IS that all how much was the win7 license?

I certainly remember that happening to an XP machine some years ago, at the last company I worked for which ran Windows. However, it's not such a big deal for a home user, as they're probably behind a router firewall and can't be remotely scanned.

I quite enjoy banging up my old hard drives with an axe. They are surprisingly strong buggers! :}

I always have my backups going on to a second drive in the machine JIC the main drive carks it unexpectedly. And yes, I also have an "out of the machine" backup as well.

Well, I had to say good-bye to WinXP on my primary laptop computer this week. Not because I wanted to, but because the dreaded 'Disk Read Error' came up on Sunday, confirmed by Dell to be a hard drive failure....:(

Fortunately I'd paid for an extended warranty, so the technician called at BEagle Towers on Wednesday and sorted everything out. Plus a new keyboard and touch pad, then installed Win 7 which had been supplied with the laptop, plus sundry drivers. I left the system merrily downloading 4 years of Windows updates whilst I went to an excellent lecture at White Waltham by Rich Graham about his time flying the SR-71.

Yes, Win 7 SP 1 and IE11 are a vast improvement - and cost me nothing. But I no longer have Outlook Express, so have started using Outlook, which is probably more advanced, but lacks the simplicity of OE6....

For some reason, PPRuNe keeps logging me out even though I've clicked 'remember me'. There's also an automatic spell checker which has appeared from somewhere. Is there an 'options' setting tab which I've overlooked?

Beagle,

we have had a few threads on the sad death of Outlook Express. I moved to Outlook, but probably need 1/100th of its capabilities.
It's OK. A steamroller to crack a very small nut.

Although it says it will arrange meetings, it has yet to set me up with Emelia Fox............

For those looking for a simpler mail program, Windows Live Mail may do the trick.
Outlook is cool though. I have the "ribbon" minimized and the things I actually need are pinned to the "quick access toolbar", like this:
http://i.imgur.com/iE27DxU.png

In my opinion, 'Windows Live Mail' sucks more than a sycophantic remora. I tried it and it was awful.....

I will tiddle about with Outlook to tweak settings / defaults, but I really think that Micro$oft dropped a bollock when they binned OE!

OE CLassic?

LiveMail is truly awful............

Why they did away with OE beats me.......

BOAC refers to OE Classic - Easy to use Outlook Express replacement
Another good one is eM Client - eM Client - the Best Email Client for Windows | eM Client

Is it really still possible to buy win7? Everywhere I have asked, they have said no looking at me like I was asking to buy win95...

Amazon.com Software: Microsoft Windows 7


etc
etc

goeasy, Why don't you just download a genuine article from Digital River (MS's own site) or from here Windows 7 Digital River direct links: Multiple Languages; X86 & X64
They are FREE!

You can buy new PCs with Win7 preinstalled until the end of this year, AFAIK.

PDT
Maybe the download is free, but you still have to buy the licence!

Well that's xp usage gone down to 26%

Seems that Mac is getting quite a bit of business out of this ie more gains than Win7 and 8.

I can understand that. Win 7 has virtually nothing that makes it stand out from XP and Win 8 looks like it was designed by a 4 year-old. Pathetic (and a waste of two weeks of my life "upgrading").

Oh, the cycling desktop wallpaper is really cool.

I was waiting for this. Registry hack to make Windows Update think that your XP machine is a POSready 2009 machine (support until 2019).

Registry hack enables continued updates for Windows XP | ZDNet

This more-or-less confirms what I suspected - MS are making updates for XP anyway, for POSready 2009 and for schmucks who pay $200/desk/year.

Conclusion: XP is not dead. Your move, Mixture :}

If you work out the solution to this, please explain how you did it. Having reluctantly made the change to Win 7 this is the only thing that I cannot seem to make work as I would like.


In fact, on both pprune and on some other sites, if I click on the username box, the correct information appears in a drop down window and if I select this, the password then automatically fills in and I am logged in. I always tick 'remember me' though it never does...


Any ideas out there???


jg

Whats your internet security settings and privacy?

It sounds like you have them so they delete all cookies on shutdown.

If you have them both set to medium it should work.