Beruflich Dokumente
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Eric Anderson
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Eric Anderson
P.O. Box 552
Plymouth, Ca. 95669
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Microsoft®, Windows®, Windows XP® and
Vista® are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
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Contents
Contents......................................................................5
Topics to add to the second edition.............................7
Dedication....................................................................8
Chapter 2: The Dang Hardware.................................14
The Main components.............................................14
The key to a computer?..........................................19
The keyboard reminds me of my typewriter!!!.......22
The Monitor, can I use it to watch movies???.........32
Don't get an exterminator for this kind of mouse!. 39
The Audio portion of our program - The speakers. .45
Chapter 9: Virus protection, firewalls and other things
to keep your PC safe. ................................................47
Viruses and Protection against them......................47
PC File security.......................................................53
Firewall Protection..................................................53
Microsoft update.....................................................55
Chapter 10 - If all else fails….....................................61
The cost of a support request…..............................68
Appendix 'A' - Quick Solutions...................................68
Hardware ...............................................................69
Software - Operating system..................................71
Software - Microsoft Outlook...................................71
Appendix B - Some of my favorite web sites.............73
Appendix C - Windows XP equivalents.......................76
Index .........................................................................88
Prologue.....................................................................89
Get back to me on that!!!..........................................92
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Dedication
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Chapter 1: Introduction
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keep all of us 'in the know' regardless of where we
may roam.
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until I applied for a job transfer at Safeway® Stores. I
had been working as an assistant manager of a store
in El Toro, California, when my new direction in life
came across my path. A posting, looking for existing
employees who were interested in computers was
posted in the break room. I saw this at the time as a
way to get a job where I wouldn't have to work 3 to
midnight one day and then 10 AM to 7 PM the next.
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stay in touch with what is going on. For others, our
lives would end if our computer was taken away from
us.
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enjoyed working with his hands so it was nice to move
computers, printers and pull cable, install servers and
literally get my hands dirty in my job. I hope to share
what I have learned and some of the laughs that I've
had through this book.
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make it do things. You know how helpless you first felt
when you had your first RV without a manual. Your
computer feels equally helpless without some
instructions. Likewise, software is useless without
something to run it on, much like 100 gallons of diesel
does you no good without a rig to run it on. This
chapter's purpose is to introduce you to the hardware
side of things.
The Keyboard:
The keyboard is considered an 'Input' component
where the user, yourself for instance, presses the keys
to convey information from you to the computer. This
is referred to as 'Input' device into the computer.
The Monitor:
The Monitor is considered an 'Output' component
where you the user, reads the 'Output' from the
computer, which are usually results of some sort of
'Input' from yourself. Now, even something as simple
as you turning on the computer could be considered
input, as in 'I want my computer to turn on'. And the
computer will give you output such as 'Please sign in'.
There are now some monitors which are touch screens
that allow you to directly interact with images on the
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screen and there by send commands to the computer.
In those cases, the monitor would be considered an
'Input/Output' component, but for right now, we'll just
leave it as an 'Output' device.
The Mouse:
This is also considered an input device. You use the
mouse, or other pointing device to pick a picture or
select some text on the screen and tell the computer
you want to do something with the item you have
selected. There are usually two or more buttons that
are on the mouse as well as a 'Whiz Wheel' that can
be used to tell the computer you want to speed
through the content of a document.
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The speakers:
This is about the close as anything in a computer
setup that directly resembles your 'Stereo System'.
Through the speaker components, you can listen to
the audio output from your computer as it responds to
the various commands that you give it. You can also
listen to music through your computer using these.
The printer:
This is considered an output component where you
can receive your 'output' from the computer and it
could be saved for all the days to come if you so
desire. Though printers started out as pretty boring
text based output devices, over the last 15 years or
so, they have been enhanced in such a way that you
can now produce photo quality pictures that can be
framed and hung inside your RV.
The Scanner:
Not to be confused with the 'Bar code scanner' at your
local supermarket, an optical scanner can be used as
an 'Input' component, where you can scan a
document or a picture into the computer and store it
for future viewing on the monitor or printed out. There
is also some of what we refer to as 'Multi function'
units which are printers, scanners and sometimes
'Fax' machines all rolled into one.
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correctly though, the 'tower' is the computer that
connects the keyboard and the monitor together to
get some real work done. Of course, you can't forget
the all important A/C or alternating current which
gives the computer the juice to read your input and
give you a response. Inside the tower or laptop, is the
actual CPU and we'll get to that a little later.
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printer/scanner. The reason it is an exception is
because they usually have an on-board computer that
allows them to perform limited tasks even if they are
not connected to your computer at some given point
in time. But, we'll get into that later on.
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typewriter!!!' which is on the next page. However, if
you are curious, then please, read on!
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0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 5
0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 9
Fig 2-2: An example of bit representation of data.
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For the most part, it functions as the keyboards on the
old Selectric (and other) typewriters.
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This key usually will be interpreted by the software as
meaning you want to quit the function the computer is
currently performing. Also, if you find that you are
moving the mouse around on the screen, and you
don't seem to have full access to all of the real-estate
on the screen, pressing this key may get you out of
the limiting function you have inadvertently entered
into.
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Fig 2-3: Shown in this screen shot are the 'Esc' and
'Hibernate' key.
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This key will control where the video signal on your
computer is directed to. This key, which is primarily
seen on laptops, swaps the video signal from the main
display to an alternate video output jack on the
computer. Note, you may need to press the 'Function'
key to get the CRT/LCD key to work when you are
hooked up to an alternate monitor.
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function is on, I place the cursor right before the 'N' in
'New York' and I type the words' to visit ', my sentence
would now read 'I love to visit New York'. However if
the 'Insert' function is off, my sentence would read 'I
love to visit'. This is because as I typed the words 'to
visit', the computer overtyped some of the letters in
'New York'. Generally, people leave the insert function
turned on.
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The end key is very similar to the 'Home' key in
function except that it moves the cursor to the end of
the line of text that you are currently on.
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on your document. When you have the 'Num Lock'
function turned on, an indicator light on your keyboard
will illuminate indicating you are in 'Num Lock'
function. That way, if things aren't operating the way
you expect, you have some indication about what is
going on.
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those are 'Cut, copy and Paste' functions and I am
getting ahead of myself.
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than likely be one more item on board that will look
like a TV set, your computer monitor.
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exceptions, all computer flat panel monitors hook
directly to your PC and are not capable, in and of
themselves, to allow you to watch a movie or TV
program. Now, that being said, most computers today
have DVD drives in them that allow you to watch your
favorite movie using your computer. Also, you can buy
TV tuner accessories for your PC that will allow you to
watch your favorite TV program as long as you have a
cable or over the air signal.
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reason for this is they have a lower profile and take up
less space on a desktop. They have the added benefit
of being more energy efficient and cause less waste in
our landfills.
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Flat panel monitors will either be in LCD or plasma
format of projection. The LCD (Liquid Crystal Display)
style monitors are more durable when it comes to the
jostling on board while you are traveling down the
road than the plasma screens. As a result, you may
very well want to consider going with an LCD monitor
for your computer use.
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the writing of this book, those are the numbers that
are out there.
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Additionally, they don't normally leave the milk jug out
on the counter or buy jewelry that really isn't needed.
But, don't toss out your spouse in exchange for a
mouse as a 'Mouse' doesn't really have the capacity to
bring home the bacon like a spouse might. All
goofiness aside though, the mouse has become very
important when it comes to computers these days.
The mouse is used to move the cursor to a point on
the screen where you can then, by pressing its
buttons in different ways, get it to do things. The
pressing of a mouse's buttons are referred to as
'clicks'. A single click is referred to as a 'click' where
as if you press a given button in rapid succession
twice, it is referred to as a 'double click'.
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Just from clarity stand point, let us say you are using
your right hand to drive the mouse. Unless you
haven't turned your computer on yet, you've figured
out by now that the mouse button under your index
finger is the one that pulls the trigger on most of the
graphical operations that you want to do with your
computer. The button that is under your middle finger
is in charge of bringing up a menu of alternate
functions that you can do with the item that you have
selected. To select an item on the menu that has been
selected by 'right clicking' (the button under your
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middle finger) on an object, simply move the mouse to
the item on the menu you want to select and then
click on that menu item.
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down and then 'drag' the icon to the right hand half of
the screen, that is where icon will land, as shown on
the next screen shot.
Now, lets say, you were able to drag the icon over, but
once you release the mouse button, the icon flew back
over to the left hand group of the screen. This is
because the Auto-Arrange is turned on. We will tackle
this issue later on in the book.
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look similar to the figure 2-13, click on 'Classic View'
on the left hand part of the image. Next, in the Control
Panel, double-click on the 'Mouse' icon. For how to
access the control panel in Windows XP, consult
appendix 'C'.
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built into the box so that it can give you a 'very
annoying' beep, if you do something that doesn't
agree with it's very delicate digestive system.
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Chapter 9: Virus protection,
firewalls and other things to keep
your PC safe.
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additional level of protection against the infection of
my PC.
Norton - Anit-Virus®
Symantics - PC-Cillin®
Microsoft - One Care Live®
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packages during the time her parents were gone and
a great many of them had viruses in them. Because
there were so many, the virus software was over-run
and could not clean them all.
The bad news was, the PC had to have all the contents
deleted from the hard drive and the operating system,
Software and files re-loaded. The good news was that,
before the system was totally corrupt, the family
brought the PC to me. I was able to backup the
needed files to an external hard drive, saving precious
picture files and other documents.
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If you do find that your computer is infected by a virus
and the virus removal software doesn't seem to be
deleting the virus. Try the following, from the start
button, click on the 'Run…' option. When Windows
asks you what you want to start enter MSCONFIG as is
shown in the following screen shot.
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Then click 'Apply' and then click 'Ok'. When prompted,
restart the computer.
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where the virus removal tool doesn't seem to be
removing the virus from your computer.
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PC File security
Firewall Protection
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Another thing that is important to have installed on
your PC is a 'Firewall'. Firewalls can either be a
hardware device or a piece of software. For most
personal computers, the firewall is a piece of software
that is installed on the PC. Hardware firewalls are
normally installed on large corporate networks. If you
are running an operating system of Windows XP or
newer, you are in luck, a 'Firewall' comes included in
the operating system and is turned on by default.
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on what makes a Windows based PC work is much
easier to come by than that for a Apple based PC.
Microsoft update
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Fig 9-7: This is the status screen for the download and
updates.
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The reason updates are sometimes required is
because services may be running that are going to be
changed as part of this update. The cleanest way to
ensure that the updates are applied and everything in
the computer is synced up, is to reboot the computer.
Some of the software that I use as a programmer also
gets updates like this. However, because Microsoft
assumes that IT folks are more 'Computer savey', their
instructions will sometimes tell us the services to turn
off before the update is applied so as to avoid the
rebooting of a computer.
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Fig 10-3: This is where you initiate a support request.
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In the above screen shot, you select how long you will
allow me to be connected to your PC. During this time
I have full control over your PC. After that, the
connection, allowing me or anyone else for that
matter to control your PC will be closed. Once you
have entered the amount of time the connection will
be open as well as the password, click on the 'Send
Invitation' button.
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will be saved in 'My Documents' which is fine.
Fig 10-8: Use the default file name and click 'Save' for
the invitation.
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After you pen your e-mail, include the invitation as an
attachment to the e-mail. This will send me a link so
that I can respond to your invitation and connect to
your computer.
E-mail: thervitguy@ymail.com
Phone: 209-304-2966
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Hardware
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click the 'Ok' and next buttons until all dialog boxes
are closed. Try the e-mail send-receive again. Your
problem should be resolved.
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Website Description
WWW.RV.NET This has a large number of
Forums (Places to post and
find information) on almost
anything RV related. There
are areas for Fiver owners,
Tent Trailer Owners, Class
'A' Moho owners, basically,
the whole shootin' match.
WWW.CAMPINGWORLD. This is the web site where
COM you can purchase anything
you can find at the
venerable Camping world
store to enhance your RV
experience.
WWW.RVPARKREVIEWS. This web site is where I look
COM for comprehensive, un-
biased reviews of RV parks
throughout the nation.
WWW.THERVITGUY.COM This is the web site hosted
by yours truly in regards to
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RV'ing and Computers
WWW.MICROSOFT.COM Believe it or not, I go to this
web site many times for
information about Microsoft
software.
WWW.DELL.COM The main web site for the
'DELL' Computer
corporation.
WWW.HP.COM The main web site for the
'HP' Computer corporation.
WWW.PETFINDER.COM One of my favorite personal
stuff web sites for looking
for our next best friend. A
large number of the
Humane Societies through
out the US, post the
pooches for adoption on this
web page.
WWW.GOODSAMCLUB.C This is a great place to hook
OM up with other RV'er's and
find out information about
up-coming samborees.
WWW.MSNBC.COM I like this web site a lot
because it contains a lot of
good news content. Though
I'm sure every news
organization has it's own
'Bias', this one has a Animal
section under the 'Health'
area, that my wife and I find
very helpful and interesting.
WWW.YAHOO.COM Search engine and home
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page that gives you
probably the best way to
customize your home page.
WWW.EXCITE.COM Search engine and home
page that gives you the
ability to customize your
home page to some degree
for content that you desire.
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Appendix C - Windows XP
equivalents
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Glossary
-A-
-B-
-C-
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Context Sensitive menu - This is a menu that varies
based on the item that you clicked on. For example
the menu you are presented will look one way if you
click on a folder and a different way if you click on a
music file.
-D-
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Duplex - This means basically to do things two-way. In
regards to printing, it means to print on both sides of
the paper. In the terms of communications, it means
two way communications.
-E-
-F-
-G-
-H-
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Hibernate - Entering the hibernate mode means that
the computer will save the open desktop and the open
files to the hard drive and then power down the PC.
This means when the computer is turned back on, the
operating system opens up the computer in the same
state in which it entered hibernate. Similarly see
'Stand by'.
-I-
-J-
-K-
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-L-
-M-
-N-
-O-
-P-
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Page Setup… - As a menu option allows you to set up
the page orientation such as 'Landscape' or portrait.
-Q-
-R-
-S-
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Save - As a menu option allows you to save the
changes you have made to the existing file in an
existing location.
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-S (Con't) -
-T-
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-U-
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-V-
-W-
-X-
-Y-
-Z-
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assembled. It was one of the first to have a membrane
keyboard.
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Index
Auto-Arrange.............43 Lime Wire...................53
Context Sensitive menu Microsoft Update.......55
...............................78 MSCONFIG.................50
Copy..........................78 Napster......................53
Cursor........................78 New............................81
Cut.............................78 Open..........................81
Date/Time..................78 Page Setup................82
DPI.............................78 Print...........................82
Drag and drop............42 Prologue.....................89
Duplex.......................79 Remote assistance... .64
Exit............................79 Replace......................82
File Sharing................53 S-Video......................34
Find............................79 Save...........................83
Find Next...................79 Save As......................83
Firewall......................54 Select All....................84
Geocaching................79 Selective Startup.......50
Goto...........................79 support request. . .61, 64
GUI.............................39 Undo..........................85
LCD............................38 Video card..................34
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Prologue
Thank you so much for taking the time to read my
book. I really did find it a joy writing it. Below is where
you can get information about my e-mail address and
my web page. Please feel free to go out and drop me
a line letting me know what you think about the book.
I will be sure to add any relevant content to the next
edition of my book.
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third book in the series. It will discuss the in's and
out's of running a computer based business from your
RV. It will discuss some of the must haves for a RV
homed Computer based business as well as some
things to get informed about when it comes to the tax
implications of running a business from your rig. This
third book should be released in late 2010.
Now, go out and enjoy the open road and see all of
the wonderful places out there. Don't spend too much
time using your computer if you can be outside
exploring. But I'm hoping that with this new book as
your tool, you can get more out of your computer and
be more comfortable with it.
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Respectfully
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