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Thanks for bringing back the full text emailed newsletters.

Makes one wonder what on earth the newsletter’s decision makers were thinking when they made this change to the stripped down email content. Obviously a bad move. Next time ask us, your subscribers.

We use Cayan. https://cayan.com/payment-processing Payment processing is what they do. Competitive CC rates. We’re in the USA. Not sure about down under. I would assume that there are focused Payment processing companies available there too.

Simply Turn OFF Google’s Location Tracking. It takes one second. [ ] Enable Location Sharing

The OP Woody discussed Google Location a lot in the article but didn’t bother to mention how easy it is to turn off. All gloom and doom. Boo. Not.

This article is nothing more than a rewrite of what the naysayers have been spewing for a long time, just to get reader’s eyeballs. WS disappoints again.

The fact is that MS is still dominants overwhelmingly in the global business community with is well documented ~ 95% market share in the productivity software market, 75% share in the operating system market and approximately 75% share in the server software market.

Tools like EMET appear to be possible bloat ware, possibly severely degrading your computer experience more than helping. The Pros and Cons of these tools must be considered, tested, and reported in articles such as this from WS. To simply recommend software is not enough. Tell us the ‘Secrets’ Windows Secrets Newsletter.

I purchased my current PC is just a couple months ago, a loaded Dell Desktop 9020, Win 7 64-bit factory installed. Video drivers isn’t the issue, otherwise I would have seen similar refresh issues in other apps aside from Outlook 2013.

Let me describe this issue by example:

Say I have 5 messages in my inbox.
Msg 1
Msg 2
Msg 3
Msg 4
Msg 5

I delete the 4th one in the list…. this is what remains:
Msg 1
Msg 2
Msg 3
Msg 5
Msg 5
Yeah, 4th one is gone (good), 5th one rises up one (good), and the original 5th one is still visible (bad). As the OP, I called this issue showing duplicates.

Fix is to click on any other Outlook folder such as Send Folder, then return to inbox. This is not an inbox issue per se since it happens within any folder.

Everyday I use Snag-it , http://www.Snagit.com $39

bobprimak – A self-executing ZIP file is a EXE file. As an attachment in Email it’s a EXE file. Apparent you havent read up on this!

The top of the article Susan’s wrote that the #1 way to get this virus is:

[INDENT]1) Via an email attachment. For example, you receive an email from a shipping company you do business with. Attached to the email is a .zip file. Opening the attachment launches a virus… [/INDENT]

Question: How does the simple act of opening a ZIP file (i.e. the attachment) launch a Virus ????

Boo to Wise Disk Cleaner. It installs TrialWare.

Its not just MS, but all of the cloud service vendors, including Amazon AWS. If you “depend” on the cloud you’re going get burned.

The facts don’t lie, the “Cloud” is still a work in progress, too many frequent service outages, which are sometimes hours or days long, sometime horribly slow data speeds and access at their end, surprise/gotcha true cost, etc.

The cloud may be good enough for family photos and some backup jobs, but I sure would not trust it for realtime corporate data needs, not even close.

This is just another scare-you-to-buy article. Grade: Poor

For your Remote Desktop clients on RDS Windows Server 2008 R2 , are you also getting Event Log 1530 errors? This is related to the user’s User Profile not properly being released/updated during logoff. We’re still looking for 1530 solutions….

TightVNC. Works good, been using it for years, the developers still refresh it frequently. The other guy Rob mentioned an outstanding freature in UltraVNC as being file transfer… well TightVNC had that at least 5 years ago, I think TightVNC is way ahead. Give it a look.

We switched years ago to this 3rd party Treeview controlhttp://www.bennet-tec.com/btProducts/TList/TList.htm