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“Members Helping Members”

July/August 2020 Volume 38, Issue 04/05

Make Windows 10 Faster

By David Kretchmar, Computer Technician, Sun City but is the operating system installed on the majority
Summerlin Computer Club of home computers now.
April 2020 Gigabyte Gazette Windows 10 is Microsoft’s best operating system so
www.scscc.club far but is not perfect. However, it is virtually infinitely
dkretch (at) gmail.com customizable and I’m going to make a few sugges-
tions that will help you get the most out of your win-

dows 10 system.
Support for
Windows 7 is Keep Windows Up to Date
now history.
Support for
Windows 8
will last for 3
more years.
Windows 8
mostly con-
sisted of in-
termediate
steps (and
missteps)
toward Win-
dows 10. In 2020 I can think of no reason for any Windows is issuing updates on a weekly basis and
user to be running Windows 8 instead of Windows these are important not only for the operating system
10, especially since Windows 10 is superior and is a and peripheral issues corrected but also for keeping
free update to Windows 8. So, if you are one of the your security malware definitions current. Go to Up-
few users still running Windows 8 there is no better date Settings and confirm that updates are current.
time than now to upgrade to Windows 10. Hit Check for Updates to verify this. This is also
where you can learn if your system is running the
Most of us have used Windows 10 for a few years
now; Windows lacks the flexibility of the flavors of latest update to Windows 10 (1909) and possibly
Linux, and the slick user interface of Mac’s Catalina, complete this process (as is required in the dialogue
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