WEBVTT 00:00:06.219 --> 00:00:08.820 You're listening to the Internet Pathfinder. 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:10.980 I'm your host, Steve Phillips. In this podcast, 00:00:11.300 --> 00:00:13.800 the goal is to inform, educate, and reminisce 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:16.480 as we find a path through the world of technology, 00:00:16.839 --> 00:00:21.120 the Internet, and podcasting. Well, the 28 -day 00:00:21.120 --> 00:00:24.879 podcast movement challenge, the PodSquad, is 00:00:24.879 --> 00:00:29.339 officially over. I just want to say congratulations 00:00:29.339 --> 00:00:33.280 to everyone who participated in the PodSquad 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:39.039 challenge. And I look forward to interacting 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:43.939 with everyone in the group. So out of all of 00:00:43.939 --> 00:00:49.200 them, there was about 24 that stood tall at the 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:55.119 end. And thankfully, mine was one of them. Which, 00:00:55.299 --> 00:00:57.240 thank you very much to everyone who listened 00:00:57.240 --> 00:00:59.460 and everyone who gave criticism and thoughts 00:00:59.460 --> 00:01:03.600 on the entire project. It was amazing to get 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:08.269 a... lot of interaction in the form of critiques 00:01:08.269 --> 00:01:12.709 on artwork, critiques on different podcasting 00:01:12.709 --> 00:01:17.329 styles, whether it be segments or long form podcasts, 00:01:17.510 --> 00:01:21.569 interview podcasts, short podcasts, long podcasts, 00:01:21.629 --> 00:01:26.109 just all of the questions collectively were answered 00:01:26.109 --> 00:01:31.090 by majority of people just on basic tastes or 00:01:31.090 --> 00:01:33.409 just things that they've noticed in the industry. 00:01:34.329 --> 00:01:36.930 I would definitely say that it was a very helpful 00:01:36.930 --> 00:01:40.329 and informative group to be a part of. And I'm 00:01:40.329 --> 00:01:44.590 thankful for everyone that was in it. And congratulations 00:01:44.590 --> 00:01:49.290 to the five winners who get tickets and whatnot 00:01:49.290 --> 00:01:54.109 to Podcast Movement this year. I unfortunately 00:01:54.109 --> 00:01:59.409 will not be going. More so out of cost purposes. 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:04.299 The convention itself isn't the big cost for 00:02:04.299 --> 00:02:07.359 me. It's flying or getting transportation down 00:02:07.359 --> 00:02:13.960 there and then the hotel stay itself, which is 00:02:13.960 --> 00:02:17.219 a bit much for me. I hope that eventually these 00:02:17.219 --> 00:02:20.419 jump around the different states and maybe Michigan 00:02:20.419 --> 00:02:25.800 could be next or down the pipe some way. I'm 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:29.580 very, very excited to see what comes out of the 00:02:29.580 --> 00:02:33.340 podcast movement, even though I will not be able 00:02:33.340 --> 00:02:37.900 to make it this year. This episode, I had planned 00:02:37.900 --> 00:02:41.780 on doing more tech -based, particularly because 00:02:41.780 --> 00:02:44.800 last episode we covered an extensive amount in 00:02:44.800 --> 00:02:47.300 podcasting, so this week I thought it would be 00:02:47.300 --> 00:02:50.449 interesting to cover things. pertaining to computers, 00:02:50.889 --> 00:02:54.469 Windows 10, and some variety of settings that 00:02:54.469 --> 00:02:58.949 may or may not make any difference to certain 00:02:58.949 --> 00:03:01.509 people or may be very helpful to certain people. 00:03:01.949 --> 00:03:04.210 But before I get into that, I'm going to cover 00:03:04.210 --> 00:03:09.189 the tech history lesson. And starting us off 00:03:09.189 --> 00:03:13.669 there, we have Yahoo, which officially launched 00:03:13.669 --> 00:03:17.620 March 5th, 1995. Which I thought was kind of 00:03:17.620 --> 00:03:21.819 an interesting bit of information there just 00:03:21.819 --> 00:03:25.879 for the fact that Yahoo's been around since pretty 00:03:25.879 --> 00:03:30.020 much I started using the internet. And it was 00:03:30.020 --> 00:03:32.120 probably the first search engine I'd ever heard 00:03:32.120 --> 00:03:38.180 of as well. So it's kind of interesting to see 00:03:38.180 --> 00:03:41.280 how long it's been around, but it's also lost 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:43.819 its relevancy over the last 10, 15 years with 00:03:43.819 --> 00:03:49.889 the... invention of Google and the lack of reliance 00:03:49.889 --> 00:03:55.629 on internet search directories themselves especially 00:03:55.629 --> 00:03:58.229 when you had to manually submit your websites 00:03:58.229 --> 00:04:00.530 to those directories to get them included in 00:04:00.530 --> 00:04:03.789 the search engines whereas Google pulled from 00:04:03.789 --> 00:04:14.020 metadata to create all that March 1st 2008 America 00:04:14.020 --> 00:04:18.139 Online discontinues the Netscape web browser. 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:21.759 I remember slightly using that, but I was a heavy 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:25.120 Internet Explorer guy at the time. That has since 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:29.139 changed with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. 00:04:30.899 --> 00:04:34.720 But yeah, Netscape was the first commercial web 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:38.379 browser largely responsible for helping popularize 00:04:38.379 --> 00:04:41.870 the Internet in the mid -90s. It originally was 00:04:41.870 --> 00:04:44.850 obviously destroyed by Microsoft's Internet Explorer 00:04:44.850 --> 00:04:48.129 as they kind of locked it out of Windows in the 00:04:48.129 --> 00:04:51.370 90s with all the antitrust information. However, 00:04:51.589 --> 00:04:55.370 as Microsoft included it for free with every 00:04:55.370 --> 00:04:58.829 copy of Windows of Internet Explorer, the computer 00:04:58.829 --> 00:05:01.449 code for Netscape lives on in Mozilla Firefox 00:05:01.449 --> 00:05:05.490 browser, which continues to gain popularity. 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:11.199 I'm still a user of Google Chrome and Firefox 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:15.019 for other things, and I haven't touched Internet 00:05:15.019 --> 00:05:17.300 Explorer in probably three or four years, and 00:05:17.300 --> 00:05:22.579 I'm not a fan of Internet Explorer's successor, 00:05:22.800 --> 00:05:27.579 which is Microsoft Edge, which isn't as bad as 00:05:27.579 --> 00:05:30.740 Internet Explorer, but I don't like it. It doesn't 00:05:30.740 --> 00:05:32.939 seem like it's as fast, and I don't like a lot 00:05:32.939 --> 00:05:35.959 of the features to it. It's definitely something 00:05:35.959 --> 00:05:40.139 that it's kind of fun to think about the browser 00:05:40.139 --> 00:05:42.579 war. I remember a lot of different browsers back 00:05:42.579 --> 00:05:45.800 in the day between Neoplanet and where you could 00:05:45.800 --> 00:05:49.420 skin the browser and make it look like a show 00:05:49.420 --> 00:05:53.680 or something else. It's just kind of interesting 00:05:53.680 --> 00:05:56.680 when you go back and look at it. The funny thing 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:02.360 is, is in February 26, 1991, the first web browser 00:06:02.360 --> 00:06:06.879 was introduced. The first web browser and WYSIWYG, 00:06:06.959 --> 00:06:11.060 what you see is what you get, HTML editor. And 00:06:11.060 --> 00:06:16.019 Tim Berners -Lee was largely responsible for 00:06:16.019 --> 00:06:19.500 that at the time. And that concludes our history 00:06:19.500 --> 00:06:25.399 lesson. So moving into Windows 10 settings and 00:06:25.399 --> 00:06:29.379 troubleshooting. Let me preface this with saying 00:06:29.379 --> 00:06:33.060 I've had Windows 10 since it came out. I've had 00:06:33.060 --> 00:06:35.939 it since whatever year it was. I think it was 00:06:35.939 --> 00:06:42.860 2016, maybe 2015. I'm not quite sure when it 00:06:42.860 --> 00:06:46.480 came out. Anyhow, when Windows 10 first was introduced, 00:06:46.740 --> 00:06:49.759 it was a nightmare. It was a mess. It randomly 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:53.060 changed all the settings. It introduces a new 00:06:53.060 --> 00:07:01.019 standard font of Segui UI, which is kind of a... 00:07:01.610 --> 00:07:06.269 mix between the Calibri that's standard on Windows 00:07:06.269 --> 00:07:12.209 as well. However, if you install Windows 10 on 00:07:12.209 --> 00:07:19.850 a computer that does not only have the standard 00:07:19.850 --> 00:07:23.689 fonts on a computer, the unfortunate part is 00:07:23.689 --> 00:07:26.449 Windows randomly selects one of those fonts to 00:07:26.449 --> 00:07:28.569 be your standard font when you're web browsing 00:07:28.569 --> 00:07:34.269 or opening a PDF file. And unfortunately, there's 00:07:34.269 --> 00:07:36.930 no way around this unless you remove said font. 00:07:37.069 --> 00:07:41.129 And it doesn't exactly tell you where it's using 00:07:41.129 --> 00:07:44.889 this font from or what font it's pulling. So 00:07:44.889 --> 00:07:48.269 what has happened is I've had this problem on 00:07:48.269 --> 00:07:50.970 multiple machines. I recently upgraded my wife's 00:07:50.970 --> 00:07:54.769 computer because my Windows 10 machine is all 00:07:54.769 --> 00:07:57.670 the bugs have been worked out. But I had since 00:07:57.670 --> 00:08:00.259 forgotten what. it was like to have to do this. 00:08:00.379 --> 00:08:06.040 And I upgraded my Windows 8 .1 machine that my 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:08.819 wife uses on her laptop and brought it to Windows 00:08:08.819 --> 00:08:12.579 10. And it randomly selected one of my graphic 00:08:12.579 --> 00:08:17.120 design fonts that I was using and decided that 00:08:17.120 --> 00:08:19.019 this had to be the standard font. So it made 00:08:19.019 --> 00:08:22.139 it extremely difficult to read websites or PDFs 00:08:22.139 --> 00:08:25.529 or really anything that was on the web. And I 00:08:25.529 --> 00:08:28.790 tried changing the default fonts in the browser. 00:08:29.149 --> 00:08:33.090 I tried changing a variety of fonts. But unfortunately, 00:08:33.190 --> 00:08:37.950 what I had to do was go through my graphics editing 00:08:37.950 --> 00:08:41.269 software, and I typed in some of the text, and 00:08:41.269 --> 00:08:43.090 then I had to go through and kind of cycle through. 00:08:43.190 --> 00:08:45.909 Another easier way, though, is physically going 00:08:45.909 --> 00:08:47.870 to the control panel fonts folder and scrolling 00:08:47.870 --> 00:08:49.909 until you see the letters that look like something 00:08:49.909 --> 00:08:53.049 else, which I took a screenshot so I could do 00:08:53.049 --> 00:08:56.399 a side -by -side. And I figured out what the 00:08:56.399 --> 00:09:01.519 font was. And there's only, I've seen different 00:09:01.519 --> 00:09:04.200 options. There's one where you can create a registry 00:09:04.200 --> 00:09:09.259 file, which will auto -change all of the fonts 00:09:09.259 --> 00:09:13.000 on the computer to said font. However, it works 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:16.019 for everything on the system, still doesn't make 00:09:16.019 --> 00:09:18.379 an impact on the browser. So it was a massive 00:09:18.379 --> 00:09:21.419 waste of time for me to try this, to try and 00:09:21.419 --> 00:09:26.950 create this file. that would rewrite in the registry 00:09:26.950 --> 00:09:30.769 the font. Way too complicated, way too difficult 00:09:30.769 --> 00:09:32.870 for the normal person. It's not even needed, 00:09:33.110 --> 00:09:36.230 especially when if you find the main font that's 00:09:36.230 --> 00:09:39.049 causing the problem, you remove it and then you 00:09:39.049 --> 00:09:42.750 reinstall it. It does not take over the system 00:09:42.750 --> 00:09:46.370 anymore. But in order to get it to turn off because 00:09:46.370 --> 00:09:48.389 it stays on when you're in the system, you have 00:09:48.389 --> 00:09:50.649 to close the browser. So anyways, I found this 00:09:50.649 --> 00:09:53.919 font. I removed it. I fixed it, the problem went 00:09:53.919 --> 00:09:57.860 away. I'm not quite sure what causes this in 00:09:57.860 --> 00:10:00.379 Windows 10 other than the fact that it's layering 00:10:00.379 --> 00:10:07.820 over top of an already built system. But I find 00:10:07.820 --> 00:10:09.840 it extremely frustrating the amount of changes 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:12.820 that Windows performs when they install the Windows 00:10:12.820 --> 00:10:15.080 10 install. And that's just one of the changes. 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.159 One of the other things I don't really care for 00:10:18.159 --> 00:10:21.750 as much is the... the modification to the start 00:10:21.750 --> 00:10:26.450 bar, the random apps, the Windows 10 system update, 00:10:26.669 --> 00:10:30.690 which I find extremely frustrating because if 00:10:30.690 --> 00:10:32.850 you have newer builds of Windows 10, for instance, 00:10:33.070 --> 00:10:37.350 they prevent you from turning off Windows 10, 00:10:37.389 --> 00:10:41.110 Windows update. You cannot select when it installs. 00:10:41.110 --> 00:10:43.129 You can set a window of when it will not touch 00:10:43.129 --> 00:10:47.129 your system. However, it will still install whenever 00:10:47.129 --> 00:10:49.899 it feels like it. and it will reboot your machine, 00:10:50.159 --> 00:10:51.720 even if you're in the middle of something. I 00:10:51.720 --> 00:10:53.039 mean, it'll give you a little bit of a warning 00:10:53.039 --> 00:10:57.059 now, but it still counts down. So what I was 00:10:57.059 --> 00:10:59.620 doing, because my system, I've worked out the 00:10:59.620 --> 00:11:02.500 kinks. There's no bugs. I actually completely 00:11:02.500 --> 00:11:06.200 disabled my Windows 10 system update because 00:11:06.200 --> 00:11:09.620 I got tired of it trying to Shanghai my system. 00:11:10.100 --> 00:11:12.860 And what I mean by that is it was randomly uninstalling 00:11:12.860 --> 00:11:15.600 software that was older that I had grown accustomed 00:11:15.600 --> 00:11:20.000 to and I was using. And it also decided what 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.779 it didn't support and it removed that software 00:11:22.779 --> 00:11:28.899 as well. So I went through this whole basis of 00:11:28.899 --> 00:11:35.240 registry editing and software disabling and task 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:39.259 scheduler to shut off the Windows update. And 00:11:39.259 --> 00:11:42.419 I finally got my main desktop to the point where 00:11:42.419 --> 00:11:44.200 it doesn't do this. Well, when I installed Windows 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:50.060 10 on my wife's laptop, the 8 .1 Windows, It 00:11:50.060 --> 00:11:56.059 prevented me from disabling the update to begin 00:11:56.059 --> 00:11:58.740 with. I eventually figured it out. It's at the 00:11:58.740 --> 00:12:02.820 same status of my desktop now. But it was extremely 00:12:02.820 --> 00:12:04.919 frustrating to try and figure out. And the only 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:07.139 reason I upgraded that laptop was because Windows 00:12:07.139 --> 00:12:10.759 8 .1 was super buggy. It would crash on boot 00:12:10.759 --> 00:12:13.899 up every time. And now I don't have that problem. 00:12:14.039 --> 00:12:17.940 The switching between user accounts, it would 00:12:17.940 --> 00:12:20.299 sometimes take as much as two to three minutes. 00:12:21.019 --> 00:12:25.000 And the boot up time would take about five. After 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:27.000 installing Windows 10, all of those problems 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:29.399 have ceased. So, I mean, it's kind of a mixed 00:12:29.399 --> 00:12:33.019 bag of give and take, of like and dislike. I 00:12:33.019 --> 00:12:36.200 overall enjoy Windows 10 as a whole. It's a great 00:12:36.200 --> 00:12:38.320 version of Windows compared to the previous ones. 00:12:38.440 --> 00:12:41.120 It only compares to Windows 7 at this point. 00:12:41.769 --> 00:12:49.090 That being said, I would strongly advise backing 00:12:49.090 --> 00:12:56.269 up software that you use and other documents 00:12:56.269 --> 00:13:00.129 or using a cloud -based service such as Google 00:13:00.129 --> 00:13:04.470 Drive, which I use. I pay the $20 a year, get 00:13:04.470 --> 00:13:09.950 the 100 gigabytes of space, and I back up all 00:13:09.950 --> 00:13:14.139 of my podcasting stuff. all of my art, all of 00:13:14.139 --> 00:13:18.159 my featured banners for my WordPress site for 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:22.700 said podcasts. And I use it just to back up all 00:13:22.700 --> 00:13:24.500 my documents. So it's in the cloud. I can access 00:13:24.500 --> 00:13:26.840 it from my phone. I can access it wherever I'm 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:32.500 at. And it's a very useful service. And I mostly 00:13:32.500 --> 00:13:35.080 did this because I've had flash drives and I've 00:13:35.080 --> 00:13:38.659 had Windows fail on me and I've lost things in 00:13:38.659 --> 00:13:46.429 the past. not a great scenario to be in and and 00:13:46.429 --> 00:13:51.129 i think that having a cloud backup is is something 00:13:51.129 --> 00:13:53.809 that everyone should have it's not that expensive 00:13:53.809 --> 00:13:56.149 if you know where to go like i i didn't want 00:13:56.149 --> 00:13:58.830 dropbox i think it costs too much and honestly 00:13:58.830 --> 00:14:01.710 i trust google more and my phone is a google 00:14:01.710 --> 00:14:04.929 phone it's so it's all kind of intertwined it's 00:14:04.929 --> 00:14:10.600 it's much easier for me that way um but What 00:14:10.600 --> 00:14:16.100 I'm trying to say overall is Windows 10 is very 00:14:16.100 --> 00:14:20.600 much an education system. I've had a friend where, 00:14:20.659 --> 00:14:23.059 with the latest updates, his graphics drivers 00:14:23.059 --> 00:14:28.240 reconfigured. Because it was an older system, 00:14:28.419 --> 00:14:33.639 they created a default Windows 10 graphics driver, 00:14:33.879 --> 00:14:39.399 which replaced the onboard video card. and prevented 00:14:39.399 --> 00:14:41.240 his resolution from being as large as it used 00:14:41.240 --> 00:14:44.940 to be. So it's another one of those you kind 00:14:44.940 --> 00:14:47.659 of have to know what you're getting into as a 00:14:47.659 --> 00:14:53.320 whole with any version of Windows. Now, I don't 00:14:53.320 --> 00:14:56.600 know what it's like to have a Mac. I've used 00:14:56.600 --> 00:14:59.519 them through college. I know that they're very 00:14:59.519 --> 00:15:02.220 stable for the most part. There's not a lot of 00:15:02.220 --> 00:15:05.519 them messing with the system. It's pretty sound. 00:15:06.850 --> 00:15:09.450 But I also think Windows 10 is at that base as 00:15:09.450 --> 00:15:12.970 well. It's just I don't like when they install 00:15:12.970 --> 00:15:15.129 the updates and then half my stuff goes away. 00:15:15.250 --> 00:15:17.490 Or I use like the Sticky Notes app that was built 00:15:17.490 --> 00:15:21.789 into Windows 7. And you can use it through early 00:15:21.789 --> 00:15:23.590 versions of Windows 10 and then it's gone after 00:15:23.590 --> 00:15:26.929 that. And I use it for, for instance, my work 00:15:26.929 --> 00:15:29.809 or for podcasting notes that I want up on the 00:15:29.809 --> 00:15:31.009 screen, but I don't want to have to have like 00:15:31.009 --> 00:15:36.490 50 documents open. So it's... 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