Number 249 - February 2004

UPDATE
TOGGLE Featured on Local Access TV    All during the month of February 2004 the Tacoma Open Group for Microcomputers will be featured in a 15 minute spot on Comcast Local Access/Public Service Channel 76 in the Tacoma Area. The show was taped on January 21st and features TOG President Ray Mills, newsletter Editor Bob Thomson and past Secretary/Treasurer Bob Henkel discussing the features and advantages of joining a computer user group with the program host Tom Jones. Tom doesn't use our "official" name Tacoma Open Group for Microcomputers but instead calls us Toggle.org (ugh) but what the heck--it's free publicity and we may even pick up a few members. The 15 minute "spot" will air about 30 times during the month of February. Look for it. We will also receive a tape of the program and may put it on the website and show it at one of our meetings. Wide Ranging Subject Matter    True to the user group claim of serving users of all levels of background and expertise, the articles in this issue do indeed cover the full range from Beginner to Don't Try This at Home!!    Beginner items in clude: Managing cookies and bookmarks, viruses in e-mail as well as how to check for viruses in Zip files without unzipping them. Another area of help for beginners has reemerged as a revamped version of the Help Lines and is included here on page 11. Volunteers are listed who are willing to help other computer users with problems in the areas specified.    In the Communications section built-in WiFi technology makes a laptop user with Centrino technology very happy	In the General Interest section Sheldon Shallon describes how installation of a second hard drive mirroring the existing one solved the problem of making massive backups.    In the Operating System section, Bryan Lewis talks in considerable detail about updating and maintaining your Windows operating system    For our more advanced members Sarah's Windows Tweak on page 8 was contributed by Ray Mills. This article is for those of you with more than a little expertise in the computer world. Repeating the caution: Please be very careful when fooling around with the registry--there is no Undo button. If you don't know what you are doing, don't mess with it!    In the Software section Australian Trevor Gosbell discusses Freeware Shareware and what we really mean by free.    In the Hardware section the author discusses the new DVD technology From The Comics    Kid: What are you grumbling about, Pop?    Pop:They've raised the price of the newspaper by a dime.    Kid: Is the news any better?
Number 249 - February 2004