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Living Room / Re: What's your favorite LOL joke?
« on: November 07, 2009, 03:17 PM »
Have you heard that CUPID is releasing a new version of their famous processor information utility that is designed for training students who know almost nothing about computers?

It is to be called   C-PUtZ.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Your most used SPECIAL programs
« on: August 15, 2008, 12:27 PM »
A truly special little app which I use almost every day is USB Disk Ejector from Quick and Easy: http://quick.mixnmojo.com/

With the program's shortcut in my Quick Launch, it's one click to open and a double click on the drive to remove.  Works instantly without balloon message.

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A small app for nothing but fixing the "tooltips hidden behind the taskbar" problem: http://www.4shared.c...56ca/ToolTipFix.html  No install/standalone.  Run,(auto fix) and manually right-click>exit from tray.  I put it on my 85 yr. old Mother's machine.
No problems.

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True, but the immediate default is to arrange alphabetically.

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General Software Discussion / I want XPx!
« on: October 18, 2007, 11:06 PM »
An open letter to Microsoft:

Guys.  Vista is not going to cut it, and everybody knows it.  Sure, the eye candy is great, BUT.  Anybody remember ME?  Look.  XP is really good.  Really.  I use it.  My Mom uses it.  AT&T uses it.  It can virtualize.  Do media.  Almost everything.  Almost.  And since SP2, not very buggy.  Well, there's still that Taskbar thingy with disappearing icons, and the explorer.exe crashes, but still, most of the time, for most stuff, XP is great.  Mostly.

You want me to buy a new OS from you?  Give me XPx!  Take XP and fix it up.  Integrate all the Sysinternals stuff.  Make Process Explorer the Taskmanager.  Make the Control Panel one-stop shopping for everything.  If you don't like XPSysPad or its' competitors, I'll bet Mark and his Sysinternals guys will whip you up a doozy.  I spend alot of time on the computer help forums just explaining how to navigate to the dialog box to mark the little box that needs checking!  Make it easy and straightforward and all in one place.

And make the explanations in plain English!!  Hey! View> Arrange Icons by..'Show in Groups' means Alphabetize! OK?  And who can tell what Services do from reading the descriptions?  I just came by a Win98 printed manual.  One of those would be way good!  Get some help from ordinary (not power) users.

And you want to do up some eye candy with it?  Cool!
Make it the full Monty!  Tweak it out, streamline it, integrate a 2-way firewall (Buy one if you have to, but make it Comodo strong), Rename stuff to make it intuitive,soup up the clipboard, expand right-click control...   Heck!  Do the stuff natively that Donation Coder and others have been doing for you to make XP really work up to it's potential!

Are you listening, Jeff?  Give me a reworked, bug free, self-monitoring, straight-forward XP and I will give you some big dollars.  Really.  I would buy a full tilt SP3 integrated XP with those sort of improvements- full retail- direct from you in a New York minute.

 Give me XPx! 

I am standing by with credit card in hand!

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If you're thinking of a better way to organize the desktop (Quick Launch and all), take a look at this: http://www.5starsupp...x.php?showtopic=7857

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General Software Discussion / Re: Hide icons from desktop
« on: January 09, 2007, 12:54 AM »
Follow this link to read my post explaining how to hide icons and improve desktop functionality in XP Home without the need for any helper programs.
http://www.geekstogo...desktop-t144393.html

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It is sometimes reported that an XP user has managed to scranch his or her account and must create a new one for functionality.  In such cases the new account must be configured manually in order not to import the flummoxed settings.  I think it would be great if there was a utility that would filter the imported settings and give the user the ability to check the settings that were not corrupted, but not import those that were.  Check the boxes for settings to import and "Apply."

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