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2020-02-01 – Mark Murphy, President, Greenlight Networks1) Bob – Henrietta, NY – NAT or direct IP? | 3rd party fiber carrier partners?2) Smiley – Rochester,...

2020-01-25 – Happy Lunar New Year! The Year of the Rat – Start of the Spring Festival Carl – Potstown, PA – location – Sprint Hotspot Mark – Greece, NY – Komodo DNS Bruce – Macedon, NY – Win10 – setup – Brian – Pavillion, NY – re: Frontier | save text messages – Verizon – Android – Bob – Henrietta, NY – re: DNS – Larry – Penfield, NY – 13” Chromebook – Tom – Brighton, NY – Avast! Update – can scan files before Win installs – takes time Dave – Bergen, NY – alternate socmed sites? Jim – Rochester, NY – Lenovo IdeaPad 300 – WiFi connection problem – cleared everything out | cleared cookies –

1) Bob – Irondequoit, NY – Chromebook – 32-bit? | LibreOffice version

2) Ernesto – Perinton, NY – Win10 update – could lose things?

3) Gary – Rochester, NY – 8 mo Lenovo ThinkPad W10 1909 4core 8G Thunderbird – can’t get email – Yahoo/Frontier | updates –

4) Vic – Irondequoit, NY – Carbonite – very pleased

5) Text – IMP will work w/ FTR/Yahoo – no support

6) Text – Clonezilla info

7) Steve – Kendall, NY – […] on Sound Bytes posts

8) Steve – Greece, NY – friend – having trouble updating Firefox | WinXP –

9) Mark – Greece, NY – mozbackup – backs up Mozilla products

Dan – Brighton, NY – how upgrade to 10 | how install NautilusDennis – Rochester, NY – bought son Chromebook for Christmas – can’t run SibeliusText – how to download Win10Walter – Greece, NY – Q4OSAl – Rochester, NY – do a quick backup for the new year | biggest danger to your data is your own fat fingersTom – Brighton, NY – moving to solid state drive | Windows is a very small fraction of MS’s business – how much effort do they put into it anymoreNeil – Honeyoe Falls, NY – hot water valves that control 6 different zones in his home – 24v AC power – Ecobee net-enabled thermostats – can’t manage gas fireplace – Jeff – Rochester, NY – re: Neil use a mercury relayText – Mike Victor, NY – keep unopened Google Mesh, return for Google Nest, Orbi?

Steve – New router needed for Greenlight?Bob – Henrietta – Money in the brag jar for mentioning greenlight. | Greenlight construction favoring Buffalo?Richard – Webster – still using AOL e-mail, getting guse web advertisingMatthew – Webster – Why TWC so exclusive?Larry – Webster – minimum requirement for new PCAndy – Greece – Orbi issue suggestion | Greenlight has recommended list of routers. | Bluetooth in car disconnects and disconnects.Doug – Irondequoit – purchased CDs from Amazon, new cars don’t have CD players.  How to burn CDs any more. Ed – Rochester – re: last week football streaming, Roku used 10 GB in two days.

1) Dan - Brighton, NY - old Lisas - vert hold gone | how wipe?

2) Carl - Pottstown, PA - cost of making phone calls -

3) Text - VLC on Mac - new easter egg - VLC icon has a Santa hat

4) Ed - Ithaca, NY - Win10 - iPod - opens for pictures first - how change that? | when open file window, has pane on right that want to get rid of

5) Jeff - Greece, NY - YouTube w/ Firestick 4K - how do live chat

6) Ed - Henrietta, NY - Roku - can use through phone?

7) Dave - Canandaigua, NY - re: Ed | working towards “real” smartphone - has tablet -

8) Tom - Brighton, NY - 2 W10 - Chrome - bookmarks gone | Chrome gone -

9) Larry - Rochester, NY - Lenovo Yoga II - 500G HD - 4G RAM -

10) Bob - Henrietta, NY - Greenlight complaints

Brian – Walworth, NY – AV  – 9 unnecessary programs – in Download is a whole bunch of stuff he’s tried – can he get rid of it?Matthew – Webster, NY – Android app – Libby – Ray – New Orleans, LA – High Sierra – update to Mojave?Mark – Greece, NY – re: library – borrow movies through Hoopla & lots of BBC stuffAndy – Greece, NY – wife’s phone – Google Play Services stopped working | moving to streaming services – Roku, Samsung tablets – 2-factor auth?Pat – Webster, NY – Chromebook – Joe – Brighton, NY – TV tuner OTA for Mac | free software for scheduling & recording programsBob – Irondequoit, NY – switching to Linux – put on thumb drive – wants to boot to thumb driveBlake – Canandaigua, NY – Chromebooks – secure? | Win7 – at shutdown, CPU sometimes runs at 100%

Dennis – Rochester, NY – iPhone 6s iOS 13.2.3 – since last update, screen goes dim 10-15 secs – checked a bunch of settingsSteve – Greece, NY – Win10 – sometimes into safe mode w/ networking – Gerald – Webster, NY – replace HP laptop 8 yrs old, WIn7 | often gets repeat emails, second in quotesDennis – Rochester, NY – again – had phone autolocking | Chromebook –

Zack – Rochester, NY – 60 pg doc – trying to send to relative – have scanner – how share?Carl Shmittman – Greece, NY – runs the Linux workshop – no workshop Nov/Dec – Jan will do again – watch meetup group & web site interlockroc.org, meetup.comDave – Webster, NY – iPhone 6 problem – searching for signal – slow – changing the SIM card helped for a week or soDoug – Irondequoit, NY – WIn7 – procrastinated – running Ubuntu from thumb drive – LibreOffice – | Linux virus? – Vic – Irondequoit, NY – video doorbellsSteve – Rochester, NY – PNY thumb drive – acting erratic – tried to reformat – NTFS – red only – Text – listfix to repair playlists