Vice President Bill Goebel called the meeting to order in room 204 in the absence of President Norm Knox, who was unable to be present. Bill announced a change in the planned program and offered to see members in need of assistance after the meeting. On a motion by Nellie Reeves, the club voted to accept the minutes of the March meeting as submitted by the secretary in e-mail.
Visitor Phyllis Knutson of the Sioux Valley Genealogical Society spoke to the club about the Genealogy Interest Group (GIG), which is new at the Center. This group will meet in the computer classroom at 10:00 a.m. on the second Friday of every month. Membership in the Center for Active Generations is not required of those who attend, but Center members pay $1 per meeting, while others pay $2.For further information, call 528-6375. Ms. Knutson also announced the expected presence in Sioux Falls of Rick Crume, contributing editor for Family Tree Magazine and a published author on genealogical subjects. Mr. Crume will be in Sioux Falls on April 17 and 18. For further information, call 275-4197 or visit http://siouxlandlib.org/adults/genealogy.aspx and http://siouxfallsevents.com/eventDetails.CFM?EventID=9225
Bill answered a couple of questions sent to him in e-mail. The first question was about how to uninstall Internet Explorer 8. System Restore can do this. The second question concerned a printer problem. Steps that may help a printer problem are as follows. Run the error checking program Check Disk (right-click the C: drive in My Computer, click on Properties, click on Tools, and click on Error-checking). Uninstall the printer and reinstall it. Use System Restore. Use a Web searcher such as Google to find help. Find and remove temporary files (files with the name pattern *.TMP).
The main part of the April meeting was a survey conducted by Justin Smorawske, Eric Sivertsen, and Kevin Kennedy of Epic Multimedia on behalf of the Good Samaritan Society. Members who chose to participate in the survey received a $5 gift card to use at a local business. Everybody opted in. The first part of the survey asked us general questions about our computer familiarity, Internet usage, and such. The second part was about our interest in long-term care and how we may choose this care. The third part asked for our reactions to the Web site of the the Good Samaritan Society with particular attention directed to the homepage of the Society and its page showing services in Sioux Falls.The survey was conducted in room 204, and the Web pages were projected onto a portable screen. This gave us more room to sit and write than we would have had in the computer classroom. The wireless service of the Center's router does not go as far as room 204, but a cable connection is available there that our visitors used. Members who were present signed a get-well card for the President. The club welcomes new members Eleanor Sturdevant and Carol Moon.
Respectfully submitted by Garth Peterson, Secretary
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Added note: On most PCs System Restore sets up restore points automatically at regular intervals. However, it is advisable to take an extra restore point manually ahead of any major system change. This provides a convenient place to roll back to when necessary. If a rollback is needed that goes back to an automatic restore point that is several days old, there is the problem of saving recent user data prior to the rollback. User data that is newer than the latest restore point should be downloaded into files from whatever software has it stored, and these files should be copied out to a backup medium before the rollback. The best backup medium is probably a recordable compact disk (CD-R).
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