On 10/08/2022 1:25 PM Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote:

On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 03:24 PM, Annabelle Susan Morison wrote:

How would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails? I've only had this machine since 2021.

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The easiest way is by running the diagnostic software for the specific SSD manufacturer.  They virtually all provide somesort of monitoring/diagnostic software.  You'd have to look in Disk Manager, and use the Properties, Hardware tab for the drive to determine its model number, then do a quick web search on that model number to get the manufacturer (that is if you don't already know which maker your SSD is from).  Then go to that maker's website, support, downloads and fetch their dedicated monitoring/diagnostic software.

But, if you have anything on your system that presents you with the drive's SMART data, have a quick look at that, as you'll generally get warnings based upon any parameter that's "outside normal limits."  CrystalDiskInfo is a third party utility that uses this, and other data from the drive, and when I have NVDA up when CrystalDiskInfo is active, the "status button" that tells me the overall health (good), drive temperature in degrees C, and the actual logical drives (C: and D: in my case) on the SSD is the first thing it lands on.
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044  

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

    ~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore

On 10/08/2022 12:26 PM Glenn / Lenny <glenn@...> wrote:

If it fails completely, you will know if the system won't even see it with WinPE.

But most likely, files will start getting corrupt and it won't boot on its own.

Glenn

----- Original Message -----

From: Annabelle Susan Morison

To: main@jfw.groups.io

Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2022 2:23 PM

Subject: Re: Annabelle - Your Windows Woes

How would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails? I've only had this machine since 2021.

On 10/08/2022 11:04 AM Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote:

I decided to split this out into a topic of its own.  Too much is getting "shaken and stirred" on the originating topic.

Have you checked what the state of your system drive is?  And by that I mean using the utility of your choosing to look at SMART data and/or do a quick scan.

There is at least a decent chance that your system drive is in the process of failing, as that's one reason that you would be asked for Windows Media when attempting to boot.  The other could be a corrupt boot record, but I'd definitely suspect a drive that's on its way out first.
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044  

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

    ~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore

On 10/08/2022 12:26 PM Glenn / Lenny <glenn@...> wrote:

If it fails completely, you will know if the system won't even see it with WinPE.

But most likely, files will start getting corrupt and it won't boot on its own.

Glenn

----- Original Message -----

From: Annabelle Susan Morison

To: main@jfw.groups.io

Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2022 2:23 PM

Subject: Re: Annabelle - Your Windows Woes

How would you be able to tell when a solid state drive fails? I've only had this machine since 2021.

On 10/08/2022 11:04 AM Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote:

I decided to split this out into a topic of its own.  Too much is getting "shaken and stirred" on the originating topic.

Have you checked what the state of your system drive is?  And by that I mean using the utility of your choosing to look at SMART data and/or do a quick scan.

There is at least a decent chance that your system drive is in the process of failing, as that's one reason that you would be asked for Windows Media when attempting to boot.  The other could be a corrupt boot record, but I'd definitely suspect a drive that's on its way out first.
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044  

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

    ~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore

I’d love to get into using Linux. I tried around 2009 using Ubuntu with Gnome, and Orca, the screen-reader, was crashing all the time. There was a weird hardware problem with the system, I think, which I never understood – so I’m hoping it was just a one-off and that an experience today might be better. Back then, I decided to just do a lot more stuff in console/command line – fine, except I was spending so much time trying to find and read the appropriate man pages that I just gave the computer to my sighted partner instead, who was happily using Linux for a year or so, and I went back to Windows exclusively.

On Sat, Oct 8, 2022 at 12:19 PM, Glenn / Lenny wrote:

Really, if people are just doing eMail, some audio and some web pages, it would be more like using windows 7 than using windows 10 is.

You still have the pull-down menus, no ribbons in Linux, and the desktop is like in windows.

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I'm sorry, but I have to disagree with this, vehemently.

The similarities between the Linux UI and Window UI exist, but they're superficial and the differences in the ecosystems is immense.  Way more than the adjustment needed to go from Windows 7 to Windows 10 is required to become proficient with the Linux UI and the Linux OS as a whole.

Changing operating systems, as opposed to upgrading in the same stream, is not something to be undertaken lightly.

Some people have wanted to complain about the Ribbons interface rather than learn it, and it's here to stay under most OSes besides Linux.  And learning a new Office Suite is no minor undertaking, either.

Moving from Windows 7 to 10 or 11 is a piece of cake compared to switching to an entirely new ecosystem.  Most of what you ever knew about Windows, going all the way back to Windows 3.1, is still entirely applicable and transferable.
 
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044  

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

    ~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore

I don't know what it is about git hub, but even when I expand items, I can
never find a download link, when I enter on a file link, it just takes me to

another page of the same, and I go around and around, never getting stuff
downloaded.
This one is the same.
Glenn
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From: "Hareth" <hareth4m@...>
To: <main@jfw.groups.io>
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2022 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: YouTube Downloader, Extractor etc


For ease of use player and downloader, check accessible youtube
downloader pro, its free, you can set its default to download as mp3
as well.
https://github.com/sulaiman-alqusaimi/accessible_youtube_downloader_pro/releases

On 10/08/2022 11:04 AM Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote:

I decided to split this out into a topic of its own.  Too much is getting "shaken and stirred" on the originating topic.

Have you checked what the state of your system drive is?  And by that I mean using the utility of your choosing to look at SMART data and/or do a quick scan.

There is at least a decent chance that your system drive is in the process of failing, as that's one reason that you would be asked for Windows Media when attempting to boot.  The other could be a corrupt boot record, but I'd definitely suspect a drive that's on its way out first.
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044  

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

    ~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore

On 10/08/2022 11:04 AM Brian Vogel <britechguy@...> wrote:

I decided to split this out into a topic of its own.  Too much is getting "shaken and stirred" on the originating topic.

Have you checked what the state of your system drive is?  And by that I mean using the utility of your choosing to look at SMART data and/or do a quick scan.

There is at least a decent chance that your system drive is in the process of failing, as that's one reason that you would be asked for Windows Media when attempting to boot.  The other could be a corrupt boot record, but I'd definitely suspect a drive that's on its way out first.
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Brian - Virginia, USA - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044  

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

    ~ H.L. Mencken, AKA The Sage of Baltimore

Good afternoon everyone,
Is their  a password manager  that google chrome saves and stores in its browser?  If so, might their be a way of recovering a previous password that I have forgotten? How would I go about accessing this option on the google web site?

Hi all.
As the subject line sais it. Is there a good tool on the net, that is usable with jaws? I couldn't really find any.
Thank you all for help.
Daniel

Because using Gmail, you have to check the box to delete each message individually , then after the emails have been checked, then and only then can you delete them. whereas with outlook you just hit the delete key and it's deleted. You can even do the control A, and all messages are deleted at once. Please don't tell me you are one of those who thinks nothing of spending $10 for a coffee at Starbucks in one sitting, yet bulks at paying for a service that lasts a year and costs around $69.

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From: main@jfw.groups.io <main@jfw.groups.io> On Behalf Of Gene Warner
Sent: October 7, 2022 5:11 PM
To: main@jfw.groups.io
Subject: Re: robot

Why would anybody pay for an email service when GMail work just fine and is free.

Gene...


On 10/7/2022 7:42 PM, John Covici wrote:

Yahoo mail should not be used, its been sold several times and might
go away at any time. There are much better services, and to get
something decent you should pay for it -- isn't Emaiil important?

On Fri, 07 Oct 2022 19:15:18 -0400,
Gene Warner wrote:

To see if I could duplicate what you are experiencing I went to
Yahoo! and selected to sign up for Yahoo! email. On the page where
it wanted my name and the email accoung I wanted (address and
password) there was no "I'm not a robot" check box. Does it come up
after that page?

Gene...


On 10/7/2022 6:57 PM, meow meow wrote:

I was going to get new email account that I have been looking for
good email account for long time that outlook just give me mess and
confuse so I gave up on outlook and going try yahoo email I did try
space bar it don't work and try us X kiy and didn't work either and
try enter and still don't work either



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From: "Gene Warner" <genewarner3@...>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2022 4:21 PM
To: <main@jfw.groups.io>
Subject: Re: robot

Space always works for me. What page is this on?

Gene...


On 10/7/2022 6:11 PM, meow meow wrote:

when I do new account and I could not make x on for I'm not robot
how can I put x mark thanks