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Dogberry – many thanks for taking a look. I am concerned that you found that the site called for an add-in called Webroker; I would also disallow. This is not in my code, and I should appreciate it if you could say which link called for it. I have not found any point where this add-in is called for.

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PurgeFox allows me to manage cookies in both Firefox and IE, keep what I want and purge the rest. Find it at http://www.purgefox.com/index.htm. Also enables you to purge your temp files and browser caches.

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Thanks for pointing me towards TechTracker, which I have tried and uninstalled. It throws up far too many false positives – programs that it thinks need to be updated, when I already have the latest versions installed – to be of any use. I am happy with FileHippo, which strikes just the right note of being helpful and yet not intrusive, and Secunia PSI, where my vote remains with 2.0 after a brief flirtation with 3.0.

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Bruce – good point about Chrome, but, yes, I have verified that this member does have Adobe Reader installed.

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These “not responding” errors are quite common posts on the Secunia PSI forum, and you might find the answer there.

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Have you tried the FF add-ons Enhanced Cookie Manager and Better Privacy? Together, for me, these seem to prevent the condition that you describe. ECM only keeps those cookies that I explicitly allow, and deletes all the rest each time that I start FF, BP is set to delete all LSOs every time that I close FF. I now use FF 13, but this has worked through many past versions of FF. A more extreme solution might be to modify your HOSTS file, but I would let someone else advise on that.

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Thank you both, RetiredGeek and Paul T, for your advice. Together, what you posted helped me to the right answer.

On the router, I restricted the DHCP range, which now starts at 192.168.0.2 and ends at 192.168.0.99. I came to understand that, although it is the same laptop computer, each network adapter, the docking station and the WiFi, requires a separate IP address. On the computer, through Network and Sharing Center > Network Connection, I assigned fixed IP addresses outside the DHCP range, 192.168.0.100 to the docking station connection, and 192.168.0.101 to the WiFi connection. On the router, I set an inbound firewall rule to allow FTP traffic to IP addresses 192.168.0.100 and 101.

And that seems to work! Thank you.

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You CAN do a highlight of the text colour and attributes (bold, italic) by in-cell editing. Select the text to be changed, right-click, and you can change font colour and attributes, but it seems that you can not change the fill colour. You certainly cannot do find-and-replace.

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I support Roderunner. I run FF9 with 40 extensions, that’s why I use FF, but I am reconciled to periodic uninstalls of FF, followed by a complete reinstall in a new profile, after which FF runs much more quickly, for a bit.

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You have software on your PC connecting for updates? I don’t think using purely the online services would install any software on your PC. Maybe it’s Google Chrome, Google Earth, some toolbar, or something else you installed locally.

Edit: As for the timing, if it’s for Google Chrome and you use it as your primary browser, I think frequent update checks are a good idea.

JScher – as I said, I prefer to choose my own timing to take Google updates, rather than having it determined for me, obsessively, by Google. Secunia scans do quite a good enough job of informing me when Google Chrome has an update available. I rest my case.

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Deadeye81 – sorry that I have been off the air since your last post on 22-June. What you were suggesting took me right to the brink of my comfort and competence zones. Further, this Bluetooth problem was only one of several niggles that had been growing increasingly annoying, and this pushed me over the edge to do a clean re-install of my OS. Mentioned this to my son, more of a techie than I am, who suggested that, if I was doing all that, to take to opportunity to trade up to Windows 7.

In short, I have done a clean re-install of Windows 7, and all my applications, and I feel very, very, much the better for it. Everything is working just fine, but I am afraid that we shall never know whether the solution that you were advocating would have worked.

I did not want just to fade away without a word, however; thank you very much for what you suggested, and your detailed and prompt replies.

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Deadeye81 – again, thanks for your help.

I used Device Manager to uninstall Bluetooth and all its related devices, I identified which were the drivers that could be causing the problem, and listed them.

I think what you were suggesting then was to make these drivers not discoverable to Device Manager when/if I re-installed Bluetooth. I assumed this could be by deleting them, moving them to somewhere that DM would not search, or re-naming to something else – I was going to insert a prefix of “1”. Unfortunately, this was frustrated by my not having the required permission in WindowsSystem32Drivers. I tried doing this in Safe Mode, no better outcome. I guess that downloading “good” drivers to copy over and replace the suspect drivers would meet with the same result. Am I attempting to do something you did not intend, or am I missing something? One of the suspect drivers was fsquirt.exe; a file search found about a dozen instances of this.

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Deadeye81 – many thanks for taking an interest in my problem. Initially, I was frustrated as I thought that I had tried all that you suggested, this looked like familiar ground. MS KB led to a FixIt that said it did not work with my OS version; GRRR! I reckoned that I’d seen the Vistax64 forum page already.

Uninstalling Bluetooth via Device Manager was very much more fruitful. I don’t think that I am home and dry, but I do think I can see what is causing the problem, and hope with your help that I might get there! Everything seems to have re-installed correctly via Device Manager, Scan for Hardware Changes, except for Bluetooth Device (RFCOMM Protocol TDI) #4. Device Manager says it has found software but the system cannot find the file specified. There are no “Other” devices with yellow triangle exclamations beside them. If I Google for RFCOMM etc. it goes to several sites that all then direct to Windows Update, but Windows Update does not produce this driver.

Please could you assist further?

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The first, and best, piece of advice I received when starting to build a website is – don’t pay for fancy editing software. I use two free HTML editors, Aptana Studio which has a page preview facility so that you can see what you have done, and Notepad++, which has recently acquired a spell-check

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You’ll have to forgive me a little smile. Above the salt, in the free section, Woody says that registry cleaners cause more trouble than they solve – “Some Registry cleaners do more harm than good”, and now, below the salt, in the paid-for section, Lincoln advises their use to remove all traces of a Java installation. The innocent reader could be forgiven for asking who is more right than the other.

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