PPCUG News This Month Calendar Monday July 13, 1998 General Meetings Second Monday of the month 7 PM at Lawrenceville Library Windows 98 Route 1 and Darrah Lane. Upama Uniyal Telecom SIG Microsoft Corporation will present Last Wednesday of January, March, May, the newly introduced OS that: July, September and November -- WorksBetter and Plays Better Plainsboro Public Library, Plainsboro Municipal Complex. 7:00-7:45 PM: Tech Corner is Open Windows SIG Social Time Last Wednesday of February, April, June, 7:45 PM August, and October -- Plainsboro Public Library, Plainsboro Meeting Comes to Order Municipal Complex. 8 PM Featured Presentation Board Meetings At Third Monday of the Month 8 PM at Lawrenceville Library Lawrence Library Route 1 and Darrah Lane. Meetng Rooms A & B Board meetings are open to All. US Route 1 South & Darrah Lane, Lawrenceville, NJ P P P P P P Our New Meeting Location P P P P P Newsletter Deadline Articles for the newsletter are due the second Friday after the General Meeting. Articles are accepted all month on diskette, sent to [email protected] (ascii only), handed to the editor at meetings, or sent to the PPCUG PO Box (see below), in the following on-disk formats: Word for Windows 6.0, 7.0 or 97; Ami Pro / WordPro, or Ascii Text Published Monthly by: Princeton PC Users Group PO Box 291 Rocky Hill, NJ 08553 Sheldon Koepf addressing our members about On-line Investing and Portfolio management © Copyright 1998 July 1998 Digital Photo by Ed Weiss Vol. 14 No. 7 Annual Dues Rates Normal dues rate is $25. Coming Events New Members Only: after February, the rate is $2 per August 10, 1998 - Voice Recognition Software month times the number of Steve Shaw - Past PPCUG President & LAN Manager will demonstrate voice months remaining in the year. recognition software. Rescheduled from March. The reprinting of original material appearing in this newsletter in any other publication September 14, 1998 - Digital Photography must credit the Princeton PC Users Group Newsletter and/or the Princeton PC Users October 19, 1998 - Meeting to be announced Group and any authors shown. The editor and the Princeton PC Users Group assume Due to Columbus Day Holiday and the Library closure, the General meeting no responsibility or liability for damages will be held on the 3rd Monday. arising from the publication or non- publication of any article in this newsletter. November 9, 1998 - Meeting to be announced Opinions expressed in these articles are not necessarily those of the members of the Princeton PC Users Group. December 14, 1998 - Board Elections / Holiday Party Voice Mail System Presidents Message For information about SIGs, meetings, etc. call ........ 908-281-3107 by Paul Kurivchack To contact Board Members, use the E-Mail Addresses on page 7. Here we at mid year about Win98 was very good and can Board Members with the heat of the say even without all the hoopla, summer bearing down Win98 was selling very well. President: on us. We have moved successfully I was able to install Win98 in little Paul Kurivchack ........... 908-218-0778 into the Lawrence Library for our over an hour without any instruction Vice-President: general monthly meetings and are manual (Microsoft only provides Perry Weaver ............... 609-275-8220 seeing attendance climb. Also we CDs without manuals to their demo moved the SIG (Special Interest reps). I can tell you all that my Cyrix Secretary: Group) meetings to the Plainsboro P150+, starts faster, runs better and Len Clerke .................... 609-882-5577 Public Library on the last Wednesday hopefully by the meeting night I will Treasurer: of the month (See SIG Notes for have dual monitors up and running Tom Canavan ............... 732-422-9055 more details) and that seemed to (17 & 15). Currently I am writing Members-At-Large: work out fine. Therefore, 1998 is this and composing the newsletter on Kim Goldenberg ........... 609-671-9188 progressing nicely. Please make sure my new 17 monitor. Boy what a Ed Weiss...................... 609-586-1395 that you tell all of your friends and difference! So whatever you read, Vic Laurie ..................... 609-924-1220 associates that we are now in Win98 can and will make a differ- Vince Polignano ........... 609-586-1466 locations that are much more conve- ence on your PC. nient and would welcome them to A couple of final notes. Sol Libes Chairpersons our meetings would like once again to remind all of Disk Library: Sheldon Koepf presented some our AOL users to disable any anti- Tom Canavan ............... 732-422-9055 great information on using a PC as spaming controls if you would like to Hospitality: an investment tool. His hand out on receive his meeting notices. He is Bill Hawryluk ................ 609-655-0923 various investment software and on- continuing to get returned mail, line brokers is overwhelming. How- mainly from AOL accounts. Member Records: ever, his efforts will pay off big time We are always looking for articles Larry Lewis ................... 609-771-9536 for you in your search for the perfect for the newsletter. If you are using a Newsletter Editor: investment tools. We will make software package, brought down Paul Kurivchack ........... 908-218-0778 copies available to our members at something from the Net that would Program Coordinator: the next meeting or by sending an e- be of interest to our members, send Sol Libes ...................... 609-520-9024 mail to me with your name and it in. You can even e-mail it to me. I address. It seems that on-line will edit it and put it in. Telecommunications SIG: investing is a pretty hot topic and Lastly, since I will be on vacation Perry Weaver ............... 609-275-8220 maybe in the future, we could get the last week of July, the August Web Master: one of the brokerage firms to present newsletter will be a couple of days Jon Abolins at the Telecom SIG meeting. Please later than normal. Dont panic. It will let me know and we will plan it. get to you. Affiliated BBS: NJCC-BBS Julys meeting should prove to be See you all on July 13. Voice............................. 609-896-2799 an exciting event with the presenta- Internet (data) .............. 609-896-3191 tion by Microsoft of Windows 98. I FAX ............................... 609-896-2994 was involved with in-store demon- strations of Win98 during its intro- Web Site duction weekend and have been http://ww.ppcug-nj.org running it since June 20 without any problems. The reactions I received July 1998 2 PPCUG News The June meeting of the Board of Following a brief Q&A, Sol Libes Minutes for the Directors will be held on Monday, introduced the speaker for the June 15. evening, Sheldoln Koepf who spoke General Meeting The Telecom SIG and the Win- on using the PC as an investment dows SIG will be moving to the tool. Sheldon used a slide presenta- June 8, 1998 Plainsboro Library as their new tion to cover a lot of material and home. A phone line will be available provided a lengthy handout as well. By: Len Clerke, Secretary there. SIGS meet on the last Tips and tricks were given as well as President Paul Kurivchack opened Wednesday of the month. some suggestions for various soft- the meeting promptly at 7:45 with The July general meeting will ware packages. several announcements. feature a presentation of Windows The meeting closed at 9:25 p.m. The home page for PPCUG will 98. The August presentation will be soon be at its new address: on voice-recognition software. www.ppcug-nj.org. We are regis- September will feature digital pho- tered but some files still need to be tography. moved. click the file epts.exe. The program- netstat.exe is located in the MORE WINDOWS will ask you what kind of problem c:\windows folder. It comes with youre having and offer solutions various switches whose functions 95 TIPS (some may even work). can be obtained by entering netstat / Lfnback-utility for preserving long ? while in a DOS box. By: Vic Laurie file names when using DOS pro- Winipcfg-tells what temporary grams that do not recognize them. internet address has been assigned Some Little Known But Useful Go to d:\admin\apptools\lfnback. To to your computer by your ISP when Nuggets on the Windows 95 CD- use, copy the file lfnbk.exe to the you go on line. Yet another DOS ROM folder c:\windows. command giving internet informa- Tucked away in sometimes ob- Logview-for viewing *.log files. tion. The file winipcfg.exe is also in scure locations on the installation CD Various installations and processes the c:\windows folder. are a number of useful files and create a record of their activities in System monitor- a very useful utilities which are not part of the log files. Some of these files have utility which can be used to obtain a regular installation. If you wish to use the extension .txt and some have the variety of system information such them, you have to add them to your extension .log. The .txt files and as memory usage, swap file informa- system one by one. Among these are many of the .log files can be read tion, internet connection speeds, and the following. with a regular text program like more. The file sysmon.exe should be notepad. Some of the .log files, in the c:\windows folder. It is possible ClipBook- an improved version of however, are in a special Microsoft that it was not installed at the original Clipboard. With Clipboard only one binary format. To read these, the setup of Windows, in which case thing at a time can be stored.