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Technical Help / Re: Help, I use Windows 11 and my photos have all changed to PDF.
« on: Tuesday 18 March 25 09:26 GMT (UK) »
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Technical Help / Re: Help, I use Windows 11 and my photos have all changed to PDF.
« on: Monday 17 March 25 11:32 GMT (UK) »
Gan Yam
For some unknown, and worrying, reason each time I go to Setting - privacy and security - the Setting app freezes. I use Task Manage to close it down. If I go to Setting - and click on Apps, Time & Language, Personalization, etc. it works perfectly. I think I'll give your suggestion a miss for the moment until I find out what's happening with Privacy and security.
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It took me a whole afternoon and a load of pulled out hair to find out why I couldn't just download programes I wanted, and the solution to it. All I wanted to do was install a craft programme that operates my craft cutting machine. I think this is how I did it - Setting - privacy and security - windows security - apps and turned it off.
For some unknown, and worrying, reason each time I go to Setting - privacy and security - the Setting app freezes. I use Task Manage to close it down. If I go to Setting - and click on Apps, Time & Language, Personalization, etc. it works perfectly. I think I'll give your suggestion a miss for the moment until I find out what's happening with Privacy and security.
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Technical Help / Re: Help, I use Windows 11 and my photos have all changed to PDF.
« on: Monday 17 March 25 11:24 GMT (UK) »
Thank you all for your replies.
Biggles50 - I'll have to buy another external hard drive, I only have one, then presumably they are plugged in all the time. My family tree program, Legacy is downloaded to my laptop and saves to the hard drive. I think, previously, it was also saved to a folder on my laptop. What do you mean by " a sync’d copy in an App on your Laptop"? What app should I be downloading - if I haven't already got it.
Prawncocktail - Not sure I want to download another Microsoft program, but I'll have a look at it.
Biggles50 - I'll have to buy another external hard drive, I only have one, then presumably they are plugged in all the time. My family tree program, Legacy is downloaded to my laptop and saves to the hard drive. I think, previously, it was also saved to a folder on my laptop. What do you mean by " a sync’d copy in an App on your Laptop"? What app should I be downloading - if I haven't already got it.
Prawncocktail - Not sure I want to download another Microsoft program, but I'll have a look at it.
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Technical Help / Re: Help, I use Windows 11 and my photos have all changed to PDF.
« on: Sunday 16 March 25 15:53 GMT (UK) »
Thank you both for your help.
Greenrig - I have a laptop, my husband has a tablet and the same thing happened to him too, which is why I thought it must have been a Windows 11 update. However, when I googled the problem I saw some people had this problem (photos opening in pdf) a few years ago before Windows 11. My laptop is a Lenovo as is my husband's tablet. "They" in the sentence about them changing from jpg to pdf are the photos. I've done what you suggested and unticked "hide extensions for known file types". The photos do show jpg now.
Gan Yam - now I've changed the settings for photos to jpg they open, but as you say. the photos open small on black screen, but that's not how they used to open either. Previously, when I clicked on a saved photo to open it, it just opened on the screen without anything around it. I don't like the way it opens now and I don't see the point. I could always enlarge the photos if I wanted to and I prefer to open them a normal size, not a small size and then have to enlarge them. You say
I have Windows 11 because something happened to my laptop last year and everything was wiped from the hard drive. The computer engineer said I must have done something but all I did was close down the laptop before I went to bed and in the morning nothing would open. Sadly, the exterior hard drive wasn't programmed properly (a previous computer engineer thought OneDrive was enough - obviously not in my case), so I only had everything backed up to 2021. Fortunately, I've managed to retrieve all important programs/files and folders from copies I'd sent to other people. Anyway the computer engineer installed Windows 11 and everything is still saved to OneDrive. I have made sure the exterior hard drive is set to back up weekly too. I know I would have had to move to Windows 11 eventually but I'm not particularly happy with it. As someone said all the upgrades etc. seem to be just to suit programmers not ordinary people who use the computers.
Greenrig - I have a laptop, my husband has a tablet and the same thing happened to him too, which is why I thought it must have been a Windows 11 update. However, when I googled the problem I saw some people had this problem (photos opening in pdf) a few years ago before Windows 11. My laptop is a Lenovo as is my husband's tablet. "They" in the sentence about them changing from jpg to pdf are the photos. I've done what you suggested and unticked "hide extensions for known file types". The photos do show jpg now.
Gan Yam - now I've changed the settings for photos to jpg they open, but as you say. the photos open small on black screen, but that's not how they used to open either. Previously, when I clicked on a saved photo to open it, it just opened on the screen without anything around it. I don't like the way it opens now and I don't see the point. I could always enlarge the photos if I wanted to and I prefer to open them a normal size, not a small size and then have to enlarge them. You say
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I also found that Windows 11 has a default setting that does not allow you to download any programmes/apps which are not approved by Microsoft. I had to turn this setting off (no going back after its turned off and something that Microsoft does not wants you to do) but this then allowed to download the programmes I wanted to use my laptop for.How do you do that?
I have Windows 11 because something happened to my laptop last year and everything was wiped from the hard drive. The computer engineer said I must have done something but all I did was close down the laptop before I went to bed and in the morning nothing would open. Sadly, the exterior hard drive wasn't programmed properly (a previous computer engineer thought OneDrive was enough - obviously not in my case), so I only had everything backed up to 2021. Fortunately, I've managed to retrieve all important programs/files and folders from copies I'd sent to other people. Anyway the computer engineer installed Windows 11 and everything is still saved to OneDrive. I have made sure the exterior hard drive is set to back up weekly too. I know I would have had to move to Windows 11 eventually but I'm not particularly happy with it. As someone said all the upgrades etc. seem to be just to suit programmers not ordinary people who use the computers.
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Technical Help / Re: Help, I use Windows 11 and my photos have all changed to PDF.
« on: Sunday 16 March 25 12:13 GMT (UK) »
Thank you, I've done that, but no idea why they changed from jpeg to pdf in the first place, unless it was an update, the same thing has happened on my husband's tablet.
When I say the laptop scrolled through pdf files before eventually opening photos, I meant it opened all pdf files I'd recently used before opening the photo. In fact it still does that even when I open a new pdf file. I have no idea why as I always close each file after I've finished with it.
When I say the laptop scrolled through pdf files before eventually opening photos, I meant it opened all pdf files I'd recently used before opening the photo. In fact it still does that even when I open a new pdf file. I have no idea why as I always close each file after I've finished with it.
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The Common Room / Re: TB as cause of death?
« on: Tuesday 04 March 25 19:18 GMT (UK) »
The catastrophic sudden bleeding is what my mum described happening to her sister, so I was surprised to read on her death cert Haemoptysis 3 days. Perhaps she'd been coughing up blood for 3 days at the time of the catastrophic bleed.
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The Lighter Side / Re: How do I tell them?
« on: Monday 03 March 25 14:51 GMT (UK) »
I've found, in general, people don't want to know they've made a mistake - especially if their tree is on Ancestry - all they want to do is collect names. There are trees with one of my g.grans dying in USA, she never left the UK, another one has a great aunt dying at the address I was living at, on the same day as my gran died. Obviously, it was my gran who died, not the great aunt (her sister) who had died 20 years previously, but when I contacted the person with the wrong information, they wouldn't believe me even though in this case my gran lived with us and died at the address too. I have her death certificate and also a newspaper cutting about her funeral listing all the people who went to the funeral and the floral tributes given (like they used to put in the local papers years ago).
I've decided life is too short to bother about these name collectors and others with the wrong information, so I ignore them knowing I have the correct information with the all the proof.
I've decided life is too short to bother about these name collectors and others with the wrong information, so I ignore them knowing I have the correct information with the all the proof.
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The Common Room / Re: TB as cause of death?
« on: Monday 03 March 25 14:28 GMT (UK) »
My mother's eldest sister died of TB in 1920. According to my mother who was 9 at the time, her sister had been coughing up a lot of blood just before her death.
Her death certificate gives cause of death as:
I. TB
II Haemoptysis 3 days.
The definition of haemoptysis is coughing up blood or bloody mucus from your respiratory tract (lungs and throat).
So it's possible the person you are interested in had TB, although you would think it would have been mentioned on the death certificate even in 1899 as it was known about then, often called Pthisis.
They also knew about cancer in 1899 too, as a couple of my ancestors died of cancer around that time (although of the uterus).
Her death certificate gives cause of death as:
I. TB
II Haemoptysis 3 days.
The definition of haemoptysis is coughing up blood or bloody mucus from your respiratory tract (lungs and throat).
So it's possible the person you are interested in had TB, although you would think it would have been mentioned on the death certificate even in 1899 as it was known about then, often called Pthisis.
They also knew about cancer in 1899 too, as a couple of my ancestors died of cancer around that time (although of the uterus).
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Technical Help / Help, I use Windows 11 and my photos have all changed to PDF.
« on: Monday 03 March 25 14:13 GMT (UK) »
I've used Windows 11 for some months but over the last few days, when I open a photo saved in jpeg, it scrolls through my recent pdf files before opening. I've tried the suggestions on Google, i.e Settings>Apps>Default Apps and changed the default to photos rather than pdf (why had it changed to pdf anyway), but the only thing that has happened is that the photos now open as a small photo in the middle of a black screen (not the whole of my screen). Today I received a photo attachment from someone and when I tried to open that, it scrolled through pdf first. When I opened the photo attachment I received today on my 'phone it opened normally.
It's so annoying, what can I do? I thought maybe it was the latest Windows 11 update, but some of the queries on Google suggest it's been happening for some time.
PS. Just checked on my husband's tablet and although his photos don't scroll through a pdf file first, they do now open in the middle of a black screen. Obviously, it must be something to do with a Windows 11 update, but which one?
It's so annoying, what can I do? I thought maybe it was the latest Windows 11 update, but some of the queries on Google suggest it's been happening for some time.
PS. Just checked on my husband's tablet and although his photos don't scroll through a pdf file first, they do now open in the middle of a black screen. Obviously, it must be something to do with a Windows 11 update, but which one?