[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] Reminder: Windows 11 Update, presented remotely by Drew King. 10AM ET, June 14, 2023. Lexington Computer and Technology Group

Tue Jun 13 08:26:08 PDT 2023

 (NOTE: Repeated Reminder with no changes to contents.)

This meeting will be available at the Community Center or online via Zoom.

Our Zoom Meeting ID is 972 6146 0830. Detailed instructions for joining us
on Zoom are at the end of this message.

*June 14, 2023*
Windows 11 Update, presented remotely by Drew King

A message from the presenter is as follows:

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 <dking65 at kingconsulting.us> if you have a topic
that you, and others perhaps, would like to have covered.*

*Below are our plans for Upcoming Meetings. For more schedule information,
please refer to https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=lctg_speaker_schedule
<https://wiki.toku.us/doku.php?id=lctg_speaker_schedule> *

*June 21, 2023*
2022 Nobel prizes in physiology or medicine, and chemistry

*June 28, 2023*
Planning Meeting *SPECIAL NOTE  -* *Links to many of our previous sessions
are available online at http://lctg.toku.us/ <http://lctg.toku.us/>, thanks
to the diligence of Steve Isenberg. This includes our sessions*

   - *Prion Diseases https://youtu.be/M-eFxsEKQuI
   <https://youtu.be/M-eFxsEKQuI>*
   - *Windows 11; is it time? https://youtu.be/NhlDobQ9eGY
   <https://youtu.be/NhlDobQ9eGY>*
   - *Generating Oxygen on Mars https://youtu.be/56-xpi3hEvc
   <https://youtu.be/56-xpi3hEvc>*
   - *Facial Recognition **https://youtu.be/6eupcUxqggU
   <https://youtu.be/6eupcUxqggU>*
   - *Voyager Spacecraft Update, Lessons Learned **https://youtu.be/ox2wl0E_PH8
   <https://youtu.be/ox2wl0E_PH8>*
   - *Cognition, Affect, and Learning: The Role of Emotions in
Learning **https://youtu.be/sf2JL3zwrmg
   <https://youtu.be/sf2JL3zwrmg>*
   - *Early Digital Computers  **https://youtu.be/a1KN0KiOnMs
   <https://youtu.be/a1KN0KiOnMs>*
   - *For the Love of Physics
   https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/03/10/despite-mits-decision-delete-walter-lewins-lecture-videos-live
   <https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/03/10/despite-mits-decision-delete-walter-lewins-lecture-videos-live>*
   - *Ukraine Update **https://youtu.be/zbSYGw3a3aQ
   <https://youtu.be/zbSYGw3a3aQ>*
   - *Einstein Rings **https://youtu.be/DOj5pOADjM0
   <https://youtu.be/DOj5pOADjM0> *
   - *Crypto Crashes and Crypto Culture https://youtu.be/OMuhB_AFIwA
   <https://youtu.be/OMuhB_AFIwA>*
   - *Scientific Misconduct **https://youtu.be/dN3lykmu4CE
   <https://youtu.be/dN3lykmu4CE>*
   - *Quantum Entanglement https://youtu.be/dOmZqbU1sC0
   <https://youtu.be/dOmZqbU1sC0>*
   - *Tornadoes https://youtu.be/V_9dLGT0Hh0 <https://youtu.be/V_9dLGT0Hh0>*
   - *The Brain **https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54yDy07iAs4&t=2s
   <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54yDy07iAs4&t=2s>*
   - *Millie Dresselhaus and Carbon Science https://youtu.be/Qb3QiaV4eRQ
   <https://youtu.be/Qb3QiaV4eRQ>*

If this email wasn't addressed to you and you would like to join the group,
or if you have a friend or colleague who might also be interested in
joining, it's easy.  Ask them to go to the group's wiki page at
http://LCTG.toku.us and follow the simple instructions under "Join the
Email List".  By being a member of the group you'll get reminders of
upcoming meetings and infrequent related messages. No advertising.  The
list is tightly managed.

Membership is free and given that all meetings are available on Zoom you
only need to be connected to the Internet to join. It's ok to join from
anywhere you can get a decent Internet connection.

   - We, the Lexington Computer and Technology Group, will meet Wednesday
   at the usual 10AM Eastern Time online, using the Zoom Video Conferencing
   Application, facilitated by Steve Isenberg. (If noted above, we may also be
   at the Lexington Community Center.)

There is an instruction page at https://toku.us/zoomish but note that the
URL and phone number shown are examples.

To join our online meeting, sometime after 9:45 AM on Wednesday, choose one
of the following options:

   - If you have the Zoom application installed, start it and join meeting
   with ID 972 6146 0830
   - From your browser, go to: https://zoom.us/j/97261460830
   - From your smartphone, tap this: +16468769923,,97261460830
   - From a “dumb” telephone, call 1 646 876 9923 and enter meeting ID: 972
   6146 0830

   - Once the connection is established, you may need to locate and use the
   on-screen controls that turn on the sound and the video. You should be able
   to see and hear others and they should be able to see and hear you, if you
   have a camera and microphone (each of which you can unmute selectively).
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.toku.us/pipermail/lctg-toku.us/attachments/20230613/e5d8e7d3/attachment.htm>