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Many thanks people for the advice so far. I visited the links and there was good information too. However the atumatic polling – whilst not so frequent – still occurs every 15mins. I have turned everything off in msconfig; only (as far as I am aware) my non-webbed accounting prograqmme is running… h e l p please!

I hope that you can see the enclose 20020909_msconfig.jpg

I’ve just installed – 2 days ago – a free spam filter from cloudmark. So far it has installed and run exceptionally well… it’s based upon a database of (un)known spammers. You tell the prog. that this message is spam (click on the icon) and you never get bothered again!

I don’t know if this reply helps or clouds the issue…. I have a Main account with my ISP and subsidiary mail accounts for my employees. I log on and retrieve only my mail. Staff log-on and retrive just theirs. So what I am suggesting is that should there be separate mail accounts at the ISP side and separated Users on the Pc?

Was the netbui installed only to the Xp machine = I have the same problem

FYI I have now just installed a programme called pdffactory. I found this on a PC Pro magazine cover disk, and went to their web site to d/l the XP version. Having tried it now for three days I registered the product ($49.95). It is especially usefull for creating multipage scans in pdf format and I can scan straight to the pdf printer, and then store to HDD. The was I use it means that I no longer have to rely on tifs (the lamented Kodak Imaging) and find that the pdf format is a joy to email.

Thanks Leif. I hadn’t considered .pdf. On the face of it I have seen reviewer’s comments that state that multi-page documents can be outputted to .pdf. I suppose that there, then, would be something on the File menu, like export? I’ve never used pdf, apart from their reader.

Ok, many thanks – tried the File/Exit – your advice was excellent and spot on.

Thanks for the comments, to explain further – this programme uses a proprietary format, holding a number of individual documents in one file. It is the selection of 1 of these documents that I want to “print”. It is easy to fax or print them, so I thought that I ought to be able to set up a “prinrter” – that I select from the Print command – to em the document.

I know the feeling well, many moons ago I had the same problem with w3.1 and w95!. FYI I now use a not-too-costly programme call Backup+; it’s very useful and flexible. Have a look at http://www.avantrix.com/

We have decided upon PC Guardian $39.95 for our data. Had a look at load of progs. But this seem easiest to encrypt files AND folders with 1 password.

You have to ensure that, before the installation of XP that your installed software is Xp compatible. Sorry to be a pain to you about this. I have found, since the installation of WXPHe, that some of my Son’s games won’t work. These I didn’t check on (!) because my PC’s are primarily for business…. Therefore I should have done the same check on them (got the, or badgered for, updated drivers) that I did on my mc business software and hardware.

Yep, I’ve been having that problem too on both of my Pc’s. After a few re-starts or normal shutdowns it goes away until we load / re-load new software. Not a major prob. at all though, but it is irritating.

On my Pc2 WXpHE upgraded all oK from W98 – in fact it’s excellent. I left W98 on the HDD. Two comments: processor is AMD500 and HDD was upgraded before Windows up/g to a 20Gb.

On this subject of NU2002. I’ve just installed WXpHe and see that I now need to upgrade to NU2002. Anyone know if the Upgrade, rather than a new purchase of 2002, version is the upgrade to 2001 – which is what I’ve got?