The March DVPC meeting is all about disk defragmentation. Executive Software pioneered the "Set It and Forget It" approach to disk defragmentation with the development of Diskeeper for Digital Equipment Corporations VMS operating system — an enterprise system with which Windows NT has shared development roots. Microsoft approached Executive Software International to develop the disk defragmenter for Windows NT/2000. Microsoft's new Windows XP operating system, due out around the end of this year, is based on the Windows 2000 code base. That means that professional-level, but reasonably priced, tools for Windows 2000 will be migrated to run under Windows XP. At the March meeting you'll learn all about disk fragmentation, what causes it, how it can effect performance of your system, and what disk defragmenters do and how they do it. Michael Materie, a Technical Engineer for Executive Software located in Glendale, CA, is our speaker. Mr. Materie has worked in the industry for several years as a consultant and Support Engineer. He holds several industry credentials including MCSE, CCNA, A+, and I-Net+.
The MP3 presentation originally scheduled for the March meeting has been postponed until the April meeting.
DVPC meetings are held in the lobby conference room in Building B at the Bank of America Technology Center office complex in Concord, located near the northeast corner of Clayton Road at Galindo (see the Map to Monthly Meetings on page 15). Please use the main entrance of the building, which is in the center of the front of the building that faces Clayton road.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m. and the meeting starts at 7:00 p.m. We will have the next installment of PC 101, our New Users SIG class run by Craig Peterson on how to use the computer, at 6:15 p.m.  "Spreadsheet Formulas, or How to Make Money at Home in Your Spare Time" will be the class continued from last month. The classes are open to all members.
We'll also have the Networking Table from 6:30 to 7:00; if you have something to sell or trade, need technical help, or just want to exchange views, visit the Networking Table. We will have one of our pre-meeting games, with a great prize for the winner! Also, as usual, we'll have library disks and those great DVPC mugs (version 2) for sale, SIG news, random access, and some of our usual great door prizes. See you at the meeting!