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Thanks for the response – yes, I’d suspect that the version of Windows is possibly irrelevant (up to a point?) – and, by the way, I couldn’t find a better sub-forum – apologies if I should have posted elsewhere.

I believe that your method would certainly have copied the files to the new PC – but my concern is what happens after, when I log into Dropbox and tell it where the Dropbox folder is on the new PC.

Worst case scenario is that Dropbox decides Folder3 on my new PC is not the same as Folder3 on my old laptop – it just happens to have the same name, i.e. it’s a synch issue. In which case I’ll get D:\DROPBOX\FOLDER3-SYNC-ISSUE-1 again, plus D:\DROPBOX\FOLDER3, etc., synched down from the Dropbox servers for all folders.

When this happens again, if no-one else can add anything, it looks like experimentation is the only way forward???

Try Samsung Kies.

Beware of Kies and Outlook Tasks. I use Outlook 2003 and Kies 2.6.

It transfers tasks from Outlook to the phone via Kies fine. But then it resyncs the tasks back to Outlook, truncating the Outlook text back to the first new-line (I think). Weirdly, the text on the phone remains at its original length. Not nice if you’ve written a lot of text. Not the topic at issue, I know, but be wary…

Just to confirm other people’s – I’ve got Quicken 2004 (actually – the help says Quicken XG 2004 UK Edition, release R2) running on Windows 7 Home Premium SP1. According to my notes, to install it, I needed to run the installation (a) as an admin and (b) in WinXP SP3 mode.

Sorry, I’m out of ideas

Yes – that was me. As you say, Secunia are clear it needs to run under admin, but I was vaguely hoping someone might have a “least worst” way of doing it, e.g. scheduling it automatically but me having to input the password for the admin user each time. Doesn’t seem like I can find even that, so I’m having to remember to fire it up manually – which I’ll forget to do sooner or later. All this just makes me realise how much easier stuff like this was at work….

Thanks for your thoughts Joe

You can try changing the task scheduler entry to select “Run whether user is logged on or not”. Also, make sure “Run with highest privileges” is checked.

Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to work. I changed the scheduler to say “Run whether user is logged on or not” and made sure “Run with highest privileges” was checked, as Joe suggested. Nothing started – I checked with Task Manager set to show all users’ processes. I also tried putting PSI in the Startup of my non-admin user, marked up to run as an admin-user, in the hope that it would ask for for the admin user’s password – again, nothing happened.

So either I’m missing something or PSI is checking how it’s running and refusing to start fully. I would not be at all surprised if that were the case since they need to do something to distinguish the free version from the paid-for commercial one. (That’s not a complaint, by the way).

So unless someone else knows a way, I’m reduced to starting the thing manually (and supplying the admin user’s password) when I remember. Which tends to destroy the point of “protecting the world” if people have to do things.