00:07:23 Chris Taylor: All members in good standing as of March 31, 2022 have had their membership expiry date extended by one year at no charge 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 00:09:43 Tom Trottier: Dec 7: Moon occults mars, tonite! https://in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20221208_16_100&town=6094817 (enter your location, top right) Use your binoculars. 00:10:33 Jeff: Happy Birthday Stewart 00:12:22 Timothy: Happy another trip around the Sun Stewart. 00:13:03 micheline: Hi Alan – please post tonight’s agenda on the chat 00:13:29 Alan German: Tonight's Agenda: Computer Basics - Customizing the Taskbar Computer Basics - Update Microsoft Store apps Ask - Recycling floppy disks Ask - Battery error message at computer startup Share - Tag your MP3 files Share - Display connections Ask - WPA3 and WiFi 6 00:13:50 micheline: Question for last 10 Minutes of Q&A: How do you open all 8 tabs in the Format Comment dialog in Excel? You are supposed to get 8 tabs, including Colors and Lines tab, if you: 1. Select a cell and then right click to select Insert Comment from the context menu. 2. Then right click to select Format Comment from the context menu. When I do that, I only get the Font tab in the Format Comment dialog. See more detailed version of this question in the Forum today. Source of the method is: https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/excel/1906-excel-shouw-image-on-mouseover.html If you do not know the answer to the above, then How do you open an image popup on-mouse-over in Word or Excel? 00:13:53 Bob Herres: Preliminary Agenda: Computer Basics - Customizing the Taskbar Computer Basics - Update Microsoft Store apps Ask - Recycling floppy disks Ask - Battery error message at computer startup Share - Tag your MP3 files Share - Display connections Ask - WPA3 and WiFi 6 00:16:32 Chris Taylor: Donate to the Ottawa Food Bank's Holiday Food Drive at https://www.ottawafoodbank.ca/donate/ 00:21:29 Lawrence Patterson: Safely remove USB Drive, you can make it permanent, even when a USB drive isn't plugged in? 00:22:38 Alan German: @Lawrence - You can have the icon visible. Although I always have an SDcard plugged in so that could be why it displays. Will check. 00:23:11 Martin: How important is it really to go through the 'safely remove ...' steps for USB drives? 00:24:31 Lawrence Patterson: @Martin, well..... let's just say, if you do remove the USB drive in the middle of it being accessed, could ruin the ability to access the data. Mind you, it's been a really long time I've seen an USB drive corrupted, but why risk it. 00:25:14 Jeff: Make sure the "location" on your system matches the location on your Microsoft Store profile or you may not be able to download apps you have on other computers let alone update them. Found out after a new OS install. 00:27:31 Tom Trottier: You can get a USB floppy disk drive 00:27:57 Tom Trottier: Or demagnitize with a tape recorder head demagnetizer 00:28:31 Timothy: You could try to sell the old software on Ebay. 00:28:49 Tom Trottier: Thwey do call them "floppies" 00:29:11 Martin: Tom, can you get both 3.5" and 5.25" floppy USB drives? 00:30:25 Timothy: I've seen only 3.5 new floppy drives for sell. Seen old 5.25 on Ebay. 00:30:49 Chris Taylor: Computer laptop batteries HP BIOS error 601 (and others) https://support.hp.com/ca-en/document/c01443470 Tips for extending the lifetime of lithium-ion batteries https://news.umich.edu/tips-for-extending-the-lifetime-of-lithium-ion-batteries/ 00:31:24 Tom Trottier: You can restore most batteries by replacing the 18650 batteries inside - check Alexander Battery store 00:32:22 Tom Trottier: I believe they can rebuild cheaply..., 00:33:43 Tom Trottier: Dell, Asus have the ability to keep batter charged to about 60% for longest battery lifetime 00:33:55 Tom Trottier: maybe HP? 00:35:12 Tom Trottier: https://batteryuniversity.com/ 00:36:43 Tom Trottier: https://docshare.tips/batteryuniversitycom-learn-article-charging-lithium-ion-batteries_584fe097b6d87ff3bd8b54e0.html 00:38:51 Chris Taylor: MP3tag https://www.mp3tag.de/en 00:39:05 Jeff: The tool to take the back off a laptop is called a "spudger". 00:46:02 Bob: You can also change tags free using the VLC and AIMP Media Players Tagging files with VLC Media Player https://aboutdevice.com/how-to-edit-audio-or-video-tags-with-vlc-media-player/ Tagging files with AIMP Media Player https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSpGP-t2IVs 00:46:17 Chris Taylor: Video Cable Tangle https://www.homestratosphere.com/types-of-video-cables/ https://www.expertreviews.co.uk/accessories/pc-monitors/1404476/hdmi-vs-displayport-vs-dvi-vs-vga-every-connection-explained https://www.showmecables.com/blog/post/cable-distance-limits-audio-video#:~:text=VGA%20%2D%20150%20feet%20(regular)%3B,resolution%20will%20be%20low%2Dquality 00:46:24 Gail: Thank you, Tom! 00:47:45 Tom Trottier: VGA includes sound, red, green, blue cables - and you can even break them out. 00:48:10 Tom Trottier: HDMI includes DisplayPort signals 00:48:47 Tom Trottier: USB-C -can- include DisplayPort signals... 00:52:13 Tom Trottier: VGA tops out at FHD 00:55:29 Tom Trottier: Video Graphics ARRAY 00:57:27 Tom Trottier: 9-pin printers! 00:57:56 Bob: What about SCSI cables 00:58:11 Edward Morawski: SCSI cables? Double-wide SCSI? … lol 00:59:05 Gail: Thanks, Lawrence. Just want to say that Richard got a VGA 17 in flat screen monitor from Bill. Richard is happy as a clam. Thank you, Bill, and the OPCUG Members Forum! 00:59:11 Timothy: Then there are the adapters/ 01:00:12 Bob Herres: Good stuff Lawrence! Cables are a perpetual interest to me/TY 01:01:35 Tom Trottier: https://www.pcmag.com/news/what-is-wpa3-more-secure-wi-fi 01:02:24 Lawrence Patterson: I agree with Chris regarding WPA3 shouldn't affect website or none device specific systems. 01:02:26 Tom Trottier: Finalized 2018 01:06:19 Tom Trottier: There's always ebay…. 01:07:37 Bob Gowan: How about using an enclosure with a salvaged internal 5,25" drive 01:08:20 Bob Gowan: ie external disk drive enclosure 01:08:44 micheline: If you do not know the answer to the above, then How do you open an image popup on-mouse-over in Word or Excel? 01:08:48 Tom Trottier: Does anyone use PFsense or OPNsense with a gigbit+ connection? 01:09:23 Lawrence Patterson: Back to WPA3, https://www.reviewgeek.com/113400/why-your-wi-fi-router-might-lock-out-your-older-devices/ states "A WPA2/WPA3 transitional mode is available on some routers. This will allow all of your devices to connect to your home network. The newer devices capable of using WPA3—more recent tablets, laptops, and phones—will connect using the more secure protocol, while devices limited to WPA2 will connect with that.". 01:10:01 Bob Herres: I still want to read my 8" Dyson Floppy Disk /shown 01:12:55 Timothy: Try ebay Bob 01:14:15 Tom Trottier: 8" floppies were originally used to boot up IBM mainframes 01:14:55 Timothy: I think that Wang Co,puters used them. 01:15:52 Edward Morawski: 8" floppies were also used in the IBM displaywriter, a work processor (pre-PC days) 01:16:02 Edward Morawski: word* 01:16:02 Michelle Faber: Thank you all of you. Nice work. 01:16:16 bea: Thanks everyone 01:16:17 Tom Trottier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk 01:16:19 Carol Pearson: Thank you 01:16:21 Gail: Thank you, Everyone!