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How does Onedrive/win8 backup system work with Outlook.pst files? I have found other cloud services not to deal with them. Too large a file, and constantly changing.

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EMET wouldn’t install on my win7, 64bit computer, Avast free anti virus disabled. gives error 2738, which apparently is a msi error. web search didn’t reveal any easy fix for it. Or, any reliable fix at all.

I have not done either of those 2, so wouldn’t give advice on how to do it, however: perhaps a web search will reveal the method?

I don’t find Outlook items to appear in win7 searches. I do have it checked in index options.

In fact, search in Outlook 2013 is worse than ever. email items that are there often don’t appear. and people searches sometimes return more than one for the same person, one being full contact info, and others being only one email address for the person, with no way to distinguish one from the other before clicking on them. frustrating. MS had been notified about this many months ago, and haven’t bothered to fix it.

Woody just wrote a piece about office 2013 and suggesting people write in their suggested improvements. My suggestion is that MS fix the custom form function.

I am surprised that Woody hasn’t mentioned (noticed?) this problem.

i’ve since determined that my comment about starting over with native custom form and it magically changing to the custom form isn’t quite correct. when one brings up the contact.ipm, native form in developer, and then clicks “design this form”, outlook automatically moves some things around. it is not actually bringing up My custom form. My custom form was simply taking advantage of this bizarre behavior in past editions, so looks the same.

however, the issue about misnamed, jumbled field names remains. in fact, you can see the field names change immediately upon clicking “design this form”. no word from ms about this issue, which has been confirmed by others.

i will install more ram. i’ll start the advisor again after installation an see if it is satisfied.

meanwhile, i ran the upgrade advisor on laptop. it didn’t even give me the satisfaction of hearing how suitable the laptop is for win8, just started downloading . took about 2 hours. it is now burned to dvd.

thanks for the responses. and inspiration to get this out of the way.

Sorry, I thought you said you has a different PC with Win 7 and XP. Are you having problems downloading from the Win 7 side or from just the XP side? Perhaps someone you know would let you use their PC for a while just to download the ISO file. Unfortunately there is not a separate download site like there is for Win 7.

duh, why didn’t i think of that. i have the desktop with win7 and xp. the plan was to get the 64 bit version by downloading from the win7 partition and install it on the xp partition. then i ran into the memory issue. but i do have the laptop with win7 64 bit on it. i’ll try downloading from there.

i may also get 2 more 1gb sticks for the desktop, which will bring it from 3 to 4 gb (its max), or from 1 to 4gb according to advisor, unless advisor won’t recognize the extra 2 either.

I have to believe if you try to install from the DVD, you should be successful.

right. that is the problem, i don’t have the dvd. i am curious to see if the advisor finds some other problem than the alleged memory issue, but, i agree, since i am currently running win7, win8 is supposed to be compatible. but if the advisor doesn’t run, i can’t download the program.

Does Win7 see 3GB?

Have you tried reseating the RAM? Do you have the 1GB sticks in slots 1 & 3 and the 512 MB sticks in slots 2 & 4?

Joe

yes, win7 sees 3 gb. i can’t say that i remember for sure who is in which slot. i did it according to instructions that i had at the time, and since computer all software other than advisor (and now crucial) sees 3gb, i figured that it was correct. i am currently presuming that there is some defect in the advisor program. certainly wouldn’t be unusual.

Are you attempting to download the 32 Bit version or the 64 Bit version? With only 3 Gb RAM, the 32 Bit version is more appropriate for you.

at the time that i installed the 64 bit version i planned on upgrading memory. then i realized that 4gb was the max allowed in this computer. i have 6gb with 64 bit win7 on laptop, and would prefer to keep both the same, not have to keep separate version of software, etc. in the end, 64 bit was probably a waste for me, since i don’t do anything so memory intensive. my impression a few years ago was that everything was going to 64 bit, so that is where i went. didn’t happen that way. oh well.

besides, the upgrade advisor doesn’t ask what you want. it just assumes that whatever is on the computer now is what it will be in future. i tried running the upgrade advisor from xp (32 bit ), and got an error message, some sort of error checking system, then fails download, “class not registered”. at least advisor runs in win7, except for memory confusion. i don’t intend to let it install there, but save to disk and install it on xp partition.

Do you have three RAM sticks? According to http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=Dimension E521&Cat=RAM the E521 can have 4 sticks with a maximum of 1 GB per stick.

Is all the RAM visible in BIOS?

Joe

i ran the crucial mem scan. it thinks that i have 1.5 gb. bios says i have 3 gb: 2:1gb sticks, 2: 512mb sticks. i intended to upgrade the 2:512 mb sticks to 2:1gb, but didn’t get around to it. nevertheless, bios, and all software sees 3 gb. only ms and crucial see differently.

i see frequent references to this service in columns here. I used to use it, but stopped because it was so limited in the programs that it reviewed, and inaccurate recommendations. i tried it again a couple of weeks ago. it gave me a very short list of programs that needed updating, and said that most were up to date. remarkable, since it analyzed the winxp drive on my dual boot computer, which i haven’t accessed in a few years. It said nothing about the win7 drive that i use daily, and from which i ran secunia. bye bye secunia.

i find that the search function in win7 (start>search programs and files) to be unreliable. it finds virtually nothing in my documents folder, and some programs are invisible to it. while researching how to get it to work as some people claim it works, i have found many people writing about how useless it is.

and yes, i have done the indexing setup routine, checking and unchecking the appropriate boxes to index, and rebuilt the index, several times. it just doesn’t work very well. I use filelocater if i really need to locate a file.

i am realizing that the tiny window is the “restored down” state. if window is maximized and i click the “restore down ” button, i get the tiny window. outlook is automatically opening to the restored down state, rather than the last used size.

i have tried clearing the windows size/location cache.