Well, I am VERY happy to report that thanks to a wonderful blog I discovered, yet another idea was gleaned and tested and it worked – because this time, I didn’t wait until the next day – I used the restart function to test it, and hooray, it worked!

The How-To-Geek saved my time and tons more frustration with his post about windows compatibility. I went to my PopTray folder, and right-clicked on PopTray.exe and chose properties.  Then I chose to run the program in Windows XP SP2 compatibility mode, and it worked!  His site contains TONS of great info to help you with several problems.  Excellent site!

Now I won’t have to reinstall PopTray every day like I had planned, because it retains the configuration settings I had so carefully entered for around 25 email accounts.  Now I can preview my emails without downloading anything nefarious and delete spam right off the server and create rules based on the spam to prevent future garbage with the same subject or body or email.

Viva PopTray (helps keep your computer secure) and my sincerest thanks to the how to geek (whose time is MUCH appreciated)!

Donna

PS:  There are two more posts about this that contain links you will need if you’re another frustrated Vista noob like me.  The first is: http://donnamaher.com/email-filter-that-works-with-vista/   and the second is: http://donnamaher.com/vista-is-really-ticking-me-off/

Internet marketing has undergone a bazillion changes over the past several years and I wasn’t really liking where it was going – or the questionable ethics of some marketers, but unable to really do much about it other than minding what *I* choose to do with my own business.

I have always said that I would ALWAYS make my income online without resorting to lies, BS, hype or any other unethical, immoral ways of doing business.  I did and still do believe that you can market without hurting others and *still* make a profit.  Maybe not as much as a cheating, lying monster makes, but at least those of us who truly care about others can sleep well at night!

Sylvie Fortin (she’s my ’shero’ anyway – plus she’s an amazing lady in so many ways) decided to let it all out, and boyoboy did she – I’m in the middle of her unvarnished ebook about marketing online.  If you are sensitive to tell it like it is language that gets a bit “colorful” at times, don’t bother downloading it.

If you want to become a better marketer and don’t mind the brash, realistic tone of  a really GOOD book – then go here: http://www.internetmarketingsins.com/ and download your copy.

Here’s to you, Sylvie – one outstanding human being!   I hope that everyone who markets online will read this book and realize it’s always best to be an ethical marketer.  The truth will set us all free!

Donna

Yesterday, I created a post to help others not go thru the agony of Vista’s arbitrary monster (it lives inside of Vista itself) regarding the greatest anti-spam software I’ve ever found….

And today when I booted up – guess what?  That freaking Vista EDITED my PopTray config file AGAIN, the sneaky ba*tard!  It only collected email from one account after it was collecting from about fifteen last night (like it’s supposed to be doing).

Well, I decided to test reinstalling the PopTray software and sure enough, it does what it’s supposed to do, flawlessly!  So, until I find a solution, I guess I’ll be reinstalling it every day because I love it THAT much!!

How freaking weird is that??  I wish Gates would get his stuff together before equipping computers with an OS that screws up the installed software without permission or desire by the owner of the machine.  GRRRR… a few more times of that stuff and I’ll be going back to XP.

*sigh*  I think this qualifies as one of Granny’s Rants!  I don’t give up easily……

Donna :-\