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Notes and information from: Computer Club Of Sun City SIG's
Make a simple 'Home Page' for your Favorites
Updated Presentation February 14, 2012
E-Readers and Converting
File Formats with Calibre
Now covering Kindle, Nook and Adobe Digital Editions for
Overguard and Freading Libraries as well
Roundtable SIG May 6, 2011 Notes Updated for February 14
Presentation
Converting eBook Formats
Kindle/MOBI & Nook/Epub emphasized because that is what I know
about.
Links updated 02/11/2012
April 15, 2011 - Tech SIG
How to
change “User Name” in Windows XP, Vista & Win 7
Updated this area on 10/04/2010 Added links to remove cut and paste
September 21, 2007 Tech SIG
October 26, 2007 Computer Clinic
December 19, 2007
Useful Links, Most from PC
World
copy & paste or type link into your browser.
Placed the links to Useful XP USB utilities on this site below
USBView and
ShowHiddenDevices
October 4, 2010
Here is my latest page to neat programs with Links
September 30, 2010
Recently I needed a simple drawing program and here is a page
with programs, links and comments.
Updated 10/04/2010
July 9, 2010
Win Software Tricks from PC World August 2010
This is a rev 2 document of the Word
file that I showed at the July 9th SIG
March 18, 2010
Have you seen this message on your downloaded file properties ?
Security: "This file came from another computer and might be blocked"
Another Miracle$oft feature in group policies that prevents you from moving your
files in XP, Vista and Win 7 !
Here is the fix: This file came from another computer and might be blocked.pdf
October 10, 2009
February 3 2009
The following material covers several recent requests that appear difficult to discover:
Turn off Vista UAC [User Account Control]
Excerpted from 13 page PCWorld article
Windows Tips for Everyone
Bounce account controls:
Without a doubt, the most annoying thing about Windows Vista is User Account Control (UAC), which causes Windows to ask you for permission before accessing various system resources.
True, this setup will help to keep your PC safe, but do you really need to see yet another pop-up and click through yet another prompt before doing something as simple as changing the size of Windows' main font?
Luckily, you have an easy way to turn off UAC:
Choose Start, Control Panel (or Start, Settings, Control Panel on the Classic Start menu) User Accounts, and then click Turn User Account Control on or off.
At the UAC prompt, select Continue; when you move on to the next screen, uncheck Use User Account Control (UAC) to help protect your computer. Then click OK.After you restart your computer, you will no longer be bedeviled by those insistently feckless UAC prompts.
Turn off Security Center Alerts in Windows XP and Vista
Gets rid of the annoying popups and shield in the bottom right corner
A Power User's Hidden Weapon: Improve the Context Menu - Hack # 28
The context menu is an often-underused tool.
But with these four additions and edits to the menu, it'll turn into a powerhouse that you'll use every day
Also in the O'Reilly book [of 120 Hacks]
Windows XP Hacks - Tips & Tools for Optimizing Your OS - Second Edition
by Preston Gralla IBSN: 0-596-00918-6or try this one
Improve The Context Menu, [In 4 parts] Written By Saman Sadeghi
Part 1
Add And Remove Destinations For The “Send To” Option
[no registry edits on this approach - and very simple to do]
Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
If you do not like to use Regedit to do these things go to Microsoft Power Toys and look at what is available,
or just get the Open Command Window Here utility to work on the Context Menu in XP.Microsoft Power Toys will only work with XP ! Read the Power Toys Page first !
And finally for today:
Ubuntu Pocket Guide and Reference PDF edition
This is an excellent book [and free download] for anyone contemplating an installation of Ubuntu Linux.
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