With regard to copying media and files from phone to desktop tried a few apps including Wi-Fi Direct and now settled for Quick Share – is good.
Category: Computers
New Lenovo system
Camera Photos backup
Backing up the September camera photos folder using the Xcopy command with specific switches.
Windows Explorer crashing
I have been jousting with this for a while now!
Explorer crashes if I try to copy a file or folder or right click to view file or folder properties! I use WFE a lot to manage media for Facebook and blogging.
Tried all the usual things including running SFC to check for corrupt system files and finally started investigating shell extensions in particular third party shell extensions – Bingo!
Al’s YouTube Channel-
My ‘Turning fence palings into dressed timber clip 1’ got over 9000 views ![]()
Note: My main reason for using YouTube is because my basic WordPress paid account does not allow for direct video uploads to wordpress.com – they need to be hosted on some other external site.
When I want to post videos to my WordPress blog I first upload to YouTube then grab the embed code and past that into my blog post using Open Live Writer.
Camera photos backup
Desktop computer upgrades – part 1
This is the ‘new’ study PC – i7 / 8GB / M.2 SSD / GT610.
Lenovo AIO desktop noisy fan
For some months now our Lenovo Ideacentre AIO 510 (23) i7/16GB desktop has been annoying me with a noisy fan.
Even when idle the fan revs will increase and decrease in a cyclic manner.
Removed the back and gave it a clean out; not much in the way of dust clogging things so this will not fix the noisy fan problem. I suspect it’s software…not hardware.
Windows 10 camera photos backup
Windows 10 camera photos backup
Been a while since I did a Xcopy file backup of the Camera Photos directory to USB external drive,
Google adverts begone
Got rid of the bloody thing in particular at the top of news articles.
Edit the hosts file in Windows/Sstem32/drivers/etc
Add two 127.0.0.1 loopback entries which basically sends those bloody host names back to the same machine.



