Computer Info – February 14, 2001

This Week’s Program

        John Watkins will be here this week and next week. His topics for these two weeks will be -------
        Christmas Stamps which are now Easter Stamps - Fun with Photos and watermarks - Return Address labels - Acrobat 4 Viewer - USB View check out your USB devices - Word Art - Headers and Footers – and, of course, lets have them Questions !!!!
No Meetings !!!
        The Deltona Library will need the meeting room on the following dates --- therefore, on these three Wednesdays there will be no meeting.
                    April 4th                    April 18th                    July 4th
Internet Options for Internet Explorer
        In Internet Explorer, choose TOOLS from the main menu and then INTERNET OPTIONS. On the last tab entitled ADVANCED, you have a lot of choices for customizing the way Internet Explorer handles and displays web pages to you. Which of these items should have check marks and which ones shouldn’t? These are your decisions.
        Show Go Button in Address Bar (this gives you a button to click on after entering a web address rather than hitting the ENTER key on the keyboard).
        Show Internet Explorer on the Desktop (If you want or don’t want an icon for Internet Explorer on your desktop).
        Show the Radio Toolbar in Internet Explorer (Does what it says – displays the Radio toolbar in Internet Explorer if you wish)
        Empty Temporary Internet Folder When Browser is Closed (A good housekeeping method of helping to keep your hard drive clean).
        And many others.
AOL Password Stealing Virus
        Recently AOL again mentioned about a password stealing virus that usually comes with a subject line of "Hey You". It is spread through e-mail and installs itself on your system. It then attempts to steal your account name and password and forward them. It also tries to replicate itself to the active AOL Buddy List.
        This is a known Trojan. It is received as an attachment (may be named MINE.ZIP) with a size of 77,855 bytes and the subject line of "hey you". The email message will say something about "I finally got my pictures scanned….. and heres like 5 or 6 of them….just download and unzip it…..
Volume Control
        If your Volume Control (that’s the one that looks like a speaker) does not appear near your clock --- how do you put it there?
        From the START button – choose SETTINGS – CONTROL PANEL. Now choose MULTIMEDIA (or SOUNDS AND MULTIMEDIA in Windows ME). On the GENERAL tab, look for a checkmark box for SHOW SPEAKER ICON ON TASKBAR.
Delete Your E-Mail Messages Without Reading Them
        Send your junk e-mail directly to the Trash folder by filtering all incoming messages that are not addressed to you (in the TO: or the CC:).
        To do this in Netscape, under EDIT – MESSAGE FILTERS – set the filter to send the Message to the Trash folder if your email address is not contained in the TO: or the CC: field. To delete them from the Trash folder without opening them, under FILE – EMPTY TRASH FOLDER.
        I can not figure out how to do this in Outlook Express.