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Let me start by thanking DeBorah
Sirilla for all her hard work in
planning and coordinating our Ju-
ly picnic! And, many thanks to
Bill Fosdick, our chef, and every-
one else who helped with the pic-
nic! Unfortunately, while we did
not have rain, the weather was
certainly hot and humid. But, with two fans,
cool drinks courtesy of J.J. and Judy and plen-
ty of ice and water, all who attended enjoyed
the food and companionship.
Our fall program schedule will kick off at the
August meeting with a follow-up session about
smartphones. In the past year, we shared in-
formation about the types of phones and plans
that we have and what we liked (or disliked)
about both. This new session will focus on
how we use our phones. What do we do be-
sides make and receive calls, or send and re-
ceive text messages? What apps have we in-
stalled, and how do we like them? What rec-
ommendations can we offer to each other
about smartphone security? And, so on. De-
pending on interest, the amount of discussion
and the time available, we’ll see if it would be
worthwhile to schedule more smartphone dis-
cussion at a meeting late this year or early in
2017.
For those of us who depend upon Windows-
based computers and/or tablets, the big news
is the release of the Windows 10 Anniversary
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Update on August 2 . Microsoft will be rolling
this update out to the 350 Million computers
currently running Windows 10 on a gradual ba-
sis, with a priority being given to newer ma- takes up approximately 14 GB of the SSD ca-
chines. Here is a link to a Microsoft blog which
talks about the roll-out: https://
blogs.windows.com/
windowsexperience/2016/08/02/how-to-get-the
-windows-10-anniversary-update/. This blog
includes information about ways in which Win-
dows 10 users can manually obtain and install
this update if they are not willing to wait until
Microsoft gets around to them.
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Not surprisingly, there are quite a few chang-
es to Windows 10 contained in this major up-
date (which in earlier days would probably
have been referred to as a Service Pack).
Here is a link to a Microsoft blog which pro-
vides more information about the features in-
cluded in this update: https://
blogs.windows.com/
windowsexperience/2016/06/29/windows-10-
anniversary-update-available-august-2/. PC
World has published an article describing the
best new features of this update; you can
read it at: http://www.pcworld.com/
article/3053934/windows/the-windows-10-
anniversary-updates-best-new-features.html.
It will be interesting to see how the update
process works across those 350 Million Win-
dows 10 devices. (I’ve already run into a
“show-stopper” when trying to manually up-
date two of my devices).
As some of you may remember I own a small
blue HP netbook with an 11.6” display, known
as an HP Stream computer. I also own a Dell
Venue 8 tablet. Both devices contain 32 GB
of solid-state storage, which is not expanda-
ble. Both came with Windows 8, and upgrad-
ed seamlessly to Windows 10. However,
when the Microsoft installer software checked
these devices for update suitability prior to
installing the Anniversary Update, I was in-
formed that I had to clear more storage ca-
pacity before the update could proceed. It
turns out that the user must have at least
20GB of available file storage for this update.
However, the current version of Windows 10
pacity. Even with everything other than Win-
dows 10 deleted from my on-board storage I
have not been able to satisfy the “20 GB free”
requirement on either device. As a result, I
have not been able to install the update. I am
not alone in owning these modest Windows
computers, so I am waiting to see what MS
comes up with for folks like us.
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