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H er is still running Windows 7, please start think-
ello, everyone! It has finally
stopped raining (at least temporari-
ly) and it’s nice to see the sun again! Maybe
spring is finally here….. (It’s sad when you
can use this same opening line in both the
May and June newsletter column!)
As a reminder, our LCACE membership year
begins in April. For those who have already
renewed your annual membership, thank
you! For those who have not, please see Ju-
dy or J.J. at our June LCACE meeting; they
will be happy to accommodate you.
As previously announced, our June meeting
will be on the third Saturday of the month,
th
June 15 . The program will be a combina-
tion of “show ‘n tell” and “ask the Guru”.
Please plan to join us and bring along any
new tech items that you care to share with
your fellow members, along with tech ques-
tions that you would like some answers for.
Our annual picnic will be on the second Sat-
urday of July (7/13) at State Bank of the
Lakes, Grayslake. More info and sign-up will
take place at our June meeting. Please plan
to attend!
I mentioned this in
our May newsletter,
but it bears repeat-
ing. Microsoft is
scheduled to stop
support for Win-
dows 7 on January
14, 2020 – approximately seven months from
now. If you have a computer running Win 7 it
will continue to work after that date, but you
will not receive any further security updates
from Microsoft. Thus, the longer you contin-
ue to use that computer to connect to the In-
ternet after 1/14/2020, the more at-risk you
will be for a malware attack. I suggested
several options in my May newsletter column
(posted on our website); if your main comput-
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ing about how to replace or upgrade it.
Microsoft has released the May 2019 upgrade to
Windows 10 and is slowly rolling it out to users.
It’s important to understand their new approach.
For prior major upgrades, MS relied on field test-
ing by Windows Insiders and early adopters who
triggered a download by clicking on the “Check
for Updates” button in Windows 10 Settings and
who immediately installed the upgrade once it
was downloaded to their computer by Microsoft.
The Fall 2018 upgrade became a disaster be-
cause many users downloaded & installed the
upgrade before the reports of problems started
coming in to Microsoft. This time MS is moving
much more slowly, relying on feedback from
Windows Insiders and those other users who
have voluntarily triggered a download via the
“Check for Updates” process. Once they be-
come comfortable that all is well, they will begin
downloading the upgrade to everyone. But even
then, it will not be automatically installed. The
user will decide when (or if) the upgrade is in-
stalled.
I’m somewhat surprised that I have not yet seen
much in either the technical or popular media
about how this upgrade is performing. It’s still
early days, but I expected to see some feedback
by now – good or bad. As more information be-
comes available, I will pass it along via our
group email process. Meanwhile, as suggested
in my recent email, I recommend that you wait
until it is clear that this update is performing well
before downloading / installing it.
For anyone interested in learning about the new
features in this upgrade, here is a link to a How-
To Geek article that provides a detailed analysis:
https://www.howtogeek.com/402569/everything-
new-in-windows-10s-april-2019-update/
Locally, Verizon is testing 5G wireless in the Riv-
er North area of Chicago. There was an article
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