:46 Chris Taylor, President: To totally remove McAfee products use the McAfee Product Removal Tool - https://www.mcafee.com/support/?articleId=TS101331&page=shell&shell=article-view 01:10:13 Glen: Say a user wants to encrypt some bank statement .pdf or .xlsm files to store them securely on disk. He wants to read those files frequently. Is there a procedure or decryption software that would allow those files to be decrypted and read directly into the associated application (eg pdf reader or Microsoft Office) without storing the decrypted file on disk? This could avoid unnecessary writes to and wear of the SSD. 01:11:03 Dao: Serge-Érik here on Dao's PC… About File/Folder encryption, you can get Abelssoft FileCryptor 2022 for free (no free update though, but it does the job very well and you can use it forever). This one-year-old giveaway is still active on many giveaway Websites. If you have registered other Abelssoft software in the past, it will work automatically without having to register. Make sure you remember your encrypt/decrypt password… Here is one of the links: https://giveaway.tickcoupon.com/abelssoft-filecryptor-full-license-key/ 01:11:07 Micheline: Chris - thank you very much 01:12:15 Tristan: Can also use something like this to create an encrypted virtual drive, or encrypt the whole disk. https://veracrypt.eu/en/Home.html 01:14:55 Micheline: After I remove MacAfee, how do I check if MSDefendeer is working? 01:16:32 Gail (Secretatry): Thank you!!! 01:16:38 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: Thanks everyone. Lots of good interesting discussion. Have a good night all. 01:16:50 bea: thanks neat stuff! 01:16:54 E O'Driscoll: Thank you very much. I have a question that I will likely post in the group. 01:17:01 Dao: Thanks everyone! 01:17:03 Carol Pearson: Thanks very much 01:17:03 Bill: Thanks everyone. 01:17:04 Tom Trottier: :D 01:17:06 Ed Morawski: Very good meeting! 01:17:09 E O'Driscoll: Thanks. 01:17:19 Glen: Thanks