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Auditing access to a file on Vista

Scott Leckie — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:22:00 +0000

Every so often, when I open Outlook, it tells me that my PST file was not closed properly and it’s being checked for errors. It seems from a spot of googling that this isn’t an Outlook problem as such, more that another app opened my PST and did not close it properly.

Task Manager or Anvir Task Manager (excellent app) shows that, whoever the culprit is, it’s not running the next time I start Outlook. My suspicions are firmly on Skype, especially as there are a ton of postings on it keeping the PST open, but I’ve checked the obvious settings and they don’t seem to be the culprit.

Right, I thought, let’s turn on file auditing and I can see which process [...]

Anti Virus…

Scott Leckie — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 00:33:00 +0000

Greetings from Hamburg, Germany…Over here on business; meeting tomorrow and flying back on Friday.

The good news? I flew from Edinburgh (EDI) to Heathrow (LHR) T5 and from there to Hamburg but, because I still have a BA gold card I got to visit the “First Lounge” for the (ahem) first time. All in all, it was a similar experience to the old T4 First experience but they have a separate area for the champagne bar. And so, this morning, I was relaxing with the Times (GoBama being very appropriate) and some canadian bacon, some scrambled eggs and a glass of Krug.

Where was I? Oh yeah; anti virus products…A while ago (two years and five days to be exact) I bought a [...]