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It appears that Microsoft insist you should do Windows 7 updates when they want to. Setting it to "check for updates but let me choose...." will not stay at that if I do not choose to install any. It changes to "install automatically" and then proceeds to do so. Anyone know how to prevent this?

There are 3 PCs at home, 2 (not identical) Sony laptops and a self-built tower, all running Win7 home premium. The laptops were bought with Vista (not then current so money off) and an upgrade from Sony was applied to both; the tower had a clean install. Although all were on the homegroup, one...

Can anyone advise me what components are available to use with Delphi 2005 and the current Mimer version (10), and how well they work?

How can data controls be used with OO applications? If you have a Customer object through which all access to Customer's attributes is routed, how can a data grid be used to list all customer names? If the data table is linked to the grid, independence of the logic code from the data...

Got a notebook that's hanging during POST after memory, BIOS, fixed disk, CD and mouse are passed, with message ERROR Warning: IRQ not configured - PCI Mass Storage Controller on Motherboard Bus:00 Device:1F Function:01 It invites you to resume but then hangs with blank screen, irrespective of...

Office Communicator is starting up automatically on booting which is a nuisance as the VPN connection is not then established so it fails. However I cannot prevent it as it does not appear in the startup menu for my username or for all users. I also cannot find anything helpful in the...

I create buttons dynamically and need to know which one has been clicked and which button's submenu has been invoked. Cannot find an easy solution, is there one or if not what is the best difficult approach? Creation code is as follows (old program so it's Delphi4). var btnMain: array...

Trying to move more than a few messages from one folder to another in Outlook (2003 sp2) causes it to create a aingle new item out of them. What for? How can I stop it doing this? Moving hundreds of messages singly is crazy!!

When the QuickReport OnPreview event exists, even with no executable code in it, the preview does not occur. Anyone know why this is happening or if there is a workaround? I am trying to establish if the user has hit the print button on the preview screen, as then I need to update records when...

As VBA insists on resequencing entire rows when sorting partial tables in MSword, irrespective of the selection being invoked, I have set to writing a "selected columns sort". The following problem is occurring on moving cell contents. Using Set upperdata = Selection.Range etc to set part rows...

Does anyone know if there is a probem with Registry Deletekey in D4? Writing and reading are fine but neither the example in the help pages nor the following will do anything other than tell you it's failed. procedure TfmMain.DeleteRegistryEntry(Subkey: string); var Reg: TRegistry; begin...

When remote working, I often take a local copy of a doc to reduce the time waiting for Word to open it over the link. However Word still insists on spending up to half a minute doing remote access (the DSL router gets busy) before it finishes opening. I tried changing the template to...

Has any body used the TextFlags property of TCanvas? The value ETO_OPAQUE is supposed to make "the text drawn with an opaque background color. Using this flag improves performance but does not allow images behind the text rectangle to show through". So I thought turning it off would...

Avantgo allow you to trial their Pylon software by downloading from the web and will supply a temporary licence key via email. The installation process however insists on trying to register via the internet and does not ask for the licence key. (Internet access is prevented by company policy.)...

Does anyone know where Win2000 drivers suitable for a LaserWriterII can be found?

When I right-click on a tree node to get a popup menu, the node is not selected (unless it was already selected). Programs I use (eg. Win explorer) do select on popup so I was expecting it to happen - how do I get selection without writing lots of code?