Sound Bytes

Sound Bytes – Your Computer User Group of the Air!

1. Dwayne – Buffalo, NY – USB Linux Knoppix Live – HP Pro laptop – put Knoppix in, it broke Windows – it went into repair mode, but isn’t working
2. Bob – Henrietta, NY – W10 has a disable fast shutdown in the power menus
3. Ann – Irondequoit, NY – need to resize browser
4. Matt – Webster, NY – lots of robocalls – Verizon – Android – Samsung
5. Mark – Greece, NY – re: Ann – Settings -> Ease of Use -> slider to adjust text | APC power backup – clicking on and off – 
6. Mark – Greece, NY – Tango – MalwareBytes extension for browser | Comodo IceDragon is more secure 
7. Tom – Brighton, NY – re: robocalls
8. Mike – Gates, NY – Win10 – charging for it? | where is Mac-Ave? | 

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

2019-03-30 – Pledge Drive, Week 3

1. Steve – Greece, NY – IMAP – bypass MSA – why Office 365 & GSuite | 10-char password, repeat 3 times
2. Ken – Rochester, NY – Chromebook – favorites erased | virus? | how get out of chat? | not writing to sister, but she’s getting stuff

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

2019-03-23 – Pledge Drive, Week 2

1. Larry – Rochester, NY – 2nd Macbook Pro – set up exactly like first – Final Cut Pro download – 
2. Ida – Irondequoit, NY – Greenlight – can’t log into the Netgear app – 
3. Judy – Webster, NY – Galaxy S7 – when someone changes their phone number, and she puts in a new one, can’t delete the old one | password manager?
4. Andy – Greece, NY – re: Ida – 
5. Jim – Brighton, NY – mboard – Gigabyte – how often can something go wrong?
6. Ed – Rochester, NY – LastPass, etc. – 

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

2019-03-16 – Pledge Drive, Week 1

1. Ed – Ithaca, NY – older Chromebook – second browser?
2. Dave – Canandaigua, NY – re: Android AV | old apps – virtual machines | Thunderbird – various POP accounts, one IMAP – combine?

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

2019-03-09!

1. Stan – Webster, NY – re: Chrome update – Chromebook? | CD player on Chromebook? | Win10 laptop – when plug DVD in, cannot read disk
2. Gary – Rochester, NY – MS keyboard – flat screen small – | Frontier as ISP – still have landline – Yahoo POP or IMAP | 
3. Text – password protect folder on Google Drive?
4. Larry – Greece, NY – re: daylight saving – 
5. Ken – Webster, NY – Chromebook – 
6. Paul – Candandaigua, NY – save Web pages to Google Drive?
7. Text – re: DST – 
8. Paul – Brighton, NY – 2 W10 – laptop, desktop – SuperAntiSpyware on both – 
9. Al – Penfield, NY – DISH Hopper – can Ethernet from old to new Hopper! | sched & timers can be backed up to remote control!
10. Brian – Pavilion, NY – re: Simcona underwriting | 

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

2019-03-02

1. David – Rochester, NY – fan not working – laptop overheats – HP Pavilion G7 2022
2. Andy – Greece, NY – Chromebook – takes 30 secs to boot – 
3. Ken – Webster, NY – re: last week – contingent support for Win7 | how MS interfaces w/ us – 
4. Linda – Greece, NY – loves her Mac – Internet w/o landline phone | 71 health problems – five extensions – doesn’t want to be away from one
5. Walter – Greece, NY – re: Linda | VOIP? 
6. Sherry – Rochester, NY – HP Notebook battery – max 89% – 
7. Mark – Greece, NY – re: Walter – OBI200 | re: Sherry – new systems limit the life
8. Gary – Rochester, NY – re: Linda – Personal Early Response System | re: LibreOffice – when uninstalled BitDefender, it installed | full backup Seagate – it was corrupted 
9. Bob – Irondequoit, NY – LastPass – 

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

2019-02-23

1. Fred – Henriettta, NY – re: Tim from Webster last week re: Linux – Mint | slant.co – comparison site
2. Larry – Greece, NY – spellcheck in Chrome stopped – Win10
3. Jacob – Ontario, NY – AOL – Yahoo – how get rid of? – Mac – 
4. Rich – Rochester, NY – 2nd Macbook – 2009 High Sierra, 2011 El Capitan – wants to have files common to both
5. Mike – Henrietta, NY – Google+ going away – Photos okay
6. Steve – Greece, NY – mult PCs w/ diff capacities – 300G to 128G
7. Kevin – Greece, NY – LibreOffice – database – need JRE – 

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

2019-02-16

1. Richard – Rochester, NY – 2009 Macbook Pro – El Capitan – some apps won’t run – 2011 13” Macbook Pro w/ High Sierra – CAD/CAM software won’t run on High Sierra | put 500G SSD – xfer or just put new drive in?
2. Gary – Rochester, NY – W10 – 7yr old ASUS K54C – up from W7 – shortcuts | cannot install LibreOffice
3. Mario – Gates, NY – cannot attach Google Doc to email
4. Andy – Rochester, NY – Chromebook – how to get stuff on the launch bar?
5. Tim – Webster, NY – re: Windows costs
6. Judy – Rush, NY – also can’t install LibreOffice
7. Dan – Pittsford, NY – 2009 Mac Pro – firmware update problem – can’t update to newest Office 365
8. Tom – Brighton, NY – popups in Chrome – 
9. Scott – Greece, NY – tablet – Samsung – 2.7 – talked to tech – when use Web browser – can’t find the server
10. Text – Aaron – Rochester, NY – new Macbook – popups – Chrome homepage & search hijacker – among other things

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

2019-02-09

1. Al – Rochester, NY – subscription vs own – Adobe was frustrating – tools you’re used to go away or get buried
2. Pat – Webster, NY – Chromebook – husband has PC – sent a link – now he has to go to Gmail
3. Eric – Canadaigua, NY – Win – Quickbooks/Quicken – bought a Chromebook – 
4. Steve – Ontario, NY – laptop w/ dead HD – corrupted – how to retrieve Win10 key?
5. Text – 84-yr-old – doesn’t like change – XP – only email, Facebook, pay bills – 
6. Paul – Brighton, NY – Win10 – USB mouse – when wakes up, cursor freezes/disappears – unplug/replug fixes it | two computers – Chrome – sometimes menu icon (3 dots) switched to orange circle or gray circle
7. Roger – Ontario, NY – clock radio on microwave – Computer Minute – Facebook Messenger
8. Ron – S Bristol, NY – Chromebook to printer – says it’s registered to Google Print – Brother 5750
9. Mac – Rochester, NY – password manager for Apple? | someone called to ask if he wanted to be on the Do Not Call list
10. Stephen – Buffalo, NY – FM tuner – AM tuner on cell phone

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

2019-02-02

1. Rich – Irondequoit, NY – Win updates
2. Mark – Greece, NY – Valley of the Boom | re: Rich – troubleshooting
3. Text: free DLNA Servers? Win7 – existing play list
4. Bob – Henrietta, NY – DLNA – shared directory
5. Bob – Henrietta, NY – again – don’t do DLNA over wireless
6. Text – Philadelphia, PA – Linux – online, 
7. Text – Elementary OS
8. Larry – Penfield, NY – scan from Chromebook