At work everyone on this floor uses the same network printer. It's a rather nice colour job which seems occasionally to serve as a way to get pictures of people's dogs, but that's another issue.

I had to print out an electronic ticket for a flight and so, as I'm close enough to the printer to hear when it stops printing, I waited quite a long time for it to stop printing completely (it has the habit of printing in fits and starts so you have to wait for a while after it stops) before sending off my single page print job.

There was no noise of the printer starting up so I went to have a look. Someone had printed masses of copies (one screen per page of course - it's not her money) of a rather boring looking presentation given by an outside salesperson and of course the paper had run out.

So I added paper and waited for the next lull.

The same job had run out of paper again. So I again re-filled and this time after a while (and a couple of smaller jobs that had also been waiting) my page finally came through and my e-mail flight ticket (a true business application :) ) was safely in my hands.

Now it's several hours later and that entire stack of what must be something like 30 copies of that presentation are still waiting to be collected.

So what's the temptation ?

The temptation is to remove just one copy. The person will not notice any difference (this is a LARGE pile) and presumably has counted how many copies she needs before printing them [sorry, but for some reason I think this is a she - it's not rational at all, I know] and will far too late discover that she's one out.

On the other hand, how about just removing a couple of pages at random from within that pile? That will screw up two copies ...  (and as these copies are already collated *that* will never be spotted).

Sighs. Why do I not fall for temptation today....

There was a question in a SharePoint public newsgroup about whether the ability to have a second language was possible in WSS 3.0 as well as in MOSS 2007.

It may be that the question was actually more tightly phrased than that but I assumed the questioner was talking about Language Packs and said that WSS 3.0 had in fact Language Packs available earlier than MOSS 2007, so, yes, you could also use Language Packs with WSS 3.0.

Then came a clarification. The questioner wanted to click on a button and get a translation of a page. I said that as far as I knew this was MOSS only and moved on.

Later - having seen in the MOSS 2007 Administrator's Companion (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0735622825?tag=heme0f&camp=14573&creative=327641&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=0735622825&adid=0FCTBJVPYG472S4XBSWP&) that this is a new Variations function, I checked the standard comparison document http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/d/c/1dc632e8-71e1-466f-8a2f-c940f1438e0a/SharePointProductsComparison.xls to see what it said.

I'd always wondered why this document seemed very short. It seems I was sleeping every time I looked at it because it was one of those documents that are set up with page tabs (!). So having seen in the Admin Companion that this is something that has moved with CMS 2002 to MOSS 2007, I naturally looked at the "Content Management" page and found there NO mention of Variations but instead the information that the "Translation Library site template" was a function of MOSS 2007 only.

Oddly enough it's a function of both the Standard and Enterprise versions. (This is odd when you consider that usually the Enterprise version is considered the upgrade from CMS 2002.)

All of this leaves me wondering if there are two different things - Variations and the Translation Library site template - both of which could be used to satisfy that users question.

It also leaves the question open as to which SP 2007 application includes the Variations functionality.

P.S. Once again my "speed" reading has failed to pay off. I saw the heading "Site variations" earlier but the description of that starts with "sites .... in a parent/child type of relationship" so I stopped reading. If I'd carried on I'd have seen "allow organisations to deploy multi-language publishing sites ...".

[And yes, as expected this too is MOSS 2007 only (and equally surprisingly it's for both the Standard and the Enterprise versions).]

P.P.S. Now all we need is for someone to write a blog on when you use one (Translation Library Site Template) and when do you use the other (Site variations). Any offers?

Note: All of the addresses of the KB / Articles - 2007 Products / MS / Non-MS Articles below were valid at the time I added them to the WSS FAQ site and to this file. I can't guarantee that they still are.

(This is also posted to the WSS newsgroup at microsoft.public.sharepoint.windowsservices - web access via http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/newsgroups/server/sharepoint.mspx)

(Items are added to the WSS FAQ throughout the week so you will find new items more quickly by checking at wss.collutions.com or www.wssfaq.com daily.)

From 26th March - 1st April 2007

I 2007 KB Articles    (*now only one section for WSS and MOSS*)

New

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932091

Description of the update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: March 27, 2007

27th March 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;933818

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 hotfix package: March 9, 2007

26th March 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;912264

You cannot open a Windows SharePoint Services list or a Windows SharePoint Services document library from a sharing invitation that you receive from another Outlook user

23rd March 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=908956

Support information about defining the local address of a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 or SharePoint Server 2007 content index to be on a System Area Network device (ver 2.0)

21st March 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=833714

Error message when you try to edit an Office document in a document library: "'Edit Document' requires a Windows SharePoint Services-compatible application" (ver 2.0)

26th January 2007

Modified

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;932918

A URL that contains an extra slash mark may take longer to open on a server that is running SharePoint Server 2007 (ver 1.1)

22nd March 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;909840

Windows SharePoint Services and SharePoint Portal Server 2003 do not support Virtual PC and Virtual Server for production environments (ver 4.0)

22nd March 2007

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=930103

Description of the Windows SharePoint Services post-Service Pack 2 hotfix package: January 3, 2007 (ver 3.0)

19th March 2007

II. Articles - 2007 Products  (no longer with all links to articles for other Office 2007 and other 2007 Products)

New

A. Office 2007 Server Products

http://vividgroup.com.au/pdf/MCMS2002ToMOSS2007Migration-WhitePaper.pdf

Migrating a Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 Website to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (VividGroup, Australia)

30th March 2007 (date added)

http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archive/2007/03/29/indexing-pdf-documents-with-adobe-reader-v-8-and-moss-2007.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

Indexing pdf documents with Adobe Reader v.8 and MOSS 2007 (IFilter Team Blog)

29th March 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aaronrh/archive/2007/03/29/excluding-content-types-from-search-results.aspx

Excluding Content Types from Search Results (Blog - Aaron Robertson-Hodder)

29th March 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/heliosa/archive/2007/03/28/inside-ifilters-more-about-sharepoint-search-architecture.aspx

Inside IFilters :: More about SharePoint Search Architecture (Blog - Helio Sa Moreira)

28th March 2007

http://devcow.com/blogs/jdattis/archive/2007/03/28/How_to_programmatically_add_a_field_to_all_views_in_a_SharePoint_list.aspx

How to programmatically add a field to all views in a SharePoint list (Blog - Dan Attis)

28th March 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/josebda/archive/2007/03/28/moss-rich-text-editing-from-any-browser-with-telerik-s-r-a-d-editor.aspx

MOSS rich text editing from any browser with Telerik's r.a.d.Editor (Blog - Jose Barreto)

28th March 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/trabun/archive/2007/03/27/developing-and-using-web-user-controls-webparts-in-microsoft-office-sharepoint-server-2007.aspx

WebParticles: Developing and Using Web User Controls WebParts in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (Blog - Tony Rabun)

27th March 2007

http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tonstegeman/archive/2007/03/27/document-templates-and-sharepoint-2007-content-types.aspx

Document templates and SharePoint 2007 content types (Blog - Ton Stegeman)

27th March 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9a79ca73-9d64-4f92-b3b7-2eb3b78a2aa4&displaylang=en&tm

SharePoint Server 2007 for Search Trial Version

27th March 2007

http://wcornwill.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/moss-adrotator-control/

MOSS AdRotator Control (Blog - William Cornwill)

27th March 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a49472f9-93ef-4423-bd0b-06b1b331c7ac&displaylang=en&tm

Update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (KB932091)

27th March 2007

http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?List=744536f4%2D127e%2D4c4a%2Dbcff%2Db85408e7e7e5&ID=87

How do I? – How I built this blog (Part 2 of 3)... Install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 (Blog - Cornelius J. van Dyk)

26th March 2007

http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer/archive/2007/03/25/understanding-webtemp-xml.aspx

Understanding webtemp*.xml (Blog - William Baer)

25th March 2007

http://blogs.msdn.com/ifilter/archive/2007/03/24/indexing-xps-documents-with-moss-2007.aspx

Indexing XPS documents with MOSS 2007 (MS Blog - Filter Central, Deb Haldar) 

24th March 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1289246541

TechNet Webcast: Installing and Configuring Search in SharePoint Server 2007 (Level 300) (Karl Kuhnhausen , Allin Consulting)

22nd March 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1289246783

Momentum Webcast: Microsoft Search Solutions to Find, Use, and Share Information (Level 100) (Bob Clancy)

19th March 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1289246883

TechNet Webcast: Security for SharePoint Products and Technologies (Level 200) (Michael Murphy)

19th March 2007

B. Other Office 2007 products (selected few only since 1.1.2007)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=4bd66ee0-831e-4cc3-a47b-1591f2afcf69&displaylang=en&tm

Expression Web Quick Tour Video

28th March 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b7426717-c1c1-4cb3-a0f2-63b5c26f35d0&displaylang=en&tm

Expression Design Quick Tour Video

28th March 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=db1d99d9-0a31-45de-8efb-16c75e194dc3&displaylang=en&tm

InfoPath 2007 Document: Developing InfoPath 2007 Managed-Code Solutions

23rd March 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=b109fbc4-6e60-45f6-bf50-218707c37955&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Office Groove and SharePoint Integration

23rd March 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-US&RegistrationID=1289246352

TechNet Webcast: Deploying and Managing Groove 2007 (Level 300) (Abbott Lowell)

22nd March 2007

C. Other New 2006/2007 Products  (selected few only since 1.1.2007)

mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/sql/tours/SSRS-2.wmv

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Report Builder (Guided Tour wmv)

30th March 2007 (date added)

mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/sql/tours/SSRS-3.wmv
 
SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Model Designer (Guided Tour wmv)

30th March 2007 (date added)

mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/sql/tours/SSRS-4.wmv

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Report Designer (Guided Tour wmv)

30th March 2007 (date added)

mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/sql/tours/SSRS-1.wmv

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Report Manager (Guided Tour wmv)

30th March 2007 (date added)

mms://wm.microsoft.com/ms/sql/tours/SSRS-0.wmv

SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Report Viewer (Guided Tour wmv)

30th March 2007 (date added)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=d72553ac-39f7-41ea-ab70-ad9093e472e1&displaylang=en&tm

Legacy Modernization with BizTalk Server 2006 and Host Integration Server 2006

29th March 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9c178b68-3a06-4898-bc83-bd14b74308c5&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft CRM 3.0 SDK to get it in the SDKs and because CRM 3.0 uses SharePoint)

29th March 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e7d661ba-dc95-4eb3-8916-3e31340ddc2c&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 SP1 (Full Installation)

27th March 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=35f23b3c-3b3f-4377-9ae1-26321f99fdf0&displaylang=en&tm

Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 SP1 (Upgrade)

27th March 2007

https://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastRegistrationConfirmation.aspx?culture=en-us&RegistrationID=1289246738

TechNet Webcast: SQL Server 2005 SP2 Tools and Improvements (Level 200) (Paul A. Mestemaker II)

20th March 2007

 

Modified

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=8F3EC693-2865-4B85-8455-745511EA4267&displaylang=en

BizTalk Server 2006 PDF Help Files

27th March 2007

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en

Internet Explorer 6 Application Compatibility VPC Image (ver 1.1)

19th March 2007

Deleted

None

III WSS v3 FAQ

New

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1015

I.19.03 What are CAL Suites ?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=971

VI.21 Dundas Chart for SharePoint (commercial - Dundas)

Modified

I.31.02 What issues are fixed in fix packs for WSS 3.0?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSSv3%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=1016

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IV WSSv2 KB Articles (plus SPS 2003 Hot fixes)

New

None

Modified

None

V. MS Articles for WSSv2

New

None

Modified

None

VI Non-MS Articles for WSSv2

New

None

Modified

None

VII WSSv2 FAQ

New

None

Modified

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=116

III.36 I get "Can not add the user because a user with that name already exists." How do I add the user?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=319

III.95 I get an error about adding a user when I try to use stsadm to create a site. What is the solution?

http://www.asaris.de/sites/walsh/Lists/WSS%20FAQ/DispForm.aspx?ID=517

VI.05.67 WSS Products - PointFire™ Multilingual User Interface (MUI)

Yesterday we took a trip to the Technical museum on the other side of Helsinki in order to give away my Osborne I (identical - beige case and all - to the first model sold in the US apart from the German keyboard. It cost me in 1982 what my Acer Ferrari cost me in late 2005 with inflation not included in the calculation) to the Technical museum along with my ancient hand card-punch and a couple of equally old (and looking hand-made) memory (?) cards my wife had saved from her early mainframe days.

When we subsequently looked at the computer section it wasn't hard to see why they had been keen to get all the above but especially the Osborne. They had no luggables or portables at all and the PCs they had were mainly the first four models of the "MikroMikko" (Mikko is a Finnish name - equivalent of Michael) series made in Finland by what was then NokiaData (later sold to ICL-Fujitsu; then the PC part was merged with Siemens (Fujitsu-Siemens) followed inevitably by the closing of the Finnish factory; the transfer of all work to Germany and the demise of the MikroMikko name).

No IBMs in sight except for a picture of an IBM PC on the large illustrated time-line.

Oddly enough the section on the development of telephones and especially mobile telephones was larger and better equipped. I wonder why :)

I was surprised when - after my previous success with it - the installation routine didn't find a driver for my Microsoft keyboard with fingerprint reader when I attached it to the USB port.

But no problem, I'll just go to www.microsoft.com and search on "keyboard drivers Vista".

That looked promising at first - after selecting keyboards I got a drop-down and there it was "Microsoft keyboard with fingerprint reader." So I selected it and was asked for my Operating system.

XPPro was listed which was a bit odd given the search I'd made, but Vista was listed too. So no worries, then ?

Well actually, yes, all they provide for their own (expensive - less than 2 years ago) keyboard was a 32-bit Vista driver.

Thanks a lot, guys. Wonderful support.

(and I hope you can really hear the sarcasm oozing out in that comment - I may be a Microsoft MVP but I'm an MVP with a portable keyboard that is driving me mad because my text keeps jumping lines because my hand goes over the over-sensitive mouse pad at times [and I can't turn that down because - sing it all with me - there isn't a Vista 64-bit driver for it] and now the lack of a 64-bit Vista driver for Microsoft's own product means I can't even attach another keyboard. I'd go out and buy another (cheaper) one, but first I'll have to see if there's a 64-bit driver for that too (and I bet there isn't!).)

P.S. There's a solution for this but it's not that obvious.

First you download the 64-bit driver for any (probably any, I chose the Digital Media Pro) keyboard that has a 64-bit Vista driver. Then you install it.

Now here's the joke. Halfway through the install there's a list of "which keyboard do you have?" and guess what, on the list is my "Keyboard with Fingerprint Reader" ! 

Microsoft's mistake is that they could have listed a 64-bit Vista driver in that original list BUT said "keyboard only". They could also find the keyboard only driver too (but they don't). So there is a driver; it does work; but Microsoft's web sites (and hunting for driver routines) aren't up to the task of finding a keyboard driver only (for a keyboard) but insist on saying there isn't one if the keyboard also has a fingerprint reader (for which there truly isn't one [by which I mean there isn't suitable *software* for 64-bit Vista]).

The point is I *never* use the fingerprint reader so I couldn't care less. I DO care about getting the keyboard to work though and I wish Microsoft put their priorities on that aspect of the keyboard rather than concentrating on the fingerprint software. [It's like saying to a small boy "here's a football, but we'll only let you kick it if you wear the full Manchester United strip and we're sold out of them".] I.e. get the essentials (working kyboard) right rather than bothering over much with the fancy bits.

All the rest (of the Vista 64-bit upgrades from the MS download center's RSS feed) namely require that I install the "Genuine Windows Validation Component" and keep on requiring that I do so after I have done so.

So that and Adobe Flash Reader update are so far the two major stumbling blocks to my Vista 64-bit happiness - they all install fine (so I have many copies of each) and then up comes the pop-up again telling me to install them.

The biggest joke of all though with this latest Vista one is that despite Microsoft harping on about how secure it is, the only upgrade it allowed me to do was the Media Viewer one - the security ones it won't allow me to do (and this IS a genuine paid-for absolutely full copy of Vista Ultimate).

P.S. If you are keeping score, today's match (vista or not vista) is tied at 1-1.

P.P.S. I could actually get this to work by using the "alternative authentication method" (same page), so Vista takes the lead at 2-1 and Adobe is still the only major offender (no alternative method available there :) )

P.P.P.S. It made me do the alternative authentication method FOUR times for six updates. (3-2)

 

I made what could easily have been a blunder and bought a cheap USB stick with DVB-T (Digital TV using normal signals rather than cabel - DVB-C - or Satellite DVB-S (?)). It was on offer at the main Finnish department store during their "mad days" and I'd checked it out a bit to make sure that Teletext worked as that is often a problem. [A-Link]

Of course it was only when I got it home that I realised that I hadn't bothered to check if it would work with Vista. Maybe next time that will be automatic. Maybe.

Anyway I still have the XPPro side of this dual boot portable so I thought it would be a good to check out if the hardware was OK first by installing it there. XPPro recognized the USB thing as a common-or-garden USB thing (only) and Windows Explorer wouldn't work with the CD in the drive (it was probably loading but I am a very impatient user) so I gave up the idea of trying it out on XPPro and went for broke.

This time I started with the CD. No problems with that on Vista (where I don't have it set to CD autostart). I could install the Media software (ArcSoft Total Media) OK under Vista. I then put the device itself in the USB port I'd tried under XPPro. Again it was recognized as a USB device and loaded drivers for that but this time it wanted my permission to look for another driver so I tried automatic (rather than putting the CD in the drive again as I reckoned its driver might not be for Vista). Automatic took a *long* time looking for a suitable driver (saying all the while that that was what it was doing) but then switched to saying that it was installing a driver (which also took a fair time).

Then it was just the question of running the automatic search program to find TV channels which found all the free ones that I knew to be available. It also found some that cost money so now I'm wondering how to get rid of them from the list.

Anyway there you have it. Within a short time I had digital TV on the Portable in quite good quality and I discovered that I can also schedule recordings to the hard disk and that works too.

But I'm still going to make sure in advance that future buys work under Vista ....

If you are about to install MOSS 2007 using SQL Server 2005 on a single server and have not yet received your copy of the Administrator's Guide from Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0735622825?tag=heme0f), then you are no doubt studying the Microsoft paper "Deployment for Office SharePoint Server" which has  just been issued in a new downloadable version here http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=79589

Your first problem will be that the single server installation scenario assumes everyone installing on a single server will be running the built-in database system. Given that, unlike the built-in database system used for a Basic standalone WSS 3.0 installation, that database system has a database size limit of 4GB, that here is a fairly stupid assumption.

So you have a look at the server farm installation scenario which mostly says that you need at least two servers but sometimes doesn't (!) and you find that when you install SQL Server you need to go to the "Plan for administrative and service accounts (Office SharePoint Server)".

Only there isn't such a section.

Finally you find a reference that says that that section is in the "Planning and architecture for Office SharePoint Server 2007" paper so you find the downloads for that  (part1: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=79552, Part 2: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=85548) and you think this is such a basic element that it will be in Part 1.

It's not of course, you have to go to close to the end of Part 2 (page 332 in fact) to find this section.

So, Microsoft really make you jump through hoops to find "the accounts that are used to configure Microsoft SQL Server and to install Office SharePoint Server 2007" (quote from page 332). Is it any wonder I wish I already had access to the MOSS installation chapter in the MSPress SharePoint ... Administrator's Companion [Bill English & Co] ?

P.S. Even after all that searching, that section wasn't much use. OK it says which accounts you need to specify. But not which accounts to specify them as. Surely it's not too much to ask for a few alternatives?

Here's a quote

"Sales of Vista during the first month that the newest Windows operating system was available to consumers were more than double the sales that Windows XP racked up in twice the time, Microsoft Corp. said."

Even if this is true (and it very much depends if Microsoft are comparing like with like - i.e. is this total sales including OEM copies in which case there was probably a bigger built-up demand in a short period of time because of the number of PCs sold earlier with a free upgrade and even if those weren't included then that built-up demand led to a number of new upgraded (especially) portable models with Vista rather than XP Pro / Media Edition)) then it still means less sales than for XPPro.

How come ?

There are (it was reported the other day) five times as many PCs out there as there were when XPPro came out.

Yet Microsoft have sold (according to that quote) twice as many copies in twice the time.

Which makes 4 times.

So FIVE times as many PCs but FOUR times as many copies of Vista.

You do the Maths ....

P.S.I don't actually think that is the point. The point is that Vista is regarded as the new (coming) standard. People will get it on new PCs anyway because the PC manufacturers think that it will enable them to sell new PCs.

They are probably right if only because you can get a PC for 1000 that includes an OEM of an operating system that for an existing PC costs 250 (taking Home Premium) and note that this time there is NO disadvantage in having an OEM copy coupled to a particular PC because Microsoft won't let you move your non-OEM copy to a second PC anyway.

As most of the usual companies that provided 3-6 months free anti-virus support for XPPro aren't providing free anti-virus support for Vista, I asked some other MVPs what they recommended to buy and finally installed NOD32.

You may have seen their ads

"Just set it and forget it"

"NOD32 proactively protects against viruses, spyware, rootkits and other malware."

"..its high-performance engine won't slow your system down".


Well I've installed it and it isn't driving me mad by continually asking me if I want to allow something or not as it is never asking me anything; I've also not noticed any slowing down of Vista (but as i virtually simultaneously upgrade the portable's memory from 1.5Gb to 2GB that would be difficult).

But, apart from a regular message telling me it has updated itself when I turn on the portable (which has never slowed down the start-up noticeably), I 've seen nothing to show that it's doing anything at all.


So I'm beginning to wonder if this is just too good to be true and in fact all I've installed is a program which on Start pops up a window saying that it has updated itself (and that my computer is in fact wide-open).

I don't really believe that of course (all those MVPs who recommended it can't surely have been fooled) but it would be nice to have a weekly pop-up telling how many attempts it has foiled. Just to put my mind at rest ...