Monthly meeting of the SPAUG Planning Committee.
Agenda items to be announced
Organize, Protect, and Share your Hard Drive
Gene Barlow, User Group Relations
NOTE: This will be a Webinar presentation via Skype
Backing up your computer’s hard drive on a regular basis is the best way to protect your hard drive from system crashes and failures. Unfortunately, there are many ways to do backups and many of them do not adequately protect your computer. Gene will demonstrate how easy it is to do excellent backups with Acronis True Image Home.
Agenda for the meeting is:
- 5:30 PM NO-host dinner, Bistro Cafe
- 7:00 PM Registration
- 7:15 PM Business meeting & Random Access
- 7:45 PM Coffee Break
- 8:00 PM Skype Presentation (Gene Barlow)
- 9:00 PM Adjourn
The meeting will be held at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. All members and guests are invited to attend an optional NO-host dinner prior to our general meeting. Dinner will be at 5:45 PM at The Bistro located on the ground floor of the Elks Lodge.
Monthly meeting of the SPAUG Planning Committee.
Agenda items to be announced
Ask the Experts
Join us for an evening of latest tips and tricks for your computer and problem solving.
Our panel of ‘experts’ include:
- Kevin Lynn (Windows)
- Glen Murray (Hardware)
- Bill Young (Linux)
Agenda for the meeting is:
- 5:30 PM NO-host dinner, Bistro Cafe
- 7:00 PM Registration
- 7:15 PM Business meeting
- 7:30 PM Experts Panel
- 9:00 PM Adjourn
The meeting will be held at the Palo Alto Elks Lodge, 4249 El Camino Real, Palo Alto. All members and guests are invited to attend an optional NO-host dinner prior to our general meeting. Dinner will be at 5:45 PM at The Bistro located on the ground floor of the Elks Lodge.
Upgrading to Windows 10
Sue Kayton, The Computer Doctor
Windows 10 is now ready for prime time. It is safe to upgrade, if you do it correctly. Come learn about Windows 10 while you can still upgrade for free. Advantages and disadvantages. Tricks and tips. Important customizations. Preparing an emergency repair disk or drive, and many more topics. Sue Kayton, the Computer Doctor, will give a presentation and will answer your questions. We recommend that you read her Windows 10 recommendations before the meeting.
You may submit your questions for Sue in advance. Email them to webmaster@spaug.net
NOTE: We will be meeting in the Library/Card Room across the hall from the Lodge Room.
Computer Clinic
Sue Kayton, The Computer Doctor
Slow operating system? Virus infection? Blue Screen of Death?
The Doctor is In! Sue Kayton, the Computer Doctor, will do a diagnostic and repair/virus removal clinic for your computer at our meeting. You are invited to bring your Windows laptop or desktop computer and we will attempt to get it back in good shape.
Monthly meeting of the SPAUG Planning Committee.
Agenda items to be announced
Monthly meeting of the SPAUG Planning Committee.
Agenda items to be announced
Creating an Instructional Video
Maurice Green and Robert Mitchell
Following up on last month’s demonstration of upgrading an HP laptop to an SSD drive, we will demonstrate the use of multi-track editing with added still images to produce a video of the procedure. The discussion will focus on some of the ways we could have improved the process and the final product.