28 Day Podcast Challenge, Windows 10 Upgrades, System Font Errors & TWiH

You're listening to the Internet Pathfinder.

I'm your host, Steve Phillips. In this podcast,

the goal is to inform, educate, and reminisce

as we find a path through the world of technology,

the Internet, and podcasting. Well, the 28 -day

podcast movement challenge, the PodSquad, is

officially over. I just want to say congratulations

to everyone who participated in the PodSquad

challenge. And I look forward to interacting

with everyone in the group. So out of all of

them, there was about 24 that stood tall at the

end. And thankfully, mine was one of them. Which,

thank you very much to everyone who listened

and everyone who gave criticism and thoughts

on the entire project. It was amazing to get

a... lot of interaction in the form of critiques

on artwork, critiques on different podcasting

styles, whether it be segments or long form podcasts,

interview podcasts, short podcasts, long podcasts,

just all of the questions collectively were answered

by majority of people just on basic tastes or

just things that they've noticed in the industry.

I would definitely say that it was a very helpful

and informative group to be a part of. And I'm

thankful for everyone that was in it. And congratulations

to the five winners who get tickets and whatnot

to Podcast Movement this year. I unfortunately

will not be going. More so out of cost purposes.

The convention itself isn't the big cost for

me. It's flying or getting transportation down

there and then the hotel stay itself, which is

a bit much for me. I hope that eventually these

jump around the different states and maybe Michigan

could be next or down the pipe some way. I'm

very, very excited to see what comes out of the

podcast movement, even though I will not be able

to make it this year. This episode, I had planned

on doing more tech -based, particularly because

last episode we covered an extensive amount in

podcasting, so this week I thought it would be

interesting to cover things. pertaining to computers,

Windows 10, and some variety of settings that

may or may not make any difference to certain

people or may be very helpful to certain people.

But before I get into that, I'm going to cover

the tech history lesson. And starting us off

there, we have Yahoo, which officially launched

March 5th, 1995. Which I thought was kind of

an interesting bit of information there just

for the fact that Yahoo's been around since pretty

much I started using the internet. And it was

probably the first search engine I'd ever heard

of as well. So it's kind of interesting to see

how long it's been around, but it's also lost

its relevancy over the last 10, 15 years with

the... invention of Google and the lack of reliance

on internet search directories themselves especially

when you had to manually submit your websites

to those directories to get them included in

the search engines whereas Google pulled from

metadata to create all that March 1st 2008 America

Online discontinues the Netscape web browser.

I remember slightly using that, but I was a heavy

Internet Explorer guy at the time. That has since

changed with Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

But yeah, Netscape was the first commercial web

browser largely responsible for helping popularize

the Internet in the mid -90s. It originally was

obviously destroyed by Microsoft's Internet Explorer

as they kind of locked it out of Windows in the

90s with all the antitrust information. However,

as Microsoft included it for free with every

copy of Windows of Internet Explorer, the computer

code for Netscape lives on in Mozilla Firefox

browser, which continues to gain popularity.

I'm still a user of Google Chrome and Firefox

for other things, and I haven't touched Internet

Explorer in probably three or four years, and

I'm not a fan of Internet Explorer's successor,

which is Microsoft Edge, which isn't as bad as

Internet Explorer, but I don't like it. It doesn't

seem like it's as fast, and I don't like a lot

of the features to it. It's definitely something

that it's kind of fun to think about the browser

war. I remember a lot of different browsers back

in the day between Neoplanet and where you could

skin the browser and make it look like a show

or something else. It's just kind of interesting

when you go back and look at it. The funny thing

is, is in February 26, 1991, the first web browser

was introduced. The first web browser and WYSIWYG,

what you see is what you get, HTML editor. And

Tim Berners -Lee was largely responsible for

that at the time. And that concludes our history

lesson. So moving into Windows 10 settings and

troubleshooting. Let me preface this with saying

I've had Windows 10 since it came out. I've had

it since whatever year it was. I think it was

2016, maybe 2015. I'm not quite sure when it

came out. Anyhow, when Windows 10 first was introduced,

it was a nightmare. It was a mess. It randomly

changed all the settings. It introduces a new

standard font of Segui UI, which is kind of a...

mix between the Calibri that's standard on Windows

as well. However, if you install Windows 10 on

a computer that does not only have the standard

fonts on a computer, the unfortunate part is

Windows randomly selects one of those fonts to

be your standard font when you're web browsing

or opening a PDF file. And unfortunately, there's

no way around this unless you remove said font.

And it doesn't exactly tell you where it's using

this font from or what font it's pulling. So

what has happened is I've had this problem on

multiple machines. I recently upgraded my wife's

computer because my Windows 10 machine is all

the bugs have been worked out. But I had since

forgotten what. it was like to have to do this.

And I upgraded my Windows 8 .1 machine that my

wife uses on her laptop and brought it to Windows

10. And it randomly selected one of my graphic

design fonts that I was using and decided that

this had to be the standard font. So it made

it extremely difficult to read websites or PDFs

or really anything that was on the web. And I

tried changing the default fonts in the browser.

I tried changing a variety of fonts. But unfortunately,

what I had to do was go through my graphics editing

software, and I typed in some of the text, and

then I had to go through and kind of cycle through.

Another easier way, though, is physically going

to the control panel fonts folder and scrolling

until you see the letters that look like something

else, which I took a screenshot so I could do

a side -by -side. And I figured out what the

font was. And there's only, I've seen different

options. There's one where you can create a registry

file, which will auto -change all of the fonts

on the computer to said font. However, it works

for everything on the system, still doesn't make

an impact on the browser. So it was a massive

waste of time for me to try this, to try and

create this file. that would rewrite in the registry

the font. Way too complicated, way too difficult

for the normal person. It's not even needed,

especially when if you find the main font that's

causing the problem, you remove it and then you

reinstall it. It does not take over the system

anymore. But in order to get it to turn off because

it stays on when you're in the system, you have

to close the browser. So anyways, I found this

font. I removed it. I fixed it, the problem went

away. I'm not quite sure what causes this in

Windows 10 other than the fact that it's layering

over top of an already built system. But I find

it extremely frustrating the amount of changes

that Windows performs when they install the Windows

10 install. And that's just one of the changes.

One of the other things I don't really care for

as much is the... the modification to the start

bar, the random apps, the Windows 10 system update,

which I find extremely frustrating because if

you have newer builds of Windows 10, for instance,

they prevent you from turning off Windows 10,

Windows update. You cannot select when it installs.

You can set a window of when it will not touch

your system. However, it will still install whenever

it feels like it. and it will reboot your machine,

even if you're in the middle of something. I

mean, it'll give you a little bit of a warning

now, but it still counts down. So what I was

doing, because my system, I've worked out the

kinks. There's no bugs. I actually completely

disabled my Windows 10 system update because

I got tired of it trying to Shanghai my system.

And what I mean by that is it was randomly uninstalling

software that was older that I had grown accustomed

to and I was using. And it also decided what

it didn't support and it removed that software

as well. So I went through this whole basis of

registry editing and software disabling and task

scheduler to shut off the Windows update. And

I finally got my main desktop to the point where

it doesn't do this. Well, when I installed Windows

10 on my wife's laptop, the 8 .1 Windows, It

prevented me from disabling the update to begin

with. I eventually figured it out. It's at the

same status of my desktop now. But it was extremely

frustrating to try and figure out. And the only

reason I upgraded that laptop was because Windows

8 .1 was super buggy. It would crash on boot

up every time. And now I don't have that problem.

The switching between user accounts, it would

sometimes take as much as two to three minutes.

And the boot up time would take about five. After

installing Windows 10, all of those problems

have ceased. So, I mean, it's kind of a mixed

bag of give and take, of like and dislike. I

overall enjoy Windows 10 as a whole. It's a great

version of Windows compared to the previous ones.

It only compares to Windows 7 at this point.

That being said, I would strongly advise backing

up software that you use and other documents

or using a cloud -based service such as Google

Drive, which I use. I pay the $20 a year, get

the 100 gigabytes of space, and I back up all

of my podcasting stuff. all of my art, all of

my featured banners for my WordPress site for

said podcasts. And I use it just to back up all

my documents. So it's in the cloud. I can access

it from my phone. I can access it wherever I'm

at. And it's a very useful service. And I mostly

did this because I've had flash drives and I've

had Windows fail on me and I've lost things in

the past. not a great scenario to be in and and

i think that having a cloud backup is is something

that everyone should have it's not that expensive

if you know where to go like i i didn't want

dropbox i think it costs too much and honestly

i trust google more and my phone is a google

phone it's so it's all kind of intertwined it's

it's much easier for me that way um but What

I'm trying to say overall is Windows 10 is very

much an education system. I've had a friend where,

with the latest updates, his graphics drivers

reconfigured. Because it was an older system,

they created a default Windows 10 graphics driver,

which replaced the onboard video card. and prevented

his resolution from being as large as it used

to be. So it's another one of those you kind

of have to know what you're getting into as a

whole with any version of Windows. Now, I don't

know what it's like to have a Mac. I've used

them through college. I know that they're very

stable for the most part. There's not a lot of

them messing with the system. It's pretty sound.

But I also think Windows 10 is at that base as

well. It's just I don't like when they install

the updates and then half my stuff goes away.

Or I use like the Sticky Notes app that was built

into Windows 7. And you can use it through early

versions of Windows 10 and then it's gone after

that. And I use it for, for instance, my work

or for podcasting notes that I want up on the

screen, but I don't want to have to have like

50 documents open. So it's... Again, there's

give and take between the two systems and designs.

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