Topic: Fears over online banking checks

[Camstop]

I love online banking so much i almost bought one of those monitors with a built in ATM    Seriously though, i'd hate to see it spoiled through security issues  ':|

[Camstop]

Funny thing just happened 


I get a letter from my bank with a card in it and saying they are gonna send me a card reader too and i've to use it with my online banking 


It might be a good thing or just give me the push to change banks that i'd been thinking of doing for a while 

[Clive]

Odd. Is anything showing up in Device Manager. I just wonder whether the USB port is being put to sleep, or the flash drive is switching off.

Device Manager reports flash drive is working properly.  I think the problem might rest with my rather outdated version of Office.  Perhaps I should try re-installing it?  Presumably my existing Office files will not be affected if I take that route?

[Rik]

Come at it another way, Clive. If you try saving the files to the HD, do you get the same error? If not, I'd be looking at the drive rather than Office.

[Clive]

Yes, same problem Rik.   

[Simon]

Are you sure there's not some sort of protection on the file, Clive?  Can Office do this?

[Rik]

Password protection maybe? The files are not showing as Read-only or anything silly, are they Clive?

[Clive]

I've now "repaired" Office 2000 but to no avail.  It still behaves in the same manner.  What happens is that when I try to "save as" any Office file, the program crashes for the first two attempts.  The third attempt usually works.     I'm not overly bothered - it's just an annoyance more than anything.

[Rik]

Have you checked the properties of the files, Clive?

[Clive]

What should I be looking for Rik?  It's not really telling me anything of interest.

[Rik]

Are they read-only, hidden, encrypted or compressed?

[Clive]

Nope.  As I said, all my files lead pretty boring lives.

[Rik]

Time to bring the machine round then, Clive.

[Clive]