google maps see my real time location using excessive memory and tracking stops

on rare occasions someone I know shares their real time location, and when they do their location is updated non-stop instead of like once every 30 seconds or however it works.

since then it has not done it, now this morning he shared his location and it's doing it again. using up all my memory in a very short amount of time. going from 12.7 gigs till either the browser crashes or it just stops tracking until I close and reopen the browser. happens in firefox and in chrome.

here is a no sound video of what is happening. nothing is artificially sped up. it doesn't matter what version of firefox or chrome, when it happens it, this is what happens. I upgraded my memory since the last post and went from 16 to 48 gigs. so now my computer doesn't freeze.

 

yesterday my wife shared her location, and it did not do this. on other occasions the other person shares their location and it does not do this.

HP Touchsmart PC CMOS batteries

The HP Touchsmart 320 PC CMOS battery is located next to the memory inside the case. Remove 2 screws on the back bottom left and right corners. carefully pry up the left and right sides of the case. open the silver cover for the battery, and the CR2032 battery is to the left of the memory. make sure you put the new one in the same way as the old one. replace the back the same way you took it off. line everything up and use considerable force to push the back, back on. replace the screws. reboot, hit esc and go in to setup to reset the time and other settings. I cannot help with what those settings will be.

The Touchsmart 310 is a bit more difficult.

remove these 5 screws from back.

remove black shiny plate, and 4 screws from stand, then remove stand.

remove the dvd drive, power the machine up briefly and press eject, then power it off. loosen the screws and pull the drive out. carefully pry the plastic apart all the way around the back cover.

The battery is located under the metal shield where the arrow points. 

remove as many screws from the shield as you need to carefully pry up the shield. some wires need to be briefly relocated. replace the CR2032 by pushing against the side nearest the memory and it should pop out. take note of which side is down, and put the new battery in the same way.

carefully replace the shield, and all screws in their same location. there is a black screw that is in a specific place. make sure to reattach the black ground wires removed and any wires displaced.

re-assemble in reverse order. make sure to get the case snapped back in place properly. reboot, hit esc and go in to setup to reset the time and other settings. I cannot help with what those settings will be.

I can offer no other help.

problems installing any MAGIX software

ran into problems trying to install magix vegas pro suite 22. the installs would fail, or never download with the download manager just sitting at 0% paused.

I checked in Settings/widows security/virus & threat protection/ransomware protection and sure enough the download manager/installer was trying to do something in my profile folders and windows was blocking it. attempts to unblock the folders failed nor was allowing programs through working either.

I had to disable controlled folder access for the install to work. then cancel the install and start it over again, it should install. remember to re-enable the controlled folder access so you will get pissed off the next time you try to install.

 

Error 0x80070091- The Directory Is Not Empty Fix

This one drove me crazy. chkdsk did not work, etc. 

This was in a windows xp virtual machine but should work on other versions of windows.

Boot to hirens boot dvd cd_PE_x64 I don't know what version but it has windows 10 on it.

go to the folder that cannot be deleted.

create an empty text document in it. go up one level and try to delete the folder. empty trash.

you must do this one at a time for each folder by itself.

I had 3 folders that would not delete. this worked.