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I believe the USB-C spec permits up to 20 V. In fact, my ASUS laptop using USB-C for a charging connector states 20V, 5A. A resistor tells the charger what to deliver. See also <https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/cable-and-adapter-tips-and-tricks/>

Since my Chrome browser has been updated to Version 98.0.4758.82 (Official Build) (64-bit), it crashes often. I have tried turning off extensions and clearing the cache but so far have not hit on the right combination. Is anyone else seeing more crashes on this newest release?

“It will output 3.33 amps at a maximum of 19.5 volts, 65 watts total output.”

May I amend that? It might be better to say “It will output 19.5 volts at a maximum of 3.33 amps, 65 watts total output.

The adapter (like most power supplies) is more-or-less a voltage source. In this case it will try to maintain approximately 19 volts DC (the exact value does not matter since the charging circuit inside the laptop will reduce it to what is best for its own battery). It can do so up to a maximum of 3.33 amps, after which we can expect the voltage to sag, the adapter to overheat, or a fuse to blow — whichever comes first.

That is, it will output 3.33 amps only when that is what is needed for the battery’s state of charge. It would, however, continue to deliver about 19 volts even if unplugged from the laptop.

In fact that adapter could be replaced by any 19 VDC supply (and matching connector) as long as it could deliver 3 amps or more, since the charger in the laptop will only draw whatever fraction of that is needed.

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Thank you for the valuable advice. Readers might want to know that while Malwarebytes is a decent program there are plenty of free alternatives that surpass its effectiveness. In recent real-world tests by av-comparatives, for example, MWB was 14th in a field of 17 and had a high rate of false positives. It had nearly 3 times the failures of Microsoft, and 7 false positive to Microsoft’s 0.

Different testing labs will get different answers, as will tests performed on different dates, but Malwarebytes is rarely near the top of the list.

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Mine SAYS they are backed up, but my settings window looks a little different:

Thanks, PK. My Public Desktop is empty. I may have found the issue: my Profile Documents folder is empty, too. Apparently ALL of the shared files are ONLY on OneDrive. So any app which saves to {YourProfile}/Documents, or Pictures, or Desktop; are not synced — only the ones saved to OneDrive.

So I have to go through all of my programs and see which ones are saving to the legacy folders (watch out for Web browsers!), and if they can be configured to save to OneDrive instead. Some, I fear, cannot.

OneDrive still has me a bit more confused than normal. If I tell it to sync the Pictures and Documents folders it does fine, picking up the pix and docs from my legacy folders in my Windows Users profile as well as new entries. But I have also told it to sync the Desktop, and only files that were placed onto the “live” (displayed) Desktop are uploaded to the Cloud and then downloaded to my other computer.

The files in my C:\Users\{my name}\Desktop folder are not getting synced. They are not even visible on this computer (where they are stored) unless I manually copy them to the live Desktop, where OneDrive finds and uses them. Some apps store files on the legacy Desktop, not the OneDrive version, so they never get seen unless I navigate to my User profile and copy them from there.

Any clues how to get OneDrive to treat the Desktop the same as it does Pictures and Documents?

Thanks!

The existence of two Documents folders is indeed a puzzle, but I discovered that long ago. Many programs that defaulted to the legacy Documents folder will accept a path change to OneDrive if you would rather have the files there for convenience.

What that does NOT change is the danger of assuming that a document lost or ruined on your local hard drive (which will by default will now be in C:\Users\{me}\OneDrive) can be recovered from the Cloud.

That should work if you get to it before it is removed from OneDrive’s recycle bin, but it was deleted from the Cloud OneDrive/Documents folder by the synching process as soon as it disappeared from your local hard drive. Look at OneDrive on line and the bin will be on the left margin menu.

I just cannot get it to work the way you describe. In File Explorer I see two “Documents” folders: one under “OneDrive” and one under “This PC.” I have checked all of the boxes under OneDrive’s “Settings > Account > Choose folders” to enable “You can get to these items even when you’re offline.”

But that means they are synched in both directions — if I delete a file from “This PC/Documents” it is also deleted from “OneDrive/Documents.” So “your working copy … will be kept local with a separate and still-encrypted copy tucked away in the Microsoft-protected cloud” is NOT protected from any loss of the local copy.

How else could it possibly work? The whole idea of OneDrive is that any changes to a file will be mirrored to the Cloud, and back again on demand, and OneDrive has no way to know whether those changes were intentional or accidental.

Unless there is another “don’t mess with these files” setting that I have not found……..

From the original article:

“And that leads to the answer to Steve’s question. The easiest way to ensure that you always have a 100% current, local copy of everything that’s been saved to OneDrive is to right-click on your C:\users\…\OneDrive\ folder and select Always keep on this device.”

That is misleading. “Always have a 100% current local copy” implies that if a file is changed elsewhere, the local copy will be untouched.

As an experiment I saved a file on my desktop computer in my Documents folder, which really means the OneDrive Documents folder, since OneDrive sets itself as the default destination and my “local” (C:\Users\{myname\} Documents folder is empty.

And sure enough, it soon appeared in the parallel Documents folder on my laptop as expected. But is the original permanent? No. I deleted the laptop copy and, again as expected, it also disappeared from my desktop. The only way to achieve “permanence” is to also store the file in a non-synced folder.

This seems to work on my computer:

Keep fewer OneDrive files on your PC (microsoft.com)

[Moderator edit] do not use short URLs as this hides the location. Allowing users to asses the URL before clicking is good netiquette

access-mdb wrote:

I get that as well, though mine is on my E drive. I think the wrong advice was given. You get the correct options when you click on a folder in the OneDrive folder. You should have a navigation pane on the left, right clicking on OneDrive in that (probably below quick access) will also give you the suggested options.

I don’t get the desired options by left- or right-clicking on a folder icon under OneDrive either — just the same usual right-click menu.

right-click on your C:users…OneDrive folder and select Always keep on this device

That is not an option when I right-click the OneDrive icon. The other obvious choices (Manage, Settings, Properties) don’t seem to offer it either.

Somewhere I did manage to set it because my icons are white arrow/green circle, but I can’t see how.

 

 

I have discovered that Quick Assist will not even load if your your network is configured as a “metered connection.” You get simply a white rectangle with the familiar spinning circle of balls instead.

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[Dan in St. Louis]

Michael432 said:

“InSSIDer, technically, does not show the number of bits transmitted on each channel, but that is the concept. More accurately stated, it shows how busy each channel is, in real time. See attached screen shot.”

Nirsoft’s “WiFiInfoView” also does a good job of that same reporting. It can be mesmerizing to watch the usage rates of 170 radios in real time. Easy to sort on the “Channel Utilization” column to put the busiest ones at the top. As luck would have it, the busiest signals here are weak, -75dB or less.

The bad news is that traffic in my neighborhood is up. We have 56 houses on a 1700-foot single-family residential street, and yesterday WiFiInfoView showed me over 170 signals.

 

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