CnC 16 Jan 2001 RodB presiding - 31 attending. JohnS Note correlator (No substitute for JennyL :-)). 1. Jim J. URL for RegCleaner. Inaccessible partition. Ed: Regcleaner homepage is http://www.jv16.org/ 2. Deiter. Nev Anderson greetings. 3. BrendanC. PCUG type organisations. Asked - Are there other PCUGs in Australia and in other countries? Answer; Yes, throughout Australia and the rest of the world. To locate one in any given location try www.apcug.org and search by city. 4. Kryn. Click of death. ZIP drive. Cure?? 5. JimJ Mk2. Bruce Bramhall Canberra times. 6. MikeD: a. Photo "Extra film print" & b.MultiKey Keyboard $23 7. AllanM TIP scripts 8. JeffC. Reminder & Windows Media player 7. Jeff gave a reminder and a tip. 1. Reminder: Close programs and the screen saver before commencing to defrag. Close practically everything, but NOT Explorer and Systray, by using Ctrl+Alt+Delete (he had forgotten to do this with a recent defrag and consequently wasted a lot of time). 2. Tip: To improve quality and avoid crackling in the sound when playing a music CD using Windows Media Player 7 untick the box for Digital playback found under Tools/Options/CD Audio. Ed's Note: M$ Media Player 7 and above default to "digital" playback mode for audio CDs. Instead of using the normal CDROM reader to Soundcard "analog" audio cable the digital mode appears to convert the CD data to Wav format "on the fly" - the CD audio volume control on your sound card mixer no longer works, and CD audio volume is controlled via the WAV volume control which is now shared with system sounds (no individual control). To sweeten the deal, M$ throw in all sorts of visual patterns in time to the music - these only work with digital playback. You need a powerful system to use digital playback without buffer/cache filling breaks or "crackling" - more so with "visualisations". The cynical side of me suspects that this is all part of an M$ (plus Recording industry) plot to wean us off analog playback so that fiendish copyright protection schemes can be implemented..... 9. ElizabethW. How to get German + French characters. Elizabeth wrote: "I am sorry that I used the wrong terminology last Tuesday. What I meant, was that I actually tried out Margo's last missive and found only East European characters which was no help to me. Margo promised today to look into the matter and come up with a possible answer. Otherwise it may just be easiest to write as I have done without accents and to add them when re-reading what I wrote." RodB wrote: "As promised here is the description of the Character Map program and how to use it to advantage." and attached "Using the Character Map to create accented and other characters. Windows provides a useful program called Character Map, which displays all the characters available for each font installed. Character Map also allows individual characters to be selected and copied into documents thus enabling the correct presentation of foreign phrases. This process is slightly laborious and may not be an adequate solution for the production of large volumes of foreign language text. Character map is in the directory "Windows" under the name "charmap.exe". It is useful to have an icon for it in the task bar, so that it can be called when necessary while creating a document. It displays a 7x32 array of characters for the font selected from the drop down list. When a character has been highlighted the keystroke (or strokes) to generate it appear in the lower right of the window (for example, the Yen sign (₯) is shown as "Alt+0165"). The character can also be selected and it will then appear in the "Characters to copy" field in the upper right of the window. More than one character can be selected. After characters have been selected the copy button is activated and if pressed the characters will then be available for pasting into the document being created. When creating a foreign language document using this method it might be useful and quicker to create a block of suitable characters (perhaps "ΰηθικλ" for French) that can be temporarily kept handy in the document for copying individually as required. Don't forget the keystrokes "Ctrl+C" and "Ctrl+V" make copying and pasteing a whole lot quicker. For regularly used characters (£ might be an example) it is easier to remember the keystrokes and use them whenever required. Do this by holding down the Alt key while at the same time using the numeric keypad to enter the digits (Num Lock must be on). When the Alt key is released the character will appear in the document." 10. JohnS - vanishing Comm ports. Recounted a recent case history. Tried replacing a faulty internal 56Kb Modem on and "old" system with an old external modem. Removed internal O.K. Connected external and installed driver O.K. - Windows modem diagnostic "could not open Comm port" despite all indications in Device manager etc. being good. Tried a re-boot and noticed BIOS reporting only one Comm port! Tried enabling 2nd Comm port in CMOS - no Comm port options available. Opened case & found Comm ports were installed via Multi I/O ISA card not on the MB - obviously Comm 2 had been disabled via Jumpers on the undocumented card to avoid conflicts with internal modem {:-(( Jumper numbered JP1 to JP12 - very illuminating - but all jumpers except for 3 were "On". Tried enabling the 3 "off" ones in turn. The third one enabled Comm 2! Moral: Keep all documentation - insist the dealer supplies documentation for motherboard, all cards, all peripherals. 11. Trevor. Fan noise 12. LeighD. Software power down. 13. AnneL. Printer problem Anne, who has a Cannon colour printer, mentioned that she had replaced the small black and colour cartridges with a large black one and was now getting a message from the printer every time she sought to print anything that it had detected that she had a monochrome cartridge installed and telling her how to reinstall the colour one unless she wished to use the one installed. She asked for advice on how to get rid of this message and was told to go into Start, Settings, Printer, and Properties and change the default. This solved the problem.
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