The ugly bit is Microsoft again. I installed a copy of Outlook 2013 which I found. They have implemented their "ribbon" header which means the five commands which is all a normal person would need...

I have just turned off TLS 1.0 & 1.1 and and a test message works ok - thanks, will see what happens.

I do however need a backup stratergy and having looked at eMClient it seems a good bet
Thanks...

Try3
Thanks for your helpful reply.
I have been through all this stuff and more, some does not make sense and some applies to win 7 or win server.
When I run - inetcpl.cpl - it sayes I am running...

Windows 10 64 Pro + office 2007
I use ionos.co.uk as my e-mail server and domain host
I have received an e-mail from them saying:-
"To make sure you email is secure and protected, unencrypted...

There is an old saying that applied to Office - 80% of users use 20% of the functions. That was true for Office 2007. The current status is 95% of users use 5% of the functions - and the rest just...

The last thing I want/need is a third party program messing with data. As an experienced pro, all data is on a sepperate drive to the system one and windows is hacked to force it to save data in the...

Thanks for the reply.
I have followed your suggestions and no problems have been found.
The update was launched from Settings/Update and Security/Update
I have been through the services list and...

I have several systms. Two have been recently updated to the latest win10/64 21H2.1566 without any problems.
A couple of days ago my wife complained that Word 2007 on her PC was doing strange...

ok, thanks
I don't recall seeing the dash in any of my experiments but I will try creating a command line by typing direct rather than using cut and paste.

Incerdentally, I don't use notepad, I...

Interesting - we are learning new things every day.
What is your definition of "a real hyphen"
I have an"object" on my keyboard that puts a short horizontal line at waist level into a string of...

Settings/System/About:

This system:
Edition - Win 10 Pro
Version - 21H1
Installed - 10/10/2021
OS build - 19043.1237
Experience - 120.2212.3530.0

Other system:

I have run this in power shell to get charact encoding :-
PS C:\Windows\system32> [System.Text.Encoding]::default

IsSingleByte : True
BodyName : iso-8859-1
EncodingName :...

Active code page: 437
CmdTool: Failed with hr = 0x80070667. Check C:\Users\Z800-2\AppData\Local\Temp\MpCmdRun.log for more information
CmdTool: Invalid command line argument
Press any key to...

CmdTool: Failed with hr = 0x80070667. Check C:\Users\Z800-2\AppData\Local\Temp\MpCmdRun.log for more information
CmdTool: Invalid command line argument

Log file:-
MpCmdRun: Command Line:...

Yes, that works ok

No, machine working ok.
This is a new install of win10, about a month, as my Intel SSD failed after 4 years. The Intel SSD in the other machine is now about to fail as well, only 2 years old - not...

Sorry, I was not specific enough.

The key - [HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor] does not exist at all

The key - [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor] does exist but there is no...

Do you have a value named "AutoRun" at:

[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor] - this key does not exist
or:
[HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor] - this key exists but no value

Nothing works
Created cmd file in Windows dir:-

cmd
"%ProgramFiles%\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" –signatureupdate
or
"C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MpCmdRun.exe" –signatureupdate
...

Thanks
I will give it a try later and let you know

353263

Thanks

Signature update started ...
about 5 minutes
Signature update finished.

Defender has indeed updated - Why ????

Thanks for the reply
The task this creates is the same as the ones I have created.
What then happens is:
If you select the task and say run, a cmd box very briefly appears, so the task appears to...

I want to update defender automatically - auto updates turned off.
Looking through the web I find several solutions, including the MS one using GPE which does not work!
The advice for schedule task...

Thanks for the reply
Port is LPT1
Win 10 Current version - just installed and updated - 21H1 64bit Pro - build 19043.1237