00:06:57 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Welcome to all members and guests! Guests, if you want to join, see 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 00:16:01 Gail Eagen: Congratulations!!! 00:20:48 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Recuva https://www.ccleaner.com/recuva Disk Drill https://www.cleverfiles.com/lp/data-recovery-software.html 00:22:46 Bea: can you just go into the files created by the EaseUS backup folder and open it 00:22:54 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Disk cleanup https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20250115_PowerPoint.pdf Share - Disk cleanup — Part 2 https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20250129_PowerPoint.pdf 00:23:47 Alan German (OPCUG Meeting Coordinator): @Bea The EaseUS pbd files can be opened directly in File Explorer to recover files and folders 00:25:21 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: How Do I Transfer My Programs and Data to a New Machine? (Ask Leo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_rgsY86jO8& Transferring all files to a new Windows 11 device EaseUS Todo PCTrans FastMove Laplink Pcmover https://opcug.ca/qa_recordings/20250416_PowerPoint.pdf 00:26:07 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Signing PDF files Genius Sign https://thegrizzlylabs.com/genius-sign Sejda https://www.sejda.com/ 00:32:05 Natalie: Ottawa Library has 3D printer at the Nepean branch, and they sometimes give tutorial class (necessary to use it). 00:33:13 France Picard Ottawa: re 3D printer: Ottawa Public Library supposedly has a 3D printer in a branch (maybe Npenean??). You can look it up on the OPL site and they say someone will show you how to use it and you pay per gram (????) 00:34:15 Natalie: Replying to "re 3D printer: Ottaw..." Yes, at the MakerSpace area at Nepean Centrepointe branch 00:36:02 France Picard Ottawa: Replying to "re 3D printer: Ottaw..." Yes! thats the name 00:37:24 Natalie: Replying to "re 3D printer: Ottaw..." You can book the Makerbot 3D Printer on the library site: https://booking.biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/equipment 00:39:48 Natalie: For DNS queries, once set up, is automatic for sites visited, or do you engage it for specific ones? 00:49:32 Tom Trottier: or use the free OpenDNS with a lot of features for free: https://signup.opendns.com/homefree/ 00:51:00 Tom Trottier: Including logging and banning particular domains 00:52:58 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Disk Image Backup and Recovery – Part 4 EaseUS Todo Backup https://www.easeus.com/backup-software/tb-free.html 00:54:51 Tom Trottier: Does the Verify use checksums to check? 00:59:11 Tom Trottier: Do you have to choose GPT/MBR? Does it make a difference? 01:03:25 enn: When I copied to files over to an external usb, all the folder were there but the data was in it. 01:04:10 Tom Trottier: MBR is ollllllllllllllld 01:07:32 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: iSisters Technology Mentoring https://isisters.org 01:08:11 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: Don't forget to register for the Pizza-Q Details: https://opcug.ca/events/annual-pizza-night/ Send an email to pizzaparty2026@opcug.ca Be sure to include: how many guests you are bringing and your pizza preference (e.g. combo, meat lover, vegetarian, gluten free, etc.). If you have trouble climbing into a picnic table, please let us know in the email and we will try to make accommodations (we can provide card tables & chairs 01:09:55 Jocelyn Doire: Using FreeFileSync with another computer over a local network, takes about a minutes to start the sync, any ideas why? 01:11:39 Eldon Gaw: Does anyone have a reasonable priced bluetooth (or wired) speaker they might recommend? I find my laptop just does not have the volume I need. 01:12:42 Tom Trottier: Replying to "Does anyone have a reasonable priced bluetooth (or wired) speaker they might recommend? I find my laptop just does not have the volume I need." I liked the Logitech powered speakers connected by wire. They even have a mini subwoofer 01:13:39 Tom Trottier: Replying to "Does anyone have a reasonable priced bluetooth (or wired) speaker they might recommend? I find my laptop just does not have the volume I need." For Bluetooth, I recommend tribit 01:13:47 Tom Trottier: Replying to "Does anyone have a reasonable priced bluetooth (or wired) speaker they might recommend? I find my laptop just does not have the volume I need." Both economical 01:13:59 Natalie: Replying to "Does anyone have a r..." Big, but great: Blue Snowball 01:15:19 Eldon Gaw: Thank you everyone! 01:15:52 Eldon Gaw: The prices are right! 01:16:15 Tom Trottier: Replying to "Does anyone have a reasonable priced bluetooth (or wired) speaker they might recommend? I find my laptop just does not have the volume I need." Some Bluetooth speakers support stereo when you buy two speakers 01:17:15 Natalie: Replying to "Does anyone have a r..." Yikes, the price went up a lot: in the $100 range now 01:17:55 Chris Taylor, President OPCUG: OPCUG presentations at the OPL https://booking.biblioottawalibrary.ca/en/program?text=ottawa+pc 01:18:35 Natalie: Replying to "Does anyone have a r..." $60 at Best Buy 01:19:17 Timothy: I have a small speaker from ONN, Model : AAABLU100006839. Its a Rugged SM BLU model. 01:20:57 Carol Peason: Thanks all. Safe Travels Chris and Lynda 01:21:03 Gail Eagen: Thank you! 01:21:06 Natalie: Thanks! 01:21:11 Allison: Thank you! 01:21:21 Rosemary: Thank you!