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Nuisance Negation
Three small issues with the Dells that can be rather annoying deal with warning messages from various applications that can be disabled with little risk for our purposes.

Warning Message: On startup, Pharos Notify will alert you that no ports were found for listening.
To Disable: Go to Start, Programs, Startup, Right click "Pharos Notify" and click "Delete" to remove the shortcut. The Pharos client, which allows you to print from the Library 9000 and Dental 4050, appears to work just fine without the notification client running.

Warning Message: On startup, a message warning you that your virus protection status cannot be determined.
To Disable: Click the message to bring up the Windows Security Center. Click "Change the way Security Center alerts me" and uncheck the "Virus Protection Status" checkbox.
Note:You may want to turn this back on after we get the upgraded Symantec Client Security 2.0 later this year.

Warning Message: Angry noise from Symantec about a disk in the drive when you try to shut down your computer with the CompactFlash card reader and CompactFlash card in the PC card slot
To Disable: Open Symantec Antivirus by clicking the yellow shield icon in the system tray (on the lower right of your screen). Select "Configure" and "File System Realtime Protection" and click the "Advanced" button. Click "Floppies" and check the "Do not check floppies on system shutdown" box.
Note: For goodness sake, with this disabled, don't put anything that might potentially be virally infected on that smartcard.

Who loves Salt-n-Pepa, anyway?

Local Swelling
The new Local Anesthesia section of the Note Vault grew by two documents (notes over the review session, both) courtesy of Michelle Pucek and Deidra Schelin.
Good luck in Complete tomorrow (don't forget the objective questions in the Vault) and don't party too hard tomorrow night. Save some for Saturday's t.u. (ha!) game.

Straight to the source.

Complete Objectives? Objective Complete!
Saba sent in a set of answers to the Complete Pros Test 2 Chapter Objectives from the CD of notes. Take a gander at those in the Note Vault.

Attitude: admired.

Weak Week
You ready for this?
Tossed up a few notes for Pathology, Complete, Operative, and Nitrous. The notes for Complete and Operative include some tips for our upcoming practicals from Steve and Saba, and the Path section received Derek's Heme\Lymph Objectices and Ofelia's notes over the review sessions. As usual, grab those in the Note Vault.
Also, archived some older news items, but I'm leaving up September for the moment in case there're any interested parties who haven't seen those yet.
Good luck, everybody, and I'll see you on the other side!

I live Floyd Curl to the fullest.

Through That Mysterious Ether
In addition to tossing up some of the notes for Pathology and Fixed Prosthodontics that have recently been e-mailed out, I've added instructions to the Tech Tutorials page for uninstalling that abominable Intel PROSet (and allowing Windows to manage wireless networks), and enabling your laptop's infrared data port. I would definately recommend following the PROSet removal instructions if your laptop exhibits an odd occasional 2-minute delay during Windows startup. The IR instructions have been added just in case you find yourself in need of IR functionality at some point, and because Tom Orme told me I should. Over and over. (It's just not the same without ya, buddy.)

Atherosclerosis has both reversible and irreversible components to its progression.

Is This Thing Still On?
Ok, so...I've been lazy. We'll pretend I've been busy.
Studying? Prosthodontics? P'shaw. I've been goofing off.
Missed a stack of birthdays on the list, so sincerest apologies to Gillogly, Lauren, Alissa, Jason Allen, Davids Dyer and Ayala, Shahram, and Nicole for that oversight. I hope you were all still able to celebrate without recognition on "teh intarweb".

Notes
Added a stack of notes to the Note Vault. Many (read: most) of them are for materials we've already been tested or quizzed over, and a certain number of them (read: all) were e-mailed out to the entire class anyway. Hopefully the Freshmen will be able to get some use out of them.
The Radiography, Nutrition, and Pathology notes might still come in handy, however, if you deleted those e-mails or something.
I'm planning on keeping the website regularly updated once again, so if you send in notes, I'll make it a point to get them added in a timely manner.

XP Service Pack 2
The big thing with the computers right now is probably Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2). Computing resources hasn't finalized their testing on SP2, but so far there don't appear to be any significant reasons not to upgrade. SP2 should be available from Windows Update and will probably be of sufficient size that you'll want to download it in the cubes.
Because of a security feature in Symantec Antivirus, SP2's Security Center will alert you that your AV status cannot be determined. You can turn off AV monitoring by clicking the alert bubble and clicking "Change the way Security Center alerts me" or something similar. While Symantec has pushed the patch date for our version back to January, we should be getting a new version of Symantec Client Security sometime soon which doesn't exhibit this behavior.
SP2 also contains a number of Wireless Connectivity enhancements. As a result, I've been uninstalling ProSet from some of our laptops and allowing Windows to manage the wireless. Not only does Windows automatically connect to preferred networks, but several systems that were having a startup sequence problem (a two-minute delay during startup) no longer showed this problem after switching over to Windows wireless management. If you would like to try this, let me know.

Outlook Import Schedule
I've been infomed that the official version of the Outlook import schedule is now available on DS Support Pro, in case you weren't satisfied with Hoeppner's version.

VitalBook Problems
Most of the problems people seemed to be having with VitalBooks appear to have been corrected by the 3.5.3 patch (available from the Help-Software Updates menu in VitalBooks) combined with having registered an account (from the Help-Update License menu) using the Redemption Code located inside the cover of the box for this year's VitalBook software.
Some people have received occasional errors while attempting to download books, but this appears to be due to transient connectivity issues, and is typically remedied by a healthy dose of "try again later".

Dell Updates
Dell's Support webpage has a fair number of software and driver updates for the Dell machines, many of which provide useful performance enhancements and bugfixes.
Your computer's Service Tag number can be very helpful in locating downloads and updates specific for your hardware, and this can be found on a sticker on the bottom of your laptop.
If you can manage to navigate from Dell.com through their Support site to a list of downloads for your computer, I would recommend at least the FlashBIOS Update, Mobile Chipset Drivers, SpeedStep Fix, Radeon 9000 Graphics Driver, and SigmaTel Audio Driver. Alternatively, I have copies of these updates that I can simply give you or send to you. Just let me know.

Infinitely indebted to those who would suffer the insufferable.

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