Today's meeting was attended by around 45 people. JimH took the chair and I volunteered to collate the notes. Please post a follow up message to me about any of the topics by Friday and I'll collate them and post on the weekend. 1. Adaware - TrevorF When running Adaware it always found the following two items which seemd to me very much unwanted: Gator plugin, and Double click. I used Adaware to remove them but they kept coming back. I finally noticed that they both referred to drive F: which is a CD ROM reader and in that drive is a game called Shangai 2nd edition. The penny finally dropped and I've told AdAware to treat them as OK. 2. Clock / Fractal / Stuff demo - JohnS 3. No dial tone - BillP When I tried to use internal modem on my new computer (after setting up dial in etc I could not get past a "no dial tone" message. The meeting made several suggestions - check country, run modem diagnostic etc- I tried these all to no avail. Gordan came over tuesday arvo and after a short while had a look at the back of my computer. I had plugged phone line into the network card(network not yet established). Plugged into modem and eh presto-SUCCESS Bill P 4. Withdrawn after item 5 onward were listed 5. Event log - more than meets the eye - Derek Derek informed the meeting that by trial and error he had found that the inability to run the Task Scheduler Service, and hence the Norton AV Live Update, was linked to having disabled the Event Log to overcome the veeery slow shutdown. It appears the options are slow shutdown with Task Scheduler and Live Update, or fast shutdown but DIY scheduling and updating. 6. My real baby - Chess 7.a. Drive rescue b. XP lite c. EZ anti virus - CharlieK Charlie extolled the virtue of a program called Drive Rescue which enabled him to extract data from a hard drive which had failed and could not be read by windows Explorer (or indeed be recognised by Windows). 1) Unfortunately Drive Rescue, while Freeware is no longer supported by its author and appears difficult to find on the web. Charlie will provide it on floppy to Allan Mikkelsen who will upload it to the ftp server for members to download. 2) Charlie also advised of a significant vulnerability for XP users which is fixed by the major update SP1, however this may not be easily available to all users so Gibson Research has included a patch just for this flaw on their web site, The address is http://grc.com/xpdite/xpdite.htm 3) Charlie had already posted details of his problem in downloading updates for ez Anti Virus under windows XP. Following feedback it appeared that users using win 98 had no problems but all (both) XP users had problems. There was no solution forthcoming at the meeting, but hold the presses!!! Subsequent fiddling has shown that by entering "proxy.tip.net.au:8080" in the proxy field of the Source Select frame provides the solution. Works for me and also for the one other member who has XP. The secret was in providing the port id separated by a colon. 8. New PC with XP trouble with NVIDIA display driver - Barb I have a new PC with Windows XP and it has been back to the supplier three times since I bought it 6 weeks ago. The problem seems to be with the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX440 video card or driver which causes it to crash as often as once every ten minutes. The advice I got was to take it back to the shop and request a new and possibly different card as there is a known problem with XP and NVIDIA. As it is still under warranty I will send it back and not attempt any of the other suggestions such as a known patch. I may have better news next fortnight. Barbara B 9. Virus ? - RodS 10. USB hubs - Chess 11. A weekend at the markets - BillP 12. XP task bar issue - RobC 13. An erratic clock - Elizabeth From BobS This wasn't on the agenda but I thought it might be OK to include it in the minutes to raise a laugh, "An airplane was about to crash; there were 5 passengers on board but only 4 parachutes. The first passenger, said "I'm Kobe Bryant, The best NBA Basketball player, the Lakers need me, I can't afford to die." So he took the first pack and left the plane. The second passenger, Hillary Clinton, said, "I am the wife of the former president of the United States, I am the most ambitious woman in the world, I am also a New York Senator and a potential future president." She just took the second parachute and jumped out of the plane. The third passenger, George W Bush, said, "I'm President of the United States of America, I have a great responsibility being the leader of a superpower nation. And above all I'm the cleverest president in American history, so America's people won't let me die". So he put on the pack next to him and jumped out of the plane. The fourth passenger, The Pope, says to the fifth passenger, a 10 year-old school boy, "I am old and frail and I don't have many years left, as a Christian I will sacrifice my life and let you have the last parachute". The boy said, "It's OK, there's a parachute left for you. America's cleverest president has taken my school backpack." ================ Regards, Trevor -*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*--*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*--*"*- If you can't make someone happy, make them a chocolate fudge cake. ****************************************************** Coffee & Chat Page, inluding archives of past meetings http://www.pcug.org.au/pcug/candc/ ******************************************************
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