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Trying Miranda - your link doesn't work by the way (either page doesn't display or I am told connection was refused).Strange, page opens here without a problem...
It is certainly minimalistic - perhaps a bit too much for me, but it is nice to have different networks in one interface.-CarolHaynes (October 13, 2005, 06:51 AM)
The folks in #miranda on irc.freenode.net are mostly friendly and the forums are nice too.
Ah, too badI don't know if remote controls are supported too but everyone with a Creative soundcard should know about http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/intro.php - way better drivers with way better options.
I have tried kxproject a number of times on various cards and keep coming back to Creative's own drivers (even though they are a bloat fest and usually full of bugs). KX never seems to support all the options of these cards - there is always a long list of things still to be implemented.-CarolHaynes (October 13, 2005, 03:49 AM)
I never missed a thing...Free phone calls are nice to haveIf you don't need those 'kiddy features' you may want to try Miranda for Yahoo, IRC and stuff - see my signatureTrouble is I have few friends who only use Yahoo (and won't swap). Plus my ISP (BT Broadband) allows free phone calls via a plugin for Yahoo Messenger called BTCommunicator.
But did you know that you could actually USE Yahoo with Miranda? And also IRC, ICQ, Jabber, Google.talk, AIM, ...?
ACDSee PowerPack 7 started behaving oddly (I noticed there were lots of entries in the faults list). A repair install (from Add/Remove programs) fixed the problems.Take a look at the free FastStone Image Viewer here: http://fileforum.bet.../detail/1106292852/1 It has LOTS of great options, including easy image editing. WOW! It's better than ACDSee IMHO... just install it and move the mouse cursor to all 4 desktop borders in fullscreen mode! I love that!-CarolHaynes (October 13, 2005, 02:57 AM)
I have a Creative Audigy 2 ZS Pro soundcard setup. The sound still works OK but the remote control no longer works and some of the controls on the external module are behaving oddly. Also links to my Creative Zen Micro MP3 player have become unstable. Fixed by running the webupdate for my creative hardware at their website. This involved over 140Mb of download and about an hour of clicking installation boxes as 19 packages were reinstalled from scratch.I don't know if remote controls are supported too but everyone with a Creative soundcard should know about http://kxproject.lugosoft.com/intro.php - way better drivers with way better options.
Yahoo Messenger keeps crashing on startup - I have reinstalled it but it is still behaving badly, not sure how to fix this yet.If you don't need those 'kiddy features' you may want to try Miranda for Yahoo, IRC and stuff - see my signature
again getting back to carol's problem, a registry tool backing up your settings is not quite as helpful as it might sound at first.Well, the above mentioned RegSeeker does instead backup only the things you remove, so you can easily restored *those*, even if you installed new programs after the cleaning process.
because once you start installing new programs, you can't simply "roll back" your registry without breaking stuff you've done since the backup.-mouser (October 12, 2005, 09:29 PM)
ps.Yeah, sure. It makes your system faster and I was able to fix Windows problems I had by using Regseeker, since it deleled entries that confused Windows and one program stopped crashing after cleaning the registry.
i've yet to see a single real quantitative report about the "gains" of having a "cleaner" registry.
having a clean registry brings peace of mind to those who like to "know" that their registry doens't have so much junk it in.
can anyone show me something concretely showing any real benefit from it though?
if not, then good advice is to treat your registry like that closet filled with spiders in the basement, just don't go in there. let the spiders live in peace.
Great work again!! https://www.donation...n0/Small/BIGGRIN.GIFI'm not quite shure if I know what you mean, but here's two attempts.
-skrommel (October 12, 2005, 06:51 AM)
I can vouch for your reservations. I used RegSeeker in a test ONCE and it cleared out so many entries that my system didn't recognize half my software. Aye, but there's the reason for backups, for sure! Fortunately, I imported and was back to normal.That's very, very strange! It's rated 4.6/5 on http://fileforum.bet...gSeeker/1035382760/1 for a reason.-zridling (October 11, 2005, 08:00 PM)
Any recommendations on what to use (preferably donationware and EASY to figure out how to use) for doing hard drive backup?Please start a new thread for this, it's an interesting topic and not related.-rrtwister (October 11, 2005, 08:22 PM)
If you're a fan of AutoHotkey, consider an occasional donation to its developer, Chris Mallett.Good idea! His donation page deserves much more visibility...-zridling (October 11, 2005, 06:44 PM)
after some careful thought, combined with suggestions on this forum, we are going to *TRY* incorporating googles adsense adwords.You should add an option to the forum settings to allow donating members to enable them.
as promised these ads should be 100% completely invisible to all charter/honorary members of the site. you should not see any ads, ever. the site should look completely unchanged to you.-mouser (October 11, 2005, 11:20 AM)
no, what i meant was to make it so that if you move your cursor on top of the screenshot captor icon in tray, it will remind you what your current template or quickfield is (ie it would tell you how the next screenshot you take will be named). just as a quick reminder and easy way to tell if you need to open up program and change it.That's a good idea!-mouser (October 11, 2005, 10:31 AM)
do you remember what values you were trying to set when it crashed?-mouser (October 11, 2005, 10:03 AM)
i have my doubts that this is significant enough to warrant changing icons..Ok
but i could have it should the quickfield value in the system tray menu or tooltip..You mean an option for popping up a tooltip 'bubble' in the tray after the images was saved to notify the user?
ps here is what it looks like if you keep telling sc to take a screenshot of itself, over and over:That image is great!
screenshot captor has a feature made for exactly this purpose.Hmm... while trying to test that right now I got an Access violation and SC closed itself
i know its a bit convoluted but it's especially set up to do the kind of stuff you are talking about.-mouser (October 11, 2005, 09:27 AM)
) and neither having to change the template option themselves... (I tend to forget to reverse changes like those after a while...).it think your resize idea is a good one - might be a little hard to do it exactly as you suggestion, but i think i might be able to come up with something close. an easy temporary fix of course is to just select resize dialog, enter a large value in upper right box, and let it grow entire space around the image, and then crop to desired size by eye.Another good idea to show in a wiki-mouser (October 11, 2005, 08:26 AM)
I think I get it. To be on the safe side when exiting, I activate the taskbar.Hmm... so I would just need to add a line to my start/stop script?-skrommel (October 10, 2005, 06:00 AM)
It just takes the focus away from the current window altough the mouse cursor is still above it - how to fix that?
) - then we won't need to hit F5 for hours I tried using URLSnooper but failed miserably. I was trying to get just the swf so I could send it to a friend. If I sent her the url that is posted above, I think I would seriously offend her (she does not tolerate any nudity or porno). I can appreciate her views although it does not bother me at all.I can understand if someone does not like porn but if that page already offends her I suggest you send the URL just to your more liberal friends-rrtwister (October 09, 2005, 05:25 PM)
