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- Tuesday, October 15, 2019 2:00 AM: Blog Updated to WordPress v5.2.4
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I just updated my blog to WordPress v5.2.4 which contains a number of bug and security fixes. As always, I backed up my files and database first. I have automatic updates disabled so I can do this beforehand. As I usually do, I updated the local copy on my PC before updating my blog here. The update seems to have gone fine so far. 🙂
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- Thursday, October 3, 2019 4:04 PM: Updated PC from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro
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Well, with Microsoft ending support for Windows 7 in January 2020, I decided to see if I could upgrade my PC from Windows 7 Pro 64bit to Windows 10 Pro 64bit. After Googling to see if I could still do this for free somehow, I watched How to Upgrade for Free to Windows 10 Home or Pro – YouTube and decided to try it out. I first tried on a HP Envy TouchSmart 15 laptop I have with Windows 8.1 Home that I didn't really care if something bad happened to it. The update went fine and Windows was still activated on it; so, I decided to update my main PC.
Like he mentions in the video, I did make sure that my current Windows 7 Pro was activated. ( Right-clicked on My Computer then Properties and looked at the bottom. ) Since I had heard of some Windows 10 update removing files, I decided to backup the important stuff first. For this, I decided to try out Backblaze with their free trial. Its default configuration found like 300 Gigs worth of files to backup. In the settings, I excluded various folders that didn't need to be backed up like game folders with huge amounts of assets. I also removed the EXE extension from the exclusion list so that it would backup various installers I've downloaded over time. I let Backblaze run for a few days while it transferred the 220 Gigs with my 10 Mbps upload speed.
At this point I took the plunge and downloaded the media creation tool from Download Windows 10 which saved as MediaCreationTool1903.exe. I then closed any program I didn't want running like Discord and Roboform and disabled the real-time protection in Microsoft Security Essentials so it wouldn't muck anything up. I double-clicked the executable and crossed my fingers. LOL 🙂
During the setup screens, I chose the option to Keep personal files and apps. On the same screen I did see that it was going to install Windows 10 Pro instead of Home like the laptop. At some point I came to the “Choose privacy settings for your device” dialog. I unchecked everything here. It then just did its thing for awhile getting updates for the PC. After about three hours or so, I finally saw the Windows 10 desktop! 🙂
I then got several notices about programs being removed for not being compatible. One was Microsoft Security Essentials which made sense. The others were some hardware detection tools like PC Wizard. No big deal since a newer version did work in Windows 10. After this I went into Settings -> Update & Security and checked for any new updates to install. When these were done I verified if this version of Windows was still activated. Right-clicked on This PC and chose Properties.
Woohoo! Windows 10 Pro is activated and my files are intact! 🙂 At this point I updated my NVIDIA 550ti graphics card driver to version 391.35 (last one made for it). I then installed the correct Windows 10 software for my Epson XP-520 printer from here, after I removed everything related to it that was already installed.
I decided to do the upgrade now in case my copy of Windows 7 Pro became deactivated for some reason after January 2020. Now that I look at Can I Use Windows 7 After January 14, 2020? I probably didn't need to worry about it. In any event, the deed is now done. 🙂 I'll make some additional posts of things I've done since the install.
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- Friday, September 6, 2019 3:11 AM: Blog Updated to WordPress v5.2.3
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I just updated my blog to WordPress v5.2.3 which contains a number of bug and security fixes. As always, I backed up my files and database first. I have automatic updates disabled so I can do this beforehand. As I usually do, I updated the local copy on my PC before updating my blog here. The update seems to have gone fine so far. 🙂
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- Thursday, July 4, 2019 12:02 AM: Happy 4th of July for 2019!
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Wishing everyone a Happy (and safe) 4th of July! 😃. There’s Uber and Lyft services; so, there’s no excuse for anyone to drink and drive.
Have a great Independence Day! 😃 🎇🎆🎆🎇
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- Tuesday, June 18, 2019 11:33 PM: Blog Updated to WordPress v5.2.2
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I just updated my blog to WordPress v5.2.2 which contains a number of bug fixes. As always, I backed up my files and database first. I have automatic updates disabled so I can do this beforehand. As I usually do, I updated the local copy on my PC before updating my blog here. The update seems to have gone fine so far. 🙂
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General Information
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Background: I was born on June 6, 1969 in Wichita Falls, TX, but grew-up in Edmond, OK, including going to Edmond High School there.
Current Occupation: It's a secret.
Before my present job, I was: a bank teller, Interned/Co-oped with IBM down in Southlake, TX at their Performance Evaluation Center programming Remote Terminal Emulators, and then worked for the State of Oklahoma in the Department of Vital Statistics (birth/death certificate stuff) for awhile, then spent 13 years working for Creative Labs, Inc starting out as a Technical Support Agent and ending up as a PC Technician/Help Desk Support in the IT Department.
Current residence: Oklahoma City, OK. If you want to know where Oklahoma City is in Oklahoma, or if you want to see what other internet resources there are in Oklahoma, click Oklahoma. Here's another site for info about what's in Oklahoma City.
Graduated May '92 with a Bachelor of Science in Computing and Information Sciences from Oklahoma State University.
Hobbies: Computing and all that stuff, Music, Movies, Snow Skiing (it's been awhile since I've been :/ ), Chatting on the internet (generally while working on our website or programming), and goofing off.
Radio Station I mostly listen to is the Classic Rock station KRXO 104.5 FM, followed by: KJ-103 and Rock 100.5 the KATT., all out of Oklahoma City, OK.
I have one sister, Jill, who got her PhD in Physical Chemistry, researching the atmospheric chemistry of alkylperoxy radicals (believe I got that right.. has to do with lasers, studying molecular behavior of various gases, CO2 and Ozone among others).. at the University of Colorado She's now a Research Associate at the University of Kansas.
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Website was created with HomeSite v4.5. After Macromedia purchased HomeSite I stopped upgrading. It seems to do the things I want.. so why upgrade? Also, some aspects of version 4.5 that I use on occasion were removed from later versions.
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