Today's meeting on the Southside was chaired by JimH and I volunteered to be note collator. There were two people who attended for the first time. I counted 40 people present. Herewith is a list of the topics discussed. Please expand and / or add to the item and post to me (tfrew@pcug.org.au) by midnight on Friday 5th July and I'll send the final collation on the weekend. 1. Hypercam version 1.700.02 demo - TedM A demonstration of the application Hypercam Version 1.70.02.was shown. It was used to demonstrate a few features of Paint Shop Pro version 6, automatically. This application acts like a video recorder and captures all actions and screens of the computer while you are demonstrating a feature of any program in your computer. It is most suitable for a short (less than a couple of minutes) demonstration. This duration produces an AVI (Audio/Video Interleaved) movie of about 1 to 2 megabytes. The size of the resulting file can be reduced considerably by reading the help file which is accessed by pushing the F1 button. The movie can be shown by a computer with operating systems W3.1 to XP. It runs under Windows Media player which is included in these operating systems. The program is free. The latest version 1.70.03 is available at www.hyperionics.com The new full version costs about AUS $60.00 from the above site. I prefer the OLDER free version of 1.70.02 as it does not automatically dial the Internet when you run the AVI movie. (TedM) From Trevor: Ted passed me a floppy with version 1.70.002 on it and I've put the self expanding .exe on my hypertext space at http://www.pcug.org.au/~tfrew/files.htm along with the list of files on CD ROMs from PC User. The file will remain there for a couple of months for those interested. 2.a. Klez 2.b. Lists - JohnS 3. Useful freeware - JimH CDCheck version 3 26.06.02 http://www.elpros/CDCheck/ 873kb. Compatible Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000/XP. This handy freeware utility will scan a CD and hunt down corrupted files. It checks every single file on a CD and includes the ability to recover a damaged file depending on the degree of damage and includes a compare feature that allows you to check the ontents of a CD against a directory on your hard drive. Print Directory Version 3.1 http://widgettech.com/mymain/freeware/prt3_1.shtml Compatible Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000. While there does not appear to be any simple way of getting MS Windows to print out a directory, this utility not only makes it easy to do so, but allows you to save the listings either as text or CSV and also determine which attributes to include. 4.a. CDs in the car 4.b. Hotmail - GrahamMc Item 1. Do not do a fancy label for any CDs you make to play in the car if you have one of those indash slit type insertion arrangements. In the panel the discs get hot from the radio below it and from the car's heater, if it is on. The label de laminates from the CD and the disc can remain stuck in the player. Better to write on the bare disc. Penfolds, Dick Smith and other sell pens suitable for this which will not damage the surface. If the car is fitted with a remote CD stacker then paper labeled discs are unlikely to cause a problem. Item 2. Hotmail has advised that it will no longer handle POP mail. Thus one of the main reasons for keeping a Hotmail account (access to TIP from other locations via the browser) has gone. I have closed my account. 5. Dual boot 95 / XP - Greg From CharlieK: Some added info for Item 5 (Dual Boot) "There are a couple of good web sites which provide a lot of useful information on Dual Booting (and Windows in general). They are www.dougknox.com and www.aumha.org Charlie K 6. Home networking - RodB I recounted some of the happenings as I set up two computers on a local area network. Probably too long to go in to in depth here, but the following points are of interest: a. Any interrupt conflicts between your Ethernet card and the other cards in the machine must be resolved. b. If you wish to share files or printers both (or all relevant) machines must be Clients to Microsoft Network. Otherwise a working TCP/IP net will be inaccessible. c. If you don't wish to be bothered by attempts to authenticate a network logon, untick logon validation in Client to Microsoft Network properties. 7. Demos - policy? - MikeD 8. MS update and system restore - Derek 9. Next demo - JohnS 10. Win XP non upgrade - Chess Tried all night (4 times) to upgrade from WIN 98 SE to Windows XP Professional with no success. First I ignored the Upgrade Compatibility Check - ever hopeful. Then I removed all superfluous hardware, uninstalled possible problem software, removed suspect device drivers - no success. Lessons learnt: 1. empty Recycle Bin; 2. remove hardware and suspect software; 3. clean out Registry with EasyCleaner [does not work with XP]; 4. Clean Boot into WIN 98 SE as per Microsoft troubleshooting; 5. Read newsgroups about problems with Mup.sys and workaround - Microsoft refuses to admit or solve widespread problem. 11. USB on MB - Chess Many motherboards have extra pins for additional USB ports but the cable and connector are hard to find. Someone advised you can get them at the market; John Saxon pointed out that different motherbopards have different pins. USB 2.0 on newer motherboards requires WIN XP to use 480 Mbits/sec else defaults to 40 Mbits/sec. ============= Regards, Trevor -*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*-.,,.-*"*- "Every teenager should get a high school education. Even if they already know everything." -Unknown ===== ****************************************************** Coffee & Chat Page, inluding archives of past meetings http://www.pcug.org.au/pcug/candc/ ******************************************************
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