Tuesday, September 21, 2004:
The Indiana PC Users Group held its monthly meeting at the Indiana county Technology Center, Hamill Road, Indiana, PA  President Larry Rodack opened the meeting at 7:00 p.m.

Treasurer's Report:
No Treasurer's report was presented.

Secretary's Report:
No minutes were presented.

Program:
Program Chairman Steve Higgins distributed several handouts to accompany his discussions.  Higgins described the steps needed to disable Microsoft Internet Explorer and to stop the SCOB virus.

Steve also listed five important steps to protect a PC system: fully back up data daily, back up program software, make an emergency disk, defrag the hard drive and install firewall protection.

In his program for the evening, Higgins explained the features of Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 and its security enhancements and functional improvements. The service pack is available online or by CD.  Higgins explained the recommended steps to prepare a PC for installation of the service pack and how to remove it after installation.

Old Business:
Linda Gibson presented prototypes of hand-cards that members may distribute to promote ICPCUG.

New Business:
No matters of new business were raised.

Open Forum:
In a discussion of computing problems and issues, Steve Higgins demonstrated the enhanced clipboard functions of Microsoft Office programs such as Word and Excel.  He discussed a message-text-formatting issue in Microsoft Outlook, and showed a Web site with recipes for Godiva chocolate Grand Marnier brownies and super-fudge-chocolate brownies.

Larry Rodack reminded members of a special meeting scheduled for Nov. 30 to demonstrate Microsoft PowerPoint features.

The next meeting of the ICPCUG will be held October 19, 2004. There being no other business, the meeting was adjourned at 8:56 pm.

Respectfully submitted:

/S/
Chauncey Ross
Promotion Chairman