07 December 2024

Lenovo Laptop touchpad not working. It disappeared from Device Manager

Open 'Device Manager'.
Click 'View', and select 'Show hidden devices'. TouchPad will appear, under
'Mice and other pointing devices.
Right-click it. Select 'Uninstall device'.
Restart computer. Touchpad will be back working.

If after you select 'Show hidden devices', the TouchPad does still not
appear, then Google-search 'Lenovo warranty check Canada'. Click 'Detect my
device'. Click 'Drivers & Software'. Under 'Manua update', click 'Select
Drivers'. Click 'Mouse, Touchpad, Keyboard and Pen(2)'.

Download 'Lenovo Fn and Function Keys for Windows 11 (64-bit) - IdeaPad Slim 5
14, IdeaPad Slim 5 16'.

Install it. Restart computer. Your touchpad will be working now.

26 November 2024

Microsoft Teams on MacOS - 'there is a problem reaching this app'

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Clear the cache in Teams for macOS
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Classic Teams
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1. If Teams is still running, right-click the Teams icon in the dock, and
then select Quit or press Command-Q.
2. In the Finder, open the /Application/Utilities folder, and then
double-click Terminal.
3. Enter the following command, and then press Return:

rm -r ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams

4. Restart Teams.


New Teams
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1. If Teams is still running, right-click the Teams icon in the dock, and
then select Quit or press Command-Q.
2. In the Finder, open the /Application/Utilities folder, and then
double-click Terminal.
3. Enter the following command, and press Return after each command:

rm -rf ~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.com.microsoft.teams
rm -rf ~/Library/Containers/com.microsoft.teams2

4. Restart Teams.

How to resize, crop, edit pictures

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14 September 2024

28 June 2024

How to use Outlook to access your Google Workspace email?

https://support.google.com/a/users/answer/171710#different

How to send Outlook email with Python

> pip install pywin32

import win32com.client

inbox = win32com.client.gencache.EnsureDispatch("Outlook.Application").GetNamespace("MAPI")
# print(dir(inbox))
inbox = win32com.client.Dispatch("Outlook.Application")
# print(dir(inbox))

mail = inbox.CreateItem(0x0)
mail.To = "testTo@test.com"
mail.CC = "testcc@test.com"
mail.BCC = "testcc@test.com" mail.Subject = "Send TEST" mail.Body = "This is the body" mail.Attachments.Add(u"path to attachment") mail.Send()
print('Email sent successfully.')


Remember that in the attachment to use escape characters on windows systems i.e.

c:\users\me  should be  c:\\users\\me