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APCUG is pleased to announce that we
will be having online workshops during
the summer and fall.

Getting to Know Windows from An Insiders Point of View

The second Wednesday of the month at: them and find out if it is the best browser. We’ll also
9 am PT, 10 am MT, 11 am CT, 12 pm ET learn how to earn $$ by using Bing.

May 13, 2020 The next series of workshops will be on Home
June 10, 2020 Automation for Seniors – same time, same
July 8, 2020 place on:
August 12, 2020 September 9, 2020
October 14, 2020
Moderator: Bill James, APCUG Advisor, Region 8 November 11, 2020
December 9, 2020
The four 2-hour workshops will be on how to get the
best out of Windows 10. There will be how-tos, Week 1 - Why do I need it?
hands-on demos, and discussion with ample time Week 2 - Where do I start?
for Q&A. Week 3 - Lights, doorbells, locks, and cameras
Week 4 - Doing It Myself vs Having It Done
Week 1
What’s new with Windows 10, the 2004 Spring fea- We will begin by explaining why home automation
ture update. is important to Seniors. What products are on the
Have you customized your Start menu, Taskbar, market, costs, security, and some real-world testi-
and Notifications? What are those Hidden Icons? monials. In the second week, we will talk about how
How can I immediately get back to my Desktop? to go about planning your home automation project
Can you easily see your mouse pointer? How about and best practices. In the third week, we will talk
the Display text size? We’ll also take a look at the about applications using lights, doorbells, locks,
powerful Search options. and cameras. Lastly, we will talk about the benefits
of making it a DIY project or having a professional
Week 2 install.
Settings
We’ll explore the many options you can change to
make your computer more secure. Do you know
how much Ram you have? What version of Win-
dows? What about the Security & Update area, do
you take a look at every once in a while?
Do you check your custom settings after the spring
and fall Feature update?

Week 3
File Explorer
Back-in-the-day, Bill Gates told us to think of our
hard drive as a file cabinet and to organize our files.
File Explorer is our handy file cabinet. We’ll dig into
File Explorer to see how it can help us with our daily
life with our computer. Have you added the helpful
checkbox?

Week 4
Edge
It’s now a Chromium-based browser. It brings a lot
of new features to the table. We will explore all of

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