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What to do if your CD doesn’t autostart or it autostarts incorrectly

Often computers forget how to start up CDs automatically when you put them into the drive or they start up in the wrong program starts up.

To solve this problem go through the following steps:

1. Close any programs that are running.

2. Double-click on My Computer (on your desktop or in the right pain of your XP start menu).

3. Right-click on your CD-ROM icon.

4. Click on Explore from the menu that comes up.

This will open up a window showing the contents of the disk. From this point you can click on the "Setup" icon if you are trying to install a program. If the disk contains pictures or music, double click on the files that you want to look at or listen to. 

Get rid of Atwola

Atwola is a nasty little spyware cookie. Here is how to delete it if you get it.

You can follow these steps to block this cookie from your computer:

  1. Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Internet Options.
  2. Click the Privacy tab, click the Website button or Edit button in Website group box.
  3. In the Website box, enter Atwola.com and click Reject button to add this website to block lists.
  4. Click Ok button to save the changes.
  5. Open the file "%WinDir%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" with a text editor program.
  6. Add the following lines to the end of the text file.

    127.0.0.1 ar1. atwola .com
    127.0.0.1 ar2. atwola .com
    127.0.0.1 ar3. atwola .com
    127.0.0.1 ar4. atwola .com
    127.0.0.1 ar5. atwola .com
    127.0.0.1 ar6. atwola .com
    127.0.0.1 ar7. atwola .com
    127.0.0.1 ar8. atwola .com
    127.0.0.1 ar9. atwola .com

Successful Searching of the Internet

All too often I hear comments like "I can’t find anything on the Internet" or "I’m afraid of getting viruses from the Internet" or "Where do I start". In today’s meetings, we discussed some tried and true methods of searching the Internet successfully and easily.

Google is the current king of web searching and should be your first stop to start any search.

Boolean searching is probably the single best methodology to learn to improve your searching skills. Here’s how it works in a nutshell:

For our Western Colorado Listeners….

COMPUTER LITERATE VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR A SHORT TERM PROJECT

The Benevolent Community Partnership Seniors Committee (in Grand Junction, CO) is looking for volunteers to help Medicare D eligible seniors enroll in the Medicare D Program.

Training will be provided in a two day session March 13 & March 14 from 9:00am-3:00pm at the Department of Human Services; 510 –
29 Road ½ Road, Room 1060 on the first floor.

To enroll in this free two day class, call 248-2717. If you get the answering machine, please leave your name and phone number.

Missing Menus in Task Manager – THE REAL ANSWER

Pat in Illinois – we found the real answer to your problem with the missing menus and tabs in Task Manager (the thing you see when you click CTRL+ALT+DEL).

It is a simple one step process:

1. double click on an empty gray area at the top of the task bar.