Sound Bytes

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

2019-01-26

1. Al – Rochester, NY – 5 backups – has two hard drives – Win on one, boot partition on the other one – the boot partition drive died
2. Steve – Greece, NY – Office XP 2002 – Win10 | FBook – left panel – nothing there
3. Dan – Henrietta, NY – mobile call block on iPhone SE
4. Bob – Irondequoit, NY – Win10 – Advanced System Repair?
5. Tom – Brighton, NY – re: how to stop spam & robocalls – asked Frontier for help – nope
6. Bill – Irondequoit, NY – best way to back up Win7

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

2019-01-19

1. Ken – Rochester, NY – How do I learn to use my Chromebook? | Compaq Win7 supervisor & BIOS passwords
2. Andy – Greece, NY – re: Ken – battery dying
3. Bob – Henrietta, NY – re: Ken – 
4. Lynn – Clymer, NY – W10 – Dell – l-shaped highspeed video/audio link
5. Scott – Rochester, NY – hasn’t called in 25 years | printing on a Chromebook – Epson won’t print in black & white
6. Tom – Brighton, NY – Lenovo Thinkpad L520 – 8-9 yrs old – randomly turns itself off
7. Larry – Penfield, NY – Chromebook – once in a while, window w/ several taps disappears | when go from Chromebook to Linux, what do you give up?
8. Ken – Webster, NY – re: Scott – Ken has Chromebox & Chromebook – hasn’t hooked up either to printer yet | Win7 going away?
9. Tim – Webster, NY – folder on desktop – search – “Kitten Cute” – can’t search for “cute”

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

2019-01-12

1. Fred – Henrietta, NY – long time listener, first time caller – re: Steve form last week – mutliboot – XP, W10, Mint & DOS on a boot stick | KVM switch
2. Pat – Batavia, NY – Steve – still using Google Hangouts? OBS? 
3. Walt – Greece, NY – re: Steve from last week – WINE
4. Nick – Batavia, NY – make older computer WiFi – 
5. Mark – Greece, NY – re: updating to latest feature update to Windows – using Update Assistant is better than just using Update
6. Andy – Greece, NY – re: MS wants part of your hard drive space – can you pick what drive it comes from?
7. Ken – Webster, NY – wife has Chromebook for 2 yrs – problem cleared itself – it locked up – can’t shut down, keyboard, mouse don’t work – looking for excelator.com | Android apps on some Chromebooks – some Windows apps, too – Microsoft Digital Image Pro
8. Gerd – Victor, NY –  Acer 15” Chromebook – ESL WMD Weather Capital Fox News
9. Smilee – Rochester, NY – itstillworks.com

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

1. Larry – Rochester, NY – DOFmaster – depth of field
2. Tom – Irondequoit, NY – send to RR from W10 desktop via Frontier mail, never received – if send from iPad, receives it | Chromebooks – prices
3. Bob – Henrietta, NY – cutting the cord – plex server on 18.04 – 
4. Steve – Greece, NY – firehand ember photo viewer
5. Mark – Greece, NY – re: Steve – Thumbs Plus | how to get static out of volume knobs, etc.
6. Jason – Altoona, PA – re: Steve – VM or AWS
7. Steve – Greece, NY – again – re: AWS

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

2018-12-29

1. Gary – Rochester, NY – Tango – avast? Webroot? | Tango – rootkit remover | scam: pretended to be from Microsoft & you have viruses!
2. Larry – Penfield, NY – Chromebook – wants DuckDuckGo as default search engine
3. Larry – Spencerport, NY – re: filament – MakerGeeks
4. Sherri – Rochester, NY – Samsung Smart Switch | Pixel – 
5. Jack – Greece, NY – desktop Win10 – 
6. Tom – Brighton, NY – search engine tracking – 

Sound Bytes: Your Computer User Group of the Air! 

1. Tim – Coneseus, NY – Lenovo IdeaPad Win10 – forgotten password – 
2. Al – Rochester, NY – Pixel 3 XL – Tech21 cases – Yahoo! Account & App – slowing down – stopped | article in HowToGeek – MS Seekers – they get patches ahead of time
3. Text – good/bad update iMac to Mohave?
4. Sherri – Rochester, NY – Pixel – had Galaxy S6 – cal data didn’t go over
5. Andy – Greece, NY – re: Sherri – 
6. Pat – Batavia, NY – zip to thumb drive – work on iPad?
7. Rich – Irondequoit, NY – can make own cloud storage stuff?
8. Mark – Greece, NY – calendars – OneCalendar – syncs all calendar
9. Scotty – Greece, NY – VOIP? 
10. Chuck – Penfield, NY – email – AOL account – getting spam –