Number 270 - November 2005

UPDATE
Best-ever Freeware Utilities    In the General Interest section we carry an article describing what the author calls "The 16 Best-ever Freeware Utilities". Some of these you've seen before. Some are new to the list. Librarian Tom Stepanek will be offering 15 of these utilities which have been downloaded and placed on a single CD, along with the online version of the article on page 9 ,which you can read onscreen, with "live" links to each utilitiy's site. The 16th utility is a version of Linux. GNUWinII, and is a huge download (700MB) and requires its own CD. It will not be offered at the November meeting but if you wish a copy it can be ordered. From the October Meeting:    Questions during Tom Stepanek's great Back to Basics presentation reported by Bob Thomson    Printing Internet Pages Without Loss of End-of-line Words    Someone asked about how to avoid losing the end of the text lines when printing a page from the Internet. Several answers were offered as follows:    In many cases you are printing a screen image and NOT a text file, so the sentences will not "Word Wrap" as they do in a word editor or word processor. So, since the printed image did not fit on a standard 8 1/2" wide by 11" long page simply print on the page turned sideways using the 11 inch width and 8 1/2 inch depth. To do this select "Print", then, on the printer selection screen, select "Preferences" and then the "Landscape" orientation.	Since the computer screen is only 24 lines deep, the full screen contents should easily fit on the "sideways" page. Caution: Before printing other material with the printer be sure to change the page orientation back to "Portrait".    Sometimes, depending the website and the item to be copied, the option is given to print the article, usually without the advertising, or sometimes "Print to Fit Page" is offered.    Another option is to select Print Preview to see what the printed page will look like before printing it. If the margins are small, choose the "Landscape" orientation described above.    Someone suggested right clicking on the page to change the font size. This option is offered in Internet Explorer under the View tab but applies only to the size of text in onscreen "text" displays NOT to image files so it may not help when the "text" is really an image. XP Repair    Someone else mentioned that you can repair XP by using the XP CD. They forgot to mention that your machine must be set to Boot from the CD and, after the CD loads all the original startup programs (taking several minutes), you must press R (for repair) from the three menu items presented. However, before you can proceed, you have to know and enter the Administrator's password to gain machine access to proceed with the repair.
Number 270 - November 2005