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Dr., these solutions are acceptable, but can they replace a javascript enabled platform?
where for example you can have a popup appearing when you put the cursor over a term?-kalos (November 14, 2012, 11:43 AM)
all i need is:
1) a WYSIWYG editor to create rich text in the webpages
2) a chart designer to create dynamic charts like www.diagram.ly or www.diagramo.com
3) a method to organize data in treeview www.jstree.com or www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex1/treeview/index.htm
etc-kalos (November 14, 2012, 01:50 AM)
Have you turned off UAC just to see if they work? Perhaps it's that interaction that's causing the problem. Not sure... but this just interests me, and I don't have anything like it to test.-wraith808 (November 09, 2012, 05:05 PM)
Adobe Acrobat 6 and Paint Shop Pro Versions X and earlier will not run properly, or at all, under Windows 7.
A lot of older software will not run under Windows 7, no matter how much you play around with UAC and compatibility settings, which is why Microsoft made XP Mode available for free. Among other things, Windows 7 dropped support for 16-bit programs and programs which include legacy 16-bit code.
While XP Mode will work if you have Windows 7 Pro or Ultimate, and does not require activating an XP license, VMware Workstation and VirtualBox do more and do it better. They also free you from depending on Microsoft's future kindness.-xtabber (November 12, 2012, 04:05 PM)
The Application Compatibility Toolkit might help, there's a tutorial here on disabling the UAC for specific programs - it's for Vista but it should work under 7. The ACT adds a lot more fixes you can apply selectively to try and get a program working, it also has a database of known programs and fixes, (IIRC).-4wd (November 10, 2012, 06:39 PM)
If you don't want to turn off UAC right click on the shortcut to start the app and run as administrator or go to the properties compatibility tab and tick 'run as administrator' - that will effectively ignore UAC for that app.-Carol Haynes (November 09, 2012, 05:55 PM)
Have you turned off UAC just to see if they work?-wraith808 (November 09, 2012, 05:05 PM)
Hmmm... I know its off-topic, but what kind of errors were you receiving after you did this?-wraith808 (November 09, 2012, 03:03 PM)
Paint Shop Pro 8 has stopped working.
A problem caused the program to stop working correctly.
Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
Did you try compatibility mode? That fixed most (if not all) of my compatibility issues. Just right click, select properties, and select the compatibility tab, and set the compatibility mode option to Windows XP SP3. Unless you're running off a network drive or optical drive, it should allow you to select that option.-wraith808 (November 09, 2012, 12:31 PM)
If you plan on skipping Win8, or plan on sticking with Win7 forever (or any other version of Windows, for that matter), you might want to get a real retail installation disk and not an OEM restore disk made specifically for your pc. With a retail version, you could install and run it in a VM, and the host OS could be either the latest version of Windows that will come with your next PC, or even some flavor of Linux (a better choice). Just make sure you have plenty of RAM installed, as you will need enough for both the host OS and the one running in the VM.
It's easy to back up, easy to restore, easy to transfer the image from one PC to the next, and the next, and the next, without having to "reinstall Windows and all your software".
Whatever OS my next PC is running, I plan on doing this with XP, just so I can keep things how I like it and run all my older software that won't run on anything newer. Might even create another image with WinME, just for the heck of it, and so I won't have to use the ancient snail pc to run a few old apps and games that won't even install, never mind run on XP.-app103 (November 09, 2012, 11:42 AM)
What software? Maybe someone here is familiar with it and can say if it works on Windows 8. I have so far only tried Windows 8 in virtualization but everything I've tried to installed has worked fine.-Nod5 (November 09, 2012, 11:22 AM)
That's pretty much my strategy too - I would guess a lot of businesses might take the plunge with Windows 7 now before the possibility disappears and they are forced to adopt 8 when XP support dies.-Carol Haynes (November 09, 2012, 06:50 AM)
My personal strategy for sticking with Win 7 is not to upgrade.
I wonder if that will work.-40hz (November 09, 2012, 06:44 AM)
get a Win7 installation CD-dr_andus (November 08, 2012, 06:37 PM)
Who made your Win7 PC? Vendors often will provide media that will restore a system to factory install state for a nominal fee.-mwb1100 (November 09, 2012, 12:30 AM)
I have yet to see a preinstalled version of Windows 7 that doesn't have a recovery partition and a mechanism to produce recovery disks.-Carol Haynes (November 09, 2012, 03:12 AM)
Windows 7 won't become a rarity overnight, and Microsoft will surely fix windows 8 in SP1, just as it did with Vista.-eleman (November 08, 2012, 06:45 PM)
dr. i am amazed by your work at your blog
for instance, i wouldnt settle for less that MS Word's capabilities for rich text editing, EmEditor's capabilities for plain text editing, and so on
but a single application is something essential, because we need a file format that will support all these
isn't html or xml or something like that, a format that can handle almost anything? ie. it can both display and be edited by numerous applications, MS Word, plain text, it can display embeded pdf with a pdf editing plugin, etc-kalos (November 05, 2012, 01:59 PM)
As for desktop wiki programs, I haven't tried them all but the one that I did try I became a big fan of (using it on a daily basis for the research purposes that you describe) is ConnectedText. But with CT you only import text materials into the actual database, everything else (files, images, programs etc.) are linked to and kept externally, though they will be displayed within the CT document itself. To get started with CT, check out some reviews, tips and tutorials by Steve Zeoli, Manfred Kuehn, and yours truly.-dr_andus (November 05, 2012, 01:10 PM)
I want to gather data (text, rich text, diagrams, graphics, files, etc) and organize them for research purposes
I want to have a fully-featured text editor and rich text editor, a fully-featured diagram creator, a fully-featured table creator, a fully-featured graphics editor, a fully-featured file organizer, and all these inside an environment where I can organize in various ways (chapters, treeviews, etc) all that data
I lately figured out that there are some so-called desktop wiki programs, that seem interesting, do you know which is the best?-kalos (November 04, 2012, 07:42 AM)
Moral of the story: be ready to switch suppliers at the drop of a hat!Moral of the story: "unlimited storage" and "lifetime licenses" aren't sustainable business plans, so expect any such terms to change sooner than later-dr_andus (October 31, 2012, 04:37 PM)-f0dder (November 01, 2012, 11:23 AM)
To be fair, Mozy did offer me one month free for my loyalty, but I thought my loyalty was worth more than that...
There are a ton more of these services (mozy, sugarsync, etc.) that i haven't looked into yet.
So.. anyone gone through the process of evaluating these services have any recommendations?-mouser (February 15, 2012, 04:45 PM)
I haven't done much evaluating and comparing but I've used MozyHome for years (at one point backing up 3 PCs but now I'm down to 2, one ancient WinXP and a 2-yr old Win7) and it does everything on your list. But the costs will naturally go up if you keep adding PCs and data.-dr_andus (October 20, 2012, 05:16 PM)
Or 0.
http://classicshell.sf.net-Tuxman (October 26, 2012, 02:23 AM)
There are a ton more of these services (mozy, sugarsync, etc.) that i haven't looked into yet.
So.. anyone gone through the process of evaluating these services have any recommendations?-mouser (February 15, 2012, 04:45 PM)