All The next computer meeting of the Oxfordshire Family History Society will take place on Monday 2 April 2012 at the usual venue at Exeter Hall, Oxford Road, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1AB. Doors open at 7.15pm, with the talk starting at 7.30pm. The subject of the talk is "Customizing the screen display of your computer". This will be presented by Derek Powles. Derek's talk is not a slide show, but will see the speaker demonstrating in real time. He will be showing some simple maintenance which may help to recover some lost computer speed. He will also show how to vary the size of icons and text on the desktop and in Windows. The session will be undertaken using an XP based PC, but with the routines are equally applicable to Vista and earlier operating systems. Some of the maintenance can also be applied to Windows 7. Our speaker Derek Powles is a member of the society's executive committee, and is a volunteer family history advisor at the Holford Centre. He started working with microprocessors in the late 70s within Oxford University, with responsibility for computerising undergraduate teaching experiments. When PCs appeared in the 1980s, he gradually changed over to PC support and also became responsible for installing and maintaining networking across nine buildings. When Derek retired, he had been responsible for specifying, buying and the subsequently supporting the PCs of all the academic staff in his Department. All members, potential members and their guests are welcome. For directions as to how to get to the Exeter Hall, please see :- http://www.ofhs.org.uk/ExeterHall.html For a list of future OFHS meetings, please see :- http://www.ofhs.org.uk/meetings.html Any queries, please contact me. Paul Gaskell Publicity Officer Oxfordshire Family History Society www.ofhs.org.uk