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From: Tim Stowell <>
Subject: [NYMADISO] site updates - PC lesson 1
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 00:55:30 -0400


Added around midnight eastern time:

1880 History of Chenango and Madison Counties - Chapter 1 - Aboriginies.
Approximately 10 pages of early tribal history in central New York.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nychenan/1880-1.htm

1872 History of Madison County -

Chapter 4 - Cazenovia - chapter chock full of names
Chapter 5 - De Ruyter - lots of names again - early newspaper account -
notes on occupations of the people and several newspapers listed in both
chapters.

This leaves a couple of chapters left to transcribe for this book as the
rest are already in the field.

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PC lesson - a couple of weeks ago, I asked on the Madison list - if folks
might benefit from a few simple tips to keep their PCs in tip top shape -
at the best possible price - free. Since a goodly portion replied in the
affirmative, I'll pass one along here to the group, then if the Chenango
and Cortland lists want further, I can include them as well, in future
notes of like kind.

If you have a Apple computer (Mac, MacIntosh) or WebTV this part won't
really help you. While I have used Macs and do have a few ideas on helping
them as well, since they are nearly perfect as it is...this will be geared
mostly to Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP users since all these editions of
Windows have several characteristics in common.

In giving my instructions, I'll try to write in clear enough language so
that my Mother, who is not computer friendly could understand and/or follow
my directions.
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Microsoft engineers in all their wisdom, or perhaps Bill Gates, have made
some assumptions about the users of computers and have thus created their
own set of standards as to what the original settings or default settings
of a particular piece of software would have. In the past, they were
extremely conservative and made some statements and decisions that have
come to haunt them and plague us. In the here and now - starting with
Windows 95 - and perhaps in Windows 3.0 or 3.11 - they went the other
direction and have become very liberal with settings which can be tweaked
by the end user, which will give their computer better performance with
little downside effects. Several of these are rather simple and hopefully
I can explain it so that you can understand how to do this.

Such an item is one's Recycle Bin - the little trash can sitting on the
desktop - screen one sees when Windows opens. The default setting for the
size of the Recycle Bin is 10% of your hard drive. That means that if you
have a hard drive that has a capacity of 1 Gigabyte - 100 megs is set
aside, just for trash - that you 'may' toss there. By decreasing the size
of the Recycle Bin to say 1% - 10 megs on a 1 Gigabyte hard drive, one
frees up 9% of one's hard drive or 90 megs which are then available for you
to either use to put other files on, or leave empty. Either way you win.

To modify the size of your Recycle Bin, click on the Recycle Bin, right
click and select properties from the selection menu.
You may show more than one drive listed there - but you want to use the
Global setting - ie a 1% setting for all drives - so make sure the
selection you are moving the bar on, says 'Global', if you have more than
one hard drive.

You should see a bar graph in the middle of the part that opens - with a
slide mechanism pointing to 10%. Grab the mechanism with your mouse and
move it to the left until it reads 1%. Then select OK, and you are done.

Feedback on the clarity or lack thereof appreciated.

Tim

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