Presentation: dc-808ec-rev.html

Door Prizes!
CDs packed with the tools discussed during the presentation.

Free Tools To Protect and Maintain Your Windows Vista (and XP) PCs
Speaker: Dennis Courtney, President, CPCUG

Audience: All computer users, beginning to advanced. Beginners are invited to bring their questions, and advanced users are invited to offer their experience and expertise during Q&A. At 3:30 pm, after the main presentation, there will be a Tech Brief for advanced users.

Learn when and how to use the various free solutions available for maintaining Vista PCs:

• Virus checkers
• Spyware blockers
• Spam filters
• Disk duplicators
• Popup blockers
• Registry cleaners
• Disk optimizers

A laptop with the Windows Vista operating system will be used for the presentation. (Note: Most, if not all, of the tools selected for discussion and demonstration work on the Windows XP OS as well.)

The presentation will conclude with a discussion of some of the differences between Windows Vista and XP.

3:00 pm
Tech Brief:
How To Diagnose a Rogue Driver; Speaker: Dennis Courtney

Speaker: Dennis Courtney is the president of the Capital PC User Group. Over the years he has held many other positions within the organization including that of chair of the Delphi (now Programmers) SIG.

In his day job Dennis runs the the data center for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). During his 15+ years at IDB, he has also been a programmer for DOS- and Windows-based systems using client-server and Web-based technologies. In addition, Dennis has run a help desk supporting hundreds of end users.

Dennis Courtney has a bachelors degree in business administration.

Location: One-half block south of the Cineplex Odeon Uptown movie theatre on Connecticut Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. Metrorail--Cleveland Park Station on the Red Line (on Connecticut Avenue, just 1.5 blocks north of meeting site) 

Parking: Very small lot, off Macomb St., to left of library. 

Free and open to all 

Several times a year a smaller group (usually about 8 to 12) goes to Nanny O'Brien's (directly across the street from the library at 3319 Connecticut Avenue, NW, 202-686-9189, open noon Saturday to 2 am Sunday) or another local establishment for continued conversation, networking, and refreshment following the meeting. (Participants pay for their own beverages and food.) 

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