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"On Target" ™ Newsletter is a free service provided by
Archer Solutions, Inc.
Contact us at (713) 667-1300
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ON TARGET
Volume 1 Issue 5
Thursday, November 02, 2000
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Executive Assistant
Business & Technology
ATTENTION:
If you
currently get connected to the Internet through:
AccessCom
IJNT.net
UrJet.Net
UBNetworks
Please call Archer Solutions. (713)
667-1300.
UBNetworks has announced that they
are filing for Bankruptcy and have laid off most of their staff. Tech
Support, Customer Care, and even Sales are no longer reachable. We
have developed a plan in conjunction with Accelernet to help you
avoid losing your Internet presence. Time is of the essence, because
UBNetworks will make no statement about how long their servers will
be up.
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Update Updater
Updates, Patches, etc.
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Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
- Service Pack 1 (SP1) provides the latest
updates to the Windows 2000 family of operating systems. These
updates are a collection of fixes in the following areas: setup,
application compatibility, operating system reliability, and
security. SP1 is not considered a required upgrade; Microsoft
recommends that customers review the SP1 documentation to
determine whether to install SP1.
Get Internet Explorer 5.5 and Internet Tools Today!
This is the newest version of Internet Explorer,
with benefits for consumers and developers alike. You’ll enjoy the
ability to preview Web pages exactly as they’ll appear when printed
with the new Print Preview, and with improved support for DHTML and
CSS, Web architects will appreciate the greater control over browser
appearance and behavior.
If you have questions about a
particular update, please feel free to call. We’re here to help you.
(713) 667-1300 |
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Reach into the Quiver
Tips and Tricks
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BETTER PERFORMANCE AS EASY AS 1-2-3
1)
Scan and Defrag your Hard Drive (speeding its retrieval and saving
by uniting the scattered bits of a data). Close all your
Applications and start from a fresh re-boot. Go to My Computer or
Windows Explorer (but not a shortcut to a drive), right-click a drive
icon, select Properties, then click the Tools tab. Click the Check Now
button to have Windows check the drive for errors and fix them. Go back
to the Tools tab and click the Defragment Now button to defrag the
drive. This may take some time and you should not try to work while this
program is running.
2) Remove background programs.
By far the most obvious consumers of CPU power and wasters of Windows
resources are background applications, often recognizable as icons in
the Windows System Tray. Identify which ones HAVE to be running, and
ditch the rest. If you are not sure, leave it alone- or call your Archer
solutions rep and ask. From Windows' Start menu, click Programs •
Accessories • System Tools and launch System Information. In System
Information, select Tools • System Configuration Utility. In the
utility, select the Startup tab; there you'll see a list of the programs
and their filenames. Simply uncheck any programs you don't want to load.
Don't worry--you can always go back and reselect them later.
3) Remove Wallpaper, Themes and Sounds
Remember that every full color desktop picture of Dilbert or the
family vacation takes up valuable RAM. The same holds true for all those
nifty desktop themes. While it may be neat to have your computer play
"Ride of the Valkyries" every time you open a window, it ties up even
more RAM.
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On the Horizon
New Technology
Blue Tooth may make you
smile
During the past year, more than 200
engineers and technical experts from companies such as 3Com, Compaq,
Dell, HP, and Motorola have contributed to the development of a
wireless specification designed to allow users with mobile
computers, mobile phones and handheld devices to keep all their data
synchronized among these devices. This standard is known as
Bluetooth.
The Bluetooth Special Interest Group
consists of a number of companies - not just one. It is made up of
some of the largest technology companies around. According to their
website:
"It will enable users to connect a
wide range of computing and telecommunications devices easily and
simply, without the need to buy, carry, or connect cables. It
delivers opportunities for rapid ad hoc connections, and the
possibility of automatic, unconscious, connections between devices.
It will virtually eliminate the need to purchase additional or
proprietary cabling to connect individual devices. ...It creates the
possibility of using mobile data in a different way, for different
applications such as "Surfing on the sofa", "The instant postcard",
"Three in one phone" and many others. It will allow them to think
about what they are working on, rather than how to make their
technology work.
It's vendor supporters and
prospective users hope it will be an intelligent and robust method
for allowing devices to seek and provide one another services in
ways that streamline mobile computing and enable more responsive
behavior from wired networks.
Still in development as an industry
standard, there will undoubtedly be some delay before we start
seeing hand-held roaming devices from different makers all able to
seamlessly talk to each other.
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