[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Windows 11 presentation topic requests

Mon Jun 12 07:04:55 PDT 2023

 Drew -- 
Looks like a good plan, and a lot of features.
Also let's make sure people see the tabbed File Explorer features. And briefly discuss setting Windows 11 into Dark Mode vs. Light Mode for Appearance and Theme. 
We do have a few people in our group who have iPhones -- maybe they would be interested in instructions for connecting iPhones with Windows 11 PCs.
-- Bob Primak 
    On Monday, June 12, 2023 at 01:22:20 AM EDT, Drew King <dking65 at kingconsulting.us> wrote:  

All,

As I am in the process of finishing the presentation for Windows 11 for the group, and I am wondering if anybody has any requests regarding specific Windows 11 features you are particularly interested in seeing or learning about.

There will be a demo of how to install Android software via WSA - Windows Subsystem For Android. There aren't a lot of Android programs that you would want to run on windows. However, for example, I like to play the game backgammon and there's a very nice backgammon game on Android and rather than playing it on my cell phone I can play against somebody else on the Internet on my laptop. Google makes a very nice Android photo editor called Snapseed. Rather than running it on your cell phone, you can run it full screen on windows and edit/enhance your photos. These are just two examples that I will show.

I will very briefly mention the LSW - Linux Subsystem For Windows. My default installation is Ubuntu Linux. 

I can't demo Apple products, but Microsoft has recently added support for the iphone in addition to Android phones for connectivity.

File Explorer and Notepad have new features that are long overdue.

Voice recognition has been enhanced a little bit thanks to Microsoft's acquisition of Nuance.  Although, there is still a long way to go.

Microsoft's acquisition of the voice recognition company Nuance has made inroads into improvement for voice recognition in Windows 11. It's not dragon naturally speaking, but it is really good for writing email and most importantly online chat technical support which is becoming more and more prevalent. It's a lot easier to talk to your computer when dealing with a remote technician over chat.

We'll see what is referred to as "God Mode". It may not be godly only, it is an easy way to access a lot of functionality that people often need but don't know how to locate. It puts a lot of windows customization features at your fingertips. Say you want to change what happens when you insert a USB flash drive into a port. You may not know where in windows now that feature is, only it is right in front of you in the God mode window.

I'll also show off a few features from the power toys software kit from Microsoft. One of its most powerful/useful features is the ability to OCR text in a picture or file you can't select/copy on the screen and convert it into regular text. This applies to both Windows 10 and 11.

Google  has a new, (still in beta) feature for Windows that adds Android's default nearby sharing feature to Windows computers, so you can easily transfer text, hyperlinks, and downloads from Android to Windows. I'll give you a quick demo of a similar product that works across all platforms including the iphone, so you can share photos from the iphone to Windows for example with very quick access and transfer. You can open a web browser window on your cell phone and pass it off to your Windows computer and continue reading.

Of course, I'll be covering some pleasant changes MS has made over the last 2 years from customer feedback. One of those is pinning applications to the taskbar by dragging them to the taskbar.

Either reply to the group, or send me a direct email to dking65 at kingconsulting.us if you have a topic that you, and others perhaps, would like to have covered.

Drew King

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