Computer Talk 3/28/20 Hr 1 - a podcast by Radio.com

Dyson designs and builds a new type of ventilator for coronavirus patients.  Broadband speed plummets by 40% after coronavirus outbreak. YouTube to limit video quality around the world for a month.  GM will build ventilators and masks to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic.  Taiwan collars quarantine scoffers with smartphone geo-fences. A 77-year old man in Spain was fined for playing Pokemon Go during the coronavirus epidemic.  A listener asks for what do do with hard drives before recycling a computer.  A caller with a three year old laptop has video display issues where a white screen intermittently appears.   We suggest checking RAM and trying to connect an external monitor for troubleshooting.  A caller has questions about the safety of people using their computers to donate processing time like Folding@home in order to solve complex problems.  A caller wonders why a particular ".gyjoru" file tries to open when the computer starts up.  Also, he wonders if two anti-virus programs should run on his computer at the same time, and how to verify if Windows Defender antivirus is turned off, and finally how to set up OpenDNS on a router.  A caller with a Samsung TV and a Memorex DVD/VHS player asks for help connecting his DVD player to his TV.  Also, we help with advice on connecting a new cable modem.  We help another user as well to connect his own modem, router, and voice  modem (for cable phone service instead of renting from the cable company.

Further episodes of Computer Talk with TAB

Further podcasts by Radio.com

Website of Radio.com