tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57678032011-04-21T15:00:28.972-05:00SVCA New User SIG<center><img src="http://salascove.com/fotos/sig1.gif" alt="SVCA New User SIG... Summaries and Proposed Agendas"></center><br><br>frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-1083727012602502942004-05-04T22:16:00.000-05:002004-05-04T22:34:25.340-05:00 10:19 PM 5/4/2004 New users SIG For May 06, 2004 at 7:00 P.M. 1. We welcome all new users, and discuss our wins and losses for the month, mostly wins,I hope. Then, we'll get to the good stuff, time permitting of course. Just kidding, take all the time you want. 2. Organize with virtual desktop manager, get simultaneous multiple views of your desktop, four fabulousfrankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-1083721101698490312004-05-04T20:38:00.000-05:002004-05-04T20:41:33.076-05:00 This space is reserved for the April 2004 summary for the New Users SIG. text text text stay tuned Frankfrankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-1079366522718205442004-03-15T11:02:00.000-05:002004-03-15T15:47:28.733-05:00Summary of the March New Users SIG meeting 2004, there were nine present plus the moderator ,Frank Frank started the meeting by telling how one of his external hard drives had corrupted data after an all night I/O problem, i.e. writing out to a file. Several others suggested putting the hard drive into the PC as a slave and he was able to recover most of the data on the hard drive. The drive frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-1078171001941722332004-03-01T14:56:00.000-05:002004-03-01T14:58:50.340-05:00This is the agenda for the March meeting of the New Users SIG. March 04,2004. Ultimate Boot CD v2.1 Run diagnostics from a CD, not from your ailing hard drive. VirtualLab Data Recovery Software v3.3.5 Recover data lost from almost anything short of a sledgehammer accident. ________________________________________________________________ CloneCD v4.0.1.10 $32.00 This is one strong and frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-1076966036950235202004-02-16T16:13:00.000-05:002004-02-16T17:44:20.076-05:00Feb. 05,2004 New Users SIG Attendees; Ed, Larry, Jim, John, Bob, Shirley, and Frank. Larry has had trouble with his email, he has had some bounce back that he didn't send. Ed explained that the virus does not have to be on your computer, but that your email address is being used to send emails and when they go to an undeliverable addresses, they bounce back to you. Your email address has been frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-1075844704367389552004-02-03T16:45:00.000-05:002004-02-03T16:46:44.170-05:00The agenda for the Feb. 6, 2004 New Users SIG. 7:00P.M. Meet and greet everyone. Answers and questions... and any good sucessess we had in the last month. Tips on using the control and the function keys How to buy a good and cheap computer. Can you believe the prices on hard drives and how do you pick one? Can you believe the prices on DVD burners and how do you pick one? Moving all the frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-1075230518747078102004-01-27T14:08:00.000-05:002004-01-27T17:23:41.013-05:00January 8, 2004 Meeting Attendees: Ed, Larry & Judy, George, Shirley & Frank Frank discussed how to hook up two hard drives to the external boxes that we purchased from NewEgg. Frank was not successful using the Memory Analyzer that Larry discussed at his last Internet SIG. Ed has an HP printer that shows up on his computer as a hard drive. Ed & George both said they use Encarta to map out tripsfrankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-107092950674906732003-12-08T19:25:00.000-05:002004-01-19T11:14:04.750-05:00New User SIG - December 6, 2003 In attendance: Judy Piper, Shirley Salas, Larry Piper, Jim Hernden, Ed Stroiwas, John Dashner, George Barrera, Robert Hughes, Bob Montgomery, Frank Salas Discussion was opened to member problems, discoveries and successful fixes. Ed started by talking about the USB2 PCI card he installed. He also said, 'Thank God for my backup I had on my external drive...' frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-1069356540173407722003-11-20T14:29:00.000-05:002003-11-20T21:38:53.920-05:00Meeting Summary of November 6 New User's SIG Meeting started at 7:00 p.m. Attended by Ed Stroiwas, Larry Piper, Judy Piper, John Dashner, Shirley Salas, George Barerra, Gerald Frede, John Dickinson, Carolyn Laurenz and Frank Salas, moderator. Frank cautioned everyone that the meeting was to be tape recorded. His hope was to have streaming audio on this blog. Any one could then listen to the frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-1068399048089884382003-11-09T12:30:00.000-05:002003-11-09T12:33:05.536-05:00Installing Microsoft BackUp Utility For Windows XP Home At the last New User SIG meeting I promised Fred that I would send him some detail on how to install his MS backup utility. Here it is.frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-1068392081958129972003-11-09T10:34:00.000-05:002003-11-09T10:34:39.533-05:00 Eclipse of the Moon 11.8.2003 frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-1065640350521270182003-10-08T14:12:00.000-05:002003-10-08T14:32:40.730-05:00SVCA New User SIG - Summary of Thursday, October 2, 2003 Meeting Attendees: John Dashner, Ed Stroiwas, Gerry Frebe, Robert Hughes, Shirley Salas, and moderator Frank Salas A. New hardware/software problems from members Question from Robert... wanted to know why drive A tells him his diskette is full with only 600 KB of data on it. Ed pointed out that drive A has a limit on number of files it canfrankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-1064972772902171352003-09-30T20:46:00.000-05:002003-09-30T20:46:12.393-05:00Agenda - New User's SIG - October 2, 2003 New hardware/software problems from members Brief overview of USB 2 HDD external enclosure Free MP3 CD maker How to tweak your XP OS to make it faster How to save real audio/video streams CD/DVD longevity Plus R DVD is better than minus Time permitting... a brief discussion of Freevo software, how to make your old computer into a TIVO. It's not easy but frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-1064938294326729272003-09-30T11:11:00.000-05:002003-09-30T11:38:33.743-05:00Summary of September 4, 2003 New User's SIG meeting Due to timing the moderator had only a minimal plan for the night. Thanks to John Dashner and Bob Montgomery it was a hard drive kind of night. Both were trying to modify their hard drives. John was trying to load Microsoft Windows ME onto a new 80 gig hard drive. During the night he tried several plans and none would load the OS. He was able frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5767803.post-1062687471521542882003-09-04T09:57:00.000-05:002003-09-04T10:30:12.496-05:00Our stated purpose is to help new PC users get familiar with their computers and become more productive while gaining enjoyment from the experience. We will do that. However, we will also range far and wide in the pursuit of more productive ways to use our PC's..... or not. The question arises... if you know your PC, how can you be more productive by coming here? Come and find out.frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17577592806780166943noreply@blogger.com0