NTPCUG meets monthly at
Northaven United Methodist Church,
11211 Preston Rd Dallas, TX 75230.
Park in the North lot and use the
side entrance facing Preston
Need to learn more about computers, the Internet, programming, how to use the latest software? Are you interested in keeping your knowledge skills on the leading edge? If you are, then NTPCUG is where you will want to be.
- Computer Users
- IT Professionals
- Developers
- Small Business Owners
Next Meetings
(all on 3rd Saturdays)
- May 16, 2026
- June 20, 2026
- July 18, 2026
- August 15, 2026
- September 19, 2026
- October 17, 2026
- November 21, 2026
- December 19, 2026
- …
In-person meetings are typically also held via ZOOM or Microsoft TEAMS teleconferencing.
Here is what we plan for our Saturday, May 16, 2026 meeting …
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PowerShell SIG
8:30–10:00 am — See details belo
Windows Tips & Tricks SIG
8:30 – 10:30 am – See details below
Artificial Intelligence (AI) SIG
9:30 – 10:30 am — See details below
(Online Only)
Special Presentation!!
10:30 – 11:30 am — See details below
NTPCUG members will receive the meeting details in the monthly flyer, usually 2+ days prior.
PowerShell SIG
(hybrid meeting – on-site and remote)
8:30 – 10:00
For May, SIG Leader Tom Sweet will review highlights from recent PowerShell Podcast episodes
- Splatting with Jess Pomfret
- VS Code with Paula Kingsley
We’ll also take a walk-through and critique some PowerShell code created by Tom with Claude.ai used to serve a calendar file from a local PC to test mobile calendar clients.
This SIG will meet both in-person at NUMC as well as virtually at https://bit.ly/3AMFsUy.
SIG Leaders: Tom Sweet
Windows Tips & Tricks
(hybrid meeting – on-site and remote)
8:30 – 10:30 am
In May, SIG co-leader Chuck Stark cover a few topics of interest–some utilities for email mgmt.
Co-leader Tom Sweet opine on the Microsoft Edge password manager problem.
Tom has also identified a number of very useful links, as follows:
https://www.sans.org/newsletters/ouch/power-passphrase-why-longer-beats-smarter
https://www.sans.org/newsletters/ouch/stop-password-pain-reliable-password-manager
https://www.sans.org/newsletters/ouch/hidden-dangers-forgotten-accounts-pays-clean-house
https://www.sans.org/newsletters/ouch/passkeys-simpler-safer-way-sign-in
https://www.sans.org/newsletters/ouch
As always, we’ll have Open Q&A.
Also, if you have a ‘troubled’ system (or your system has a troubled user!) please contact Chuck via email to arrange for a ‘Live, No Net’ troubleshooting session in front of the group.
This SIG meets this month both in-person at NUMC and remotely. If attending remotely, click https://bit.ly/3vEoTK5 .
SIG Leaders: Linda Eakle, Chuck Stark & Tom Sweet.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
(hybrid meeting – on-site and remote)
9:30 – 10:30 am (online only)
In May, Howard Harkness plans to discuss the following topics, online only:
1) The Jevons Paradox
2) AI Evolution & the Alignment Problem
3) Recent events in AI
4) Q&A
This presentation will be online only using Howard’s favorite tool, ZOHO. The online meeting link is https://meet.zoho.com/hlgd-xvp-hok, with Meeting ID: 1091553765 and Password: teUF7n (if needed).
The meeting will go live at about 9:15 to give some time to set up & visit.
SIG Leader: Howard Lee Harkness
Special Presentation
(hybrid meeting – on-site and remote)
10:30 – 11:30 am
Custom Text Tones for Your Smartphone, by John Krout (and other topics)
John actually has a number of topics in his presentation, starting with Text Tones, which is surprisingly an under-discussed topic. Join us.
This SIG meets this month both in-person at NUMC and remotely. If attending remotely, click https://bit.ly/3vEoTK5.
John’s bio is at https://ntpcug.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/Bio-–-John-Krout.pdf .
SIG Leader: Lisa Katzenstein