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Have used it today best thing since button up boots thanks [!how do you bulk delete 1200 emails

How do you mean bulk delete? Can you not shift+select all of the emails you want to deleted and hit del...?

Doh yes

LOL!! I have archived over 45,000 emails. However they are all legitimate mail not spam

Many have to do with my car or computers or things like that from mailing lists. If I look at my mail directories its over 1gb in size now

or [CTRL] A (select all) and [DELETE].

or if required.... [CTRL] + A... to select all... then [CTRL] + click to UNselect items...

anyone come across virus burster?
Rupe, got any answers?

Rope's in Qld C1, heading back home shortly

Yeh bugger I saw the spread - you legend!!
oh and thanks for the heads up!

I have just made the quantum leap to MacBook...takes a little while fer an ol' fella 'ter figgure it all out. Nice so far, and I have XP running as a virtual machine on Leopard using Parallels (why?? because I can, I suppose!). I'm impressed by the ease and speed. Anyone else using Apple out there?

Yep.... You do know you can also dual boot, so any programs that don't run or run well in virtualisation you can boot it into XP.

VMWare fusion is actually better than parallels IMHO... Give that a go later down the track... I think a new version is out soon.

First apple tip is to setup spotlight, apple key+spacebar - Start typing the name of a program or document and it finds a match on the fly, then just click that and your away. No more need to search folders for files...

Cool, I had read about spotlight, but hadn't tried it yet. Works a treat. Thanks, Tim.

I only wanted XP in case there was a "must have" program, but haven't found the need yet. I mostly do web site maintenance for my church, internet browsing, word processing and powerpoint stuff. My kids bought me a mighty mouse (wireless) and iWorks for chrissie. Lots of exploration to do...I have fairly simple needs in my software so as long as I can write, surf, possibly podcast, and email my children I'm happy.

I am sure the gloss will wear off eventually...nothing is perfect, but the improvement over windoze and the freedom from the constant series of annoying glitches and pauses is welcome. And, it just works!!!

Vista SP1 Update..... does the "Wow" start now?

No wonder the Wow had so much trouble getting started.

By Microsoft’s own count, Windows Vista Service Pack 1 rolls up 551 separate hotfixes, in addition to 23 security updates rated Important and already delivered via Windows Update.

If that sounds like a lot of bugs to be stomped in one service pack, well it’s not out of line with the number of fixes that went into the two service packs for Windows XP. The first XP service pack was delivered in September 2002, its list of fixes included updates from 24 security bulletins and 297 hotfixes.

XP Service Pack 2 list of fixes was staggering, with updates identified by 60 security bulletins and a whopping 666 (no, I did not make that number up) fixes.

In Microsoft’s release notes for SP1, the list of updates is stuffed into a barely formatted table that goes on for 35 mind-numbing pages, out of a total of only 55 pages.

I imported that list into Excel and went through it article by article, breaking it down into categories of my own devising.

Here’s the list:

Fixes Category

75 Internet Explorer
41 Sleep/Hibernation & Power Management
38 Storage
35 Hardware and Drivers
35 Networking
28 Desktop and Shell
25 Printing & Scanning Technologies
25 .NET Framework, Data Components, Development Tools
24 Setup, Deployment, Backup, and Activation
24 Windows Media Center
23 International/Localization
20 Computer Management, Administration, and Tools
19 Application Compatibility
19 Multimedia
16 Performance and Reliability
16 Startup/Shutdown
13 Time Zone/Daylight Saving Time
13 Windows Media Player and Related Technologies
12 Security
12 Remote Access, VPN
8 IIS and WebDAV issues
7 Wireless Networking
7 Offline Files
6 Windows Mail and Web-based Software
5 Windows Sidebar and SideShow
5 Windows Portable Devices

Personally, I wasn’t surprised to see Internet Explorer at the top of the list, nor was I shocked to see how many separate issues addressed problems with sleep, hibernation, and power management.

Microsoft has made the release-to-manufacturing (RTM) build of SP1 available to individuals who participated in the SP1 beta program (like myself), as of “late Friday” February 8.

At the end of this week, Microsoft will make the English version of Vista SP1 available to its volume-licensing customers, with other languages to follow “soon after.” And some time later this month, Microsoft will make the final SP1 bits available to its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and TechNet Plus subscribers.

Mid-March is still the date when Microsoft is planning to make SP1 broadly available to customers. And it sounds like there’s no change in the targeted availability date — April — when PC makers will start offering the final SP1 bits preloaded on new machines.

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No definitive word yet as to the release date for XP SP3.....

Oh and by the way, Microsoft will cease production of XP within 3 months

Mac Leopard also has a significant update available now as well

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At east pre sp2 on xp let the computer run fast, lol

I for one, and I suspect thousands of others, will not be rushing into loading Vista SP1 in April.
Fifteen years of Microsoft madness have made me very wary of ANY change/upgrade.
Maybe, when the dust has settled about June, I will join the list of hopefuls who will cross our fingers and hope that Bill gets it right this time.