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Editor: Annette Stuckey westlake@bigpond.net.au No. 847

19 November 2017

Hi Silver Surfers,

I hope you are all well and ready for the up and coming Christmas Celebrations. It is only 35 days to the big day.

I met a lady the other day who had just finished her Christmas shopping and has been doing it since February.

Me! I have not even started yet.

CLUB NEWS

Information Day

Guest Speaker: Vince Dale ( Retired Toronto Librarian)

Vince is going to show us how to:

"Download Ebooks and other service from the Library."

In the first half of the proceedings, member:

Yvonne Fitzpatrick,

is going to give a talk on her trip to SOUTH AFRICA

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RENAMING FLASHDRIVE/THUMBDRIVE/MEMORY STICK

There are two ways you can name your Flash Drive so it is easily recognised.

Put you Flash Drive in the USB port and double click the "My Computer" in W7 or "This P.C" in W10 icon on your desk top or in the 'Start ' or Windows Explorer in W10 menu.

Now right click and either choose Rename or Properties

If you chose Rename just type in the new name

If you chose Properties just type in the new name in the General Tab.

Now next time you open your Flash drive it will have a name all of its own. This will also apply to any computer you put it. If you bring it to class you will see it will have what every name you gave it on your computer.

Another useful hint for flash drives- If you want to know how full it is, go to 'My computer right click on your drive and choose Properties

On the right click window you can opt to scan the drive for a virus:

I think it may be a good idea to do get into the habit of scanning flash drives. –we had a case last week where a flash drive had a virus. I remember years ago, long before the Internet, virus's were carried from one computer to another via the old floppy disk

~Annette

MAKE DESKTOP ICONS LARGER OR SMALLER IN W7 & W10

You can use this tip to make them bigger or smaller.
For all of you W 7 & W10 users out there, making your desktop icons bigger is as easy as...well, this is really easy.

Go to your desktop, hold the CTRL key and use the scroll wheel on your mouse. This will make the icons bigger and smaller at the flick of a finger!

You can also just right-click your desktop, and under "View" there are options for small, medium and large icons.

How about that for desktop customisation control.

I was asked the other day at "Do Drop In" about how emails are delivered. I have had the following tip before . However I thought it may be a good idea to repeat it. ~Annette

Mail Transfer Agent

You may have heard of this term before, but what exactly is a Mail Transfer Agent? Also known as an MTA, a Mail Transfer Agent is basically what handles your e-mails after you hit the Send button and release them to the cyber world. It is a computer program (or a software agent) that helps transport e-mails from computer to computer, such as from yours to your friend's.

An MTA works along with a MSA (Mail Submission Agent) and a MUA (Mail User Agent, which is you), but it usually just works behind the scenes to sort out all of the e-mails that come through each day.

Once the e-mails are sorted, they are given a header and are then sent off to a MDA, which is a Mail Delivery Agent. The MDA then makes sure the e-mails are delivered to the correct Inboxes and are made available for you to read. How cool is that?!

CHANGE USER-INFORMATION NAME IN OUT- GOING MAIL IN LIVE MAIL

Did you know that you can change your user information name on your out--going emails. This is not your email address, but the name that appears on your email when it arrives at its destination

In Live Mail

Click on the Mail Button

Choose Options and then Email Accounts

In the resulting window highlight your email account and then click on Properties and change your name

4. Click OK to Apply

The following tips are from Cyn's Tech Tips and are used by permission

Email: just what am I deleting?

A reader has a common question about email: "I have a question about email accounts...all my devices are synced, so when I delete an email, am I deleting from just the device I'm using at the time or from my email server? I know it sounds dumb, but I think I may have wondered about this so long that I'm totally confused."

First, don't ever feel bad for asking a question. The answer is, it depends. Since the reader asking the question has a Gmail account, I'll demonstrate using Gmail. First, you'll need to make sure you enable IMAP.

Le'ts take a little definition break for those not familiar with the term:

IMAP - Internet Message Access Protocol. This type of server lets you access your e-mail without downloading it to a computer. You can read, edit or delete the messages right on the server. The messages will remain on the server until you choose to delete them. You can access your e-mail from other computers or mobile devices. More and more people are moving to IMAP for the convenience of being able to access their e-mail at any time from any device.

Here's how to enable IMAP with Gmail using a browser interface. Click the gear icon to the right of your Gmail inbox and select Settings from the drop-down menu.

Then choose the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab at the top of the page.

Make sure you enable IMAP. If you want the message to be immediately deleted from all devices when you delete from one, make sure to check the Auto-Expunge option. You can also choose what happens to the deleted messages. Whether they are archived, go in the trash, or are completely deleted. On the flip side, if you don't want things automatically deleted, don't select these options.

This will keep your account updated across all of your devices as long as any email clients you're using support IMAP. When all devices support IMAP and it is enabled, you can delete a message from the inbox on your phone and it will be deleted from the server.

The following tips is from Cloudeight Info and is used by permission

Get Chrome out of Incognito (or private) mode

When you click the shortcut to open Chrome, it opens with an incognito window. The easiest way to fix that is to delete the shortcut you are currently using and create a new one.

To Create a new one, press Windows Key + R to open a run dialog and type (or copy & paste)

C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application

In the run box like this:

Press Enter (or click OK)

The folder that opens contains a file called chrome.exe. Right-click on it and choose "Pin to Start" and/or "Pin to taskbar". That will create a shortcut on your start menu and your taskbar. If you want one on your desktop, right-click on chrome.exe and choose "Send to" >Desktop (Create shortcut).

Make sure when you open it from the new shortcut you don't right-click the shortcut and choose "incognito mode" or you'll be back to where you are. Just left-click the shortcut to open Chrome in a normal mode.

Once you get that done, you can set a home page in Chrome by clicking the settings icon (very top right corner of Chrome - 3 vertical dots). Then click "Settings" from the dropdown menu. In settings find the section called "On startup" and tick the circle next to "Open a page or set of pages" and click the "Add new button"

And in the box that opens:

Type the web site you want and click "Add".

That's all there is to it

Recycle Bin Options: Windows 10

In Windows 10, by default, when you delete a file you don't get a warning that asks if your sure you want to send the file to the Recycle Bin. You just right-click the file and click Delete and it's gone. Unless you've otherwise configured Recycle Bin the file does go to the Recycle Bin and can be immediately returned to its original location by pressing CTRL + Z immediately after deleting it.

But if you want to be warned before you delete a file, like you use to be warned in Windows 7 and earlier versions of Windows, that can be easily done. And here's how you do it.

1. Right-click on the Recycle Bin icon on your desktop and click on Properties.

2. Choose your C:\ drive.

3. Tick the box next to "Display delete confirmation dialog"

4. Click Apply/OK.

Now we don't recommend this because the Recycle Bin is like a safety net when you delete files. But if your brave and don't even want the files to be moved to the Recycle Bin, you can tick the circle next to "Don't move files to the Recycle Bin. Remove files immediately when deleted. Keep in mind if you do this there will be no easy way to recover the deleted files.

Oh and Colombo (EB) reminded me to say -- "just one more thing": If you're going to be using a cleanup utility to clean up your PC, most of them will empty your Recycle Bin automatically, so be sure to check to make sure you don't have anything you need in the Recycle Bin before doing a system cleanup.

Well folks that's it for another week.

Until next time this is your Secretary signing off

Annette

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