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Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly Issue #877 Volume 17 Number41 July 31, 2020 Dear Friends, Welcome to Cloudeight InfoAve Weekly Issue #877. Thank you very much for subscribing and for being a part of our Cloudeight family. We appreciate your friendship and support very much! Please share our newsletters and our Website with your family and all your friends. We wish you all the best during the global pandemic. Our prayers and good wishes go out to all of you during this difficult time. We are all in this together.
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Betty can't make our start page her home page It's been a long time and I can't find my notes. I want to associate all PDF's opening with either Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge. How do I do that? Our answer Hi Sandy. Right-click on any PDF file and choose "Open with" from the context menu that opens and select "Choose another app" Then choose Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge (whichever you prefer) and make sure you tick the box next to "Always use this app to open .pdf files" and then click OK. From then on, PDF files will open with the program you selected.. Cathern wants to know how to get Adobe Flash Player back I just got the new update from Windows 10 and I play Shockwave games and when I got the update I lost the Adobe Flash Player and I can’t play a lot of the games. What can I do to get a flash player so my games will play? Thank you for any help you can give me. Our answer Hi Cathern. Flash will not be available after December 2020, so hopefully your game site will upgrade their games to HTML5 which works without Flash and work in any modern browser. You can play Flash games in Edge and Chrome right now - both have a built-in flash player which will work only until December. Do not try to download Flash Player, there are a zillion scams out there for people who search for 'Flash Player'. How to Enable Flash in Microsoft Edge Open Microsoft Edge. On the top right-hand corner, click the icon. Click Settings near the bottom of the menu that appears. Click View advanced settings under the Advanced Settings header. Toggle Use Adobe Flash Player to On. How to Enable Flash in Google Chrome Open Chrome. Go to the site with the video or game. To the left of the web address, click Lock or Info (info is circle with an i in it) At the bottom, click Site Settings. In the new tab, to the right of "Flash," click the Down arrow. Choose "Allow". Go back to the site and reload the page by pressing the F5 key on your computer or right-clicking the page and choosing "Reload". Remember, after December, Flash will not work. The Best Computer Care and Repair - Anywhere! We can fix your computer while you watch. You never have to leave your home. Just sit back, relax, and watch us work. Get PC service from folks you trust at the best prices you'll find anywhere. Get more information here.
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As you can see above, my hard drive is A-OK. You can also see the make and model of the hard drive. If you have an external drive or drives plugged in, the WMIC command will check those as well. If you get error messages with error codes, be sure to look them up
online. If your drive or drives are not OK, make sure your data is
backed up on a working external hard drive. Then check them using one of
the methods shown at the beginning of this article. Make a Journal Using Nothing but Notepad Here’s an easy Windows trick that shows you how to create a personal journal using nothing but Notepad. In this crazy year of the pandemic, it might be a good time to start a journal. Who knows what’s going to happen next? 1. Open Notepad (Type Notepad in taskbar search & press Enter) 2. On the very first line of your new Notepad type.LOG. That’s a period then the world LOG in uppercase letter 3. Space down a line or two and type a description of your journal(optional). For mine, I used “Today, July 25, 2020, I am starting a diary. This is the year of the pandemic and who knows what’s yet to come.” 4. Save your Notepad file with a name you’ll recognize… something like MyJournal. You can include the year if you like… I called mine “MyJournal2020”. 5 Every time you open it, the current time and date will be appended automatically, so all you have do is add whatever you like to your journal below the time and date.
Above, you can see my simple Notepad journal, complete with times and
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visit and bookmark Converter365 right now. What are Up with Verbs? We’re all affected by the current coronavirus pandemic – in some way or another. And while I have a million things I could say about the pandemic, politics, masks, social distancing, and all the craziness that has gripped our country, I’d rather divert your attention to something a little less dire — and a whole lot less controversial. It’s something we can all agree on – verbs is for the birds. They is too finicky – too fussy – too uptight. And I has never much cared for verbs. I’m an adjective kind of guy. This morning I came across a quote from one of my favorite authors, Lewis Carroll. I don’t have many favorite authors, but Lewis Carroll is one of them because of his wonderful word play. You’re probably thinking, “What quote?” aren’t you? I will get to that after I submit to you my reasons for my abject hatred of verbs. Verbs are nasty things. They has a nasty, vile temper. They is always angry and disagreeable and they has to agree or they doesn’t work. What kind of nonsense is that? You can’t say “You done good.” Done do not agree with “you” or “good” – I’m confused about which, but nonetheless, the verb don’t agree. Most verbs doesn’t agree naturally, they needs to be coddled. Why are verbs so disagreeable? Because, they are nasty, arrogant, things, that’s why. I really hates verbs. I can tolerate adverbs, barely. Grammarians and English teachers has saddled us poor, confused goombas... Read the rest of this "essay" here.
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What are PUPs and PUAs? PUPs are cute little dogs and PUAs are cute little aardvarks - adorable little creatures! NO! NO! NO! That's not right! PUPs is an acronym for Potentially Unwanted Programs and PUAs is an acronym for Potentially Unwanted Apps. The word programs ain't cool anymore - it's all about apps now. Apps is short for applications and programs are applications too. Who decides this stuff? The acronyms PUP and PUA are used because everyone is afraid of
getting sued for calling a spade a spade. You're not supposed to insult
a malware developer by calling his "app" malware. No, no, no! You must
call it a PUA or else end up in court. PUP is just an older way of
avoiding lawsuits by not calling garbageware what it really is -
malware.
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