00:01:36 Micheline: I had host busy in another meeting 00:06:04 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 00:06:31 Michelle Faber: Good evening. 00:13:53 Chris Taylor, President: File and folder encyption https://www.2brightsparks.com/onclick/index.html 00:13:53 Micheline: Chris - have you started audio recording? 00:15:09 Jocelyn Doire: there is a "recording" showing at the top left 00:15:32 Bill: Thanks Alan. 00:22:01 Chris Taylor, President: Connected Standby https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/device-experiences/modern-standby 00:25:13 Tom Trottier: Image backup good. Or create system restore point. Or backup[ registry 00:28:31 Chris Taylor, President: Spot the station https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.nasa.hq.SpotTheStation 00:29:31 Chris Taylor, President: Button mapper https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=flar2.homebutton 00:30:02 Timothy: spot the station works well. 00:30:22 Timothy: works in the daytime as well. 00:30:39 Tom Trottier: https://stellarium.org/doc/0.18/group__satellites.html 00:31:10 Tom Trottier: https://sourceforge.net/p/stellarium/discussion/278769/thread/2501198f/ 00:32:09 Stew Bruce: My voice is shot but I would note that spot the station has an AR feature that lets you track it in the sky with your phone to try and get photos of it. 00:32:39 Chris Taylor, President: Shutdown (no root) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.samiadom.Shutdown 00:35:00 Tom Trottier: CCleaner does this too - for a cost 00:36:15 Chris Taylor, President: Alternative to https://alternativeto.net/ https://www.glarysoft.com/downloads/?p=su-page 00:40:00 Timothy: Doesn't Glarysoft also have a registry cleaner? 00:40:23 Tom Trottier: I am using 0patch 00:41:06 Tom Trottier: and Spybot Search & Destroy 00:41:13 Tom Trottier: and HitmanPRO 00:44:28 Chris Taylor, President: Can we speed up an old Windows computer https://opcug.ca/presentations/WindowsTuneup.pdf 00:45:13 Chris Taylor, President: HDDScan https://hddscan.com SeaTools https://www.seagate.com/ca/en/support/downloads/seatools/ 00:45:52 Tom Trottier: the free version of HDsentinel does SMART tests 00:46:20 Bill Van Dijk: Does HDDscan work on SSD's? 00:46:37 Tristan: @Chris this is a whole security platform, so may be more than you're looking for. It is interesting though, and is free if run on your own machine. https://wazuh.com/ 00:48:42 Chris Taylor, President: Thanks Tristan. I will take a look 00:48:51 Tom Trottier: If your friend's disk is an HDD, I suggest using MyDefrag, system disk script. 00:49:06 Tom Trottier: I don't know about MyDefrag.net - I would avoid. Use 00:49:08 Tom Trottier: https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/mydefrag.html 00:50:12 Tom Trottier: It will put all the boot files on the fastest, outer, tracks 00:51:06 Tom Trottier: as well as defragging all th eother files - on the :monthly" system disk script 00:51:44 Tristan: @Chris found the video where first saw Wazuh. Gives a quick summary of the capabilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CaG2GI1kn0 00:51:56 Serge-Érik: In my opinion, a registry cleaner is a must because uninstalling programs in Windows always leave "residues", and then the registry gets bloated in the long run, i.e., the Windows uninstaller is not thorough. One program I particularly like is Kerish Doctor (https://www.kerish.org/en-us/). It includes lots and lots of useful user-friendly tools. 00:52:09 Chris Taylor, President: Simon d'Entremont https://www.simondentremont.com/ https://www.youtube.com/@simon_dentremont 00:53:09 Stew Bruce: I try to keep as few Apps on my PC as possible so Patch my PC covers my needs (except for Zoom). But I have found that by being subscribed to the Brave sub-reddit, update notifications are very timely. And that covers the most used app on the PC. 00:53:38 Chris Taylor, President: @Serge-Erik - I will find the recommendation from Microsoft, but it all boils down to the fact that, even though bits and pieces get left over after things like uninstalls, they are of no consequence and won't affect how Windows operates. 00:54:07 Chris Taylor, President: Export contacts from Outlook https://tinyurl.com/2sr23k3z 00:54:47 Tom Trottier: On webmail, does not matter. If thunderbird, does not matter. 00:55:08 Tristan: For applications can utilize Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/). Then to update all your programs just have to run a single command "choco upgrade all -y" 00:56:47 Chris Taylor, President: USB drive share via router https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20210519_PowerPoint.pdf https://forum.bell.ca/t5/Internet/How-to-access-mynetwork-USB-storage-on-Bell-Home-Hub-4000-from/td-p/883/page/2 00:59:31 Bill: Alan, why would one want to connect a usb drive to your router? 01:00:28 Timothy: A personal cloud drive is my guess. 01:00:29 Tom Trottier: Blame Bell. Everyone does. BTW, that Giga bell modem has port 50000 open... 01:01:20 Tristan: Could also create a desktop shortcut with a path to the USB drive. 01:05:04 Bob Herres: I use Opera at times, and at times I get that very intrusive and annoying intro!! .. Thank you Alan 01:05:31 Tom Trottier: Mydefrag - see https://opcug.ca/Articles/1411.pdf 01:05:35 Tristan: Worst passwords of 2023. Hope nobody here is using them. https://www.techspot.com/news/100853-worst-passwords-2023-also-most-common-123456-coming.html 01:05:50 Michelle Faber: Thank you. 01:06:16 Tristan: Number one is "123456" 01:06:34 Tom Trottier: https://www.maketecheasier.com/defragment-hard-disks-with-mydefrag/ 01:09:26 Bill: Thanks everyone. Interesting evening. 01:09:40 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Thanks everyone. Int..." with ❤️ 01:10:03 Bob Herres: Replying to "Thanks everyone. Int..." Agreed 👍 01:10:10 Michelle Faber: Good night 01:10:46 Allison: Thank you 01:10:47 Serge-Érik: Thanks!