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132 April 04 2003
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1. ----------- Ramblings. 6 months ago I ran a survey and about 20% of Members said they wouldn't read this newsletter on the Web. I understand their reluctance, but there is absolutely no sense in me sending out a newsletter that never arrives in thousands of email boxes. So, as you can see, this week's newsletter is Web based. PLEASE do NOT write with advice on how I should deliver the newsletter. I have been inundated with emails on the subject - and I really do appreciate your concern - but the situation is FAR greater and complex than most people realize. It is not your filters. It is not necessarily your ISP's filters. There is huge conspiracy happening right now, which is trying - and succeeding - to hold me and thousands of other business people to ransom. We either PAY a fee - introduced at $200 and already increased to almost $500 - to allow our newsletters and other emails to get past those darned filters, or we have to jump through all sorts of hoops to try and get our newsletters through. And some of the people who are causing this, are the same people that introduced the Spam filters in the first place. I'm not going to expand on that, because I'm really fed up with trying to explain it all. Hopefully, I can get together a detailed article on the whole business and publish it here. Let's move on shall we?:-) I hope you like the new look tutorials. Hopefully they will make it easier and more interesting for you to fathom some of this techie stuff. LOTS of members sent in their 'I Wish' I asked for last week. It's difficult to answer everyone, but I can assure you that all emails are read - if not always answered. And if you email in with a particular problem you're having with your PC, please don't take it personally when you don't get a direct answer. This is a Club - not a problem solving technical service. But we do try to answer the most popular questions in this newsletter. And of course, customer queries are always answered:-) Keep smilin'.
If your CD doesn't start playing when
you insert it, check to see that the Auto insert notification checkbox
is indeed checked. Visit your friendly CD-ROM Properties dialog
box for all the info you'll You can do it right now by simultaneously pressing the Windows Logo key and the Pause key. When the System Properties dialog box appears, click the plus sign next the CD class (class is a techie word for "item") to reveal your actual CD player. Highlight your CD's name, and click the Properties button. All of the properties surrounding your particular player will be displayed. The stuff that really matters is listed on the Settings tab of the CD Properties dialog box, as shown below. This is where you adjust the, um, settings. You can see that the Auto insert notification check box is indeed checked, so the CD player takes off as soon as it detects a disk insert.
=========================================== Plug and Play is just a phrase and doesn't always work as simply as stated. The goal is to get Windows to automatically configure itself when you install some new piece of hardware. You plug in a new scanner, start Windows, and it automatically seeks out the new equipment, configures itself accordingly, and lets you start scanning. If only it were actually that simple! Plug and Play isn't all peaches and cream, but it goes a long way in making installation easier. If you never hook up new hardware, then you won't be bothered by this. The easiest way to install new hardware is get the neighbor kid over for cookies and milk in payment for installing your new hard drive. OK, not really. But if you're totally challenged by the idea of digging into the guts of your PC, then find someone who will take this task in stride. ============================================= ============================== How many times have you stared and stared at your desktop, and still couldn't find the file or folder you were looking for? Yeah right - it's frustrating isn't it? Why not rearrange them in alphabetical order? It's a whole lot easier to find that elusive folder - believe me... RIGHT click on an empty area of your desktop. Left click on 'Arrange Icons'. Left click on 'By Name'. Suddenly your Icons are arranged in a way that enables you to actually find what you're looking for in less than 2 hours - in alphabetical order ... Just like the 'old fashioned' filing
cabinets! ---------- "The PC Kiss Of Life" "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." This message can be caused if your disk drives don't have special drivers loaded. Remember, a driver is a little software program that helps Windows communicate with its hardware. The special driver that communicates with the hard drives is called a 32-bit protected mode driver. Sorry, I can't explain what all that means, but it's not important for you to know. What is important is that you check to see that a certain check box is "checked off" or not. Click Start, Settings, Control Panel, and double click the System icon. Select the Performance tab, and check the File System settings. If it doesn't say 32-bit, then click the File System button. From the resulting window, click the Troubleshooting tab. Locate the setting that says Disable All 32-Bit Protected Mode Disk Drivers and click it. This will remove the check mark, and will force Windows to enable protected mode for the disk drives. Here's a picture to help you:
Notice that all of these options are unchecked. This is the default for a new system. But if yours isn't new, or you obtained it from a techie who had some weird setup that required check marks in some of the boxes, this could be the cause of the error message. Systems change. People install new hardware in older machines, and conflicts can occur. They don't happen consistently, usually, so knowing what to look for in various locations can only help. Hopefully, you'll never encounter a problem like this. PLEASE don't write with your error
message. This is just ONE of the hundreds of tips and tutorials in our
PC and Internet Companion at http://newbieclub.com/comp
"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?".................... Katherine Hepburn
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