Introductions
Meeting Agenda:
We're now a SIG: Kaffee Klatch
- Windows 7.
- Please
include the [KaffeeKlatch-Win7]
tag (followed by a meaningful subject) on subject line of
all
e-mail posts relating to KK-Win7.
- Use the Kaffee
Klatch Forum at <http://sctxcc.com/>
to
post
questions,
answers and informative items.
- My KK e-mail address is: Dale
Cockle <kaffeeklatch@sctxcompclub.org>
Link
to last month's Meeting Notes: (Link)
Review of latest
postings to the Kaffee
Klatch
Win7 Collection
Open
Q&A: (Added based on discussion in meeting. Further discussion of these discussion topics is encouraged on the Kaffee Klatch Forum.)
- No sound from YouTube online videos. Suggested installing/updating Adobe Flash Play for both MSIE and for other brossers. (Link)
- Homepage
works in MSIE but not in Firefox. Suggested deleting the desired
homepage in Firefox and redesignating it afresh. Another idea suggested
that it might be a DNS problem but a DNS problem would affect both
problems equally. But, we continued to discuss DNS anyway.
- Domain Name System (DNS). (Sometimes DNS is understood to mean Domain Name Server.) Internet addressing uses URLs
(e.g., http://www.google.com/maps). Part of the URL is the domain name
(www.google.com in the example). Domain names are assigned IP Addresses (e.g., 209.85.225.147), kind of like a phone number.
When your browser goes to a Website, it submits the site's domain name
to a Domain Name Server (whose location is stored in your PC). The
Domain Name Server returns the domain's IP Address and then the browser
uses the IP Address to actually access the desired site.
Most of our computers are setup for automatic assignment of our own IP
Addresses as well as primary and secondary Domain Name Servers by our
ISPs. Discussed in the meeting was the use of Domain Name Servers
selected by the user vs ones assigned automatically by ISPs. OpenDNS was one that was suggested.
Here's an article that describes how to change to your choice of Domain
Name Servers instead of they being assigned automatically: (Link).
You can ignore the parts telling how to enter a static IP Address --
most of us don't need to set them up. IP Addresses for OpenDNS's Domain
Name Servers are: 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220. Anyone can use
them without signing up for anything.
- Hosts File. The best reference I know for practical uses of the HOSTS file is located at: (Link)
Topics:
- Windows Mail in Win7 broken by 11 May Windows Update (Link) (Link)
- Windows 7 Calculator (Link)
E-mails: (Also see Kaffee Klatch Forum)
- Trojan virus poses as Google Chrome extension (from Gene Elias) (Link)
- Win7 RC is expiring soon (Link)
- Trojan Posing as Windows 7 Compatibility Test (from Von Pausch) (Link)
Next Meeting: Tuesday
15 June,
10:00
a.m., CC Annex. (3rd
Tuesdays)
Resources:
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