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Dick, it may be time for the ultimate fix – reinstall Windoze… Bob

Richard, you may be having “Permission” problems of some sort. I made the assumption that using Outlook 2003 meant you were also using XP. Are you using that or something later.

With Outlook 2003 I was able to see multiple appointments in the montly Calendar view. With 2010 I only see 1 appointment and a down arrow to view remaining appointments on same day. Does anyone know a way to display more than one appontment on the same day.

I dont know the answer but you could look in these free training PowerPoints from Microsoft. They are PPTX files about MSO 2010 and there are 2 files about Outlook 2010. I was viewing one of them this morning and there was some good info in there. Total size of the 7 training files is about 500MB and the 2 Outlook files are 80MB each.

I can add/import blocked/safe senders. Once I close and then reopen Outlook, these added/imported senders are lost.
Where does Outlook actually save these lists – registry, PST file, or other?

I dont know the answer and it will be hard for me to test any findings as I have Outlook 2010. I Googled outlook 2003 blocked senders list file location and this hit looks interesting. You should look through some of the other hits too. This one looks pretty good click me!. It presumes XP I think. What windoze do you have? This one tells you all click me! and I quote from it about the locations of your lists Stored in message store as a hidden message. This guy seems to know what he is talking about.

@Bob –

That’s a serious problem. What browser are you using? (It shouldn’t matter, but it may.)

P.S. It’s more like shingles. Verrrry painful.

Woody
I know all about shingles. I got a dose of it a week and a half ago. It’s nearly gone but it was certainly painful. First and last I hope. BTW shingles is herpes zoster.

The browser is IE8 on Win 7 Pro. All hotfixes and patches, available thru MS update, have been applied.
In IE8 I have First Party cookies set to PROMPT, Session cookies to ALWAYS ALLOW and third party cookies to BLOCK.
I run my UAC at the top of the slider (above the default). Other security related items are Avira AV Pro (fully updated) and Zone Alarm FW free 9.2.057 (the latest)
Bob
edit: I just noticed that Gmail web adds Flash cookies.

I have Win 7 Pro 32 bit. After reading the newsetter article I got the Flash Cookie Cleaner tool from http://www.hotcleaner.com and it certainly cleans them out. Of course they keep coming back. A bit like herpes. So I went to the Adobe Flash Cookie tool at http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html and ran that. I made all settings to exclude, prevent and storage to zero but the settings dont hold. I set Global Storage Settings to zero but when I exit the browser (IE8) and come back the setting is back to 100KB again. I have a test site for the Flash cookies here http://www.afl.com.au/ and there is no stopping them. Why is it that the Flash Manager settings dont stick? Does anyone else have this trouble?

I just read Lincoln Spector’s articles, in the newsleter, about Windows 7 repair disks. The ones you can create from “Create a system repair disk”, not the Linux or BartPE disks. Are they specific to the system they are created on? What if you have multiple Win 7 systems? I have two 32 bit Pro retail and a 32 bit Home Premium oem and they all have different hardware. Do I need to have a repair disk for each machine?

Another question: why is the file system on the flash drive set to fat32 in stead of ntfs?

Have a look here and you will see that we are not alone.

I have come across a possible fix for the original problem (Error: 4350, related to Live/Hotmail/MSN accounts) here and here. In brief: “Based on some of the comments I’ve seen, I deleted all entries under ‘Safe Senders,’ ‘Safe Recipients,’ and ‘Blocked Senders’ lists found in the Junk E-mail Options. I closed then reopened Outlook, and the problem ceased.” It worked for me, although I still get occasional “Error with Send/Receive” notifications in one of the two accounts; strangely, messages are still successfully sent and received.

It was worth a try but unfortunately it did not help. It did achieve one good thing, I had forgotten to back up the lists of blocked and safe senders. I have done that now so thank you for that.

I use hotmail with Outlook as POP3/SMTP and have no problems beyond the occasional server failing to respond or unavailable type of thing.

The settings I use are:

POP3 server : pop3.live.com
SMTP server: smtp.live.com

user name: hotmail email address
password: same password as logging into hotmail webmail

outgoing mail server requires authentication, same settings as incoming server
incoming server port 995, requires an ssl connection
outgoing server port 25 , requires an ssl connection

If your ISP blocks port 25 you can try 465. I haven’t tried this because mine doesn’t.

I haven’t used OL2010 as yet, but 2007 allows you to manually set up an account if you check the option when the account wizard starts.

Jock

It doesn’t work for me. Port 25 is blocked and 465 wont work but 587 and tls encryption make contact. I use the same email address and password as I use for O Conector and get rejected.

Log onto incoming mail server (POP3): Your e-mail server rejected your login. Verify your user name and password for this account in Account Settings. The server responded: -ERR authentication failed

I get a similar response for send attempts. I can live with the sync errors now that I know that the email works OK so I will stick with Connector.

I am having the same problem after installing Office 2010; same error messages on two Hotmail/MSN accounts, but no problem with receiving Gmail to Outlook. I am using Outlook Connector and have repaired it several times with no effect. It’s interesting that only two Loungers have experienced the problem and, apparently, no Beta testers.

I am starting to think that this message is happening because Outlook Connector is trying to sync things other than email and there is nothing there to sync. I do nothing more than email with my Hotmail / Livemail accounts. I have Gmail and use it as a POP3 mailbox and it is much better for my purposes but I persist with Hotmail because I have the occasional need for other accounts. I think that not too many people with Outlook 2010 are running Connector. I wouldn’t if I could avoid it. I think it causes instability in Outlook. Outlook 2007 was always crashing and Outlook 2010 is doing it too but not as much. For info I am using Win 7 Pro.

I have 5 legitimate Win 7 licences and I currently block the WAT update KB971033 from them all. In my opinion it serves no useful function for me and it may cause me substantial difficulty if I allow it. I had trouble with a Vista installation where it was wrongly flagged as non genuine. After a lot of phoning Microsoft and getting not much help I eventually reinstalled the OS, using the same activation key, and we all lived happily ever after. Ever since then, where I have been able, I block anything to do with revalidating my licences. On some downloads where you have to have your system checked as Genuine before a download, I allow that because I want the download. If I had no choice to install the WAT update then I would but after the first reboot I would go into the Task Scheduler and update the two WAT tasks to a maximum delay for future checking. I would also set an Outlook reminder to keep updating the two tasks before they kicked off. I also block the Office Genuine Advantage Notifications (KB949810) for the same reasons. When I get forced to install these updates I will but while they are optional then they will not be knowingly installed. If they slip through (unlikely because I check and read the description for every update before installation) and I notice them then I would uninstall them.

This is an interesting subject which polarises opinions very strongly. An example here http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1383565 which got so heated that I dropped out.

This is in reference to the mouse problem. There is one possibility that hasn’t been touched on, assuming the mouse in question is wireless. That is that someone else’s wireless mouse may be sending signals to your mouse. I had this happen with a Microsoft wireless keyboard/mouse combo I bought several years ago. I liked it so much I bought a second one for my other computer, in the same house but on different floors.

Buy Logitech for that sort of gear. I have two identical Logitech mice that are used within 2 metres (6 to 7 feet) of each other and no problems.

I found BCDedit.exe difficult to use, probably because I couldn’t find much info on it. However I did find another, free and more friendly, tool to do the same job. It is EasyBCD and it gives you a GUI interface which makes the process a lot easier. I dual booted XP with Win7 and the Win7 supplied dual boot menu had basic descriptions and worked OK. EasyBCD easily allowed me to change the boot menu descriptions, adjust the waiting time and default boot.

Can I upgrade a Win 7 Starter to a Win 7 Home Premium under the license available with the Family Pack that I already have?

Yes. Prerequisites for Win 7 Upgrade versions are XP, Vista or Win 7.
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If you have any trouble with upgrade qualification which can happen if you wipe the disk or have a new disk then have a read of Paul Thurrott’s tips on how to fix this up. It’s probably a good read anyhow. It may make the whole Win7 upgrade process much easier.