BENTSEN GROVE COMPUTER CLUB
BULLETIN
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MEETINGS MONDAY ROOM 3R BEGINNERS MEETING GENERAL MEETING |
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INTEREST GROUPS: If
you would like to meet in a small group to discuss one of the following
subjects, contact the following people.
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you would like to lead a SIG, discuss it with Val. Our bulletin is also available on line by visiting http://www.bgrcc.com/ and clicking on bulletin. You may also select bulletins by its subject |
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John Abbott….424-0537 Val Barron……519-2319 Harold Buechly.519-7375 |
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UPCOMING EVENTS The Pizza SIG will meet the third Monday of each month throughout the season at Mr. Gatti’s |
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NEXT MEETING
03-03-03 at 9:30 & 10:30 - 11:30 |
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A View From The Stool By Val Barron Transferring dial-up information between computers - Element K Journals
MSCONFIGWith Windows, Microsoft includes a very useful utility called the “Microsoft System Configuration Utility”. In a future meeting we will explore some of the many ways to use this program. If you are not familiar with MSCONFIG there is an introduction to it at: http://www.netsquirrel.com/msconfig/ .
Conquer Hard Drive Hassles-ContinuedIn the January 27 Bulletin I mentioned a free utility from Western Digital to test hard drives. One of our members said that it didn’t seem to work with Windows XP. I have finally been able to try it on a Windows XP machine myself and it didn’t work for me either. After booting with the floppy that you create, this XP computer hangs requiring the removal of the floppy and a push on the reset or power off button. Since it is advertised to work with XP, I’ll try to find out what the problem is and report further. Able’s Restaurant
Found on a wall plaque at Able’s
Restaurant in (Broadway at Hilderbrand)
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Last week’s
program ( Ron’s demonstration reviewed several programs that may be used to make our computer experiences more rewarding. If your computer is not working hard to download advertising while you are on line, it will work much faster on what we want to view. All too often, a part of our computer is taken over by an outside computer. This includes our processor, hard drive, memory and internet connection. The following programs are free to download and free to use by non-commercial users (for home use) SpyBot available from http://www.safer-networking.org click on download, click on download here follow instructions and install it. SpyBot - Search & Destroy searches your hard disk for different kinds of internet threats – including spy and adware, keyloggers and your usage tracks (for example your browsers page history). Spybot-S&D can also fix some system problems. Lavasoft Add Aware 6 available from http://lavasoft.element5.com . Under
support click on download, select a site to download from, (Download.com
etc.), click download now, follow instructions and install it. Add Aware 6
will scan your memory, registry, hard, removable
and optical drives for known Datamining, aggressive
advertising, Parasites, Scumware, Keyloggers, selected traditional Trojans, Dialers, Malware, Browser hijackers, and tracking components. Zone Alarm available
from www.zonelabs.com . Scroll to the
bottom of the page and click on free download. Follow instructions and
install it. ZoneAlarm. Do not click on “Zone
Alarm PRO” or “Zone Alarm PRO 30 day free trial” unless you want to pay for
it, It's free for personal and non-profit use (excluding government and
educational entities). ZoneAlarm is compatible with
Microsoft® Windows® 98/Me/NT/2000 and XP. Kill Popup 1.2
Available from http://download.com.com/3000-2381-7903554.html?tag=pop
. Kill Popup is a very simple (and small ~44Kb)
program that is very effective at doing what its name says, sometimes it
might be a little too effective. Sometimes the program won't let you click on
links that open up a new browser window. So if you click on a link and it
doesn't seem to work, hold [Ctrl] and click on the link again. Ron also emphases how important it is to keep your anti-virus programs up to date. If you would like to review download procedures you may take a look at http://my.awesomenet.net/~bentsen/010212w.htm which takes you to our bulletin of Feb. 12, 2001. |
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A note from John Abbott Here's an Addendum to the
embedding of large URL's in e-mail. Since a large number of folks don't
have Word, and compose in AOL or Outlook, it is useful to know that one can
create a short link at http://makeashorterlink.com
where http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/home/index.jhtml ;jsessionid=RDQTXPQGXXOQACTEQENR5VQKMSARUIPS?_requestid=13287. becomes http://makeashorterlink.com/?I40422B83
which is pretty easy to handle too :O) Another note that I need to make is that I accepted a call to be the pastor of a church on a full time basis today. I will be starting in a week and although I will still be around about as much, I may be a lot slower getting to computer problems. I don't want to discourage anyone from calling me, but they need to know that I may not always be in control of my time as I am now. |
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