Tech Talk Problems / solutions and General

Its Wednesday 6th Dec and as there is no club and all the shops are shut I am doing some research.

The problem with the USB ports and powered hardware connected to those ports. I am trying a wireless mouse, which I use on the laptop, on the desktop. However, when I switch off I get to the screen which says "Windows is shutting down", but it doesn't - it hangs. The only way to switch off is to disconnect the electricity and to then disconnect the USB connected hardware and then power up and then close down again.

I am searching two technical forums at the moment and will let you know the outcome.

Some of you will know that my laptop presented the "BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH" to me last Sunday morning. There was nearly a laptop shaped hole in the back window as this had happened just three months ago. I am trying to get the company to stump up a replacement - some hopes - but a new HDD is definitely going to happen.

Next Wednesday is the last meeting and I apologies, I will be in an aeroplane at that time. In January we plan to start again on Jan 10Th. Enrolment for the NEW courses is at the Ark on Monday Jan 8Th. Although one of them is digital photography, one of our members has volunteered to run a couple of sessions on this subject at the club. A "don't miss it" event. We'll try to have a working laptop / projector for those meetings.

Thanks again George for setting up this Blog.

So for now, I wish you a Very Happy and peaceful Christmas and a really good 2007. God Bless,
John

Thank You!

Many thanks to Georgie & John for setting up our Blog!
Found my way into it - at last- now I've got to think of something to say....
Oh, time to feed the dog, so,
Cheers,
Bryn Jones

Congratulations Georgie

Well done Georgie, it all looks very professional.

This is the first of many post to this site. On behalf of Georgie, Peter and me can I encourage all the Club Members to contribute. You can share anything you like particularly if its to do with Computers and Computing.

Some heading such as Problems ; Solutions ; Web site of the week ; feedback - for example the success or otherwise of www.voipcheap.com Personally I am finding it great, Tricia can now chat to our daughters on their land lines for FREE. Thanks Roy for the tip off.

Next weeks club, on the 29th, will be in the room above the reception at Lux Mundi. The following week there is no Club because LM is closed.

John Ide

Club Meeting 22nd. November 2006

The club meeting went well today. We dicussed starting this Blog and decided what to call it, as we are the U3A Computer Users Club the initials seemed the obvious choice, straight forward and easy to remember. Hopefully it will enable us to share our knowledge with each other and that way get more enjoyment from our computers.

We also had the new projector and now we know how it works it will come in very usefull for future meetings when we have demonstrations.