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I have used Eudora 7.1 since it was first issued, and have found it better than any other email client I have tried (outlook, express, t’bird, Pamela, OSE). I run 21 personalities (I do a lot of international travel) and about 100 mailboxes/folders. Excellent indexing, search, storage, relaying, easiest install to new machine of any program (copy whole folder and install over the top – magic). Eudora has worked well in every Windows version, now on 8 where it works fine. Only negatives from my point of view are its limited ability to handle fonts and lack of effective autocorrect. In every other way, it is near 100%, IMO. Most users give it five stars – unusual, see http://email.about.com/u/r/cs/winclientreviews/gr/eudora.htm. What a pity Qualcomm stopped development when they did – big mistake.

Partitioning is easy. Use a partitioning app such as partitionwizard

Since Vista, that IMO has been BAD advice. Windows has really easy partitioning built in. Just reduce the size of the operating system partition to a reasonable level (I use 150 gigs) then cut up the rest into as many partitions as you want.

Yahoo seems to be the problem. I agree with JF – around 10 email contacts of mine have been hacked (that I know of) and all have been on yahoo. Anyone know why that is?

My view is that MP3jam is illegal. In reality it is no different to the various dodgy MP3 download sites. It would be useful sometime for WS to review the various legal sites like eMusic so we can find the best way to keep our download collection legal or at least reasonably legal.

I always go through the digital photos on my SD card (plugged into a socket on my notebook) and use it to delete the obvious deletions, rotate vertical pictures etc. Later processing I do with Graphic Workshop. I find the combination of the two works well. Maybe the same would be true of MPV and IrfanView.

Try Eudora 7 – IMO still the best as long as you don’t have to deal with some foreign fonts. Works fine on 7 and 8.

IMO Windows 8 is pretty much Windows 7 with a new interface, which many PC users hate. However, if you boot to the desktop and add a desktop toolbar to the taskbar you will hardly notice any difference – only lack of a start button. And you can add this if you have to with an app.

I agree JMG, that should work and has in the past. BUT MS seem keen for you to migrate your template. If it is only a question of renaming, they should say that as it would save playing around in the registry. Anyway, there is nothing to lose in creating the registry entry, apart from about 3 minutes of time. However, to test your theory, I renamed Normal.dotm, and copied my 2010 template from a backup. I changed the registry entry to 0 and rebooted Word. No problem, brought all customizations in. I have rung MS and they say they will review and update the KB article if necessary.

That depends. If you have no styles, macros or user-created icons, there is no need to migrate Normal.dotm, because it doesn’t have anything useful in it. However, if recreating your dotm file from scratch would take you time, it would be worth migrating it. I actually originally migrated my Normal.dot from Word 2003 to 2007, and all 70 or so toolbar icons and macros came across into the ADD-INS ribbon, complete with their created macro-buttons. These have also migrated ok to 2010 and now to 2013. I guess you can still export customizations from Word 2010 and import them into 2013 which would give you your 2010 ribbon or quick access toolbar, however, I haven’t checked this yet. Maybe someone could try it and let us know what comes across.

Thanks Bill – I understand that external drives are a cheap option. I back up to three external drives regularly (one off site). However for me the big advantage of cloud storage is that I can easily sync to it daily using Task Scheduler. OK you say, I can do that with a 1TB external drive, which is true. But not for me. Firstly, my local backups are encrypted – I don’t want some dickhead who steals my drive having access to all my data, secondly I travel frequently making the cloud more practicable, and the cloud is off-site, meaning that I won’t lose my computer and backup in a fire or burglary. That’s why I say that $10 for 20 gigs is cheap. Secure (hopefully), automatic and transportable.

Mr Jim has pretty much nailed it IMO. But – I have found external drives (though not yet flashcards) disappearing. Just go to computer, Manage, Disk Management and see if any drives have no letter assigned. If so, assign them a drive letter, and you probably will be able to see them again. That has worked for me a few times now – but only after I had thrown away a cable, assuming wrongly that was the problem!

Quite reasonable. If you cancel your 365 sub, just pay $10 per year for your 20 gig. Cheap at twice the price! I just hope the other sweeteners for 365 last – 5 machines, inclusion of Access, 60 minutes Skype to landline. I think MS is so committed to the cloud that they will preserve these and maybe add to them – I hope so!

File transfer is weak?
Can’t understand this comment. I cannot think of anything easier than dragging and dropping files from Explorer into the skype window. While you cannot (yet) send a folder, this is not a big negative.

My only complaint about skype is that it doesn’t have faxing capability. That and the difficulty of searching for contacts, since the company stupidly ended searching by country.

I agree with Bigbadsteve – Fortunately, v2 is still available and works perfectly.

Much as I like PSI, I prefer the manual control allowed in 2.0, so uninstalled 3 and went back to 2. Other reason is that I travel, and often do not have a fast internet connection. Maybe Secunia can provide an option to use a similar interface in 3.1.

I still don’t get it. Apart from Office passwords, where you can use a brute force attack, how is anyone going to crack my 10 digit password from a 96 character set. Totally impossible, unless they steal it from Linkedin or someone, then it doesn’t matter if it is 30 characters. For sites, like tech blogs that no-one would want to hack and I wouldn’t care if they did, I often use and 8 digit password from the 36 character set.