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Actually, it is not displaying the calendar from my default email. So how does it know which one to use?

Edit – I didn’t realise you could have a different default data file to email – I see why it’s doing it now.

Alan

Thanks.

Alan

Outlook 2016.

For Google, you have to go and set reduced security somewhere. I can’t remember where but it DOES work with Outlook 2016.

Alan

I’m not sure if I am helping, but I am running Outlook 2016 from my MSDN subscription (part of Office 2016) and it works fine with Office 365.

Alan

I hadn’t noticed that but you are right. Oops! Naughty Microsoft!

I’ve never seen this.

I did see the favourites folder disappear completely for a while. No idea what happened, but it came back when I restarted Outlook 2016.

Its not the font size that’s the issue, but the spacing between the lists of folders. I have a two screen desktop. I had Outlook 2016 on one screen and Outlook 2013 on the other – both are desktops running at 1920 x 1200. The difference in spacing was really obvious. Both had the same sized fonts but I could see more folders on the 2013 one.

It’s obvious that MS have done something with 2016 which is not fixable by us mortals. Which is a shame. The Kludge of changing the font size is not really the right way to fix it – especially on my small laptop with 2560 x 1400 screen where a small font size soon becomes unreasonable {rant over}

Alan

Alan

OK found it, but it doesn’t make that much difference. Have a look at the two pictures. First one is mouse mode, second is touch. Even in mouse mode, the LH side seems double spaced compared to Office 2013.

I was hoping there was a setting I could use (like with rows and columns of the messages window).

Alan

Joe, thanks – I will check that – I’ll come back if I can’t find it.

Cheers

Alan

I’ve tried to go to Windows 10 from 8.1 on my HP Spectre laptop twice now -and both times, I’ve reverted back.

It feels ‘clunky’, the video is slow, the network driver has bugs in it and it generally feels like it’s still a beta. OK, it may have some nice features, but if it stops me being productive (and it does), then I need a good incentive to move over.

Windows 8.1 with Classic Shell installed makes me feel right at home. So, why should I change?

Alan

PS – I’m running the Insider stuff on a VM on a desktop machine to see what’s new, but unfortunately that doesn’t check the basic stuff – I use it to check that apps still work.

BHarder,

Thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately, you’re right with the comment “Operating Systems still don’t dynamically scale very effectively.”

What is especially baffling is when I lower the resolution drastically, it still doesn’t affect the applications mentioned (Outlook 2013, Remote Desktop). Both still appear tiny. I can use Remote Desktop Connection Manager to replace Remote Desktop.

It’s frustrating that I can’t simply change a setting to allow using non-Metro applications on this thing.

Outlook 2013 has its own settings to adjust font size. Go into View – then View Settings and change the “Other Settings” which includes fonts.

Alan

That’s right the @ and commas thing caused no harm but at the same time as this started I lost administration rights on my account and the only password I had put in would not work:o: any more and I was blocked from doing many things. Unfortunately running over my senareo won’t help as it’s different. Briefly though I had to go into my wife’s account to give my administration privilege back and set up a new password which was not easy as it was in another language and we were both clueless at that stage. Worked out the steps by taking it to someone with another laptop and read it along side each other to work out what it was saying. To this day I don’t know why my password stopped working for no apparent reason and the @ changed places. Sorry I can’t help, good luck with that. But at the end of the day the computer did not have a virus. CHEERS Pete.

Try entering your password/pin number in notepad (where you can see it) – and then cut and paste that into the password prompt.

Alan

You are all making this very hard.

It’s easy. Select all the files which have the same year. Right click and select properties. Click on the “Details” tab. Enter the correct year in the “Year” field and click “Apply” (or “OK”). Done! That will add the year to the meta data information for each file.

You can then see what year each track is, by displaying the detail of each folder and adding the “year” column.

Alan

Alan

You are right – it didn’t change.

I am surprised (and disappointed) that HP decided not to support this in their top end laptop where they “claim” an extended battery life. Maybe it’s to stop the claim being refuted (they claim up to 12.5 hrs battery life, although I’ve never got near that).