Category: Weekly Newsletter
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What are the risks of being on-line today? How can we be safe?
The bad guys are getting better at exploiting our frailties to make money through identity theft, phishing, hacking into personal accounts – the list is endless. Should we be afraid? What can we do to minimise risk without becoming paranoid? … Read more
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Windows 10 will “retire” on October 14, 2025. What are our options?
Windows 10 – and quite a few other Microsoft products are due to “retire” in 2025. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/end-of-support/end-of-support-2025 On Thursday, November 21st we discussed the options available for Windows 10 users who own PCs which cannot be officially upgraded to Windows … Read more
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Bye bye, Windows 10
Microsoft will be phasing out Windows 10 in 2025. It wants us all to move to Windows 11…What to do? – force Windows 11 to install on my unsupported PC? Buy a new laptop? – what about a second-hand one? … Read more
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Do I really need to back up all that stuff ?
On Thursday, 14 November we looked at backing up personal digital data. Scotty subscribes to Proton https://proton.me/blog/cloud-storage which provides a wide range of highly secure cloud-based services, including data storage. In contrast, Peter backs up all his data to an … Read more
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What’s the right way to backup your stuff?
We are all different, and no size fits all, especially when deciding what digital stuff we want to keep securely for future reference. Some of us want to keep copies of every e-mail we received and photo we took since … Read more
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Disentangling yourself from Onedrive
On Thursday, November 7th, we looked at how to get rid of OneDrive on a Windows PC while saving your documents and other personal files. When Windows is installed on a PC, Microsoft does everything it can to encourage you … Read more
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Escaping Microsoft One-drive’s clutches
A common complaint from Club members is the intrusive and confusing control of their documents and photos by Microsoft OneDrive. This cloud service is set up by default in a standard Windows installation. It spreads its clutching tentacles far and … Read more