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PROBUS COMPUTER ACTIVITY GROUP
Moss Vale Community Centre
Queen St Moss Vale
Next Meeting will be January 2009
"Watch this space for details"

Afternoon tea.

Notes from Meeting: 20th November 2008
Thank to all in attendance, and in particular to President Noel Moor, for the vote of confidence given to our group organisers and myself for the effort that has been put it in to make the Group a success during its first year of activity.
I would like to thank my helpers Tom, Wal ,Vern, and in particular my wife Wendy for all of their efforts in making meetings a success.
To all our members and attendees I thank you all for the support offered throughout the year, and we are sure that your time taken in filling out the survey will lead to many more interesting meetings during 2009.

The meeting today seemed to take on a more interesting tone with questions coming from all around the room. This is what we all hoped to achieve in the beginning, as this opens up more ideas for what we should be discussing. Save these Q&A's and "keep them coming".

Wal Glading opened the first presentation with more excellent shortcuts, and some discussion on some excellent software we should give consideration to using.. www.ashampoo.com Try Magical Defrag". Clean up you old files with cCleaner http://www.ccleaner.com/ excellent free software.

Ron Petschack took time to talk of his experiences with the organisation

Technical Aid for the Disabled
Unit 10,
185, Briens Rd.,
Northmead, NSW 2152
Tel 02 9912 3400
email gwcs@tadnsw.org.au.
This company would be very pleased to receive your old computers when you have finished with them. However they must be delivered to Northmead.

Vern Cottee updated his former presentation on VOIP by confirming his initial planning, that using GoTalk would prove successful. Vern is very happy with his commitment to this form of telephone and broadband service at the home. View the original presentation HERE

I have found an website where you can download and try more Excel Templates for managing home budgets try http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel/HA010450871033.aspx

As there will be no meeting on 18th December we still have the hall available for our use. Maybe we can plan a small get together for members who showed interest in learning how to connect up and use our equipment to have an hour or so discussion and training. More on this in an email to members
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all.
Warren Harris

“Good Computer Housekeeping"
Perform these (4) tasks manually, at least once per week.

Jobs to do	How to do it
· Install an Anti-virus Programme and keep it up to date.	If you do not have anti-virus software installed, DON'T GET CAUGHT OUT. Click and download "FREE" AVG www.grisoft.com , or AVAST www.avast.com and be up to date for all time.
· Install a reputable Firewall and manually configure it to protect your computer. This is essential if you are using Broadband or Wireless Internet.	If you do not have a Firewall installed , get ZoneAlarm "FREE" at http://www.zonelabs.com/
· Protect your computer against "The New Enemy" Spyware., Malaware,Trojans.	Again it is essential that you install software to remove these nasties. Recommended FREE Software is: Ad-Aware 007 http://www.lavasoft.nu/ Spybot S & D http://www.safer-networking.org/en/index.html Spyware Terminator www.spywareterminator.com There is an enormous amount of software available for performing this task, but the above has been proven to be adequate. Microsoft Windows Defender is now available Free for download. Update this software weekly and completely scan your computer
· Check for and Update "Windows Critical Updates" regularly.	This procedure should be performed at least once a week. You can also configure your computer to receive these updates when they become available. Go To START/Help & Support/Windows Update and follow the prompts to check and update your "critical updates".

This information is available for Download HERE