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The Build 1511 update is persistent. You can spurn it, you can uninstall it, you can cuss at it, but it comes back, over and over.

I’m working on a machine that installed it twice, failed to install twice more, and it just installed again. Microsoft REALLY wants you to install Build 1511.

Like many internet giants, as a matter of policy, Google presumes ownership of anything and everything they touch. There’s a reason their privacy options are so convoluted and changed so often.

All your data are belong to us.

As an update, I can report that product managers are looking carefully, this afternoon, at this advertising offering and others, and I expect to see changes.
BruceR, I can’t report on what ALL publications do about advertising–only that it’s common practice to keep a moat between the business and editorial sides of a publication.

I would think that Windows Secrets would insist on vetting advertisements and advertisers, if for no other reason than to protect your own reputation. I would allow nobody to use my business name without reviewing how it is used. You have a good ethical reputation only until it’s gone. And once the horse is out of the barn, the damage can be permanent.

Whatever revenue you generate from Windeals, it’s probably not enough.

$25.00 might buy you a semi-experienced 8th grader, Bob. Around here, figure $100.00 per hour. If it’s a Mac guy, figure $160.00.

Unless you want amateur hour, make your bet on the first tee.

I have a Windows 7 home premium desktop and laptop, neither of which display the windows 10 upgrade icon to reserve an upgrade copy. Is this because they are not fully patched – I only install the “important” patches and also ignore “important” patches for software I do not have, such as patches for Office 2010 when I use office 2003. What do I need to do to be able to get the upgrade.

Maybe it’s more than skipped updates.

Went through this with one of my machines. It may be that Windows update doesn’t recognize your machine at the moment, which shouldn’t surprise anyone, considering the hundreds of thousands of possible permutations.

After making sure my updates were current, I fixed mine by using the Windows 10 Compatibility Checker. It came up with a message that it didn’t recognize my version of Windows (Win7 Ultimate), and it suggested that I try again later. An hour later, the Windows 10 upgrade icon appeared in my system tray. The upgrade ran just fine.

Another good piece about upgrading from HowToGeek – Update to Windows 10 Headache Free With A Pre-Upgrade Checklist.

Joe

Good article. Thanks.

Many thanks. I needed that, Bill.

:rolleyes:As usual the answer is pretty straight forward.

Just add the following code to the button
DoCmd.RunSavedImportExport “SavedImportName”

When I save my steps for the “Import” I accept the overwrite table function and it gets included with the save. Which is nice since it gives the end user a nice Message that the table is getting overwritten. Makes the end user more comfortable that something did indeed happen.

Ain’t gonna happen, Woody. Business runs on Windows platforms, and will for a long time. The notion that Linux will replace Windows in the business world is preposterous. And expecting Fortune 500 companies to align themselves with overpriced Apple products or half-baked, intrusive Google products is pure fantasy. It may be a really hot idea for technoids and pimple-faced gamers to argue forever, but that’s not the business world. I have yet to see anybody prepare a 100 page business report, a new drug application or an SEC filing in a business setting using an iPad, and we’re very unlikely to see it happen, primarily because an iPad is poorly suited for that kind of task.

I only hope Microsoft does a better job with Windows 9 than they did with Windows 8. They sure screwed the pooch with Windows 8.

I’ll try that. It’s been a while since I worked in Access. Meantime, I found another way to do it, although I like yours better.

The form containing the parms I need is the one calling this report, and it contains what I need. In the report header, I created a text box control, deleted its label, and set its control source to:

=[Forms]![Trophies2]![EventName]

Amazing how much you forget in a couple of years and how much time it takes to freshen up the knowledge.

Thanks for the reply.

Sometimes it’s best to avoid going overboard with security stuff. I advise all my clients to avoid encryption and compression like syphilis for their home machines and ask if they really think that they need to encrypt or even compress their drives. Just because you can take advantage of advanced features like this, it’s not always wise to do so.

Overhead issues aside, the problem with either one becomes painfully obvious when they get whacked with a virus or have a disk error or a disk failure. You can’t clone the drive, you can’t fix it, and you can’t make it a secondary drive and copy their files to another drive. In short, you’re screwed.

Trust me. When this happens, you WILL reevaluate your reasoning.

Do a little sleuthing. I’m short on details here, so in no particular order:

When does the failure occur? Does Outlook refuse to connect to your SMPT server, or do your messages get rejected after the send is complete?

Has your ISP changed port settings, encryption or SMTP server names?

Have you exceeded disk space limits on their server? For example, is your junk mail folder, sent mail folder, or deleted items folder on the server loaded with thousands of junk messages?

Can you send a simple test message to yourself? If not, what error message does Outlook give you? Can you send out a message to a single recipient? Can you send out a message using a test distribution list with only one or two names in it?

What do you see in your Windows error logs?

How large is your distribution list and what version and what Service Pack of Outlook are you using? Prior to to Outlook 2007 SP2, there was a limit of 50 to 70 recipients in a distribution list. If you’re using an old XP machine, you might have an earlier version of Office, which means you’ll need to break your distribution list into smaller sizes.

Do you receive any bounce notices? If you do, look up the SMTP error numbers.

Is it possible you’ve been flagged as a spammer and blacklisted?

If you have control over your mail settings on the server end, what happens if you create a new secondary email address, add it to Outlook, and send out a test message?

I like the idea, but I’ve seen some real horror stories about SSD performance declining over time, and a high failure rate. I hate to play Russian roulette with my business. I presume the newest models are more robust than earlier drives, but how safe are SSD’s, anyway?

Along those lines, it sounds like the smart approach is to set up apps to store data on a traditional hard drive, and only install Windows and program files on the SSD.

What should I expect?

If you look on the Acer website, you’ll see instructions for UPgrading to Windows 8, and they include preliminary steps to upgrade the BIOS, the AHCI (hard disk) drivers and network drivers BEFORE the upgrade. That suggests to me that it’s the BIOS and AHCI drivers that are the problem. They don’t talk about DOWNgrading from Windows 8 to Windows 7, but I suspect it may be a one-way ticket. My guess is that your best choice is to send the machine back to Acer and let them clean up the mess.

I agree that McAfee Internet Security 2012 is nothing special, and I’m no fan of Norton Internet Security, either. In my experience, they’re both bloated resource hogs, and I go out of my way to remove them from client machines whenever I can. Even AVG Free, a past favorite of mine, has gotten bloated and intrusive lately.

Counter-intuitive as it may seem, I actually prefer MSSE. It’s got a small footprint, doesn’t interfere, and does a pretty good job of catching malware on the spot for most users.

There’s no such thing as a perfect AV product. And for most users, I see no reason to cripple a machine with an overly aggressive product that gets in the way and slows a machine down to a crawl, unless a user has a history of repeated malware attacks.

It’s easier than that, Frank. You have the 64 bit version of Windows 7. That means you can run more than 3GB of memory. That’s the main difference you’d notice. More memory, faster machine. Is good.

Whenever you look for updates, always choose the 64-bit version if one is offered, because there will be a reason it was offered in the first place. If none is offered, it probably doesn’t matter, so use the unisex version.

That help?