Alternatively, with the text in the paragraph highligthed, hit the Ctrl key and spacebar simultaneously to clear the formatting for the paragraph.

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If you need to determine the serial number of a hard disk drive (HDD) attached to a Microsoft Windows system, you can do so from a PowerShell window using the cmdlet Get-Disk (you can open a PowerShell window by typing PowerShell in the Windows "Type here to search field on a Windows 10 system and then selecting the app when it is returned in the list of search results). If you just want a list of drives attached to the system by a USB connection, you can pipe the output of the cmdlet to the Where-Object cmdlet where you can filter on just drives that have a USB connection as shown below.

PS C:\> Get-Disk | Where-Object -FilterScript {$_.Bustype -Eq "USB"}
Number Friendly Name Serial Number                    HealthStatus         OperationalStatus      Total Size Partition
                                                                                                             Style
------ ------------- -------------                    ------------         -----------------      ---------- ----------
1      SanDisk Cr... 03025228050421082418             Healthy              No Media                      0 B RAW
2      USB2.0 Car... 606569746800                     Healthy              No Media                      0 B RAW
4      USB2.0 Car... 606569746802                     Healthy              No Media                      0 B RAW
5      USB2.0 Car... 606569746803                     Healthy              No Media                      0 B RAW
3      USB2.0 Car... 606569746801                     Healthy              No Media                      0 B RAW
6      WD My Pass... WXM1A375CKEZ                     Healthy              Online                  931.48 GB GPT


PS C:\>

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That will remove the slash from the icon and add an icon for Evernote, the green elephant head, to the toolbar.

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Cannot install StaticCahce.dat

The file 'C:\Users\username...\StaticCache.dat' does not appear to be a valid font.

After I closed that window, I also saw another window with the message below:

Cannot install
GlobalMonspace.CompositeFont

The file 'C:\Use...\GlobalMonspace.CompositeFont' does not appear to be a valid font.

A similar message appeared for the following fonts:

• GlobalSansSerif.CompositeFont
• GlobalSerif.CompositeFont
• GlobalUserInterface.CompositeFont

I also saw some messages stating a font was already installed and asking if I wanted to replace it. I chose "No" and checked the box for "Do this for all current items". After that, I also saw "Cannot install Deleted," though I don't know why that appeared as there was no file named "Deleted" in the directory from which I was performing the copy.

Note: you can see a list of the currently installed fonts on a Windows system by typing fonts in the Windows Search window at the bottom of the screen and then selecting Fonts Control Panel when you see it returned in the search results.

Before I started copying fonts from the old system, I saw "183 items" for the number of fonts. After I copied the fonts, I saw "426 items" in the Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Fonts window. The number of items added will likely be less than the number of files in the folder from which you transferred the fonts as some of the TrueType font files (.ttf) are variations such as bold and italic, of a particular font.

I also transferred Windows themes from her account on the old system to her account on the new system.

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If you need to replace all occurrences of text in a file that isn't a text file, XVI32 is a free hex editor that provides that capability. To use the program, download the zip file xvi32.zip and unzip the file to whatever directory you wish to place it in. There is no installation procedure, you simply run the xvi32.exe file from the directory where you placed it. To search for a string you wish to replace throughout a file, make sure you are at the beginning of the file (position 0), then click on Search on the program's toolbar then choose Replace.

Then put the text you wish to replace in the Find field (you may also need to check "as Unicode Latin (UTF-16LE)" if the file uses Unicode encoding, which is likely. Then put the replacement text in the Replace with field. Again you may need to check the box for "as Unicode Latin (UTF-16LR)". UTF-16 is a 16-bit Unicode Transformation Format.

Then click on the Replace all button. The program will tell you how many occurrences of the searched for text was replaced.

Choose File then Save to save the file you've edited with the changes you made.

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You can save registry keys from the Windows Registry on a system running a Microsoft Windows operating system by running the Windows Registry editor, regedit.exe, then navigating to the location of a key you wish to save, right-clicking on it and selecting Export to create a .reg file. You can then import the registry key on another Windows system by double-clicking on that file on the system on which you wish to have the same registry entry. You may need to be logged in under a administrator account for keys that apply to all users, but you can still import the contents of the .reg file without logging out of the currently logged in user account, if that is not an account in the administrator group, by opening a command prompt window with administrator privileges. On a Windows 11 system, you can do so by typing command prompt in the Search field at the bottom of the screen. When you see the Command Prompt app returned in the search results, click on it to open a command prompt window without administator privileges or select "Run as administrator" to open a command prompt window with administrator privileges. To add the registry entries in a .reg file to the Windows Registry from the command prompt you can issue the command reg /import filelocation\filename where filelocation is the directory path to the file and filename is the file's name. E.g., to import a registry file named L5SoftwareGroup.reg located on the server server1 in the shared public folder under the directory path \Software\Utilities, I could enter the command below.

C:\Windows\System32>reg import \\server1\public\Software\Utilities\L5SoftwareGroup.reg
The operation completed successfully.

C:\Windows\System32>

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1. Hit Ctrl-Esc
2. Type Computer Management and when you see Computer Management returned in the search results, click on it.
3. In the Computer Management window, select Shares under Shared Folders, which is under System Tools.
4. Right-click on the directory you no longer wish to share and select "Stop sharing".

   

If you see a Shared Folders window open informing you that there are open files in the shared directory when you attempt to stop sharing it, you can click on Open Files, which appears beneath Shares in the list of options for Shared Folders in the Computer Management window to determine which files are open and which user account has them open.

If you wish to close them from the server, you can, after you have selected Open Files to see the list of open files, right-click on a file and select the option to close it. You can also close all open files by selecting "More Actions" in the right pane of the Computer Management window, then "Disconnect All Open Files".

You can also see which files are open by opening a command prompt window with administrative access and issuing the openfiles command. You can open a commmand prompt window with administrator access by hitting Ctrl-Esc then typing command prompt and when you see "command prompt" returned in the search results, right-click on it and choose "Run as administrator". In the command prompt window, enter the command openfiles.

C:\Windows\system32>openfiles

INFO: The system global flag 'maintain objects list' needs
      to be enabled to see local opened files.
      See Openfiles /? for more information.


Files opened remotely via local share points:
---------------------------------------------

ID       Accessed By          Type       Open File (Path\executable)
======== ==================== ========== =====================================
27514635 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\Public\Documents\Books\Images
10066334 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\Documents\GRAA\2023\July
28185728 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\2023\Summer\Review\2023-06-26
25501373 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\Documents\MoonPoint\2023
22145930 Liz                  Windows    G:\..) (2023_07_15 23_24_31 UTC).pdf
28185729 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\Public\Documents\Books\Images
27514641 Liz                  Windows    G:\..) (2017_07_06 02_45_37 UTC).pdf
28856820 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\Documents\MoonPoint\2023
38923150 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\2023\Summer\Review\2023-06-26
22145934 Joe                  Windows    C:\..\Documents\GRAA\2023\July

C:\Windows\system32i>openfiles

If you can't determine which files are open because the full path to files is not displayed, i.e., two dots are displayed for a portion of the path, then you can add a format option (fo) to the command to display the output in a different format. E.g., if you add /fo list, i.e., openfiles /query /fo list when you query for the open files, you will then see the files displayed in a list format that will display the full directory path for each file that is open. Other format options for the display of output are table and csv. The csv option is for Comma-separated values. You can see a full list of options for the openfiles command by issuing the command openfiles /?.

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You can check the port speed on a Cisco network switch from its command-line interface (CLI) by logging into the switch and then issuing the show interface command. If you want to see the parameters, including port speed, for all ports on the switch, the command without any additional command line arguments will display information for all the ports on the switch. If you are only interested in the rate for a particular port, then specify it after the command. E.g., show interface fa0/1.

Hadrian>show interfaces fa0/1
FastEthernet0/1 is up, line protocol is up (connected)
  Hardware is Fast Ethernet, address is 0009.e897.d281 (bia 0009.e897.d281)
  MTU 1500 bytes, BW 10000 Kbit, DLY 1000 usec,
     reliability 255/255, txload 32/255, rxload 1/255
  Encapsulation ARPA, loopback not set
  Keepalive set (10 sec)
  Full-duplex, 10Mb/s, media type is 100BaseTX
  input flow-control is unsupported output flow-control is unsupported
  ARP type: ARPA, ARP Timeout 04:00:00
  Last input never, output 00:00:00, output hang never
  Last clearing of "show interface" counters never
  Input queue: 0/75/0/0 (size/max/drops/flushes); Total output drops: 0
  Queueing strategy: fifo
  Output queue: 0/40 (size/max)
  5 minute input rate 72000 bits/sec, 29 packets/sec
  5 minute output rate 1286000 bits/sec, 728 packets/sec
     686444 packets input, 756803225 bytes, 0 no buffer
     Received 6 broadcasts (0 multicast)
     0 runts, 0 giants, 0 throttles
     4 input errors, 4 CRC, 0 frame, 0 overrun, 0 ignored
     0 watchdog, 0 multicast, 0 pause input
     0 input packets with dribble condition detected
     1626390 packets output, 293258140 bytes, 0 underruns
     0 output errors, 0 collisions, 2 interface resets
     0 babbles, 0 late collision, 0 deferred
     0 lost carrier, 0 no carrier, 0 PAUSE output
     0 output buffer failures, 0 output buffers swapped out
Hadrian>

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I verified I had the latest version of the program, 2021.12.17.

$ youtube-dl --version
2021.12.17
$

To obtain further information on the error, I then ran the script with the --verbose option which showed me more details on the error.

The software, which is a command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites, is maintained by ytdl-org and, on a Github webpage for the organization, I found issue #32247, ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id, which attributed the error to YouTube recently starting to add that "at sign", i.e., @, to URLs. jgmayer, who posted his comments and the solution just 3 hours before I encountered the problem, posted the following solution:

The solution is to go to the file that you getting the error:
"/usr/local/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.12.17/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py"

Find the following line:

'uploader_id': self._search_regex(r'/(?:channel|user)/([^/?&#]+)', owner_profile_url, 'uploader id') if owner_profile_url else None,

Replace with the following:

'uploader_id': self._search_regex(r'/(?:channel/|user/|@)([^/?&#]+)', owner_profile_url, 'uploader id', default=None),

The poster indicated the relevant file is /usr/local/Cellar/youtube-dl/2021.12.17/libexec/lib/python3.10/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/common.py, but there is no /usr/local/Cellar directory on my system and running the script with the verbose option, showed the relevant code is on line 1,794 of /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py.

After making the suggested change, I was able to download a YouTube video with the program.

$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmSmjDngVXM
[youtube] JmSmjDngVXM: Downloading webpage
[download] Destination: Ancient Greek Lesson #1 _ Learn Greek Fast Online-JmSmjDngVXM.mp4
[download] 100% of 14.88MiB in 04:20
$

The updated youtube.py that can be used to replace the 2021.12.17 version in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/youtube_dl/extractor/youtube.py.

References:

1. ERROR: Unable to extract uploader id #32247
   By: jgmayer
   Date: May 29, 2023
   Github - ytdl-org / youtube-dl

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A family member reported she was no longer able to send email via a Sendmail service I have running on a CentOS Linux system. She sent me a screenshot of the message she received when attempting to send a message. I saw a "Server error: '550 5.7.1 ... Relaying denied'" message. At first, I thought that a technician from her Internet Service Provider (ISP) might have changed her Microsoft Outlook settings when he upgraded her network equipment recently, but then I remembered I was restricting email relaying on the system by IP address and realized her IP address would have changed when the technician upgraded her network equipment. So I had her visit whatismyipaddress.com and provide me with the public IPv4 IP address it showed for her. I then replaced her prior IP address in /etc/mail/access. The format for an entry to allow relaying from a particular IP address is as shown below.

# Jane Doe
192.168.71.77                           RELAY

You can include a comment to indicate who the IP address is associated with by prefixing the comment with a pound sign. The IP address should be followed by the word "RELAY" (you can put tabs in between the IP address and the word, if you like).

After changing the IP address, I rebuilt the access database with the makemap command. I then restarted Sendmail

# makemap hash /etc/mail/access </etc/mail/access
# service sendmail restart
Redirecting to /bin/systemctl restart  sendmail.service
#

I was then able to receive a test message she sent me. After updating the IP address, I may only have needed to restart Sendmail without running the makemap command first as I found the following at 19.3.2. Sendmail on a Red Hat website in reference to running the make all -C /etc/mail/ command (CentOS is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux):

All other generated files in /etc/mail (db files) will be regenerated if needed. The old makemap commands are still usable. The make command is automatically used whenever you start or restart the sendmail service.

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