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October-November 2010 October-November 2010 Inside Past meetings damaged or has a substance Space the Final Frontier ................3 October I showed how I was on it. ClearCloud ...................................3 converting my VCR tapes over to Control All Functions in Windows DVDs. Things to remember about 7 with “God Mode” .....................4 doing this is that the tapes will not Free Online Scanners Detect and last forever. The quality of the tape Remove Malware .......................6 (and thus your conversion) will Crabby demystifies Excel terms ...9 depend on the: Clean Your Hard Drive of Junk Files • Number of times you have and Improve Performance .........12 played the tape (wearing it LiberKey - Free Programs Run out so to speak). From a Flash Drive ..................15 • Speed and amount of video Technology – 2010 in Review ....17 you have on the tape. Smart Computing Tips Even if you have not played that There are several units that will Our Most Common Tech Calls ..19 soccer tape from 15 years ago of help you convert VCR tapes over What To Do When You Can’t little Johnny making the goal if you to digital format. In fact there are Access A Web Site ..................21 have it recorded on EP with 4 hours direct to DVD units that can cost Word & Excel Tips .....................23 on it. Chances are your video may from $90-$2,000. Roxio, Honest Computer Books .......................24 not be great, but I would still try. Technology, Pinnacle Express, Discovering Windows 7 ............27 A couple of websites I found had ULead all make unit that you just Stickies: Another Useful Utility ..30 some good advice, albeit things we connect to the VCR out jacks and Interesting Press Releases ........32 probably won’t really do. connect to the PC via USB. Key Website Discoveries ..................35 • Try to give tapes 24 thing is what software comes with Control Panel ......................36 hours to adjust to extreme it for the capture. Managing web browser toolbars 38 temperature and climate If one end of the tape becomes 2010 Newsletter Articles ...........39 changes. undone you can super glue it back Fountain Valley Branch Library • Fast-forward & rewind onto the spindle. Take the screws 17635 Los Alamos, tapes every 2 years to out of the cassette and carefully Fountain Valley prevent sticking. put the bottom away from the top. 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. • If you play a tape and Make note of where everything is the heads get dirty after and how they will go back together. Future Meeting Dates cleaning the Back to 2nd Saturday heads and January 8, 2011 you reinsert February 12, 2011 that tape and March 12, 2011 the heads get dirty Membership again is a Annual membership is $20 for sign that the indivduals: $5 for each additional tape is either family members. Board of Directors Take the super glue and apply a Results of the October Elections President small amount to the spindle and 2010 to 2012 Directors Terry Currier press the tape leader back onto the Gerald Bretts winnersug(at)aol.com glue – not with your fingers. Terry Currier Vice-President Steve Dela Steve Dela For the November meeting Rebecca Feinstein (1 year term) stevede(at)aol.com We went on at field trip to the Max Lockie Secretary Microsoft Store 578 The Shops Louise McCain Gerry Bretts at Mission Viejo, Mission Viejo. gbretts(at)juno.com They sell both hardware and For 2011 Elections Treasurer software, and really emphasize Ethel Kamber Max Lockie service. They gave use a lesson on Ken Kamber mlockie(at)pobox.com Windows 7 with tips and tricks. Ed Koran One of the best things about the Robin Theron Board Members Microsoft store is if you buy a Rebecca Feinstein Ethel Kamber computer from them, they will ethel(at)kamber.fastmail.fm help you set it up and make sure Officers stay the same Ken Kamber everything is working fine before President: Terry Currier kenkamber(at)mail.com (if you want) you leave. Vice President: Steve Dela Louise McCain Other services they have: Secretary: Gerry Bretts LMcEnterprises(at)ol.com Answer Desk Treasurer: Max Lockie Ed Koran They can answer technical edk246(at)aol.com questions, perform diagnostics and Making use of those email that get Robin Theron make repairs on-site. sent to me (my sisters) and they rtheron(at)gmail.com expect me to forward on - which I Editor Personal Shopping don’t. editor(at)windowsusers.org Whether you’re researching PCs or shopping for a gift, our experts can WINNERS, contributors and help. They can answer questions, editors of Notepad do not assume offer advice and give hands-on liability for dameages arising from product demonstrations. the publication or non-publication Personal Training of any advertisement, article, edito- Get the most out of your PC and rial, or other item in this newsletter. learn at your own pace. From All opionions express are those of emailing photos and surfing the the individual authors only and do web to making movies and video not necessarily represent the opion- chatting, you’ll learn in a relaxed ions of the WINNERS, its Board of and informal setting. Directors, the WINNERS Notepad, Classes and Events or its editors. Learn the simple secrets to making WINNERS a computer association, magic happen on your PC, Xbox is a volunteer organization provid- 360 or Zune in one of our free ing a forum for sharing informa- classes. tion and experiences related to Featured Products Windows-based software, and Check out the latest technology hardware, encouraging ethical use innovations—from PCs and of computers and software, offering software to Xbox 360 and 3D. service to our communities. Space the Final Frontier ClearCloud By Terry Currier From GFI the company that brought Sunbelt (VIPRE, Counterspy) ClearCloud is a free service that checks We’ve all heard, or said it – my hard drive is so big every website address your computer is trying to I’ll never run out of room. I had two 250GB drives in access, whether you’re browsing the internet, clicking my main computer setup as RAID 0. I hated the RAID a link in an email, or a program “under the hood” 0, but it came setup at that. It came with Windows XP trying to communicate with servers for information or with the promise of getting a Vista upgrade. I received updates. the Vista, but never put it on. Eventually I did put Windows 7 on the computer using PC Mover. But, I ClearCloud prevents you from being able to access was still not satisfied. If you take a lot of video with an known bad websites, sites that will download HD video camera it can add up to a lot of space used. malicious files to your computer. Even better, With our eight day vacation to Walt Disney World ClearCloud prevents you from being able to access I came back with 24GB of video and pictures. The malicious websites that you may not even know folder I kept all videos was over 200GB and that did your computer is trying to access — and it prevents not include many that I put onto an external drive. potentially nasty programs from “phoning home” and secretly communicating between your computer and I brought a 1.5TB drive at the computer swap meet cybercriminals. several months ago and finally got aground to installing it. Many programs legitimately phone home to get I backed up the complete drive using Rebit to one software updates. Microsoft Windows and Adobe drive, and made sure I backed up the data twice. First Reader are two common programs that will check to one external drive I used the Seagate Manager, to for current updates. ClearCloud knows the websites a second I copied the data directly to another external accessed by over a million safe programs and provides drive. I put Windows 7 Ultimate on the new drive, and free passage to these sites. have been adding programs slowing making sure I want them rather than just putting everything back How does ClearCloud know which websites are on. I even held up on installing my Adobe Premiere/ malicious? Photoshop Elements 7 figuring I would purchase ClearCloud is part of the DNS network, and has access version 9 when it went on sale. I brought it at a Black to every URL in the world. When you type in the Friday (online) sale and got it two weeks later. URL in your browser and click “Go” or “Enter” your Other software I put back on – VIPRE antivirus, browser sends the URL to ClearCloud. ClearCloud Faststone graphics viewer, Total Recorder, Snagit, looks it up in a table, checks it against the list of bad CyberLink’s my Microsoft Office 2003. I also websites, and if it passes, sends back the numeric IP updated my Applian Programs which was well worth address so your browser knows where to go to get the it. web page. All in milliseconds. As to my scanning old photos for restoring and backup – I just finished the first of 8 photo books of which If ClearCloud discovers that it’s a bad URL, it sends most of them fit onto a CD for backup. My VCR tapes back the IP address of our webpage that informs you I am recording the last five of those and will then edit about the malicious site. them for putting onto DVDs. I figure I should be done about 2013. http://clearclouddns.com/Setup/ Control All Functions in Windows 7 on published reports, I cannot recommend that users utilize this function on Vista.
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