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Here is a working batch file to do something similar to what you want Example . It uses the command Xcopy and copies everything in the d:\myfiles\ folder and sends it to N:\myfiles using switches /m/d/s/e/y The /m and /d allow you to copy only files that have been modified. You might want to get rid of the line del c:\docume~1\david\locals~1\history\*.* /F/S/Q/A:RSHA which deletes the local history store. If you name this file as Mybackup.bat you could then schedule it as a task to run at some specified interval or when you switch off the PC. It would then run and store any newly modified files.

Some very interesting and thought through replies - thanks! Let me state at the outset that I'm not going to argue with anyone about whether x system is better than y system and nor am I 'moaning about spending money"! This is a real issue and has implications for anyone who goes online, especially to shop. Many many people and small to medium size businesses use XP and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. For anyone who shops online, this is potentially serious as your personal details may be compromised. This happened to me a couple of months ago - perfectly normal online purchase (kitchenware) and then their payment processor got hacked resulting in a note from the police and a new card. Now it may or may not be anything to do with XP but the point is, we all increasingly rely on the internet and therefore security really IS important. In our case, we isolated the XP machines running legacy software from the web and moved all the online stuff over to Linux (Mint with a MATE desktop). This was horrendous, took ages and was a pain, but, unexpectedly, now works better and faster than before. Indeed our openVPN web connection which always ran at around 1Mb/s-3Mb/s on XP, now flies along at ten times that speed or more. Complacency (or ignorance) is a dangerous quality when using the web and online safety is probably as much about the user as the hardware. Ally this with bug ridden OS software and a virulent hacker community and the threats are all too real and no, this isn't paranoia. The latest software and up to date virus programs do help, but are by no means the whole answer. Nor is Linux totally secure. I'd still be interested in any sandbox, VM or port blocking observations though, as it would be helpful for us to share files securely across our local intranet whilst maintaining 100% isolation from the web for the XP machinery. Thanks again.

Official support for XP stops on the 8th of April 2014, yet according to this ZDNet Article, up to 40% of businesses still use XP and 20% plan to keep using XP after April 8th. Given that criminals will be queuing up to use new zero day exploits, this is surely a huge threat to both industry and those who won't even know about it? So the question is: Other than paying £many to Microsoft for Win8, what alternatives are there? As I see it you can: 1) Pay up, buy windows 8 but with little confidence that all your existing legacy software will run reliably without further time penalty. This could hit business hard. 2) Move to a new Operating System such as Linux with an even greater time penalty and no guarantees your software will run at all. 3) Run XP within a Sandbox 4) Run VM (Virtual Machine) 5) Run as normal with no internet connection (ever). Ethernet port blocked up and radio disabled. Good solution but no access to your home network. 6) Run XP as normal but with ports to external machines blocked. What would be the safest / most practical option for an XP machine on a small home/office network? In option 6, how do you block ALL traffic including ports used by programs to request automatic updates?

Experiences over the years says the first thing to do after switching the machine on (and making sure there is no internet connection) is to install some reliable backup software and make a full image of your Operating System. Copy the image to a remote drive and disconnect. Then, no matter what happens, you can always get back to this point. After that, start installing things. Over the years, Powerquest, Acronis and lately EaseUS ToDo Backup must have saved me weeks of time not to mention loads of aggro!

Try =IF(J5="","Blank","Not blank") pasted into cell B5. In conditional formatting put the following into cell B5: Formula is =$j$5="" format red or whatever Working example: Here (Example 3)

The browser itself works very well. Just that Google uses everything you type and every site you visit to build up a profile of you for advertising purposes. Associate that with search data on Google and a 'free' Google mail account and all the other data they collect and you simply have no privacy. Use a web browser called Iron made by SRware (based on Chrome) and search the internet using https:startpage.com . You get all the same features but without sharing any of your details.

You need a fast VPN. Do a search on anything but Google (https://startpage.com is good and private). Companies like Witopia do a good job of making the whole process very easy so you can easily switch countries. StrongVPN is another reasonable one. Indeed, everyone should consider using a VPN to mask your IP address and stop companies like Google building up an advertising profile of you via your web habits.

My first job on leaving school was as an apprentice watchmaker at Summit House on Nursery Street. Norman Churchill was the main watchmaker who taught me a lot about the trade. I can tell you that no watches were made at Summit house, however, they were assembled there because that was one of my jobs. Mr Booles was the chief buyer and was often dispatched to Switzerland to buy watch movements. These arrived in boxes of 100 or so and I had the job of fitting each one into a watch case. Sometimes solid gold, but more often cheaper metal. The cheaper movements were given a new name (Leda) and the more expensive ones, Summit. That was another of my jobs, removing whatever name was printed on the dial and then printing either Summit or Leda. the degree of precision was astounding really to say it was all hand done. We ran a trade counter where most of the jewellers in Sheffield came in to buy watch parts. I was often dispatched on deliveries too which made a change. Laycocks on Spital Hill was a regular. It was quite interesting as a place to work though the pay was abysmal. Julius Isaacs was always decent to me and he took a keen interest in everything that happened in that workshop. I left before they were taken over and moved down behind the Moor.

Thanks Howden, that was an excellent link.

14pt Calibri is my favourite. Crisp, clear and business like without being too formal.

Hi David. Both sweet peppers and chillies do well in our area but especially if grown under glass. I have grown them for years in the greenhouse and this year have: 4 x long sweet pepper, 2 x large yellow, 1 x large red, 3 x Sweet Aji 3 x Kaibi No2 2 x Etna (fiery hot Chilli). They need a long growing season, especially the Chillies and I always set my seeds going around the last week in January in the airing cupboard (warm). Sweet peppers can be sown a little later. Once sprouted, I use growing lights and a timer to keep them going. It needs to be warm for them to grow outside so they don't get put in the greenhouse until late May. A drip irregation system and Comfrey liquid feed and we should get masses of peppers again this year. Can't wait! They will happily grow on a sunny windowledge and possibly outside in a warm sheltered spot.

Why not use a batch file and Xcopy? Put the batch file in the startup folder and the job is done. A typical file might be: @echo off cls echo. Created 9th April 2006 Modified Nov 12 echo. **** Backup Routine to Network Hard Drive (N)**** echo. Strategy is to copy Myfiles folder completely. Overwrite old files with new ones. echo. Xcopy switches echo. /m - Copies all files with archive bit set. Turns off archive attribute. echo. /d - Copies files if newer than existing ones. echo. /s - Copies directories and sub directories except empty ones. echo. /e - Copies even if errors occur. echo. /y - Suppress prompts to overwrite a file. echo. DOS program so use 8 bit file names. ie Program Files directory becomes progra~1 echo Copying modified files to network drive (N:) xcopy c:\pac\*.* d:\backup /d/s/e/y xcopy d:\myfiles\*.* N:\myfiles /d/s/e/y xcopy d:\progra~1\*.* N:\progra~1 /d/s/e/y echo. Del switches (in order of use) echo. /P - Prompt before deleting echo. /F - Force deleting of read only files echo. /S - Delete specified files from all sub-directories echo. /Q - Quiet mode - no questions asked echo. /A - Selects files to delete based on attributes. : R S H A Pefix with - means NOT (eg won't be deleted) echo Deleting cookies del c:\docume~1\david\locals~1\history\*.* /F/S/Q/A:RSHA echo. echo ****All important files backed up to Network drive**** echo. echo ****All Done - BYE**** prompt $p$g

The first thing I'd try is Ctl+Alt+Del and look at Processes. See which program is taking all the resources (CPU %). Normally, my XP system runs at 96% System Idle Processes with the other 4% shared around. See where the CPU time is going and then follow that program. Presumably you will have something 'strange' loaded up that is killing the machine. If there IS an obvious stuck program, try ending it.

Thanks Hecate for the pdf link. This is the first I'd heard of this. So my next day before 1pm Special Deliveries will now cost £11. Ouch! I do need the security of a signature though together with the £500 insurance. So far we have had no problems at all with this service.

I did five straight weeks at Otley around 1979 I think. Stayed with a family on Sunset Terrace and well remember the hikes around the Cow and Calf weather permitting. Two things stick in my memory clearly from the course, one was the bit about tree pruning and making the resultant stump look roughly the same from all directions, and the second was the forest of telephone poles!! Back to Maltravers Road after that for some real work.

I would not be prepared to spend any extra, SCC already take far too much money for the value I get back. Saving Don Valley is easy. You simply look to the higher management team and impose a pay cut on the chief exec (£80K max) with pro rata further down. On top of that, you prune at least 50% of higher managers (£80K+) and you have Don Valley safe and sound. This is all about politics and nothing to do with what is best for Sheffield.

So with the letter a in cell a1, use formula =CHAR(CODE(A1)+2) Job done (returns c). Encrypt / Decrypt any 6 character string see: http://www.dt4u.com/filearea/cryptography.xls Bit clunky but works. You could easily change the offset for any number.

Hi NeoGen. Try this: http://www.dt4u.com/filearea/forumorders.xls

This is really easy! The Magic Roundabout, 5 mins before the 6'Oclock news.

I'm with Skinz on this on. Turn the freezer off, pack towels in the bottom and blast with a handheld steam cleaner. Cleans a treat, especially around the door seals that get so grubby.

Ring or email the RSPB and tell them you have an injured Red Kite in the garden. They like raptors and will be round immediately. You don't have to be an expert at identifying birds!

My S12 garden (slight slope) was solid clay, wet and sticky. Nothing except weeds and slugs grew in it and both did really well! Having decided to grow some fruit and veg, I did lots of research on the Internet and got very confused, lots of conflicting advice out there. To cut a very long story short, the first thing to tackle is adequate drainage. So I went down two and a half spade depths and put in a 6" layer of rubble. massive job, should have hired a mini digger. Threw away (skipped) half the clay and bought in lots of sharp sand (jumbo bag £34 from MKM). Mixed 50/50 clay/sand. This turned the clay into something resembling soil that could at least be dug. Then mixed that 50:50 with compost. The results this year have been (considering what awful weather we have had) outstanding. Lots of 4"-5" diameter onions, indeed enough to keep us going for the whole year. Massive, back breaking job but once done, well worth the effort. I now have great soil, full of worms and easy to dig.

Like Sarah1, prior to being around about 10, I used to have three teaspoons of sugar in tea, but then, one day, just stopped. I love tea and drink lots daily using real tea leaves and a strainer. We don't use any sweetners (nasty chemicals) and minimum amounts of sugar, in fact I much prefer honey on my breakfast cereals and have done for years. I was reading yesterday that Monsanta have managed to force through GM modified sugar beet in the USA http://grist.org/industrial-agriculture/gmo-sugar-beets-get-the-green-light/ and who knows what products that will end up in.

This was my first year really trying to grow decent veg and like most others, have had a difficult year. Not all bad though: Garden: Onions - grown from sets - fantastic crop, best ever with many 4" - 5" dia bulbs. Potatoes - grown in bags - not bad but quantities poor. Runner Beans - Polestar done OK but Lady Di murdered by slugs. Both types attacked. Parsnips - wow! - Massive plants 5" dia tops and some 14" long and bigger. Strawbs - mixed results. Rhubarb - slow start but OK later on. Rasbs - absolute rubbish - dug them up and replaced with Joan J. Carrots - awful year. Not a single carrot harvested yet. All eaten by slugs. Beetroot - as carrots with just one harvested so far. Goosberries - best year ever but lots of Blackbird predation (first time noticed this). Apples - Lord Derby - poor quality and at least 30% smaller than usual. Plums - Victoria - not bad but fruit smaller than normal. Blackberry - awful year with minimal fruit and late. Greenhouse: Tomato - slow to grow, late to flower and patchy polination. Some nice fruits though. Peppers - badly affected by low light levels. Some plants just rotted. Nice crop of long red peppers coming now and recent sunny spell has seen plants 'explode' into life. Some peppers rotted on plants. Chillies - slow to get going but now doing Ok as usual. Etna is very reliable (and hot). Fig - couple of average fruits and a lot coming on. Late. Melons - very slow start and slow to grow / ripen. Only three fruit set and might be lucky to get them to ripen. Cucumber - done OK. Vine - not much fruit but plenty of growth. Carrots - did fine as usual. Grow in pots vertically hung from roof. Lettuce - poor. Raddish - very poor if not terrible. Goji Bush - hated conditions this year. Did not grow much at all and no fruit. Had lots of grief this year with snails/slugs in the greenhouse. Trips in the garden at night with torch and scissors were horrendous (and messy)!! Have used multiple tubs of organic slug pellets - bodies everywhere! Beer traps full to capacity. No Hedgehogs seen at all. Slugs ate every last Salvia and Livingstone Daisy too.

The richest in the UK, Could they bring us out of recession? No but they could help. The fundamental question to be answered is why are we in a recession in the first place? The answer in my view is that it is a spurious argument and is irrelevant. What really matters, as in all walks of life, is that you spend less than you earn and save the rest to buy things as and when you can afford them. So applying this the the government (HMG) we get the following: Annual money received by HMG £563bn approx. Annual money spent by HMG £700bn and falling (so we are told). The difference is the deficit and is added directly to our national debt pile which currently stands at between £1tn and £5tn depending on which figures you use. Now that IS a lot of money and we have to pay interest to service this debt. So whilever we run the economy as we are, the debt pile increases and our interest payments to service the debt increases, meaning we have less money to spend on the NHS etc.. What we need is a change of focus such that our politicians and Whitehall manderins cannot spend more than they earn. If they wish, they can spend the £563bn to promote industry, jobs, employment but they choose to spend it on overseas aid, welfare, wars, the EU et al. Some rather hard choices to be made here. So if you took ALL the money off the rich, it would simply reduce the national debt for a little while and make no real difference as HMG would continue to spend at a rate faster than they earn and the debt pile would start to rise again. What the rich COULD do though is invest directly in industry and create some worthwhile employment..... which is possibly why they are rich in the first place!! One area crying out for some real investment is in waste management, currently a real mess. Imagine a fully joined up service where all waste is collected centrally, screened for materials that can be recycled and then bio-digested to generate gas to make electricity. Outputs would be electricity and material that can be used as compost or burned to produce yet more power. Add in the sewerage network to generate even more gas and compost. Green, clean and a major employer doing an environmentally sound job. If I had the money, I'd invest in this! I'm sure there are many other worthwhile projects the rich could get involved in that would create lots of employment. Employment pays the bills, keeps people busy, active and productive and is what drives an economy forwards. It is the single most important problem that needs to be fixed as without money, you struggle to live in our current society.