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MARCH 21, 2019 SIR Computer & Tech Leadership Team CAT Tech Advisors (The “Experts”)  Phil Goff  Derek Southern  Dean Steichen  Barry Brown  Frank May  Neil Schmidt

CAT Support Team  Dan Green (Treasurer)  Nick Bowes (Asst. Treasurer)  Dick Curry (Coffee Master)  Bill Phelon (Membership) Windows 10 App News Articles

 Several 1 st of Year Tech articles about Windows 10 Apps:

 Useful and Unknown and Tools of 2018 for Windows (ampercent.com)

 Top 35 free apps for Windows 10 (computerworld.com)

 The 20 Best Productivity Apps for Windows in 2018 (zapier.com)

 2019 list: Best for a new Windows 10 (windowsreport.com)

 Our favorite Windows apps will help you get the most out of your new PC (digitaltrends.com)

 SIR Area 16 Computer & Technology Group “Tech Advisors” Windows Store

How do you load “apps”?  Windows Store  Find it in your “Start” screen  Or just type “Store” in the search bar  Download program from web site PC Utility Apps Flipboard

News aggregator  Personalize to include articles of interest to you:  Technology  CNET  Mobile Technology  The DYI PC  Home Automation  Etc., etc.  Available for PC, mobile  Free (Windows Store)  Also available for Mac Digital Trends “OfficeOnline” Web based MS Office  View, edit and create Office files on your browser  Get many of the features of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote  Somewhat similar to Docs  Free (Windows Store)

Computerworld FreeOffice Office productivity suite  Similar to WORD, EXCEL, etc.  Runs inside your favorite browser  Free (freeoffice.com)  Available for Mac

Computerworld Windows 10 “OneNote” Note-taking app  Take detailed, intuitively organized notes that capture images, audio, text, and more  Data accessible and may be edited on both PC & mobile devices  Free (Included with Windows 10)  App available for mobile devices  Available for Mac

zapier.com Windows 10 “Snipping Tool” Capture screenshot of all or part of your PC screen  Capture words or images  Copy/paste snapshot  Save snapshot as a jpg file  Print snapshot  Free (Included with Windows 10)  Mac snipping type tool: Skitch

Barry Brown Windows 10 “Photos”

Windows photo viewer  Quick and easy photo viewer  Import images from mobile via WiFi (see Appendix for details)  Free (Included with Windows 10 Note: If “Photos” app not found: “intowindows.com/how-to-enable-windows- photo-viewer-in-windows-10/”

Barry Brown Store, retrieve and manage your photos  Free unlimited storage (16mp max photos and 1080p video)  Apps for iOS, Android and all the major browsers on any platform  Can set to auto upload pics from phone or WiFi enabled camera  Automatically analyzes every photo  Great facial recognition  Free (photos.google.com)  Also available for Mac

Computerworld AutoHDR

Creates high dynamic range images  HDR from a single picture  Improve photos in an incredible way  Free (autohdr.en.lo4d.com)

Barry Brown Express

Photo editing  Limited access to Photoshop’s photo-editing tools  Free (Windows Store)

Digital Trends IrfanView

Quick /converter  View images  Convert/Resize/Crop  Optimize  Scan & print  Create slideshow  Free (Windows Store)

Neil Schmidt Free Cam Create screencasts, edit recorded videos, and upload to YouTube  Record your screen  Fine-tune your videos  Share videos  Free (freescreenrecording.com)

Barry Brown Microsoft “To-Do” Create intelligent to-do lists  Shopping, travel, etc. lists  Links to  Free (Windows Store)

Phil Goff Duolingo

Learn a new language  Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Irish, Dutch, Danish and English  Free (Windows Store)

Digital Trends Xodo PDF Reader & Editor

PDR reader and editor  Edit PDF documents  Fill in forms  Annotate documents  Collaborate online with others  Free (Windows Store)

Trusted Reviews Primo PDF Create PDF files  Create file size that fits your needs (print quality, screen quality, etc.)  Free (primopdf.com)

Phil Goff MSN Weather

Weather forecaster  Free (Windows Store)

Digital Trends Microsoft

Note taking app  Jot down anything quickly for easy reference  Free (Windows Store)

zapier.com RAR Opener Extracts and opens compressed files quickly and easily  Free (rar-opener.jaleco.com)

Barry Brown Google Earth Pro Enhanced “Google Earth” app  Advanced measurements  High-resolution printing  Spreadsheet import (2500 addresses at a time)  Free (earth.google.com/intl/en/downlo ad-earth-pro.html)

Barry Brown PC System Management Apps CCleaner Remove old files from your PC  Free (ccleaner.com)

windowsreport.com Belarc Advisor Analyses your PC  Details of all components and gives serial numbers, size, capacity  All the info you can imagine  Free

Barry Brown Examines the innards of your PC  Ferrets out all sorts of info  Easy to output reports  Recommended over Belarc Advisor  By CCleaner  Free (www.ccleaner.com/speccy)  Also available for Mac

Computerworld Gary Utilities Clean-up PC files  Automatic maintenance  Erase privacy tracks on Windows shutdown  Checks for updates  Deep clean and fix  “Boosts PC speed and fixes frustrating errors, crashes and freezes”  Free (garysoft.com)

Barry Brown Revo Uninstaller Uninstalls desktop programs  Removes leftover pieces that Windows uninstall misses  Also removes remnants of programs that have already been uni nstalled  Free (revouninstaller.com)  Also available for Mac

Computerworld Autoruns List autorunning programs Lets you turn off individual programs Doesn’t require installation Free (https://docs.microsoft.com/en- us/sysinternals/downloads/autoruns)

Computerworld Process Explorer

Tells you which files are currently open by what program  Free (https://docs.microsoft.com/en- us/sysinternals/downloads/index)

Computerworld WinDirStat Identifies where all your drive space has gone  Microsoft app  “Tree map” usage pane  Meaningful Help info  Free (windirstat.net)

Computerworld Wiztree Analyses your drives (similar to “WinDirStat”)  Finds the files and folders using the most space on your hard drive  Sort the contents of your entire hard drive by folder size and optionally delete files and folders  Free (wiztree.en.lo4d.com)

Maximum PC Windows Defender Antivirus protection built-in to Windows 10  May not come out on top of all the antivirus benchmarks (, Avira, AVG, Bitdefender)  Won’t bug you about paying for an upgrade or hijack your browser’s  Free (Included with Windows 10)  Windows Defender Security Center

Computerworld Malwarebytes Removes malware and spyware  Double-checks for infections  Run manually (suggest once a week)  Combined with Malwarebytes support forum, ultimate fallback for infected systems (if you know it or not)  Free (malwarebytes.com)  Also available for Mac

Computerworld LastPass Password manager  Tracks your user IDs, passwords, and other setting and stores them in the cloud (encrypted)  Free (lastpass.com)  Also available for Mac

Computerworld VLC Media Player Multi-media player  Plays nearly any media  Plays streaming media with a click  Records played media  Converts between file types  Tolerates incomplete or damage media files  Starts to play downloaded media before the download’s finished  Free ()  Also available for Mac

Computerworld AutoClose

Specify how and when to close the running programs on your system  Free (autoclose.net)

ampercernt.com RouterPassView Recover your Wi-Fi router password  Free (routerpassview.en.lo4d.com)

ampercernt.com WiFi Analyzer

Analyzes your wireless network  Identify Wi-Fi problems  Find the best channel or the best place for your router/access-point  Free (Windows Store)

Neil Schmidt Advanced IP Scanner Network scanner  Scans your network and documents the addresses for each device  Free (advanced-ip-scanner.com)

Dean Steichen SDformatter V4.0 Formats SD cards  Quick and easy access to all memory card formats like SD, SDHC and SCXC  Gets rid of all the content stored on your SD card in one go  Free (www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/)

Dean Steichen EaseUS Todo Backup Nimble, general purpose backup tool  Can create full disk image backups, incremental drive and file backups  By default, it runs full backups one a week with differential backups every 30 minutes  Free (todo-backup.com)  Note: Be careful when installing to only get the Free version  Also available for Mac

Computerworld EaseUS Partition Master (Free Edition) Resize drives, create drive partitions, merge partitions, clone hard-drive, etc.  Free (Windows Store)  Also available for Mac

Barry Brown TeamViewer Remote access and control to your computer  Good for technical support efforts  Free (Windows Store)  Also available for Mac

zapier.com Duplicate File Cleaner Find and remove duplicate files  Finds duplicate documents, photos, etc.  Sort out your image collection  Free (duplicatecleaner.com)

Phil Goff PC Tips... How to Uninstall a Windows App

Remove an app   Apps  Select the app  Uninstall

technicalnews.com Create Your Own App

Directly jump to a website via an icon on your Desktop  Copy URL address for the website  On desktop, right mouse click and select “New”  Select “Shortcut”  Insert URL address  Type name  Select “Finish”

Neil Schmidt Change Icon for New Website App

Create a customized icon for your Desktop app  Select a photo for your new Icon  Convert it to an ICO file using icoconvert.com  Put cursor on desktop icon and right mouse click  Select “Properties”  “Change Icon”  Select “Browse” to find your new ICO icon file  Hit “OK”

Neil Schmidt Appendix WiFi Image Transfer Using Microsoft “Photos”

 Load “ Photos Companion ” smartphone app (free)  Launch “ Photos ” Windows 10 app  Go to Settings: Preview “On”  Go to Import: “From mobile over WiFi” Settings  Scan QR code on PC with phone app  Must be on same WiFi  Select photos to transfer  Find images in PC file folder: “ Pictures > Imported from Photos Companion”  Move photos to your own “organized” picture folders