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• Freeware Spotlight — A Thousand Words

  Posted on March 30, 2020 at 01:00 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  BEST UTILITIES

  By Deanna McElveen

  As we’re all dragged into this new pandemic reality, PC-service clients are going to need remote assistance more than ever.

  Unfortunately, many of those folks are not as computer-savvy as we might wish. So when users run into problems, they might find it difficult to convey what exactly is going awry. In many cases, simple screen shots will illustrate the problem far better than will describing it over the phone.

  The aptly named A Thousand Words (ATW) is a handy screen-capture app from developer Andrew Lambert. The tool is specifically designed to be easy to use — suitable for PC users of any skill. If a problem can be seen on-screen, the machine’s user can launch ATW and follow a simple wizard to quickly grab shots of the fault. The user can then annotate the images and email the shots to a service tech (or the unofficial family IT person).

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.12.0 (2020-03-30).

  Best Utilities AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Deanna's Freeware Spotlight, OlderGeeks, PC service, Screen capture

• Deanna’s Freeware Spotlight: DiskInternals Linux Reader v3.3

  Posted on January 2, 2019 at 06:50 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Dual boot Linux? Need to access your Linux partition or drive from Windows?

  Need to recover data from a customer’s Ext2/3/4, ReiserFS, Reiser4, HFS, HFS+, FAT, exFAT, NTFS, ReFS or UFS2 formatted drive but all you have with you is your Windows laptop?

  This is the tool for you!

  The program only allows read-only access so as not to damage the file system. It also ignores file security policies so you can grab anything you need.

  Download from OlderGeeks.com:
  https://www.oldergeeks.com/downloads/file.php?id=2403

  Freeware Deanna's Freeware Spotlight, OlderGeeks