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Pegah’s Family Restaurant
12122 West 87th Street
Lenexa, KS 66215
Second block W of Quivira Rd, N side
Friday, November 22, 2024, 11:30 am ~ 1:30 pm
Topic:
Take Control Books Sencom Member Discount
takecontrolbooks.com
Review of “Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner”
Computer Device Trouble?
Bring your Questions
Visitors Always Welcome
Mary Ann Baltuska is the Hospitality Director
SenCom Lunch & Learn usually meets on the 4th Friday of the month. This is a social gathering, with casual computer talk and good times. You can join in the conversation or just come and listen. Everyone learns something!
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November 20, 2024
WEDNESDAY WORKSHOP
9 am PT, 10 am MT, 11 am CT, 12 pm ET
Online Password Management with Bitwarden (Backwards)
John Kennedy, Web Administrator
East-Central Ohio Technology Users Club
Scammers and Other Species, Part 3
The Other Invasive Species
Al Williams, President
Willow Valley Computer Club
Wednesday, November 20. 2024, 11:00 am CT
Register here – https://forms.gle/FRgtD41ZqKSrjdpFA
Registration ends on November 19 at 8:00 pm CT
Use SenCom’s official name when you register:
Senior Computer Users Group of Greater Kansas City
After you click Submit, you will receive a pop-up acknowledgment of your registration. On November 19, after registration closes at 8:00 pm Central Time, you will receive the encrypted Zoom link.
Online Password Management with Bitwarden (Backwards). Privacy and security require that you use a password manager. One of the best online managers is the free, cross-platform, cross-device, open-source software Bitwarden. Join John as he works backward in his presentation. He will show users of other password managers how easy it is to migrate to Bitwarden if they decide it is a better password manager for them. Then, he will show users who don’t use a password manager how easy it is to build one using Bitwarden and how fast they can log into their accounts. John will also discuss replacing your not-so-secure password with a more secure one using Bitwarden. Lastly, he will talk about other features of Bitwarden and how the paid version differs from the free one he uses.
Scammers and Other Species, Part 3. The Other Species. This presentation unveils the insidious ways our privacy is compromised in an era of pervasive digital surveillance. The threats are numerous, from the collection and sale of personal data by data brokers to the tracking capabilities of our devices. However, individuals can reclaim control over their digital footprint and mitigate these risks by leveraging privacy-preserving tools like encrypted messaging and email apps, privacy-focused browsers, and VPNs.
We are looking forward to seeing you this Wednesday. Do you have a presentation you have given to your group? Please volunteer to give it at one of the WWs. Have you enjoyed a presentation at one of your local meetings? Let us know. Thanks, Judy & John (jtaylour@apcug.org — jkennedy@apcug.org)
Copyright © 2024 APCUG, All rights reserved.
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SenCom is on Facebook. See the access instructions below to find our Facebook Group page (SenComKC). Check it out! Share your favorite SenCom moment or interaction.
To access the group page:
- Log into your Facebook account.
- On your computer, click “Search Facebook,” left-hand corner (to the left of the home icon, on your mobile device, in the middle of the screen on top, then type SenComKC (not case sensitive).
- Search results should give you “Groups” and under that, you will see SenComKC. To the right of your search results, you should see a “Join” button. Click the button to request to be a member of this Facebook group.
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* Volunteers Needed *
SOS! NEEDED NOW! – Volunteers to help our Board of Directors fill the board positions of Vice President and Program Director. If interested, please email me or another Board Member. Our email addresses are on the “Board of Directors” page under the “About Us” menu. Remember, this is your organization; please help us keep it healthy and growing!!
LITTLE OR NO COMPUTER SKILLS REQUIRED.
Lou Risley, 913-298-0575 or sencomprez@gmail.com
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CDC information on the Coronavirus Outbreak →
GEEK FREE
By Joe Callison
13 November, 2024
End of Basic Auth for Email
Information copied from the internet for iPhone users:
To help keep Outlook personal email accounts secure, starting September 16, 2024, Microsoft will no longer support Basic Auth, the method in which a person provides only their username and password to sign into their account. As of September 16, 2024, Outlook will require that all those with a Microsoft email account use a mail or calendar app or the Outlook.com website that supports modern auth, such as the latest versions of Outlook, Apple Mail, or Thunderbird.
On your iPhone go into Settings ➜ Mail ➜ Accounts, and make sure your account appears there as Outlook, and not as Hotmail or Live. If it does, then you are fine. If it doesn’t, you may need to remove it from there and add it again using the Outlook option.
Don’t select configure manually. I noticed my Outlook.com account created using ‘Other mail account’ in the accounts selection window defaults to IMAP which is why it is constantly prompting me for password verification. When I attempted adding the exchange account before, I chose to configure it manually and it prompted for simple authentication which was giving me the same issue with multiple password requests. Selecting configure automatically or ‘Sign In’ will prompt you with the Microsoft ‘360-like’ authenticator. Enter your password and it should prompt you to save the new account functions. You will have to scroll down a bit and click accept on the Microsoft notification and you will receive an email from Microsoft about accessing functions in your mail app.
How to reconfigure Outlook on iPhone to use Modern Authentication
Solved: Mail app cannot connect to Outlook Exchange server after iOS 17 update – PUPUWEB
Outlook Not Working After iOS 18 Update? 7 Fixes – The Mac Observer
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FOR~GO
(For Geeks Only)
By Joe Callison
27 May 2024
Hiren’s BootCD Updated!
Much more than a decade ago, a favorite software tool of mine was Hiren’s BootCD. It was a bootable CD full of the most popular software utilities, some of which were pirated. The last official update was in 2012. Fans of Hiren’s BootCD have updated it, with only legal software utilities included, to a Windows 11 PE (preinstallation environment) for booting on modern UEFI computers. I have tried it out and was pleasantly surprised by the huge assortment of software utilities available. The only issue I have found is when using it on a computer with a high screen resolution (3K horizontal or higher), the icons and text can be quite small. Unfortunately, I could not find any method to change the display settings with the installed display driver, though you can add other drivers. I did find that the Accessibility settings in Windows PE could still be used to enlarge the icons on the desktop and the Taskbar settings could enlarge the icons on the Taskbar, which helped.
The download and instructions for preparing a bootable CD or USB can be found at Hiren’s BootCD PE
I used my trusty-free utility Rufus to create the bootable USB. Be sure to use the UEFI and not MBR setting and the NTFS format in Rufus for booting only on a modern computer system. The dual boot MBR/UEFI method for compatibility with older computers is much more complicated to create if not needed. Windows Home computers should be able to boot from a boot selection menu without getting into BIOS/UEFI settings to turn off Secure Boot or adding the USB drive as a trusted device in the Windows Boot Manager as may be required on computers initially set for Windows Professional. The keyboard key used to get the boot menu varies by manufacturer but is often briefly displayed on the screen during the boot process. You can also look it up for your computer or refer to articles such as Boot Menu Option Keys For All Computers and Laptops | [Updated List 2021] | Techofide
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Thank you for all that you do
Hi Joe,
We hope you and your team are achieving all your year-end appeal goals (and more!) Remember, as you use our tools during this busy time, our team and our partners are here to answer your questions and help you find the best resources to meet the moment.
Our team is in awe of how the Senior Computer Users Group of Greater Kansas City Association, Inc. is making its mark on the world. We see how you are continually asked to do more with less, yet still create meaningful change in your community. It is such a joy to engage with you and the over 325,000 nonprofits around the globe who are leveraging Microsoft resources to drive this positive impact.
Your stories inspire us every day and we are grateful for your tireless work.
Thank you again for all that you do, and we look forward to deepening our collaboration in the year ahead.
Regards,
The Microsoft Tech for Social Impact Team
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SenCom gratefully acknowledges the
following organizations for their support:
Google Fiber
City of Shawnee:
Parks & Recreation Department
Johnson County Library:
Central Resource, Oak Park
SENCOM IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT KANSAS CORPORATION
UNDER THE IRS 501(C)(3) RULES
