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runPCrun supports companies who are executive search and recruitment sectors. Many of these companies use software provided by Invenias.

This software has an Outlook plugin and we've seen problems with it hanging badly, when used in conjunction with ESET Antivirus softwares Outlook plugin.

The simple solution is to disable or uninstall the ESET plugin.

Mount the iso and run the following command (which assumes the drive is mounted on E:) at the command line.

dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:E:\sources\install.wim /index:1

You will then get output which will tell you the type of Windows installation media you have including architechture.

Resources for legal Windows 7 and Windows 8 media (i.e. you still need the product key)

Windows 7
Windows 8

There appears to be a resurgence in "bad email" at the moment, so it seems an appropriate time to go over the rules for Sensible Computing.

While spam filters can filter out the vast majority of spam, no system is perfect. Spam filters can be gotten around by various methods such as using a known persons account, sending correctly formed email and acting like a "real email server" and so-on.

My advice is to never follow links from an email or open an attachment, without being completely sure that the email is legitimate.

Web developers never seem to understand email address RFC's , and I've had my own problems with standard domains such as ".info" (if it's not a .com,.net or .org so it is not an email address, apparently) - now it's how phone numbers are allocated.

Backup technology has come on a long way in the last 10 years, mostly brought about by the advent of decent broadband and the plethora of backup services.

Now with FTTC (Fibre-to-the-cabinet) technology with its minimum of 10MBit/s upload (in the UK), and the plethora of cloud backup services with massive or unlimited allowances there is now no excuse not to have all of your data backed up.