Thursday, September 20, 2018

Class Notes 9-20-2018

CCleaner 5.47 was just released today. Install fine but under the Security section in Tools you might want to turn of the feature to send anonymous reports to Avast, who owns CCleaner now.

I suggest using CCleaner on a regular basis, but download and install the latest version each time from ccleaner.com. When done with it, uninstall until the next time. And the same goes for Superantispyware and Malwarebytes. Why have them running in the background when you only want to run them once a week and install new versions just before you run them? Use Ninite.com and save the file it created. Just run that file again to download and install the latest versions when you want to run them. Then install them also.

Uninstall
Win + I > Apps > Apps & Features
Scroll to the App you and to removes. Left Click and choose Uninstall

Also turn off all the Background Apps Windows 10 loads on startup.
Win + I > Privacy > Background Apps
Turn them off

From your house you can join in on the classes by going to Google Hangout. Just open a browser and click this link: http://tinyurl.com/DickEvans

Dropbox.com is a cloud storage site. It is free for 2gb of data. If you need more you can subscribe to different levels. I have a 1TB subscription. It is a great way to share large files with others.

OneDrive is another cloud storage site. It is included in Windows 10 and is owned by Microsoft. You receive 4gb free and can subscribe for additional space. You can also share the files on this cloud.

How to unzip a file in Windows 10. Many downloads of files and images attached to an email come in the form of a zip file (extension .zip). To see what is inside, double-click the zip file and then in the ribbon above click Extract All to pull the files out of the zip and into a folder where you can work with them as individual files.

If you have a group of files to send somewhere, select the group > right-click the selection > choose Sent To > Compressed (zipped) folder.

How to create a shortcut to a website on the desktop. Open the site, like gMail. In the address bar point to the icon to the left of the address (URL). Left drag it to the desktop. When you drop it a shortcut is created for you.

Where to download Revo Uninstaller? You can get it on Ninite.com. It does a better job uninstalling apps as it goes deeper into the system to get all the pieces.



Home - New Tab Page extension in Chrome is a page that replaces the home page when you create a new tab in Chrome. To install it click the menu button in chrome (three vertical dots in upper left) > More Tools > Extensions. In the Extensions window, in the upper left click the menu button (three horizontal bars). In the lower left corner, click Open Chrome Web Store.

In the “Search the store” box type Home Newtab. Then Click “Add to chrome”
Open a new tab (+ to the right of last open tab) and see what happens.

What’s New in Google Chrome 69
Some changes in the way it looks but still the same browser. Read about it in this article
http://tinyurl.com/yaxc7b9q

Windows 10's October 2018 Update. It will be called 1809. This article tells some of the things coming and going.
http://tinyurl.com/y88brmuy

Gmail’s Confidential Mode allows you to send secret emails that you can have disappear after period of time.
http://tinyurl.com/y966s9hw

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