Matt Refghi

How to Recover from the “Audacity failed to read from a file in C:” Error When It Breaks Audacity

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Description This video covers a very specific issue encountered by some Audacity users, where an “Audacity failed to read from a file in C:” error occurs in one project and afterwards, you can’t even open other projects that were working fine before, as if it corrupts the Audacity install altogether. Given how specific this is, it’s only going to be pertinent and useful for people in that exact situation. Transcription When it comes to voiceovers for my tutorials, I use a tool called Audacity to record. So here’s what Audacity typically looks like – if I open up this .aup3 project, which is the Audacity project format, you see that the entire file is here, everything works, I see the … Read more

How to Auto-Hide the Taskbar in Windows 11 (Short)

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Transcription If you’re the type that feels that the taskbar in Windows 11 takes up too much visual space, here’s how you can hide it. Simply move the mouse to the taskbar, select “Taskbar settings” – and when this comes up, simply scroll down to the “Taskbar behaviors” section, left-click that, and then you’ll see an option called “Automatically hide the taskbar”. Just select that, and you’ll notice the taskbar immediately disappeared at the bottom. To make it re-appear, I have to move the mouse down here. So again, I’ll move the mouse away – it hides, move the mouse back, it comes back up. I’m going to close this window now. When I close that window, the taskbar came … Read more

How to Auto-Hide the Taskbar in Windows 11

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Transcription If you’re the type that feels that the taskbar in Windows 11 takes up too much visual space, here’s how you can hide it. Simply move the mouse to the taskbar, select “Taskbar settings” – and when this comes up, simply scroll down to the “Taskbar behaviors” section, left-click that, and then you’ll see an option called “Automatically hide the taskbar”. Just select that, and you’ll notice the taskbar immediately disappeared at the bottom. To make it re-appear, I have to move the mouse down here. So again, I’ll move the mouse away – it hides, move the mouse back, it comes back up. I’m going to close this window now. When I close that window, the taskbar came … Read more

How to Hide the Search Bar In Windows 11 – 2 of 2 (Short)

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Transcription Well, why do you even need the search box down here? Personally I find it’s a waste of space – I know I don’t need it. So to hide it, you can simply move the mouse to the taskbar, right-click, say “Taskbar settings” and then where it says “Search” under “Taskbar Items”, instead of “Search box”, change this to “Hide”. And then you can just close this. Notice that there’s no search anymore. But everything’s fine, because if I really wanted to click, I can always click on this – and I know I can search. But why would I do that when I know I can just press the start button and start typing. Once you’ve got this … Read more

Google Translate Trolls Me While I’m Going Through My YouTube Comments – Short

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Transcription So as I review comments that people post to my YouTube videos. It’s very common for me to get gratitude, which is always appreciated, so you have a “merci” right here which is essentially “thank you.” And then there’s also questions, so “How do I disable it on Windows 10?” Again, great, because it sets me down a path where I learn something and potentially post a video about it to help the person after. Then if you scroll up a bit here, you’ll notice I have another here that says “TYSM Matt”. So I read that and I’m like TYSM? Oh okay, TY is thank you typically, and SM must be so much. Oh that’s, that’s nice, that’s … Read more