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Friday, April 26, 2024

Setting Up T490S

 I have bought a second hand T490S.
$500   I5 CPU and 16GB ram.  Windows 11Pro. Touch Screen. 
Before I bought it, I searched the web to see if there was a stylus and found a page that listed compatible stylus.  

Connect to WiFi

Lenovo Service Bridge
Download and install.

Lenovo show this as "Withdrawn"
Giving up on Pen / Stylus for now.

FREEWARE - NINITE.COM
Download and install
Firefox, Chrome, 7-Zip, Putty, Classic Start, WinSCP, Notepad++
VLC, K-Lite Codecs, Thunderbird, Foxit Reader,

CLASSIC SHELL
Select Style "Classic with two columns"
Click Restart

CHECK PREINSTALLED PROGRAMS
Start>Control Panel>Programs and Features

THUNDERBIRD
Set Up your existing email. 
Full Name = Frank Thomson.
gmail
IMAP
View>Toolbars>Menu Bar
View>Layout>Classic View
>Syncronisation & Storage>
Clear "Keep Messages in all folders..."
and select Inbox and drafts to download.
Calendar

Tools>Add-ons and Themes> Searched for Calendar
Selected "Google Calendar Tab"   Amazingly this just pulls up my google calendar.
Address Book
Tools>Add-ons and Themes> Searched for Tbsync
Click the icon on the top bar of the program
Account Settings>Account Actions>Google Peoples API
.... Eventually this wants another add-on. 
Google-4-TbSync

This is not working

COMPUTER NAME
Windows E.  Scroll down.  Right Click on "This PC"
Click Properties.
Click "Rename this PC"
Restart


MICROSOFT
Searched Microsoft Account in the search bar on the task bar.
Entered
At this prompt
Sign into this computer using your Microsoft account
Next time you sign into this computer, use your Microsoft account password,,,
We'll need your current windows password one last time.
BUT
The password you entered for your device is incorrect.  Please Try Again.

Onedrive
Signed into One Drive Personal

Office 365
Decide to use Edge for this.  Hoping that it all being Microsoft, it might just work a bit better.
Searched for office 365.  Suddenly Edge popped up a message that I am now signed into Microsoft Edge as Frank Thomson.
Searched for Microsoft Office 365 Download.

VPN
Zero Tier  zerotier.com
















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