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MS Outlook Desktop Calendar 2019 Tip

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If the notifications from your Calendar do not appear in the main Display Window ToDo Bar below the month date display try changing the ‘Hidden’ status of the calendars not showing items. I found the calendars not displaying on the ToDo Bar could be fixed by changing them to Hidden status.

FastStone Photo Resizer

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FastStone Photo Resizer is an image converter and renaming tool that intends to enable users to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermarks to images in a quick and easy batch mode. Drag and Drop mouse operation is well supported.

 
Features
 
Convert and Rename images in batch mode
Support common image formats including loading of JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, PCX, TGA, WMF, EMF, ICO, CUR, PPM, HEIC, WEBP and saving to JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF
Resizecrop, change color depth, apply color effects, add textwatermark and border effects
Rename images with sequential number
Search and replace texts in the file names 
Preview conversion and renaming
Support folder/non-folder structure
Load and save options
Support multithreading. i.e. process multiple images simultaneously for better performance
And much more…

ZeroTier SSH Connection problem on Windows 11

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If attempting to SSH to a remote Windows 11 system using a ZeroTier network managed address leads to a connection timeout then a possible problem is that the ZeroTier network has been configured as a PUBLIC network on the target machine, changing this to a PRIVATE network might resolve the problem. The following Powershell commands can be used.

## To check public/private setting
Get-NetConnectionProfile | Where-Object "InterfaceAlias" -like "Zero*"

## To set all ZeroTier networks to Private
Get-NetConnectionProfile | Where-Object "InterfaceAlias" -like "Zero*" | Set-NetConnectionProfile -NetworkCategory Private

Lenovo V530S Upgrading problems

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Leaving off mains will result in a the system going through a couple of reboots when next powered-up perhaps as though the CMOS settings have been lost.

When off mains the systems RTC Real Time Clock will freeze and will show the time & date in Windows when last running. The system will synchronize after another reboot but the Sync function within Windows will fail with a Time Server related error.

The original installation has a McAffee Web Advisor app installed. This might have interferred with Time synchonisation [?]

Microsoft PowerToys

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Microsoft PowerToys is a set of utilities for power users to tune and streamline their Windows experience for greater productivity. For more info on PowerToys overviews and how to use the utilities, or any other tools and resources for Windows development environments, head over to learn.microsoft.com!