Yes, I did. I ran all but one of the tests - the one not guaranteed to be data-safe - and they all reported the drive clean. Something else new...
None of the above. Unlike XP, where one can follow the progress of the disk check, in W8.1 you only see the whirly-thingy that has replaced the...
Hi Bill, and thanks. Yes, that is correct that the advisories come by email. I checked the ADM settings and confirmed that I had selected this...
Also, thinking about the wording of the warning advisories ( "Events ... were detected in Windows Event Log ") it occurs to me that ADM didn't...
OK, so I ran chkdsk /r. The scan phase hesitated for a long time at 11%; then I had to go out, and when I returned it had finished - I'd estimate...
OK - I'll do so and report back. But it won't be tonight (CET), as the reboot with chkdsk takes quite a while and it's already pretty late here...
Many thanks, antik. I'll get hold of Speccy and report back once I've used it. UPDATE: Got it - many thanks, a great little program! Shows...
Hi. I had totally forgotten that Acronis Drive Monitor is installed (presumably an OEM pre-install) until it yesterday started sending me some...
OK, I'm not going to pursue this issue. Compatibility didn't work, setting a backwards simulation of an earlier version didn't work, and I looked...
Yes - as I understand it, it's a version which is on the traditional desktop which you have to access specifically in Win 8/8.1, and not the...
Hi Neil and thanks for that. 1. Your link isn't working at the moment, but I'll keep trying. 2. I'm meanwhile trying your suggestion from...
@lj50: Turn Windows features on or off. Aha! I hadn't spotted that - many thanks. But (as you say), it doesn't uninstall IE, merely turns it off....
Hello. I'm currently going through the application process for a job working from home. To complete their questionnaires, I need IE 10 or even...
OK, I just had to do a total reinstall, which I had been trying to avoid (among other reasons, because I don't know how many more times I can use...
Neat! Hadn't found that one...
That's all very helpful indeed - many thanks again. If this problem with crashing Office persists, and nobody has any other suggestions for...
Thanks Pete - that addresses exactly my concern.
Many thanks to both. The BIOS embedding was new to me - I've played with various settings there but never noticed it. As for Belarc Advisor -...
Great, James - thanks. Yes, I found it (or rather, them) following your instructions. Just one question: I thought I remembered an .ost file,...
Hi. I am still running MS Office 2007, and have been very satisfied with it and see no need to go to the expense of an upgrade. But recently...
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