00:08:47 Tom Trottier: Happy 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ 00:10:18 mikev: Reacted to "Happy 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³..." with 👏 00:13:07 Tom Trottier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hiNZlIuWE8 00:13:40 E O'Driscoll: Bob: great presentation last week! Some new ideas for me. 00:14:17 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: 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 00:15:45 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Not a member of OPCUG? Join OPCUG before March 31st Pay the annual membership fee of $20.00 Receive an additional free-year’s membership Two years for the price of one! https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ Already an OPCUG Member? Do not renew your membership ! Your membership expiry date will be extended by another year at no cost 00:16:46 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Finding license keys Belarc Advisor https://www.belarc.com/products/belarc-advisor Stéphane's best practices https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20241218_PowerPoint.pdf Alan & Chris's article on using a maintenance log https://opcug.ca/Articles/2105NEWS.pdf 00:18:23 Timothy: I've been using Belarc for years. It doesn't find all keys. It finds them for well based software. 00:22:45 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): How Do I Transfer My Programs and Data to a New Machine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_rgsY86jO8 00:25:20 Tom Trottier: $17 for 128GB sata SSD 00:25:23 Tom Trottier: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0D7C93FBK?th=1 00:25:30 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): How to revive an old slow computer https://www.crucial.com 00:29:11 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): https://www.kingston.com/datasheets/khx1600c10d3b1_8g.pdf 00:30:18 Bob Herres: The Crucial: "System Scanner Results" page is great! I like the simple display Excellent Tool Kit Item ! 00:30:28 Coreen: what information does Crucial keep 00:30:34 Stew Bruce: Jeff, do you prefer this to the program HwInfo? 00:31:18 Tom Trottier: Better to change one thing at a time 00:31:26 Tom Trottier: then easier to point fingers 00:32:48 Coreen: Chris that insect is coming for you! 00:33:05 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Accessibility in Windows https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/accessibility-features 00:33:44 Tom Trottier: Also Sysinfo! 00:33:45 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): @Coreen That's a red ribbon prize winning photo! 00:36:39 Serge-Érik: Some more info on accessibility I stumbles upon recently: https://www.makeuseof.com/try-these-windows-accessibility-features/?user=c2FiYWkyQG91dGxvb2suY29t&lctg=4a70ac6abc63d5c174392c62c987b9d7a0b024d3a0c8184d72cb45cd1809ee71 00:37:38 Jeff Dubois: JAWS - Job Access with Speech or NVDA - Non visual desktop access 00:37:43 Serge-Érik: Federal public servants 00:38:24 Serge-Érik: were given accessibility guidelines to implement in 2024. 00:38:44 Coreen: The photo is exceptional with its detail! 00:39:19 Tom Trottier: https://www.freedomscientific.com/products/software/jaws/ 00:39:29 Natalie: NVDA has many features. I found that there was a big learning curve, but useful. 00:39:35 Coreen: I wonder what ChromeBooks offers 00:39:54 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Disk cleanup https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowshardware/manufacture/desktop/configure-uefigpt-based-hard-drive-partitions https://biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/program?text=Whoa+backup https://archive.opcug.ca/presentations/BackupStrategies.pdf https://opcug.ca/presentations/backup_strategies.pdf https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20231025_PowerPoint.pdf https://opcug.ca/Reviews/BackupPrograms.htm https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20230118_PowerPoint.pdf 00:40:43 Tom Trottier: https://www.nvaccess.org/about-nv-access/ NVDA non-visual desktop access, 00:42:14 Tom Trottier: I've been compressing my system and data drives. This works well mainly for plain text, logs. 00:42:33 Jeff Dubois: NVDA - https://www.nvaccess.org/download/ 00:42:49 Tom Trottier: You can also empty your Recycle Bin 00:47:28 Tom Trottier: For a hard drive, MyDefrag does a better job - https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20210127_PowerPoint.pdf 00:53:36 Bob Herres: TY Chris Awesome Cleanup Tips! I'll likely have to review these slides on the Q&A website later, to use them ... 👍 00:54:44 Natalie: It's also good to empty recycle bin in Gmail, with their storage limits. 00:54:58 E O'Driscoll: Yeah how does one pronounce GNU. 00:55:01 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Yeah how does one pr..." with ❤️ 00:55:07 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): GnuCash https://www.gnucash.org/download.phtml https://www.gnucash.org/docs.phtml 00:55:53 Eldon Gaw: A little louder please if you can Jocelyn 00:58:34 Stew Bruce: Liz. Guh New :) 00:59:49 E O'Driscoll: Reacted to "Liz. Guh New :)" with 🙂 01:02:13 Stew Bruce: Chris, Something I noticed in Patch My PC is an Uninstaller. So when one is checking for updates, you can uninstall stuff as well. It doesn't work on everything but thats what other programs are for. 01:03:22 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: @Stew - that makes sense to include other "uninstallers". Thanks. 01:03:34 Timothy: 1 AN2 01:10:54 Tom Trottier: IE, liabilities should go to zero 01:14:32 Coreen: where are the receipts kept? 01:15:29 Stew Bruce: Joc, what about the left over food? 01:15:42 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): @Coreen Either paper or scanned documents probably 01:16:23 Coreen: Thanks Joc. Well done! 01:16:26 E O'Driscoll: Jocelyn: interesting! 01:16:33 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Thanks Joc. Well don..." with ❤️ 01:16:37 Bob Herres: Reacted to "Jocelyn: interesting..." with ❤️ 01:17:07 Lynda Buske: Thanks Joc! 01:17:07 Bob Herres: Gnu looks simple yet Powerful TY 01:17:17 Ed Morawski: good presentation! 01:17:52 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Not a member of OPCUG? Join OPCUG before March 31st Pay the annual membership fee of $20.00 Receive an additional free-year’s membership Two years for the price of one! https://opcug.ca/join-or-renew/ 01:18:07 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Already an OPCUG Member? Do not renew your membership ! Your membership expiry date will be extended by another year at no cost 01:19:02 Coreen: Are they in person only 01:19:31 Alan German (OPCUG Treasurer): Next Q&A Session Next Wednesday, January 22nd. Send your questions, answers, and topics you wish to share to: SuggestionBox@opcug.ca 01:19:33 Coreen: As usual an information rich session! 01:19:56 Natalie: Thanks! 01:19:59 Bob Herres: So much fascinating content. Thanks to everyone who shared! 01:20:06 Carol Pearson: thanks 01:20:25 Jeff Dubois: Have a good night everyone... 01:20:46 Allison: Thank you, great info! 01:20:49 Eldon Gaw: Good Night and thanks to all. 01:21:05 E O'Driscoll: Another series of great presentations! Thank you all. 01:22:21 Eldon Gaw: I suspect the microphones and placement of them might be part opf the problem 01:25:00 Timothy: 64 GB is over kill.