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Re: Windows 'notifications' accesses my photos
I have to laugh, as this is so aggravating otherwise. Now it's coming back to me that I went through this reconfigure business 6 months ago or whenever the last 'update' happened. I should have documented my settings once I got it all done the last time, as I'm going down the same road to fix all this stuff again. Thought I had it all set the way I want it, but guess not. Now I get an audio chime and a message shooting in from the right side of the screen every time I receive an email. I check my email once a day during the week and usually never on the weekend, and other than that I don't want to be bothered with it. I must be the only one on this earth that doesn't want all this information constantly flashing at me and bothering me. Also, the outlook calendar notification is not working and that's the only notification I actually want. Last time I was able to get it working but it included notification from windows, (shoots in from the lower right). I took me awhile to figure out how to get just the outlook calendar notification, and not the windows notification. Of course I didn't think to write down those settings either. That won't happen again. Oh well, carry on.772Views0likes0CommentsRe: Windows 'notifications' accesses my photos
T18skyguy wrote: ...I think it still exists, not sure. OK, back to photo's. They access them whether you like it or not. It's a law enforcement method to bust child abuser's. They look at everything. I went to save my tax return, and they sent me a message instantly "Don't you want to encrypt that"? They know more about whats on our computers than we do. Same with music. I was deciding between Onedrive, or Google music, they sent me a message instantly that stated "We already have your music" In other words, why not stay with us? I guess I shouldn't be surprised, but it sure is discouraging. I found that the photo's it was displaying were the most recent ones that I had moved a couple days ago from dropbox to my local hd. It's easiest to use our dropbox files from within File Explorer where dropbox shows up as just another drive. Both of our phones save pictures directly to dropbox. It wouldn't surprise me if MS has access to our dropbox files as well via file explorer.772Views0likes0CommentsRe: Windows 'notifications' accesses my photos
Thanks guys. Got it changed. Went through settings and made the changes, and also looked at the shutup10 program which was a sobering view of all various things the OS has its fingers in. This os update also reinstalled (or reactivated) Bing as my browser (instead of fire fox), changed my new tabs, and home button settings such that it brings up the dreaded MSN again as my homepage. It was just a few months ago that folks on this forum helped me get rid of MSN and and set my new tabs and homepage the way I want them. Went back and referenced that thread again and now have most everything back the way I want it. Thanks again.772Views0likes0CommentsWindows 'notifications' accesses my photos
Windows did an update, and now I received a 'notification' (the one that shows up in the lower right corner) which proceeds to play (display that cycles through my photos) a bunch of my photos from my files. I have image files on both my hd and dropbox. I don't know which location it's getting them from yet. I do not want this. How can I turn it off and prevent the OS from snooping in my image files? Thanks2.9KViews0likes15CommentsRe: Print a list of directories from file manager?
Well what do you know. I finally got it done. Tried the copy from hd to fire fox, then save to pdf, then print to printer and it worked great. Easy to read, and all the pertinent info included. I wanted to thank everyone for their help. I know there were many replies, and many of those were very detailed. I appreciate the time taken to help me out with this issue.566Views0likes0CommentsRe: Print a list of directories from file manager?
AsheGuy wrote: Are you saying you can't enlarge the window (by dragging its corner) when you leave full screen mode ??? No, I was mistaken. In the upper right of the screen there is the minimize - sign, then what looks like two pages of paper (Restore down), and the X close. I was in file explorer attempting to shrink the current window some so I could work between it and the FF window. While in file explorer I clicked that middle icon and it starts some sort of file manipulation or something. Which opens a small window and runs rapidly till its done. When in file manager when put the cursor over that icon it says Restore Down. When in a browser window it says Restore Down when you mouse over it, but when you click it, it reduces the current window size some. This is the behavior I'm used to and I assumed it would be the same in file explorer. My mistake.564Views0likes0CommentsRe: Print a list of directories from file manager?
1492 wrote: You have an issue with Firefox itself. Viewing your local directory will not cause the behavior you've described. Have you tried using Chrome? But this is not when viewing it through firefox. I haven't even got that far. I opened the file manager and it seems to be stable in full screen mode, but when trying to make the window smaller and clicking on the icon (between the X on the right and the - on the left) it exhibits that behavior. Hovering over that icon says "Restore Down". What is that supposed to do?563Views0likes0CommentsRe: Print a list of directories from file manager?
Well it seems I have another problem going on. I went to try the firefox/directory thing and when I open file manager full screen it seems fine. When I go to minimize it, it freaks out and goes to a window about 2" wide by 3" tall and the few directories you can seen in that little window start flashing rapidly. Very rapidly. From there it will not maximize and the only thing you can do is click on it a few times it eventually shows a big red X in the upper right corner. And that is the only option, click the big red X and it closes file manager. Have rebooted a number of times but no joy. Same situation each time trying to use file manager.563Views0likes0CommentsRe: Print a list of directories from file manager?
I've been playing with the windows snipping tool and I can't figure out how to get it to scroll down the screen. Just playing with it trying to capture a webpage and the page is several pages long on the screen. gkainz, I haven't worked up the nerve to try your method yet. :)210Views0likes0Comments
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