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I’m a financial planner (a one-man-band!) and I have used ACT! since 1992. I settled on Version 6 which was the final version that was completely stable before the ‘new and improved’ platform came in and caused major headaches for everyone for many years. ACT6, however, just “kept on keepin’ on” and never gave a day’s problem. That APPROACH Database printscreen above looks absolutely IDENTICAL to my ACT6 database program – the screens, fields and words – even font! I’m really thinking one copied off the other but I don’t know which – and it doesn’t matter at all now. ACT was owned by Symantec at the time but has changed to SAGE ownership or some-such now. Bottom line – if APPROACH works as well as ACT and how well it has served me over the decades then grab a copy with both hands! I currently have it running on Win7 (it isn’t supposed to do that!) very happily AND I have read multiple times that it can run on Win10 just as happily. Apparently the auto load EXE program doesn’t work on 7 & 10 but it is easy to navigate to the particular folder and manually evoke the EXE porog and all is good. I have detailed instructions if you ever need them. Good luck and stick to your guns – database over spread sheets for us home and small business users!  Cheers from Australia! 

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Thank you very, very much PKCano. That is a very impressive reply – seriously – it covers all the points I was asking about perfectly, succinctly. Much appreciated! Bonus: perfectly punctuated as well – a rarity on the web these days. Yes, so thank you for your prompt response, all is clear to me now and I know what to do with our ‘wonderful’ patches from MS. I also now know how to post new posts Cheers from Australia!

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Still learning my way around here – had to click ‘reply’ to this post as I could not find anywhere an icon for a NEW post to be made. probably just ol’ fella’s disease Anyway, I’m posting to ask about November Win7 patch KB4525235 (311mb) as it is the sole patch showing up in MS Updates for Nov for me. It is described as a ‘Quality Rollup’ x64 patch. I searched absolutely everywhere on Woody’s Forums and every link on the page but nothing – only about some other Win7 patch number (KB4523206) which isn’t showing up for me. What does SSU stand for BTW? Anyone know why there’s nothing written or reported on this patch here? Thanks all!

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acemorgan

anonymous wrote:

Of course, you’re free to NOT update Chrome and AV software.  Some folks seem to get by with applying no (or only selected) updates on their systems (but, then, they probably don’t have must interest in data integrity, either!).  To each his own.

There are still original Ford Model T owners out there…’tho they probably have other means of transportation as well.  (I just ran across one public poster trying to find a fix for a “cracked block” for a T!)

I wasn’t aware one could stop Chrome updating itself. Where’s the setting to stop auto updates on Chrome? Please explain!