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1210. Presidential Debate - Trump and Harris Ridiculous

 So was there a winner of the Presidential debate or just another setup with ABC? I'll agree that Kamala was more composed and the strat...

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

1183. 23H2 Featured Microsoft Upgrade goes on FAST with no hassles

 Thought I'd have another day in the computer room installing a Microsoft Feature Update. Microsoft has come a long way since the first one after which I had at least several hours of work to get it back to MY system after they removed a lot. This time, 12 minutes from end-to-end and that incudes a restart. Absolutely nothing changed in my system. All my unique Registry changes stayed the same. More than I can say about the just earlier cumulative update that removed my Registry change to put the notification of a download in Chrome back to the bottom of the window instead on the top tight. I hate it there and will have to restore that hack. But, the Feature Update worked fine. The only noticeable  difference so far  is the AI Preview ICON they threw on my Taskbar. I'm looking forward to a new Voice-to-text application upgrade and will be testing that the next few days for my impaired client I am helping. Most of the other new features I have no interest in. Supposedly there is a new File Explorer with tabs that I might look at, but I, like my 85-year old client just wants a system to remain stable and NOT change for a long time. Poor guy can't see well enough to see even a screen at max magnification and when you modify something on it and changes what he has memorized, life is an ever-reminding misery. Makes you wish that Microsoft would just offer a very stable version that NEVER gets updated except for security tweaks that do NOT change any visible interface. 

Anyway, KUDOS to Microsoft this time.

1182. Plug it in stupid! Unmute it!

 Thought I had graduated from trying to run something before plugging it in! 40+ years and I did a Dumbo! I was trying to get Speech-to-Text to work and my PC wouldn't recognize my built-in microphone. Haven't used a microphone since the XP days! Well, when I play Hearts, I use the Fn+F4 key to display the score. NOW, I know that the other function on the F4 key on my Lenovo is the MICROPHONE MUTE toggle! Di I ever feel stupid! I worked on this for hours to get the microphone working. It always tested fine via the hardware settings. Just couldn't get it to work, like in gmail.com compose an email! I knew I needed a Chrome Extension and had one, then two, then tree and none of them worked. Stupid, stupid, stupid! Just hit the F4 key to toggle it back on! lol. If you are here because of the same problem that your microphone, or PC keyboard, has a mute button and it was on, join me in the self butt kicking closet of shame. Then let out a loud Har-Har to welcome you back to supreme troubleshooter that can fix anything BUT something this easy. Go ahead and tell your spouse so both of you can laugh and roll on the floor and ....