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    French Hotels Wifi Problems

    This is a cautionary tale that may help somebody I have just bought a new laptop with win 8.1 and Outlook 2013 installed. We set off from London on a grand continental tour and in Paris I logged onto the hotel internet and for a few minutes Outlook worked OK then it refused to send any emails...
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    Transfer from Outlook Express to Outlook 2013 on Win 8.1 m

    I am still using Outlook Express on a Win XP laptop but I have now bought a new Win 8.1 laptop and installed Outlook 2013 (which is working OK) I am looking for the most fool proof way of moving literally tens of thousands of emails onto the new machine. This needs to be done with total 100%...
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    Log on as administrator?

    Thank you! This worked! I found the exe file in downloads, right clicked and ran as administrator and it installed OK. Sigh .. Well, hopefully, the above thread will help people who have struggled with this PS Ironically, now that it is installed, if I right click on the program icon on the...
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    The "redirect = 1" Malware Problem

    I downloaded some software for my new machine (Win 8.1) and immediately got odd behaviour from both Firefox and IE A screen would flash up showing a single line of code as follows window.google.javascript.redirect = 1 This may not be precise because it is only up for a fraction of a second...
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    Log on as administrator?

    Well, in fairness to me, I did say "OR you can just use the switch user option in the closing down options" - see after point 12 Edit 1 Incidentally, I discover that if you press the Win button and X together you get a list of handy technical places, including "Command Prompt (Admin)". So that...
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    Log on as administrator?

    This is my first post but probably not my last! I have recently bought a new laptop with Win 8.1 installed (I also have an older one with Windows 8.0 which I have not used until a couple of days ago - don't ask) I have managed to download and install a lot of software from the web on both...
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