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Hi JMT,
Don’t think you can. If you go to Norton’s top level menu and click on ‘manage identity safe’ and then click on the ‘help’ button on the right hand side, you’ll find a listing of what you can and cannot do using the option.
I have NIS 2008 which comes with Identity Safe – after about ten minutes of having it turned on, I turned it off and haven’t used it since! Still, that’s a personal preference.
Regards,
Keityh

Thanks Joe. Perhaps a good example of ‘you only get what you pay for’. At least, thanks to you and Hans, I got the answer to my question!
Regards,
Keith

Thanks Hans – I just ran SIW and it tells me:

Physical memory 192MB total with 49MB free; memory load 74%.
Virtual memory 678MB total with 222MB free

Guess I could do with upgrading my computer – One day!

Anyway, thanks for the input.
Regards,
Keith

Hans,
Sorry, should have said at the beginning – XP(H) SP3 fully updated
Regards,
Keith

Joe/Hans,
Celeron® CPU 2.60GHz with 192MB of RAM. Hard Drive is 70GB with 19GB used. Like Hans I clear my browser cache and temp folder prior to scanning.
Keith

Hans,
I’ve done two scans since downloading 1.6.0 – The first (initial one) took 43 mins and the next one, just this evening, took 56 mins! I have to say that that is somewhat quicker than the old version but still well in excess of what you and others seem to be indicating. I understand that there are probably many variables in all this, but any idea just why my scans should be that much longer? Spybot tells me it scans 173156 items. Other than the time issue I’m perfectly happy with it.
Keith

Joe,
I’ve since discovered that OO offers a considerable number of ‘save as’ extensions, not just .odt (which it seems to offer as the default). So I’m able to save in a variety of ways; For example OO offers Word 95, 97 and 6.0 (.doc) plus quite a few more – but, as you pointed out, it won’t save as .wpd!!
Cheers,
Keith

Everyone,

Thanks for all the inputs and pointers. I’ve downloaded OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 – and it seems to do the job okay. It certainly opens the .wpd files that I couldn’t using Works7, so from that respect it fits the bill – And It will let me save them as ODF Text documents (.odt) so I can get back to them when I need to. It obviously has loads of facilities that I don’t (as yet anyway) need and I’ll be sticking with Works7 as my primary package for now, but it does look like a good program suite to have available. The prog size was 336MB. And, of course, it comes for free!!
Again, thanks for coming up trumps.
Regards to all
Keith

Hlewton,
I have XP(H) (SP3) and don’t recognise the procedure you quote. On my computer all I have to do is click on ‘start’ and then select ‘my pictures’ from the resultant menu that’s displayed – (‘my documents’ is a separate option) – Once ‘my pictures’ has been selected then the option to ‘view as a slide show’ is presented to me as the top option on ‘picture tasks’, on the left hand side of the ‘my pictures’ screen. Didn’t think that XP (P) was that different?
hth
Regards,
Keith
PS: on all occassions, I only ever have to ‘click once’, not twice.

Hi JMT,
I’m not aware of any facility within NIS that will allow you to reduce the frequency of prompts but still keep live update switched on. All I’m aware of is either it’s on or it’s off – no inbetween I’m afraid. I have mine permanently switched to ‘off’ and then I run live update manually once per day. It soon becomes second nature – I have broadband but don’t leave my computer connected unless I’m using it, so I usually run live update straight after connecting, whatever time of day that might be.
Regards,
Keith

As Hans says, select a different mirror from the list. That always works for me when I occasionally get a back checksum error.
Regards,
Keith

(Edited by aekyall on 21-Jun-08 00:40. to correct NIS version number)

Hi JMT,
I have NIS 2008. To turn off automatic live updates in NIS you need to do following:
1. Open NIS
2. Select ‘settings’
3. Click on ‘automatic live update’
4. from the drop-down menu, select ‘configure’
5. from the displayed menu, remove the ‘tick’ from the ‘turn on automatic live updates option.
6. apply/ok out

You then have to remember to manually action all update requests.

Hope this is of use.
Regards,
Keith

Yes, saw the article. I wonder whether banks might, at some point, try to differentiate between commercial, paid for, firewall/anti virus programs and free ones? It’s been a worry of mine for a number of years and one of the reasons I stick with NIS, despite its heavy drain on resources (software and financial!!!).
Cheers,
Keith

Hi,
If you mean that you’re working with a excel doc compiled with some other system than Works and are trying to work with it using Works, then I don’t have any knowledge. However, I have XP (Home) with Works7 and use the spreadsheet option (.xls) which, I think, is a basic excel process. If I click on ‘file’ on the menu bar I get a drop-down menu offering a number of options, one of which is Print Preview. If I click on ‘Print Preview’ I then get a menu bar at the top of the previewed document offering me the options NEXT, PREVIOUS, ZOOM IN, ZOOM OUT, PRINT, CLOSE.

Hope this is of use.
Regards,
Keith

Joe,
Interesting! I’ve noticed a considerable drop in spam over the last two/three days, down from about 15-20 a day to 3-4. Also interesting is that my ISP (Orange) spam filter doesn’t seem to be filtering off the difference, the spam just doesn’t seem to be coming (for the moment at least) in its usual quantities. Perhaps I’m seeing a knock-on effect from filtering elsewhere – or perhaps the spam’ers are suffering from a bout of temporary RSI?
Keith