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I've gone full circle. I uninstalled Google Desktop Search back in August 2006 and installed the Windows version. Yesterday, I reversed that decision. I thought that GDS' problem with archived email was bad; what a joke that was. WDS was far, far worse. By the end it couldn't even find files in folders that matched a filespec - you ...

Steve Schofield at ORCS Web just pointed me to a very worrying article: Why Outlook 2007 is slow: Microsoft’s official answer My personal PST is 2.6gb. I am going to SHIT A BRICK if this is true - can Outlook 2007 really be worse than 2003 with large amounts of email? [include:blogad]

Since I installed Office 2007 one of my POP3 accounts has been incredibly slow, so today I performed an experiment to start tracking it down. I set my email alias to point to two POP3 accounts on the SmarterMail server, then left it untouched for the afternoon. Just now I got my desktop to download one account and the laptop to get the ...

When I asked if I should install Vista and/or Office 2007, I really didn't know what to expect. Geeks can be funny, and although wanting to install all the latest doo-dads is common I've heard a lot of whinging about Vista. In the end, I just installed Office 2007, and will pass on Vista until I repave. It's just too much of a risk, ...

..and I'm now paying for it big time. I'm not the only one either - when I bought shawthing.com and started using that as my email address I decided to be smart and use the "nobody" (catch-all) address rather than setup lots of different accounts. And then I used pretend email addresses that matched the site I was signing up ...