Tech Tips

Transcription So here I have six different images. What if I wanted to permanently delete the penguin? Well, to do that, what I could do is drag the image here to the recycle bin, right-click and say Empty Recycle Bin to delete it forever. Or, what I could do instead is just select the image, press DELETE, that skips the dragging part, and then I can right-click to recycle bin and say Empty Recycle Bin. But there’s in fact a better way – if I’m sure I want to wipe out this penguin, all I have to do is select the image, or multiple images, hold SHIFT, press DELETE, and then this pop-up comes up. This is asking you if … Read more

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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

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

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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

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Transcription So recently, I’ve been going back and seeing the full list of videos on my YouTube, and making sure that each one of those is also represented on my website, MattRefghi.com. So this was becoming pretty routine, I was putting up a lot of videos, you know, copying the same format, just changing certain things, knowing that I would come back later and perfect it. But then I weirdly encountered one post that just wouldn’t load on my site. And bear in mind that I wrote the code for this website, so if something doesn’t load, and there’s some strange behavior, then there’s no one to blame but me, and that makes me especially curious to understand what’s going … Read more