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I found something similar when trying to get to grips with the new Win8 UI. Hit the Windows key + X (something new they have introduced) (I have found myself using the keyboard a lot more with Win8, especially Alt+F4 to get out of things)

@winapp2, sounds like something Carl Sagan did in his Cosmos TV series, i think he called it the Cosmic Calendar. He put the Big Bang on Jan 1 and made the current day New Years' Eve. now this is from my 30 year odd old memory banks (i think Cosmos was early '80's) but he had Earth forming somewhere around early October, and i think 'humans' making fire somewhere in December. i think the Great Pyramid was around Christmas Day. i remember thinking how very insignificant we all are.

agree with Nergal, check out the malware state of your pc first. if it was mine, first thing i'd be doing is finding my PST file and securing that away, especially as you have no backup of it. since you are Outlook 2003 on XP, you should find your outlook.pst and archive.pst here; C:\Documents & Settings\<your username>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook start the pc in Safe Mode and copy any files in that folder with a PST extension over to a BAK extension or just copy them to a USB stick. sounds like you use Outlook a lot, so you'll know you're in the right place if the file size and last modified dates are in the expected ball park. Microsoft supplies a free PST repair tool called SCANPST which you should find here; C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\Mapi\1033 or C:\Program Files\Common Files\System\MSMapi\1033 Run the program, get it to scan your PST files, you should then have some reliable PST files, which if you have another PC, you can open up the PST files on that and get you going until you get the main PC sorted.

yes, at last, Burmese support

very proactive. imagine if it catches on, with other software houses, what would MS (ie), Oracle (java) monthly payout have to be. be a good incentive to get the pre-release testing squared away.

thanks hazel. i'm surprised MVPS isn't included.

very cool. couldn't think of anything else that they could have included.

it's good to hear some real-world usage feedback about MSE. sounds like what has plagued it in the past, as with most of the AV's, is the PC's lack of adequate resources. I don't think the AV's are written at great deal more efficiently, it's the PC's specs that have gone through the roof, relatively.

I've only just got the spell checker to work by going IE10 on Win8. as to your problem, I would try and do some manual cleaning first, maybe even from safe mode. empty recycle bin, delete restore points, even run CC from safe mode and see if it works for you. for good measure throw in an uninstall, reboot and reinstall of CC.

when you delete something that won't go to the Recycle Bin, Windows will say are you sure you want to permanently delete this file then you know, if you continue, it'll be deleted without a restore method. (well, not deleted deleted, just marked for the space to be reused and all that)

it would depend on how the Recycle Bin is setup. you sometimes get a file deletion on an external drive not going to the Recycle Bin. i just did a test on my NAS drive & USB stick and that was the result - no file placed in the bin. other factors also come into play, like if deleting an image file you talk about, the file may have been too big for the recycle bin. there is also the only delete files in recycle bin older than 24 hours option.

seems MSE is used more than I thought it was. have you all been happy with the protection? when it first came out, i read a lot of bad raps about it, but that tends to happen with anything that MS brings out regardless of how it really is. so i've tended to put it below other free AV's. i shall have to rethink that one.

without touching on the malware side of your problem...... but for the .IE5 - 2 things come to mind if it was mine. 1. start in Safe Mode and try nuking that folder 2. remove the drive (sounds like you have access to 'test rigs') and clean/scan/delete whatever you want with it has an external drive running on a clean, secure platform.

by my calcs they removed 329 sites from the HOSTS file with the latest update. good to see they must be very proactive on adding new sites and either removing dead ones or removing them based on reclassification.

do they do a changelog? not that big a deal, it'll just save doing a scan myself to see what has changed.

I've used FrontPage and SharePoint, has anyone got first hand experience with Expression? Better? Worse? or just different?

it's just an interface. OK, not everyone's choice - but what ever is. I've had AVG on all my PC's for about 10 years and when I first saw the 'metro' look introduced in v2013 I just thought "OK, they've copied off Win8". I didn't think they needed to but I wasn't phased by it either. to keep everyone happy they just need to have an option to change the skin from metro to classic.

seems a bit pointless to make the target off-limits if there is a successful attack. that would suggest only one exploit per contest will become known. why not leave it available, as in past years, and discover a swag of potential exploits in one sitting.

just upgraded to win8 pro x64. so far so good, very painless migration. one question, what is the swapfile.sys on the root folder of C:\ drive? actually, not that I really care, my main concern is the C:\ is a SSD and if needed, I'd like to move the file to another drive. or if not needed, can it be deleted? any win8 users been there, done that? (wow, just notice the forum spell checker is finally working for me - go w8 )

hmmm. maybe I dodged a bullet.....

SSD's have limitations like avoid excess I/O's if you can just like HDD's have limitations like keep away from magnets and don't knock them Neither technology is perfect, each has their pros and cons. For some the blindingly fast access times far outstrips the negatives. But as far as this thread goes, it is a widely accepted idea that SSD's simply have no benefit from a defrag, and the suggestion to include a wipe facility in Defraggler is already in CCleaner. If the Piriform team thinks this, or any idea, has merit, watch for it in a future release.

are you kidding, that's a great deal. when i got it about 4 years ago i think i paid about $34(AUD)

Son of a B.... I missed it !?!?!?!?! Still on the trial version and still rocks but, damn, i wished i logged on earlier.

i think that's the start of the confusion (at least me me), it's one of those things we tended to install by default and now do it by habit and don't realise what needs it - if anything these days. seems like many people have been getting by just dandy withoiut it. since nuking mine, all my usual sites and software have not been effected.

either using CC to wipe it or Windows, 1.5TB woudl take a long time. sounds like you have tried Windows, but did you try Quick Format? also try Control Panel, Admin Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management, you can delete the volume and re-initialise it. (warning is you'll lose data but i'm guessing you already know that since you want to wipe it anyway.) also, any 'wipe' method will still have a chance of data recovery. so if you are wiping to make sure your data can't be retrieved, your level of wiping corresponds to the effort needed in recovery. the last time a did a low-level format was on a 120 or 160gig drive(that sort of size) and it took hours and hours. i'd estimate a 1500gig would need somewhere like a day to do.