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Meetings

When: 2nd Sat. of the month, 9:30 am. Next Meetings: Nov 8, Dec 13, Jan 10

Where: St. Augustine Center, Villanova University Click here for Directions to Villanova

November 2008

Our main presentation this month will be a continuance of last month’s presentation – an overview of Microsoft Vista.

John D will continue to discuss Vista’s installation, features, and configuration as they affect all users of this OS. Again, here’s a list of the mini subjects that will be presented:

Vista installation options & repairs
Unique MacBook driver installation and third-party driver detective software
Unique dual-mode activation on the MacBook
Administrator account setup
Networking & CIFS file sharing – network discovery & public / private networks
Vista 2-way firewall
Selecting a free Anti-Virus
Taskbar & start menu config including quick start menu
Personalization & setting common desktop shortcuts
Sidebar use and de-activation
WEI - Windows Experience Index
Disk cleanup & defragmentation
UAC – User Account Control
Impact of UAC on rootkits
Task scheduler – the need to use for some auto-start programs
IE7 config including protective mode
Configuring explorer including hidden & super hidden files
Screen saver & power management settings – changing the stop button
Reliability & performance monitor
Crash management
Vista search & indexing
Powertoys & tweaking Vista
Windows Mail, contacts & calendar
Installing other software on Vista
Sidebar discussion of Bluetooth

To do justice to this Vista presentation will likely require more than one meeting.

Come out and join us for our November meeting. It’s a chance to learn how others are using and managing their computers and digital equipment.

Presentations and Topics

Our greatest strength as a group is our combined knowledge and interest in all things computing. Watch this space for the latest topics that keep us talking.

Gspace & Google Notebook June 2008
Disk Cleaning & Performance.pdf May 2008
Google Docs Apr 2008
MythTV Mar 2008
Magic Jack - Internet Telephony Jan 2008
SpeedFan (pdf) Nov 2007
Videos! Oct 2007
KnoppiLights Upload Sept 2007
Disk File Cleanup (pdf) July 2007
Open Office Impress Presentation (pdf) Apr 2007
Open Office Intro (pdf), Sondigo Sirocco Sound Bridge (pdf) Feb 2007
E-Books and Readers (pdf) Nov 2006
Using the Google Search Engine (pdf) Sept 2006
Organizing and Protecting Personal Files (pdf), Using the VMPlayer March 2006
Designing Web Pages Febuary 2006
Anti-Malware2 (pdf), January 2006
Topic Archives

Audio Archives

Listen to our Meetings! We now have recordings of the monthly meetings (in mp3 format) available for download.

Aug 2008 QA/Items (29.3MB), Presentation (24.6MB)
July 2008 QA/Items (14.4MB), Presentation (17.9MB)
June 2008 Items and Q/A (21.1MB), Presentation (8.2MB)
May 2008 QA/Items (19.7MB), Presentation (19.6MB):
Apr 2008 QA/Items (16.2MB), Presentation (8.6MB)
Mar 2008 QA/Items (17.0 MB), Presentation (16.7 MB), Advanced Topic (15.2 MB)
Feb 2008 QA/Item (17.9 MB), Presentation (18.7 MB), Adv Topic (11.6 MB).
Jan 2008 QA/Item (9.3MB), Presentation (7.9MB), Advanced Topic (5.3MB)
Earlier Meetings

Monthly Newsletters

For all the latest news on The Main Line Computer Users Group check out the Newsletters - now Browser Friendly!

Our Newsletter is published monthly and a paper version is mailed to all registered members. The Newsletter index is a great resource for finding and keeping track of all the valuable tid-bits our members know and share.

Commodore and Amiga Links

For many of us our computing roots are closely associated with Commodore computers. We maintain this list of links to keep up with the vibrant community that is still quite active.

TIFCU: The Internet For Commodore Users
The UnOfficial CMD Product Page
VideoCam Services (Rod and Gaelyne Gasson)
Craig Bruce's Page
UseNet Newsgroup comp.sys.cbm
www.amiga.com
www.amiga.org

Steering Committee

Last modified: Sun Nov 16 16:09:33 2008