00:05:23 Chris Taylor, President: Welcome to all members and guests! Want to join the OPCUG? - https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ Everyone will be muted during the presentation. Feel free to use the Chat window to comment and ask questions. After the presentation, people will be able to unmute themselves. Please feel free to do so if you want to ask a question or make a comment 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 00:15:13 Chris Taylor, President: Armchair Travel presentation https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87110632864?pwd=UEdqbHMveGtmd2IwT1hTZUlqVU5Idz09 contact Lynda at lbuske@sympatico.ca if you have questions 00:15:38 Tom Trottier: With or without snow? 00:16:03 Chris Taylor, President: The Rise of Unix. The Seeds of its Fall https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HADp3emVABg A Chronicle of the Unix Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffh3DRFzRL0 00:17:16 Chris Taylor, President: Windows 11 Moment 5 https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/windows-11/windows-11-february-moment-5-2024-feature-update 00:17:28 Tom Trottier: Unix was called that because it was a simpler version of Multics 00:18:26 Tom Trottier: so, Moment 5 = "more is less" 00:19:05 Tom Trottier: or... "less is more" 00:20:15 Chris Taylor, President: Completely remove Zoom client https://assets.zoom.us/docs/msi-templates/CleanZoom.zip 00:21:25 Tom Trottier: Hair today, gone tomorrow 00:21:43 Chris Taylor, President: Partition layout https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/configure-uefigpt-based-hard-drive-partitions?view=windows-11 Windows Recovery Environment explained https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-recovery-environment-explained/ba-p/2273533 What is OEM Partition in Windows 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7PbKTaNvE0 What's Inside Factory Image Recovery Partition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF9j70K5Rlw 00:25:03 Tom Trottier: The problem is when you are replacing a system disk with a bigger disk, eg, here, to a 2TB disk from a 1TB 00:27:24 Tom Trottier: Then if you copy the entire disk over, the recovery partition ends up in the middle, not the end 00:28:59 Tom Trottier: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/windows-recovery-environment-explained/ba-p/2273533 00:31:15 Tom Trottier: That's odd! 00:36:53 Chris Taylor, President: As they say...don't do this at home! :-) 00:37:08 Tom Trottier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7PbKTaNvE0 00:37:17 Tom Trottier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF9j70K5Rlw 00:38:11 Chris Taylor, President: Windows Recovery Environment Update https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/topic/kb5034441-windows-recovery-environment-update-for-windows-10-version-21h2-and-22h2-january-9-2024-62c04204-aaa5-4fee-a02a-2fdea17075a8 00:40:45 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: Yes, but it generates a Retry option but otherwise remains in the queue. I also tried to do a disk cleanup (and delete all windows updates pending) but no luck. Like Alan, I'm waiting for a fix from MS 00:50:19 Natalie: Can the person designated to have access edit the account & delete it, if that's not set up beforehand? 00:51:02 Chris Taylor, President: Natalie - I wondered that too. And I am actually not sure, but I believe they can only ACCESS data in your account - not modity it. 00:51:16 Chris Taylor, President: Lockscreen widgets and drawer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tk.zwander.lockscreenwidgets 00:54:03 Lynda: Very cool Brigitte. thanks! 00:56:54 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Very cool Brigitte. ..." with ❤️ 00:58:01 Tom Trottier: In my android phone, a pixel 6, you can go to Settings-Batteyr & choose to display % charged at the top of all screens 00:58:12 Tom Trottier: Battery 00:58:35 Tom Trottier: https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-353/ 00:58:39 Alan German (Treasurer): @Tom But, how large is the text? That was Brigitte's problem. 01:00:04 Tom Trottier: Small, but it does come with a hollow battery showing proportion 01:01:13 Jocelyn Doire: Paying for things using PayPal can be a way to reduce the risk, at least you don't give your credit card number 01:02:11 Brigitte Lord / Webmaster, Newsletter: Lockscreen Widgets and Drawer article (Computerworld): https://www.computerworld.com/article/3700876/android-lock-screen.html Better Battery Widget (Willow Bee Software): https://play.google.com/store/search?q=better%20battery%20widget&c=apps&hl=en&gl=US Must be set to "never put to sleep". The adds only appear when you open the widget to configure it. A battery widget developed for home screen, but can be a lock screen widget with the use of Lockscreen Widgets and Drawer app (by Zachary Wander). 01:02:53 Michelle Faber: thank you, will we get a notice about Lynda ,s photos presentation , 01:03:04 Brigitte Lord / Webmaster, Newsletter: I just got an Interac e-Transfer scam last week that I posted on the Fraud Watch page 01:03:35 Stew Bruce: Use multiple search engines to search a site's reputation 01:04:04 Alan German (Treasurer): @MF The slide is next - and will be in the file posted to our web site 01:04:28 Jeff (JEFFRO) Dubois: Options Mastercard from Canadian Tire will issue a card with the lowest limit I could find. $300. Lowest I could find. And THAT is linked to my PayPal account so double protection. 01:04:31 Tom Trottier: Paypal, credit cards can give refunds if cheated 01:04:33 E O'Driscoll: About disks and partitions: are disks still pie-shaped? 01:04:41 Chris Taylor, President: Armchair Travel presentation https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87110632864?pwd=UEdqbHMveGtmd2IwT1hTZUlqVU5Idz09 contact Lynda at lbuske@sympatico.ca if you have questions 01:07:48 Tom Trottier: 👍🏼 01:07:53 Bob Gowan: Chromebooks are great. Only downside for web-use is sometimes "short" update periods. 01:09:44 Alan German (Treasurer): @Bob G. By short update, are you referring to the OS life time? 01:09:48 Tom Trottier: "Windows for Dummies" seniors edition 01:10:21 Bob Gowan: Yes 01:12:57 Harvey Hope: The Trailing Edge https://tte.ca 613-860-2001 01:13:19 Chris Taylor, President: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en 01:13:25 Timothy: Trailing Edge is located in Bells Corner. 01:14:15 Tom Trottier: You can also download Chrome OS on almost any PC 01:16:07 Tom Trottier: https://www.alphr.com/download-install-chrome-os/ 01:16:24 Bob Herres: Thank you Everyone Lot's of Great Content! 01:16:27 E O'Driscoll: Great info tonight-+++