BENTSEN
GROVE COMPUTER CLUB BULLETIN
Month
of May 2003
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John Abbott….424-0537 Val
Barron….…519-2319 Harold Buechly.519-7375 Claude Westfall 580-4042 |
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Eli Terrell Newboles, 75, died |
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Barron’s Bytes By Val Barron Quiet Time At Bentsen Grove The park has just about slimmed
down to its summer strength with just a few occupied houses per street.
The weather has been mixed with sun and clouds most of the time.
Temperatures have ranged from the mid eighties to the mid nineties with
the humidity running below 50 percent. One evening a couple of weeks
ago there was a serious wind and rainstorm. There was little damage in
the park; most of the damage was across the river in downtown Thanks To Those Who Serve When we tried to express
appreciation for those who help with our computer club I forgot to add
an item to Harold Buechly’s
resume. Harold has
served as our club treasurer since the first dues were collected. These
dues have provided us with a high quality professional projection
screen and a fast new computer. Of course thanks go to each of you
members for your financial support of our club and to Harold for the big
job of keeping track of our members and the dues money. Alternative to eCleaner Club member Richard Fait has
suggested StripitMail
as an alternative to eCleaner
for cleaning all those >>>>>>
things on your e-mail forwards. StripitMail
V 0.99h is available from http://www.webattack.com/Freeware/comm/fwmiscmail.shtml Dave Watkins who usually visits
the park for a couple of weeks at Christmas has suggested Stripper
whose formal name is Mr. Ed’s Simple E-Mail Bracket
(>) & Message Board Reply Indentation (:) Stripper v3.0
is available at http://www.geocities.com/cj1alt/stripper.html I have not used either of these
but Richard and Dave are happy with them. E-Mail etiquette If you enjoy sharing your e-mail
jokes and inspirationals
you should clean them up, copy them into a new letter then mail them to
yourself with the intended recipients as BCC’s
(Blind Courtesy Copies). Don’t forget that the first
rule of sharing this type of e-mail is: Never send
them to anyone who has not expressed a desire to receive them.
We all think that if we get a good laugh from a message or enjoy an
inspirational message that our friends will enjoy it too. This may very
well be the case but they may just consider these messages as SPAM
and delete them without reading them. Pop-under Ads While typing this column on
April 29 with my pop-up stopper set to medium the following pop-under
was found on my desktop. Some of the card players among you might find
this interesting: GreatUSAflags.com http://www.greatusaflags.com/product_info.php?products_id=94&aff_id=14&aff_sub_id=116 Windows XP Service Configuration Club member Claude Westfall has
uncovered some very useful information about “Windows XP
services” for XP users at BlackViper.com. This allows all
sorts of network related & other services to be disabled that
you do not need. Keep them from loading, & you'll save RAM
& boost system performance. If
you don’t know what this, study it carefully but
don’t do anything you don’t understand. Services
are accessed by selecting Start, Run & type in “services.msc” without
the quotes, & press Enter. http://blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm Happy Birthday Ten years ago in April a child
was born. Computing would not be what it is today without this child
and his relatives. I think you will enjoy visiting a couple of sites
for some information on this event. http://zdnet.com.com/2251-1110-997292.html More info http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-996652.html Getting Around Microsoft
Internet Explorer with the Scroll Mouse To go back to the previous
pages: Shift + Scroll Wheel Down To go forward: Shift + Scroll
Wheel Up To Decrease Font Size: Ctrl +
Scroll Wheel Up To Increase Font Size: Ctrl +
Scroll Wheel Down Useful shortcuts that you can
use in Microsoft Internet Explorer To move your cursor into the
Address bar: ALT+D To move back a page: BACKSPACE
key To switch between a
regular-sized Internet Explorer window and full-screen mode: F11 Happy
computing and a very happy summer, Val valbarron@att.net phone
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Q. My browser is supposed to be Java enabled but I can not get any Java applets to work so far. Any suggestion? A. To get Java working in Outlook Express, first download the latest. Start at BGRCC.com http://www.bgrcc.com/ (Where else would one start from?), click on TOP DOWNLOADS, download and install the latest and greatest Java. To make sure Java is enabled go to Internet Explorer, click on tools, click on internet options, click on advanced, scroll down to Java, make sure Java is checked. Go to Microsoft VM make sure all 3 boxes are checked. Microsoft has been issued a court order to support Java after fighting it for a year or more. I understand that it is now a part of the latest service pack to upgrade XP. Harold |
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