BENTSEN GROVE RESORT COMPUTER CLUB BULLETIN
Week of January 29, 2007

MEETINGS
MONDAY
ROOM 3 & 3R
BEGINNERS
PRESENTATION
9:30 AM

GENERAL
MEETING
10:30 AM

SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS:
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WEB PAGE
INVESTMENT CLUB		 Bill Wiese
Harold Buechly
Corinne Higbee		 580-3184
581-3180
585-5664

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UPCOMING EVENTS:    Please wear your badge!
Friday January 26, 2007, 4:00 PM Photography SIG By Claude Westfall
Monday January 29, 2007,   9:30 AM New User LESSON By Corinne Higbee 
Monday January 29, 2007, 10:35 AM Vista, Microsofts new operating system By Harold Buechly
Tuesday January 30, 2007, 2:00 PM, Web Page SIG at W5 By Harold Buechly

Claude Digital Photography Class by Claude Westfall
All classes on digital photography will take place on Fridays at 4:00 PM in the West Hall computer room. Since I-View software will be used all participants should download both the software and the Plugins/AddOns as soon as possible. The software site can be found listed in the BGRCC (www.bgrcc.com) under Top Down Loads. Copies will be available for anyone having problems downloading the software to their computers. All participants are urged to take some pictures and bring them to class to demonstrate several I-View features for editing and manipulating the pictures.

CorinneCorinne Higbee, New User Lesson
http://www.bcot1.com/

The Lesson 7 on the Google Tool bar will be continued in the beginner’s lesson. To review what we covered and you should try to do the following on your computer:
To install the Google tool bar, you can type into your address bar www.google.com this will take you to the Google search site.
Type Google toolbar in and click on search. You will be taken to the window with sites that you can download the tool bar.
Download the toolbar from the site that has the browser you are currently using. For example if you are using Internet Explorer then down load the toolbar for that at the Internet Explorer site at the top of the page.
If you are using Firefox then download the toolbar from that site on the Google toolbar page just a few places down the page.
Downloads should be made to the desktop and then installed by clicking on the download at the desktop. The installation program will tell you the steps to take until the installation is finished.
You should now see the toolbar on your browser (IE) when you bring it up.
Next you may want to add Google buttons to the tool bar. One we recommended was for Wikipedia.
Google toolbar API has a guide for making custom buttons for Google Toolbar 4 for Internet Explorer.
Do a Google search for Google toolbar API. Click on this page and look at the table of contents.
You can read the Introduction.
We can go to the webpage at http://www.wikipedia.org/ and see the site. Click on English to see the page and the search column on the left side of the page.
Go to http://toolbar.google.com/. Here you can easily add buttons to the Google toolbar that you might want to use.
See you Monday to continue on this lesson and answer any questions you want to discuss. Corinne
 
H. BuechlyVista, Microsofts new operating system By Harold Buechly
Microsoft will offically release VISTA on January 30 and will be broadly available as software packages as well with new computers. I have had a very small part in several pre-releases of the system through Microsoft's TechNet system and most recently through Microsoft's Mindshare Program.
Matt Hester (who visited our club twice last season) is part of the TechNet program. Their basic mission is to work with professionals throughout the country. They are always on the go, meeting with local IT professional clubs and organizations. TechNet also hosts their own presentations in major cities that is an all-day event.
The Mindshare program is involved with clubs and user groups such as BGRCC.
On Monday, January 29th at 10:30 AM. I am looking forward to sharing some of the highlights I discovered while using the new VISTA.
There will be door prize drawings at the end of the presentation.

The Windows XP Services Manager
Written by Dick Maybach, a member of the Brookdale Computer User Group, New Jersey
http://www.bcug.com/        N2nd(at)att.net
 Windows, like any multi-tasking operating system, is complex, with dozens of processes running, even when your PC appears to be idle. Some of these are independent, but many rely on other processes. In simpler times, our computers did only one thing at a time, but few of us want to return to the days when, for example, everything stopped during printing. Fortunately, XP provides some tools to help you understand what is going on behind your back, and one of the more helpful of these is its Services Manager. First, a caveat – this will help you figure out what only the benign processes are doing; it is not effective in identifying viruses and spyware, which often hide from you.
 To start the manager, right-click on My Computer and then left-click on Manage. When the Computer Management Window opens, click on Services and Applications, double-click on Services, and click on the Extended tab at the bottom of the window. (You will want to enlarge the Window to see all the information.) You can now see a list of all the services available on your machine. My laptop has about 100 services, about 60 of which are running as I write this article. If you single-click on a service, you can see its status and description. For example, on my laptop the ClipBook service has the following description, “Enables ClipBook Viewer to store information and share it with remote computers. If the service is stopped, ClipBook Viewer will not be able to share information with remote computers. If this service is disabled, any services that explicitly depend on it will fail to start.” The Manager also shows that this service is disabled on my laptop. You can learn more by double-clicking on the item. Again for ClipBook, the executable file is C:\Windows\system32\clipsrv.exe. Clicking on the Dependencies tab shows that this service depends on the Network DDE and Network DDE DSDM services and that no other service depends on it. You can learn more about these dependent services by clicking on their names in the window.
 The companies that provide the software supply the descriptions. Microsoft’s descriptions are helpful, but others can be less so. For example, Symantec SPBBCSvc is described as, “Symantec SPBBC.” In such cases, you can try a Web search for the name, although I ran out of patience before I found out what SPBBC does.
 As is common for Windows programs, you can sort the services list by clicking on a column heading. For example, clicking on Status, lists the started service last; clicking on it a second time shows them first.
 If you suspect that a service is causing problems, you can turn it off by double-clicking on its name and then clicking on the Stop button. This stops the service only for the current session; it will start again when you restart Windows. Thus, this is a safe way to trouble-shoot process problems. You permanently stop a process by double-clicking on its name and changing the Startup type from Automatic to Manual or Disabled. A disabled service never runs; and a manual one can be started by clicking the Start button. If you do this, keep a record so you can reverse anything that causes problem.
 While you have the Computer Management window open, look at its left pane. In particular, click on Disk Management (under Storage) to see a text and a graphical description of all the hard and removable disks on your system. This shows the partition sizes and types, what file system they contain, how full they are, and their health. If you right-click on a partition in the graphical display, you can explore it, change its drive letter, or (be careful) format or delete it.
 There is no restriction against any non-profit group using this article as long as it is kept in context with proper credit given the author. The Editorial Committee of the Association of Personal Computer User Groups (APCUG), an international organization of which this group is a member, brings this article to you. 

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