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if you mean specifically in relation to iTunes 11, I can't comment. I've left my iTunes on 10 as from what I've heard and seen, 11 is a can of worms I don't want to open yet. but in general, I've had CC4 since it was released, have done a few runs on it just to see how it goes itself, and with my system, and can't say anything negative about it. my main PC is Win8 x64, others are Win7 x64 and I've run it in a VirtualBox using XP, all good.

very unlikely. a lot of us here do regular full cleans and no problems of this nature (at least that I've heard of). as you know, everything Outlook does is kept in a PST file and to just lose Contacts sounds like PST corruption or user error to me. it's not a file CC cares about. for user error: check other folders in the Personal Folders list to see if the Contacts were accidently moved there by a dodgy mouse click & drag. check the Deleted Items as well. for PST corruption: use SCANPST, the free MS repair tool already on your PC (do a search) and see what errors it finds. but over-riding all that, you have a backup of the PST file don't you !!! (nudge nudge wink wink) Edit: Oh and by the way, the latest version of CC is now v4.0 Another Edit: if you have no backup and still can't find the Contacts. your last throw of the dice would be the nickname file (NK2) which can be converted into contacts. but these are only the addresses for emails you have sent, not the contents of the Contacts folder - but it maybe your last resort.

@login, hope you kept your notes from your Dual Boot Incident of 2012 why do I have an ill feeling you'll be revisiting that exercise once HP touches your PC !!!

this is the downside of using an officially unsupported OS. hardware/software companies no longer have to release products/services that run on them. if they do, they do so out of good grace to their large customer base, as that base dries up, so will their support of it. it's time to build a bridge and get over it. put up with older hardware/software versions that work, or upgrade the OS. the same will be happening to all the current XP users in a few years...

woohoo, no tiles.

you gotta love GoPro

a non-quick format does a low-level wipe of the drive, i'm not sure how that compares to a multi-pass wipe using CC. I would classify either method as being good enough to give the drive away because if the new owner is even remotely interested in seeing what you had on it, it would be a laborious, slow, hands-on experience. surely he'd be thinking life is too short. from what I know, no matter how a drive is 'erased', with the right time, software and motivation, data can always be retrieved. now... as to the state of that data, that's the 64 million dollar question. I have worked in a gov dept where they removed a hard drive platter from an old Winchester mainframe drive that suffered a head crash, used an angled grinder on the drive surface, then smashed the platter with the hammer, then put the pieces back together and, by hand, rotated the platter over a read head and were able to 'read' data. it was a mess, only a few characters were retrieved, but it was a exercise to prove to the higher powers that they also needed a furnace to smelt the platter down to slag.

despite all the negatives, they will still sell like hot cakes. uber-geeks, over-paid white-collar workers, all those people who queue 24 hours ahead for the next iPhone, just to name a few. if they get banned anywhere, that will just give Google free publicity and sales will increase even more.

wipe as in erase? if so, re-format the drive would be the faster option. but as to CC, if your unit shows up in Tools, Drive Wiper, Drives, then you could either wipe Free Space Only or Entire Drive, then decide how many wipes.

@matt, it is a fairly common problem when trying to access old floppies (circa Win98) on XP and onwards PC's. I've came across it many times, mainly when 2000 & XP came out. the only way I've managed to access those floppies was to use the same floppy disc in the same floppy unit in the new PC. because the data I was chasing was never too critical, I never pinpointed the exact cause, but I think it had something to do with head alignment, because if you let the PC reformat the disc, it was useable again.

it's bugging me that I can't remember a sci-fi book I read about 15 years ago with this very topic. all the citizens wore these 'video glasses' that recorded everything and were accepted in courts as evidence if crime was captured on them.

@HarperIsle, you weren't talking about virtual memory - the pagefile - were you?

Failing the above 2 ideas, then try to re-install if you have the original CD still. it maybe cannot uninstall because some of it's files are lost/corrupted. you may have to reload just to be able to unload. also, some installers detect the software is already present and will suggest a repair or remove option. last resort would be Revo Uninstaller.

thanks nergal, I had also seen that page in my investigations on the subject. (I did do some research first before posting here , my post was a last ditch attempt to maybe talk to others in a similar situation as I am rather new to lunix still) my settings already match those in that first dialog box, and as I said, I don't see why Ubuntu should need a extra app and script just to turn on the numlock - which appears to be on right up to the login screen - when it's actually needed. if that is the only way Ubuntu implements the numlock on feature then so be it. it just seems backward without some sort of explanation (there must be one surely)

OK, I've paid closer attention to the keyboard numlock LED and for Ubuntu, at least, the status light stays on the whole time the OS is booting and only goes off the second the login screen appears. so it seems it is reading the BIOS settings but it's some security feature of the login screen that then disables numlock. go figure.

thanks for the reply Winapp2 but those pointers I already knew about, and while i'm happy to do it if needed, as you say in your opening remark, why can't Ubuntu (and I assume all Linux distros) read what the BIOS default setting is and implement it ??? as I say, it's trivial in the grand scheme of things, it's just frustrating me why it should behave the way it does. which makes me think there must be some logical (although hidden) reason. Edit: of course the simple solution is to hit the damn NumLock button, but with my login password being only numbers, I always forget to hit it and get the 'try again stupid' jiggle.

are you running the same commands as in post #5 ? does the fact you are running HDTune while defragging skew the result ? what else is running ? could your RAID 0 be adding an overhead as the data blocks span 2 drives ? does the same issue happen in Safe Mode ? for testing purposes, have you created another partition, copied some files across and ran DF on that, or on another PC for that matter ? if it was still a big problem, I suspect there would be many more posts, so in the absence of those, you have to treat it as something particular to your setup. so begins the process of elimination....

OK, trivial I know, but it has been annoying me for a while. With Windows, the BIOS is used to decide whether NumLock is turned on by default as the PC starts. Why the heck can't Linux distros do this?, or is it just a Ubuntu 'feature'. I know there are work-arounds for this; scripts and numlockx (I think?) apps, but I was wondering if there is a more 'subtle' solution. Or is there a good reason for doing it this way which I don't know about???

any chance you were doing a 'wipe free space' process and DF didn't finish for whatever reason, and now in your root directory there is a very large, randomly called file. if so, delete that file and your space will come back.

you'd think if anything was a prime candidate for tiles it would be MSE. just think, some distant time down the track, when we start moving away from tiles, how the software houses will market it as simple, fresh and intuitive.

those file types are usually hidden. (as Winapp2 states, they are left over Office recovery files) could it be possible they have always been there and 'show hidden files' has recently been ticked.

+1 Andavari, sounds very much like a driver issue or an interrupt/resource conflict. 64bit OS means 64bit drivers, if it's an old card, the supplied CD may only have 32bit, and worse, the manufacturer may not have 64bit drivers. worst case, consider buying a current dial-up card.

good to hear it's resolved. great to hear you do backups ! with the ratio of system files to personal files, the chance of file corruption is usually skewed towards the system. if you have not seen any FOUND.000 folders in the root directory, you may have indeed dodged a bullet this time.

never crossed my mind that you were or even would. and back at you too, I wasn't 'talking sideways' at your arty desktop or even hazel's thread. I just thought is was funny how you used (what I thought) was one of the BBC's shots. haven't heard that expression before - talking sideways - is that a UK or US colloquism?

login123, the BBC thanks you for finding a use for their art gatherings