Presented by Jeff Hensel April 27, 2017
Attendees: 19
First, on a sad note, one of the founding members of the Summerset Computer Club passed away on March 31. Ardel Bert was the Secretary and a regular presenter to the club. She will be fondly remembered.
Jeff shared was the next upgrade to Windows 10 looks like and provides. Frankly, it is not a monumental upgrade but does have a few tidbits of coolness. By the way, this upgrade cannot be stopped–it will simply arrive over the next few months. However, Jeff shared a few methods, a bit technical in nature, where you can postpone the upgrade if you desire. Jeff said his upgrade went quite well. Below are a few slides with speaker notes below them but you can click on the below link to see the entire presentation.
Whats New with Windows 10 April 2017 with Speaker Notes
Or go to Settings > About (at the very bottom of the lest on the left)
Notice the version number. The first two numbers are the year (17) and the second two numbers are the month (03). 2017, March.
Although we’ve spoken about Malware, it continues to affect many of us and I strongly believe we will continue to encourage people to be more careful when downloading free software and clicking links without being somewhat certain where the link will take them.
There are more and more instances where a click or a pop-up ad tells us that our computer has been compromised. To be clear, these are Ads and NOT evidence of viruses or malware.
Scams are not new but there are more scams appearing and commonplace. IRS phones calls demanding immediate payment or you will be arrested.
And, our computers tells us, via pop-up messages or windows, that are computer or software has updates ready to install. Most don’t know if these are real or fakes. We’ll share the most common and give some guiding principles to help us know what to do.
Office Hub: There’s a new version of the “Get Office” app, which originally just pointed you at the Office 365 website. Get Office 2.0, also known as “Office Hub”, is much more capable. This app still guides you through how to sign up to Office 365, but it also provides direct download links for Office applications, a list of Office documents you’ve recently used, and other useful features.
Photos App Improvements: Keeping with the “Creators Update” theme, Microsoft is improving the Photos app. You can now use a stylus or your finger on a touchscreen to draw directly on your photos or videos. Write on a video and what you’ve scribbled will appear when you get to that place in the video. The Photos app offers a new set of filters and redesigned editing interface for better photo editing, too. Microsoft is also releasing a Photos app for the Xbox One, so you can view those same photos in your living room. There’s also a new light theme for the app, so you don’t have to use the old dark theme if you’d prefer a brighter look.
Sticky Notes Insights: The Sticky Notes app offers more “Insights”. For example, it can detect stocks, flights numbers, email addresses, web addresses, phone numbers, and times and automatically provide more information. This now works for many more languages. Sticky Notes also received various performance, reliability, and interface improvements.
This will be the first screen you see when the upgrade begins. It is a place to choose initial privacy settings.
Control Panel Is Harder to Get To: You can no longer right-click the Start button and select “Control Panel” to easily launch the Control Panel. It’s been removed from this menu and replaced with a link to “Settings”.
More Built-in Advertisements: In every major update, Microsoft adds new advertisements. In the Creators Update, you’ll see Office 365 advertisements and other notifications in the File Explorer and “suggestion” notifications in your action center. You can disable all these build-in ads, if you like.
A New Screenshot Hotkey: Windows 10 gains yet another screenshot tool. Press Windows+Shift+S to capture a region of your screen and copy it to your clipboard. This feature was originally part of OneNote 2016, but has been added to Windows itself.
Accessibility Improvements: Windows 10 is gaining braille support. The Narrator is now available in the Windows installation and recovery tools environments. The Narrator hotkey is changing from Windows+Enter to Ctrl+Windows+Enter to make it harder to trigger accidentally.
Have more fun with improvements across a suite of built-in apps. Use Windows Ink to draw on pictures and videos in the Photos app to make them your own.6 Draw on a 2D or 3D map in the Maps app and make it yours with Windows Ink. Fully immerse yourself in 360° videos and watch hit movies and TV shows in 4K or HD with the Movies & TV app.4
Lots of things related to Windows 10 including a section of What’s New within this upgrade.
You might want to look through the Feedback app to see what people are reporting as problems or difficulties.
This is a sampling of slides from this meeting, please feel free to click the link at the beginning of this article to see the entire presentation.
On another note, Ron Fugazzi researched what happens if space is limited on your computer and an upgrade begins.
