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Thanks. The hard part now will be convincing the Powers That Be to fix things so I can do my job. :) We won't sit down. We won't shut up. We won't go quietly away. YouTube and My Mu[sic], Films and Windows Programs, etc.

Your approach is flawed. Copy the things that you need to backup and do a clean install. Vista has a bloated registry out of the box, let alone how bad it must be after years of use. I get that you don't want to spend the time re-installing your needed software, but ultimately I think you'll spend more time trying to do an upgrade, which may well result in a corrupted OS that needs to be re-imaged anyway. "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli

Maximilien wrote: What configuration/setting should I ask him to look at in Outlook ? I bet his email is from his ISP and he doesn't have the SMTP server set with credentials. When in Canadia he won't need this as he will be using the network the mail server is a part of so it just lets email through. In Outlook go to File -> Account Settings -> Account Settings. Click on the Email Account and click Change. Now click on the More Settings... button this will bring up a dialog box with 4 tabs (I'm on Hosted Exchange so can't see what POP3/IMAP has). One of these if for the Outgoing Server, check the box next to Use the same credentials as Incoming server and he will login to the SMTP server and be allowed to send emails. Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004

With ForceBindIP you can bind any Windows application to a specific interface or IP address. It´s freeware" "ForceBindIP works in two stages - the loader, ForceBindIP.exe will load the target application in a suspended state. It will then inject a DLL (BindIP.dll) which loads WS2_32.DLL into memory and intercepts the bind(), connect(), sendto(), WSAConnect() and WSASendTo() functions, redirecting them to code in the DLL which verifies which interface they will be bound to and if not the one specified, (re)binds the socket. "

Every year I've done an e-file tax return, I've used a digital signature. It's definitely a question for legal, though, as the laws and policies governing what is acceptable for digital signatures is going to heavily influence implementation. You're also setting yourself up to manage PII, so please let me be the first to welcome you to the wonderful world of HIPAA. "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli

Member 10964099 wrote: I moved to another house That's a bit of a drastic step, just to solve a DNS lookup issue! :) "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

Looks like the firewall might be getting in the way. Do you have an option turn off "passive" mode? FTP Connection Modes (Active vs. Passive) :: WinSCP[^] "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

Yes, of course. If you install a completely new OS then all links to the old environment can be removed.

srikrishnathanthri wrote: Why this is happening ? Because you can't overwrite a file that is in use. srikrishnathanthri wrote: Is it not possible to make that application to load newer version when a other user is kept open that ? Sure; don't overwrite the previous version. Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^][](X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett)

Quote: I would strongly suggest option 2 I agree. Considering the time he already spent, he probably could have done a clean install by now! :) Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!

Thank you for your help. I couldn't perform stage 5 but I did manage to find a way to format the drive correctly and set a drive letter at the same time. I can now transfer my existing system onto it when I am ready.

Yes - though I do recall seeing some articles about how to get around the PK issue - though it hardly seems worth the effort. It's easier to use the key, and there is a simple VBA script to extract it from your OS if you need to. How to do a Clean Install of Windows 10, the Easy Way[^]