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HP Scan and Capture

Love it when people try to get around barriers and find ways to still download removed apps. Just read this article.

The question:
“How to Get HP Scan and Capture Software/App”
I see that HP has retired the HP Scan and Capture app. This was a fantastic app to use. I cannot find it on the HP site or in the Microsoft Store. In the Microsoft Store there is a link to download, but when you click it you get sent to a description of the app.
Does anyone either have a working link to this app or know how to get this app? I know it is not supported but to me it works much better and easier then the scan software that comes with the drivers of the HP MFP units.

OceanWP v4.0 loses Google Fonts

Check this! All my OceanWP websites lost their default font and fell back to something Roman, so everything looked ugly! Basically all websites using OceanWP did no longer load their Google fonts after the update to version 4.0.

Solution: I had to manually enable the fonts again! How?
Go to WP Dashboard > Appearance > Customizer > Typography > Google Font Settings and enable Google Fonts – hit “publish” and done!

Looks like someone at OceanWP forgot to check backwards compatibility…

Have a nice day!

KB5043145 update breaks USB

DO NOT INSTALL THAT UPDATE!
(updated 12/10/2024 see at bottom of article)

At least on two of my computers, it completely disabled the USB ports, leaving me without mouse, keyboard, bluetooth and any way of giving any input to the computer to do anything.
Luckily I had Google Remote Desktop installed previously so I could take over the screen and fix the issue.

Not everyone, but others do have the same issue, see:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-insider-program/major-problem-with-version-23h2-for-x64-based-systems-kb5043145/m-p/4256541
I also posted my issue here:
https://www.elevenforum.com/t/kb5043145-windows-11-cumulative-update-preview-build-22621-4249-22h2-and-22631-4249-23h2-sept-26.28865/

So what happened:

How to change background-image opacity in CSS without affecting the text

Thank you so much for your quick solution… coder-coder.com

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When building a website, you may often want to put a background image on an HTML <div> that also contains text or other content.

And to make the text stand out, you want to change the opacity of that background image in CSS so that it’s semi-transparent. But you’ve tried, and you can’t change the opacity of the background image without also affecting the text or other child elements!

What can you do? Not to worry– this article will give you some practical solutions to controlling your background image opacity.

So, first, the bad news…

Access Windows Share without a password

Older laptop, simple user to logon without any password; Simply click to login and use the computer.

Now, if you want to access a share on that computer, using that same user, and gave the correct rights to be able to access it, it will not work… This was my solution from 2011, which still worked today!
Start gpedit.msc and find and disable this setting:

Happy sharing!
Have a nice day…

OceanWP Header background image black

Did you try to control this with a function?
And did it stop working recently and is now only showing a blacked out area?
Did you use the hook ocean_page_header_background_image and the function as posted in the OceanWP docs?

Well… Just change your script to give back the image ID instead of the URL:

if ( is_singular( 'post' ) ) {
  // $bg_img = get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/img/my-image.jpg';
  $bg_img = 1394;
}

You’re welcome.
Have a nice day!

PS.
Also posted to support hoping maybe OceanWP can fix this, so we can use the image filename/URL again?