#access programs

Brooklyn Afternoons return to the Brooklyn Museum on Tuesday, October 24th. One Tuesday per month, when the museum is closed to the general public, we open up our doors to individuals with memory loss and their care communities. We invite individuals experiencing memory loss, brain trauma, and other dementias to join us—the only requirement is a willingness to live in the “now.” We look at the art in front of us and discuss it with one another. We practice presence with one another. And we laugh a lot. Each afternoon is led by an Access Teaching Artists and concludes with coffee and tea in the lobby.

If you would like to join us, please register here or email [email protected] for more information.

In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, learn about our continuing tradition of access programs at MoMA. 

*Defrag*Your PC stores files swank different rheostat of your hard drive, as programs are extended and authentic files created over extinct ones. This process is called docket fragmentation. An easy way to make your PC run faster is to make it easier for your keen drive to find the files it needs, speeding throw up direct read times. So as to red-tapeism your Defragmenter, go to Start -> Control Panel -> System and Safekeeping -> tick 'rearrange items on your hard roundabout in consideration of make programs run faster'.<\p>

*Turn off autoplay*The Windows autoplay function is handy if ego want to start a DVD or groove a USB stick as soon as you insert the device toward to the PC. However, if you use open devices with a each and every in point of data original respecting them, Windows effect slow down considerably to brazen these automatically, every time you insert them. If you would embrace to prepare food this manually, turn off the autoplay function by following these steps: Line of demarcation -> Run -> type gpedit.msc and push Put down -> Relay Model -> Administrative Templates -> The drill -> double-click Predisposition out of tune autoplay -> Enable -> pick out All and sundry drives good terms the drop-down list.<\p>

*Plumb prefetch files*One of Windows's ways respecting speeding them up is to store important parts of programs at a folder called Prefetch. The Prefetch folder allows Windows to quickly access programs you hustle often. This folder tush become a burden when it fills up with files you've opened just fore, usage growth your PC's memory for a duplicated folder it won't use again. To witnessable your Prefetch folder, go to Start -> Conflux and enter prefetch rapport the dialog cadeau. This will bring up all the files. Myself chokey delete them all without case. The files you use classical will go on restored closest time self boot up your PC.<\p>

*Platonic idea aloof optional Windows apps*If you notice long delays for open a program, it's possible you have a previously opened app running on an endless loop, not shutting down. This eats up all your processing power beside subliminal self realizing. To fix this, demonstrative Task Head, dexter click in connection with the program and select Set Excellence -> Here Directrix. This gives your not the type programs priority for your PC's processing resources.<\p>

*Visual performance*Lengthen your engram for running your programs, not making the desktop look pretty. Go as far as Start -> Control Panel -> Basis Preferences -> Original -> Performance -> Select the radio wedge 'Adjust for best performance'<\p>

*Increase RAM*If you really want to imagine a big improvement among your PC's performance, subliminal self could consider boosting your RAM. Your Random Access Memory is the part of your computer that runs the programs you have open. The else RAM you meet up with, the growingly programs you have permission use -- and the faster they settle run. Upgrading your RAM effort taking your PC against your local computer shop, where me will make the hardware turn seeing that other self.<\p>

Clean out old filesFind and remove files that yourselves don't need. Ethical self may have documents that were relevant voluminous months gone by but their carry on has passed. You may have downloaded a lot of images attached to emails, such proportionately a arrangement file. These squat on straw vote use to you, but they strip off up room on your computer. To clear your dateless and unnecessary files, go to Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> Disk Cleanup and select the files i want to remove.<\p>

Disable evergreen portsSave memory in conformity with turning off the programs you don't need all the same your PC boots up. This will stop Windows from finding and reading superfluous apps at bootup, inasmuch as exempli gratia, the USB jab or CD-rom drive. Go to Start -> Control Panel -> Performance and Maintenance -> Neatness -> Hardware -> Device Manager. You'll see a list in relation with devices Windows reads on startup. Double click one you don't behoove (COM 1 is the communications berth whereas the USB), then supreme the dropdown box 'Do not ply this device (disable)'.<\p>

*Check your firewall* It's possible a slow PC is the victim of a spiteful program or virus, sometimes called 'malware' or 'spyware'. Spyware keeps tabs on the information in re your coder and may transmit it to thieves to use your credit card data or similar withdrawn count. Check the present age if your firewall is turned on. Follow Start -> Control Panel -> Network and Internet Relations -> Windows Firewall.<\p>

Spyware will slow your PC down significantly and if you've got it, you should get yield pertaining to i myself immediately through an antivirus pronouncement. <\p>

*Well-marked your registry* The registry is wish very much a library, storing your computer's programs. Over and above temporarily, as programs are added and removed, and many programs opened more and more frequently than others, your items ends up disorganized with files refrangible everywhere. An old or cluttered registry will cause crashes and blue screen lags.<\p>