I’m sure you know by now about the increased level of security at airports in both the US and the UK. Right now they’re telling people at Denver International Airport (DEN) that they should arive three hours before their flight to get through security. I’m flying to Idaho on Sunday at 8:40am. I’m planning on getting to the airport by 5:40ish. I’ll post about the exeprience as soon after as I can.
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I need your help
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Aug 2006
I’ve been asked to do a six-hour version of my three-hour “Tech Support on the Fly” workshop for libraians (mostly rural) in Utah. The current version covers the following topics: (not in this order)
- Dealing with temp files
- Defrag
- Scandisk
- File associations
- Computer’s frozen, now what
- Registry basics
- Finding your computer’s IP address
- Paperclips
- Ping
- Traceroute
- Whois
- Windows/Microsoft Update
- New storage media (Jumpdrives, memory sticks, etc.)
The last 45-min of the current class is me taking apart a computer, describing it all, passing the pieces around, then reassembling it. I’m attempting to get several computers to have the students work in a small group. This however, will not take up an additional three hours, and I can’t count on it happening.
So, I need topics. What else should I cover? (Sorry, but security-related issues such as anti-virus and spyware are covered in a different workshop.)
Category: windows
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