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to Easyworship in previous articles. It is one of the programs I use and the clue is in the name! Easyworship 2009 is commonly in use, but over a year ago it was completely rebuilt and the latest incarnation is Easyworship 6. Personally, at present I prefer to stick with Easyworship 2009, probably because I am so used to its dashboard, but I am toying with its successor. Meanwhile, it seems I am not alone as I have received and am still receiving questions arising from the use of Easyworship 2009 with Windows 10. So I contacted Softech Software Inc, publishers of Easyworship, and they responded to the effect that Easyworship 6 works fine with Windows 10, but the 2009 version was not built with drivers for Windows 10. But all is not lost! Windows 10 incorporates a way to use programs built for older versions of Windows. Here’s the way to do it which worked for me, so I hope will work for others:
Boot up Windows 10. Click to open File Explorer on the taskbar. In the next window, click to open This PC on the left hand menu. In the resulting window, click Computer on the top menu, then click on System Properties near the top right.
computers for their projecting requirements.
In the subsequent window, click near the top left to open Control Panel. In the Control Panel, click on Trouble Shooting and on the resulting window click on the option Run programs made for previous versions of Windows and then follow the onscreen instructions.
And now back to a common PowerPoint® query. When giving a PowerPoint presentation, is there any way to undertake certain actions without having to go back to the home screen? Yes, there is, by using these keyboard shortcuts that work whilst a presentation is in progress: To move to a specific slide type in the slide number followed by Enter. To black out the screen type B; repeat B to return to presentation. To go directly to the end, press Esc. To move immediately back to the first slide, hold down both left and right mouse buttons for two seconds.
HDMI laptops
It transpires that in recent months some establishments have invested in new laptop
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But for some, the new hardware has brought with it a difficulty regarding HDMI. This is because the latest generation of laptops are fully high definition machines. The readers who contacted me all explained that their church systems were VGA (analogue) and they were not intending to upgrade in the near future. Fortunately, the remedy is to obtain a simple converter. Various converters are available although they do not seem to be stocked by the retailers that I use. But an online search brought me into contact with a Chinese manufacturer, Tendak,
www.tendak.com, whose main distributors are Amazon,
www.amazon.co.uk. To try them out, I purchased two items. The first, an HMDI to VGA adaptor, Tendak catalogue number AV-072-BK-UK. This is about the size of a typical USB memory stick, but plugs into the laptop HDMI socket to convert the output to VGA. It worked perfectly, so problem solved! The other item I acquired was the reverse, a VGA to HDMI adaptor, Tendak catalogue number AV-047- BK-UK. This also worked, so worth
mentioning as some users may require to use this variant. In the foregoing I have endeavoured to answer questions fired at me over the past few months, mostly concerning the infancy of Windows 10. Some of the topics, eg, PowerPoint, will also be helpful to users of other systems.
Microsoft has announced that they expect to release the latest version of Windows 10 in or around August 2016. Hopefully, the information in this article will still apply.
Eric A. Thorn Email:
EricAThorn@msn.com
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