• Tasks for the weekend – Nov 20, 2021 – It’s the annual geek clean up

    Posted on November 20, 2021 at 21:02 CST by • Comment in the Forums

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    It’s that time of the year that we start planning to visit with family and it’s also the time of year that I recommend reviewing the computer systems of your loved ones and make sure their browsers are not riddled with extensions they don’t use, notifications they don’t want. See if they want to try out the Brave Browser or the Duckduckgo search engine.

    Review for new programs you don’t recognize added to the Programs and features section. Make sure their antivirus is up to date and if they use a third party program, that the subscription is current. (I’m still a fan of defender. Even now Windows is fighting with third party antivirus vendors like Kaspersky). Check what feature release they are on and make sure they are not on Windows 10 2004 soon to be out of support.

    See if they are being offered Windows 11 and if you want to use the targetreleaseversion to block it or use the gui opt out. It will look like the image below in the Windows update panel.

    You can click on that “stay on Windows 10 for now”.

    So when you visit loved ones, do you end up fixing their computers?  What are your tasks that you do?

     

     

     

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