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rebop2020 wrote:

this fixed a long standing issue with Outlook 2010 (!)

I have been using Outlook 2010 with Win10 22H2 for a long time now without this issue, so it must be some quirk of our setup.

Chris
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Will Fastie wrote:

I do that because the vast majority of Windows users do the same – use the product as is

I agree. I can customise my systems if I want to (and have in cases of Office, for instance) but I really want to get on with my work and not spend time on customisations that I do not really need. So, Will is right to take this stance.

Chris
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Will Fastie wrote:

The direction in which Microsoft is headed makes me think this will not be an option.

I’m hoping it might be for me. I use a very old version of Office (quite carefully) and envisage, when that really does die, I will move to something like Libre Office and Thunderbird.  I don’t use Microsoft on my mobile devices for anything.

Mind you, they might get me all the same!

Chris
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This article (for which many thanks)  just confirms I am right to stay with my neolithic behaviour and refuse to use One drive. Everything I have is stored locally, and double backed up locally, except the few files I need on the move which I sync manually. I am retired, so that works for me. (BTW neolithic man was much more sophisticated  than popular opinion believes!)

Chris
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opti1, phaolo, rizzquery, gwt10, LH, Cybertooth, Will Fastie, Richard Merchant, WSBirdLady

Interesting that over half of us are running Synology.

Chris
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On my NAS (see above for details) I have SMB disabled but my mapped drives onto it are fine.

Chris
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I am running a Synology Diskstation 214 Play, installed Feb 2015 now with 2x 4TB Seagate Ironwolf disks (installed 2021) and running DSM 7.1.1. 9 years old and still running fine, on a home network without a domain.

Using Alex5723’s link, I can use SMB1 or SMB2 – “enable server signing” currently set to Disable.

All my clients are Windows 10 22H2, but ultimately I will be forced to move to W11.

Chris
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It turned up on my W10Pro 22H2 system as well, and asked whether I wanted to use it. I have it turned off in Group Policies per Susan’s instructions so we shall see if it tries to prompt me to use it again.

Chris
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I will probably stick with W10 until it hits end of life and then move to W11. Both our family machines can take W11. I just see no need to move from an OS that I am familiar with.

Chris
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NaNoNyMouse

My experience with Quicken 2002 is you just install it from the CD and it will install as normal. then point it to your old file. Yo will probably need the installation key. If you don’t have it, Belarc Advisor will probably reveal it from your old machine. Good luck

Chris
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Like you and many others in this thread, I have been using an old version of Quicken for many years, having originally upgraded every 3-4 years. I am currently on Quicken Deluxe and Business 2002 (sic) and have been able to move it to new PCs whenever I upgraded – currently it works fine on Win10. I stopped the upgrade path when Intuit withdrew from the UK market soon after I bought 2002.

I used it both for personal matters and my consulting business (since retired). I really like the reporting functions. The one major problem I had was that the VAT reports were wrong – rather a fundamental problems since it compromises tax compliance. I reported the problem to Intuit but got  no reply, which was not very encouraging.

This version does not try to go online for updates and I never got into downloading bank data, and I prefer to do my own investment analysis rather than using their system, so the program never goes online for anything. Although posts elsewhere have been nervous about file size, I have had no problems  with a file at 35MB and counting. It is a bit slow on reconciling big accounts (it only uses one thread of the CPU for the sort) but that is a minor issue.

Ultimately, presumably, my version of Quicken will not run on whatever OS we move to. At that stage I will move to Moneydance, that my son and wife  use – both are perfectly happy with it and I believe it will import Quicken data.

Chris
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As an addendum, my hosting company has n ow added DKIM authorisation, so my emails all come up fully compliant. The only oddity is a few I sent to a financial institution, which I think is because they have an internal forwarding system. However, everything is delivered.

Chris
Win 10 Pro x64 Group A

My own experience tends to confirm Susan’s view that this change will probably not be a problem for those of us who do not send mass mailings, provided we have the right DMARC record. I have my own domain and always use a return address from that domain.

If I send an email through my ISP (rarely) the ISP handles the DMARC record and I have no problems. Normally I send the email through the hosting company that handles my domain.  About a year ago, I had lots of bounces because of these issues. I corrected the DMARC record to ensure the SPF record is correct. The hosting company does not offer DKIM authentication, but that was not a problem because email hosts ask for authentication form only one of the two systems.

I have been monitoring the DMARC reports ever since and they all come back with SPF OK and DKIM “fail”  but, most importantly, they all get delivered. That applies also to Google and Yahoo – no complaints from them. There have been one or two funky reports on emails to recipients that I think had bee onward forwarded automatically but, again, they all get delivered.

So – so far so good, and long may it stay that way.

Chris
Win 10 Pro x64 Group A

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rick41

This is a very unscientific  sample of one. I used a hotspot on 4G in my son’s new house, before he got his broadband connected.  (I did not do a speedtest on it – sorry). It worked, but slowly. When I connected the broadband (Speedtest at 66Mbps), the difference was chalk and cheese. So the hotspot is very much an option to use only if you have to.

Chris
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Cybertooth

I have been using HP Smart for several years because I have an HP printer. I find it slow and frustrating so, if you don’t need it, I recommend avoiding it.

Chris
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