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                                 January 2007 -   February 2010

   FEBRUARY 2010

   1.  Report on meeting held on 20th. January 2010

   2.  Windows 7 and all that - Another Saga

   3.   Ladies Day  - May 19th. 2010

   4.   Next and Future MeetingFebruary

   5.   Leslie's Puzzle Page - February 2010

JANUARY 2010

  1.   Report on meeting held on 16th December 2009

  2.   Convert WAV files to MP3 files - MP3 - Compressed Audio Files
 and WAV/MP3 Conversion - Tradeoffs and Caution

  3.   Next and  Future Meetings

  4.    Leslie's Puzzle Page - January 2010

DECEMBER 2009

 1.   Report on meeting of 18th. November

  2.    Use an External Hard Drive for your Backups

  3.    How long will a CD ROM last

  4.    Repairing a Damaged CD ROM

   5.    Bug in Latest Linux

   6.     Some useful Sites from Alan Blay

   7.     Next and Future meetings

   8.    Leslie's Puzzle Page  December 2009

NOVEMBER 2009

   1.    Report on October Meeting 

   2.   Windows 7 (Upgrading)  

   3.    Erasing a Hard Diskbefore disposal

   4.    WiFi Hotspots

   5.   How can I tell if my hard drive is about to fail

   6.    Next and Future Meetings

   7.    Leslie's Puzzle Page November 2009

OCTOBER 2009

  1.   Report on Meeting  16th September

  2.  How to completely erase a Hard Disk

  3.  LINUX - Early Days Experience

  4.   Next and Future Meetings

  5.   Leslie's Puzzle Page - October 2009

SEPTEMBER 2009

 1.   Report on meeting on  19th. August 2009

  2.   Should you upgrade from Vista to Windows 7?

  3.   Outlook  Express - Address Book

  4.   Next and Future Meetings

   5.  Leslie's Puzzle Page August 2009

AUGUST 2009

1.   Report on meeting on 15th July 2009

  2.  Backup your Facebook,Twitter and Gmail

  3.  Interesting Web Sites to browse from Alan Blay

  4.  Bill Gates on reaching the Pearly Gates

  5.  Linux, You may be interested in the following message from Alan Cocks

  6. Next and Future meetingsAugust2009Frame03.htm

  7.  Leslie's Puzzle Page August 2009

JULY 2009

 1.  Report on June 17th meeting - Hard drives

  2.  Addendum to Nigel Brook's talk in May

  3.  Report on 20 Year Anniversary

  4.  Wolfram Alpha

  5.  A4 Printing Paper

  6. Next and Future Meetings

  7.  Leslie's Puzzle Page - July 2009

JUNE 2009

1.  Report on the meeting on 20th. May 2009

 2.  Advice required on Zone Alarm free Firewall

3.  Twelve Essential Twitter Tools

4.  Next and Future Meetings

5.   Leslie Haddow's Puzzle Page June 2009

MAY 2009

1.   Report on Meeting held Wednesday 15th.April 2009.  This report covers the
     discussion held following the AGM .  The minutes of the AGM will be published later.

2.   Free Firewall Protection - various

3.  Next and Future Meetings

4.  Leslie's Puzzle Page -  May 2009

 April 2009
1.  Report on meeting held on Wednesday 18th.March

2.  Anti-virus XP 2008 - Free'   BEWARE

3.  Next and Future Meetings

4.  Minutes of 13th Annual General Meeting

5.  Leslie's Puzzle Page - April 2009

 March 2009

1.  Report on Meeting Wednesday 18th February 2009

2.  Members experience with Ubuntu

3.  Page faults and Virtual Memory

4.  Vista downloads

5.  Royal Mail Online postage generation.

6.  Dell 17" monitor available free.

7.  Next and Future meetings

8.  Leslie Haddow's Puzzle Page March 2009

9.  Agenda for Annual General Meeting 15th.April 2009

February 2009

1.  Report on Meeting 21st.January 2009

2.  December Meeting report  repeated to fill the missing section

3.  Mobile phones and internet.

4.  How to run a country with some thoughts from George Bush

5.  A guide to correct posture

6.  Next and future meetings

7.  Leslie's Puzzle Page February 2009 

January 2009

1.   Report on meeting on 17th December

2.   Page faults and virtual memory

3.   Do RegistryCleaners Really Work?

4.   Next and Future Meetings

5.   Leslie's Puzzle page January 2009-Page1

6.   Leslie's Puzzle page January 2009-Page 2

7.   Leslie's Puzzle page January 2009-Page 3

December 2008

1.  Report on Previous meeting on 19th. November

2.  Cleaning hard drives before disposal

3.  Open Office Version 3

4.  How to make Vista look like XP

5.  Cloud Computing

6.  Next and Future meetings

7.  Leslie's Puzzle Page - Page 1

8.  Leslie's Puzzle Page - Page 2

November 2008

1.  Report on previous meeting 15th. October2008

2.  Registry Problems (Ron Everitt)

3.  Report on IET Surrey Network 8th October   

4.  PC Group Subscriptions - 2008 - 2009 

5.  Next and Future Meetings  

6.  Leslie's Puzzle Page - Nov.2008                                                                   

October 2008 

1.  Report on meeting 17th. September 2008

2.   Hard Drive Deletion

3.  Byond Enigma

4.  The Chrome Browser - Google

5.   Report on Surrey Network Meeting 10th September

6.  Next and Future Meetings

 7.  Leslie's Puzzle Page - October  2008   

SEPTEMBER 2008

1.  Report on meeting 20th. August 2008

2.  Remove Hardware Safely

3.  Exploring Digital Personal Safety

4.  A Disaster Recovered

5.  Spyware in the Registry

6.  Next and Future Meetings

7.  Leslie's Puzzle Page - September  2008  

 AUGUST 2008

1.    Report on Meeting held on 16th.July

2.    Future Input Devices

3.    Unexplained Messages            

4.    Repairing a Damaged MBR         

5.    Next and Future Meetings         

6 .   Leslie's Puzzle Page August 2008

JULY 2008

1.  Report on June 18th, Meeting

2.  Faster Computers (stirred up by John Steel)

3.  Keeping your Backup Data secure

4.  Managing Clipboard 

5.  Next and Future Meetings

6.  Leslie's Puzzle Page Sheet 1

7.  Leslie's Puzzle Page Sheet 2                                                                                           

JUNE 2008

1.  Report on Ladies Lunch Meeting

2. IET Message Board

3.  The Ultimate Bug

4.  Problem with Laptop-May 2008-Sheila Haddow

5.  WindowsXP - SP3

6.  Free Electronic Greeting Cards

7.  Next and Future meetings

8.  Leslie Haddow Puzzle Page - June 2008 sheet 1

9.  Leslie Haddow Puzzle Page - June 2008 sheet 2

APRIL/MAY 2008

MAY2008

1.  Report on April Meeting AGM

2.  Report on Open Forum after AGM - Contemplating Vista

3.  More Vista woes

4.  Next and Future meetings

5.   Leslie's Puzzle page May 2008

APRIL   2008

1.  Report on March 16th. Meeting

2.  Why computers sometimes crash! - Dr. Seuss

3.  Dealing with the winmail.dat file

4.  Next & Future meetings

5.  Leslie;s Puzzle Page -April 2008

MARCH 2008

1.  Report on meeting February 20th. 2008

 2.   Projector and Laptop overcoming failure to display

 3.  Index of Newsletter Articles

 4.   Engineering Seminar report

 5.   Next and Future Meetings

 6.   Leslie's Puzzle Page March 2008

 7.  Agenda for AGM 16th. April 2008

 8.  Minutes of 14th. AGM 2007

9.  Ladies Lunch 21st. May 2008 - Details, Menu and Booking

FEBRUARY 2008

 1.  Report on meeting January 16th. 2008

 2.  Bletchley Park

 3.  Address for Newsletter contributions

 4.  Saga of Virgin Media Upgrade

 5.  Leslie Haddow news

 6.  Driver needed for Logitech Mouse

 7.  Report on Surrey Branch meeting 16th. Jauary 2008

 8.  Next and Future Meeting

 January 2008

  1.  Report on meeting December 17th. 2007

  2.  Clock settings in Window XP and VISTA

  3.  Old Computer looking for new home

  4.  Surrey Network Meeting at Surrey University Lakeside  restaurant
on trojans and viruses 16th January 2008.

  5.  Motherboards

  6.  Next and Future Meetings

  7.  Leslie's Puzzle Page January 2008

Newslink December 2007

1.  Report on November Meeting

2.  First Christmas Joke of the Season

3.  Computer Problems

4.  2007/2008 Subscriptions Due

5.  Next and Future Meetings

6.  Leslie's Puzzle Page December 2007

 Newslink November2007   

1.  Report on October Meeting

2.  Strange attachment to last Newsletter

3.  PC Group Subscriptions for 2007 - 2008

4.  Windows Registry

5.  Postal Scam

6.  Next & Future Meetings

7.  Leslie's Puzzle Page - November 2007

Newslinks October 2007

1.  Report on September Meeting

2.  Help - Outlook Express

3.  Norton 360

4.  Next & Future Meetings

5.  Leslie's Puzzle Page - October 2007

Newslinks September 2007

 1.  Report on August 15th. Meeting

2.  Next and Future Meetings

3.  September Puzzle Page

August 2007

1.  NewslinksReport on July 18th Meeting

2.  Web Sites for Photographic Information

3.  Netscape to Internet Explorer

4.  Next & Future Meetings

5.  August 2007 Puzzle Page

Newslinks July 2007                                                 

1. Report on June meeting

2.  Faster Booting ?

3.  Skype Telephones

4.  PDF Factory PRO

5.  Next & Future Meetings

6.  Leslie's Puzzle Page - July

7.  IEE/IET RMS Engineering Seminars-July Report

Newslinks June 2007

1.  Report on Ladies Lunch Meeting May 2007

2.  Further to Report on the Workshop on Internet Security

3.  RMS Engineering Seminar - Report for June

4.  Next and Future Meetings

5.  Leslie's Puzzle Page June 2007

Newslinks May 2007

1.  Minutes of 14th. AGM on 18th April 2007

 2.  Notes on AGM discussion after AGM

 3.  Report on Surrey Branch meeting 4th.April 2007

4.  Power Supply Problems

5.  E-Mail Hoax

6.  Next and Future Meetings

7.  Leslie's Puzzle Page - May 2007 
 

Newslinks April 2007

1.  Report on Meeting 21st March 2007

2.  Hard Disk Recovery

3.  Ladies Day - 16th. May 2007

4.  USB2 Hubsmar2007frame5.htm

5.  Next & Future Meetings

6.  Minutes of 2006 13th. AGM

7.  Leslie's Puzzle Page April 2007

Newslinks March 2007

1.  Report on February Meeting

2.  Microsoft Vista

3.  Linux Applications update

4.  Some useful software

5.  Ladies Day May 2007

6.  Next and Future Meetings

7.  Leslie's Puzzle Page

Newslinks February 2007

1.  Report on January meeting

2.  Web Browsers and Linux

3.  Arcobat Reader v8

4.  Freeware Downloads

5.  BBC Basic for Windows

6.  Next and Future Meetings

7.  Leslie'sPuzzle Page February

 Newslinks January 2007                                      

1.  Report on December Meeting

3.  Leslie's Puzzle Page