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The first section of this column recommends turning off Adobe Flash Player in IE, Chrome, et al. I follow these instructions and assume all is now hunky dory.

The next section in the newsletter concerns the forum and I want to read something there so I click the link.

Guess what happens! A pop-up saying that the web page wants to run Adobe Flash Player! Am I secure on your forum or not, I wonder !!!

With regard to “Standard data folder absent from backup sets”, the Documents folder is correct IF the backup is being run as the System user. I have seen this in other instances such as a blog on IIS which, because it is running as System, tends to try and get user files from the folder C:Windowssystem32configsystemprofile.

Recently replaced True Image Home 2014 with Reflect 6 Free and am very happy with it.

I found it a lot more intuitive to set up than Acronis, where I had to resort to the forum and an expert’s post on how to go about choosing a suitable backup routine. With Reflect I just chose one of the backup types they presented, set the backup frequency and was good to go.

I also use Acronis True Image Home 2014 which is set up to simply image my partitions in a grandfather/father/son system. Luckily I haven’t had to restore from any image yet.

Try ListMaster Pro from AnalogX (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/Network/lmpro/Freeware.htm). I use this quite often to validate formatting and existence of email addresses.

Cheers,
Brett

I have seen the “user profile is temporary” and other symptoms similar to yours on 2 Dell PCs running Windows 8 where validation had not been successful due to a bad built-in product key that Microsoft had blocked (required a motherboard replacement to get going).

I would suggest just checking under System that Windows 8 is still validated.

Cheers,
Brett

TCP View also does not show the .21 address as being in use.

When I get back from leave I will start uninstalling the very few applications that have been installed and also removing server roles until I hopefully kill whatever is holding on to that address.

The server (Windows 2008) has the File Server and Application Server roles assigned. ipconfig, arp and netstat show nothing odd, the .21 address does not appear at all and does not exist in the registry either.

There are two network interfaces on the computer with the second being disabled. That one was set to use DHCP so I reset it with a fixed IP just in case.

I’ve been through all the administrative tools, nothing uses the rogue address.

Spoke too soon, unfortunately. 30 minutes after the server restarting the new host gets an IP conflict and goes off the network. Luckily I go on leave today and will only have to worry about this next year.

Finally got this sorted after rebooting routers and switches had made no difference at all. Somehow the server was remembering its old IP address and not allowing any other computer to use it. I shut down the server, assigned the IP to the new host and restarted the server. Now everything is as it should be.

I found the .21 entry in the arp tables of the two switches on the network. I’ll reboot those tonight (as clearing the arp table doesn’t seem to drop the IP) and check how it goes tomorrow. Thanks for your help.

No subnetting was changed, only the static IP addresses were altered. I can use other IP addresses around .21, just not .21 itself. Tracert also reports destination host unreachable.

We don’t use DHCP for our servers or desktops, they all have static IPs. DHCP for laptops assigns addresses from .171. The .21 was previously statically assigned to a server, I have tried ipconfig /displaydns which does not show .21 at all and ipconfig /flushdns which makes no difference.

No host that I have tried so far appears to be able to reuse .21 but can reuse .25 and .26 which were also statically assigned to servers previously. Pinging .21 gives “Destination host unreachable” which to me indicates that nothing on the network is actually using that IP address.