Thank you for the prompt replies.
I would have seen them earlier, but I have cut down my life on the Internet.
I accept that the latest "out-of-cycle" update fixes the latest I.E. vulnerabilities that have become public,
but in view of the pressure on M.$. to be seen to take urgent action I cannot help thinking there might be further urgent patches on their way !
Perhaps I will be more relaxed after the next Patch Tuesday - perhaps ! !
I now assume that the one post I saw on a forum about USB not working was just one of those things,
perhaps there was some incompatibility on his system, or perhaps he clicked the wrong buttons.
Anyway I now consider it worth downloading and trying for myself, so thank you for the answers.
Not yet - I tried but as I feared the link I have downloads an *.exe file.
Since last week when I set I.E. Security to "HIGH", Firefox cannot download *.exe due to the "Security Zone Policy".
If only Macrium was available as a ZIP. I am tempted to throw caution to the wind - but probably not this week.
USB 1.1 - I remember it well.
I bought a 300 GByte USB drive from Buffalo for a broadband capable Laptop.
The first thing I did was to copy everything I could from an old dial-up computer using Windows 98,
and that took most of the day via USB 1.1 to copy 5 GBytes.
At the time I thought how much easier and faster this was compared to using "Terminal" and serial ports to copy about 200 MBytes from one P.C. to another many years earlier.
I am pleased to say that since then it only takes about 6 minutes to transfer 4.5 GBytes via USB 2.
Thanks and regards
Alan