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Went to Windows Update.  Found an error messae that indicated I was missing some important security updates.

 

I can’t find any information on what I am missing.  Also, the update for KB5032189 won’t install.  It says it “installing” with a % complete, it even reached 100% installed but failed with an error.

 

I have attached the message.

 

Any suggestions?

Assume two copies of the same program are installed, one a UWP, the other a .exe version.

 

Am I correct in assuming that a UWP version will be auto-updated ‘occasionally’ white the .exe would not?  I have encountered programs that required updating to run (iPhone apps), where functionality has been changed/reduced.  What if I liked that particular function but it’s no longer there.  Tough cookies, right?

Does an .exe program installed on your device (in my case, a desktop pc)get the auto-updates?  Will it cease to function if the underlying API’s are modified or deleted (lack of support form the programmer).

Does a UWP program require access to some server somewhere for the correct operation of the program?  Same question for the .exe version.

 

My programming experience has been on pc based applications (Autocad, LabVIEW, etc).  Yes, those programs had updates applied, but they were usually major upgrades to the programs.  If there was a serious issue with the program, a patch would be issued.  In some, but not all, internet access was no required.

After a few botched attempts,  I finally ran the “delete drivers” program, then the Setup64 program, and IT WORKED!!

I now have both my old cheap HP printer/scanner and the Canon printer.  One reason I wanted to use her printer was that I have extra print cartridges for it.

Thanks again for the files and directions.

DRCard:

Would you be willing to put the win7x64 directory into Dropbox?

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I have been to the Canon website.  When I enter MX330, I am told that Canon no longer supports that model.  I have tried the 8.1×64 drivers as well as the 7×64 drivers.

In all cases, the install programs run with the standard license acceptance and geographic location questions.  It then proceeds to decompress and “install” the drivers and then tells me to plug the printer into a USB port and wait for the installer to find it.  It never finds the printer.  I have tried two different USB cables and front and back panel USB ports to no avail.

Having just moved, I reconnected my wife’s win7 machine, connected the printer and it works as advertised.  I can’t locate whatever disks I may have had for this printer.  We replaced her computer in late 2017 and I don’t remember having any issues getting this printer to work.  At that point, Canon was probably still supporting this model.  I probably downloaded the drivers from Canon and installed the printer without any problems.

An XKCD grapic that might describe this situation.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/dependency.png

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I generally pay the account balance on my credit cards.  However, I have auto-pay set up so that, if I forget to make the payment, the auto-pay transaction occurs, saving a late charge.

Several cards will sent me an email warning of an upcoming auto pay transaction.  Then I go ahead and pay the entire account balance.  Thank you Capital One for warning me.

Concerning using a debit card as a Visa or Mastercard with no pin, are you still given the protections as far as the $50 maximum and other coverages with a real credit card?

Unless I am at a bank ATM, I avoid entering my pin

something is corrupted  in that spread sheet.  I’ll worry about it later.  It’s a spreadsheet with about 2000entries.  It’s my blood glucose list since sometime in 2019.

It has something to do with that particular spreadsheet.  Don’t know what yet.  I’ll look into it at a later time

As a practical matter, how is AI being incorporated into the Microsoft365 apps?  I avoid using Bing or Edge as mch as possible.

Would there be suggestions presented while creating a document (for example) as to better phrasing of the subject mater?  Or outright corrections to “my” created and intended content regardless of my wishes.

Can the user turn off the feature?  I would rather my work stand on its own merits (or lack thereof) than blame a computer program that “knows better”.

Assume that I have the inclination (and time) to read an EULA, where do I find them?  As far as I know, this is a standard plain vanilla software installation.

I have Win10Pro and Microsoft 365.  Yes, I did purchase direct from Microsoft of the 365 subscription  (~$69/year)

Thanks for the answers

Archival DVD’s have been mentioned.

What about ordinary run-of-the-mill DVD’s purchased at a regular place (Best Buy, Walmart, etc, avoiding Amazon because of unknown product quality) and written on a garden variety DVD writer such as might installed in your common pc?

If not using a DVD, what about CD-R’s, (not CD-RW’s which were notoriously undependable).

What about making several copies and storing them in different geographical locations to avoid seasonal problems with heat/cold, low/high humidity, environmental/climate change issues?  Would having a number of copies help the long term storage issue? They’re not all going to go bad, are they?

Are CD’s and DVD’s going out of style in the future? I hated to put a time-frame on that last question.  That would have started a whole ‘nuther conversation.  Yes, many current pc’s do not have an optical drive, but are they really going away?

 

Answers?

My brother spent a LOT f time digitizing family photos, slides and black and white negatives.  Dad was a photography buff did some of his developing of film, and  4×5 and 6×9 negatives.  Dad did not have the equipment to print his photos.  I’m not sure how or where that was done.

 

The brother digitized over a 1000 images, and meticulously named the subjects, where possible.  My/our generation was fairly easy, since we were still alive.  Our parents and grandparents were another story.  By the time he started on this project, all the family members of that generation were deceased.

He collected all the pictures after our mother died in 2007.  She was the last of that generation (aunts, uncles on both sides).  We had a limited contact with my fathers side of the family. Cousins on mom’s side were still around and we had kept in touch with them and were available to ask questions.  Dad’s brothers, he was one of six, all scattered from southern Indiana to Chicago, Grand Rapids, Rochester, and one ended up working with the Indians in southern California.  Hard to keep track of that group.  Again, mom was the last of that group to die.

I have thanked by brother for spending the time and energy to take on the task of preserving our family history.

 

QUESTION:  Is it a good idea to save all this information to the cloud?  For the most part these images are jpg’s.  I’m not too concerned with file formats, especially jpg’s but the stability of the various cloud storage providers (Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and others).  There is an associated cost to this method of preservation, but I don’t think it is too expensive.  Our collection of family photos is about 2.3GB.  Not a lot of required space, but the files still needs to be saved.  Apple charges me about $1/month for 50GB of storage.

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Oh, I think we know the answer to that question.