Next General Meeting:
How to Maintain Your Own Windows Machine
Date: March 6, 2012
Location: Danbury Hospital Auditorium,
24 Hospital Ave, Danbury, doors open at 6:30 p.m.

By Richard Corzo

Sure you use your Windows machine to do all kinds of things that you want to do, but there are things you need to know and do to keep it running well. You can find out what those things are at our Tuesday, March 6, general meeting. Former DACS president Rob Limbaugh will explain a number of important things you should know about your Windows machine. You might also think of this presentation as "How to be your own Windows system administrator."
 
Rob is a systems administrator for the company where he works, and was the leader of the former Windows SIG, so this is a great opportunity for us to benefit from his expertise. You might also remember his last DACS presentation in January 2010 introducing Windows 7 when it first came out.
 
Rob will explain how to set up user accounts (administrator and standard) and talk about the things he personally changes or loads on a new machine. You may find some of them useful for your own situation.
 
One thing we all need to do is back up our machine as preparation for the day when we lose access to our data, either from a hard drive crash, or even just accidentaldeletion. Rob will describe some different backup methods available to us.
 
Since some of us are recent converts to Windows 7, and things have moved around from release to release, Rob will tell us where to find things on our Windows machine. This will include where user files are stored by default, and we'll get a tour of the Windows 7 control panel.
 
Safe computing is a continuing concern, so Rob will explain User Account Control settings, as well as the importance of running an antivirus program.
 
Rob has promised to leave plenty of time for questions. So think about everything you always wanted to know about Windows, but were afraid to ask. If your question isn't already answered during the presentation, you'll have the opportunity to ask afterward.

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DACS meetings are held at the Danbury Hospital auditorium. (Click here for directions.)

Activities begin at 6:30 p.m. with registration and casual networking. The meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. with a question and answer period (Ask DACS), followed by announcements and a short break. The featured evening presentation begins at 8:00. The meeting is scheduled to adjourn at 9:30 p.m.

DACS General Meetings are free and open to the public. Members and prior attendees are encouraged to extend invitations to anyone interested in this topic.

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