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6526
I only just now saw this discussion thread, so my contribution might be a bit belated and I don't know if it will help.
I do not use a proper mouse. I was an early Apple Mac user in the '80s, and learned to use a mouse then. However, I now use only Intel X86-based PCs and I favour keyboard navigation over mouse navigation, but the mouse is essential on the modern Windows GUI. I forcibly trained myself to use a pressure-sensitive motion lever, and then a touchpad mouse on my laptops years ago, and would now rather use the touchpad as it is ergonomically superior and far easier to use compared to either a motion lever or a conventional mouse (better ergonomics and especially no RSI). My current Toshiba laptop has a Synaptics PS/2 port touch pad. The software is version 6.2, and is full-featured, offering many useful options including:

(a) Constrained motion: You use this to enable a vertical/horizontal plane lock for the pointer. You can select which of the various keys or key combinations you want to activate it with, and I selected the Shift key. The lock is enabled by pressing and holding down the Shift key before you start a moving the pointer. The plane is then locked in whatever plane approximates vertical or horizontal where you first start moving the pointer, and stays that way for as long as you keep the Shift key depressed. This is quite a handy feature, and is very easy to use.

(b) Slow motion: To select slow pointer for precision pointing. You can select which of the various keys or key combinations you want to activate it with, and I selected the Ctrl key. Slow motion is enabled by pressing and holding down the Ctrl key, effective immediately (whether you are moving the pointer or not) and is then locked for as long as the Ctrl key is kept depressed. I set the pointer on my laptop to accelerate and move at "fastest" speed normally, so as to be able to navigate across the screen as quickly as possible. Even though the pointer is usually pretty accurate when moving it at speed, I very occasionally may need to use slow motion when the pixel-sensing area for an object is small. This too is quite a handy feature, and is very easy to use.

These are the sorts of features that you might need per this discussion. If it was tricky to emulate them using AHK, then I wondered: if you have a PS/2 port connected mouse or pen, then might it be worthwhile experimenting by installing the Synaptics PS/2 port touch pad drivers, to see if these features would work for those devices too? I know it works for non-Synaptics touchpads where the Synaptics touchpad drivers are not part of the OEM installation (because I have tried it), so I presume it is using standard port connections at the PS/2 interface.

6527
@delwoode: Came across this today - which could be useful: Rename Master

There's also quite a good clipboard utility there called ArsClip that I might mention in a Clipboard Help & Spell discussion.

6528
General Software Discussion / Re: Best free firewall for Windows?
« on: November 10, 2009, 01:26 PM »
Thought this might be of use to someone:
I don't know much about firewalls, having only used BlackICE for a couple of years and later, ZoneAlarm - which latter I still use. However, I took a look at some of the reviews for the free Privatefirewall that @Bamse had linked to, wondering why no-one had mentioned it (as he had - in 2 separate threads on this forum, one where he mentioned that HIPS didn't work on it).
Came across this at:
http://fileforum.bet...irewall/1059097279/1

Reviews of Privatefirewall
  Rating 4 out of 5 stars
  by CyberDoc999
      Reviewing 7.0 (Oct 15, 2009)
      Firewall Works great......
      and it is free !
      the HIPS (Host-based Intrusion Prevention System)
      is Lame.....
      I tested it on 5 differents programs and it blocked none of them....
      HIPS that worked would make this a killer app

Has anyone else on this forum tried Privatefirewall out? If you just wanted a firewall and no HIPS, then presumably this could be quite a useful firewall proggy.

6529
@delwoode: You can get some good mass file renaming utilities as freeware or shareware.
For years now, I have used a mass file renaming facility built in to xplorer² file manager (zabkat.com). It is a major timesaver when renaming multiple files. There is a facility to insert variable names ("tokens") into the file name - e.g., sequenced numbering starting at "n".
Mass rename screenshot xplorer².jpg

The above screenshot is from my desktop, in the process of renaming a group of digital photo files named "SDCnnnnn" to "Antarctica $01.jpg" which gives them a sequential numbering starting at "01". I've clicked the "Preview" button, so that I can see what the filenames will look like before actually committing to those names. This is just one example of what you can do with this mass file renaming facility in xplorer². There's lots more clever stuff in there.

6530
@app103: From what is said above:
(a) It seems as though 3M did a stupid thing: they delivered an upgrade to 3M's Post-it Software Notes that was not backwards compatible;

(b) Presumably though, the functionality of the latest version is at least as good - if not better - than the previous version.

Would that be true? If you compared old and new 3M's Post-it Software Notes, and then threw in Notezilla to the comparison for good measure, then what would the comparison look like?

6531
General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Security Essentials
« on: October 27, 2009, 05:14 AM »
Correction to my earlier post:
...but when I downloaded it, MSE reported that "unlocker1.8.8.exe" contains TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.A
I didn't read the MSE report closely enough. When I did, what it actually said was "unlocker1.8.7.exe contains TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.A" - i.e., it kept using the old file version name, even though I had given it v1.8.8 to analyse. I repeated this, changing the file name to "Fred" etc. each time, but always the report was for v1.8.7.

I then deleted all the quarantined references in MSE to v.1.8.7, and then gave it the v1.8.8 file to analyse again. This time, it reported that the file was v1.8.8 (which was correct) and that it had no viruses.

I think this means that I have just discovered a quirk - if not a bug - in MSE.

6532
General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Security Essentials
« on: October 26, 2009, 07:01 PM »
Just an update on the Unlocker install file.
The author told me he had fixed the problem and put up v1.8.8, but when I downloaded it, MSE reported that "unlocker1.8.8.exe" contains TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.A

I politely suggested to him that "Maybe embedding the eBay component was not such a good idea."

6533
General Software Discussion / Re: Add tabbed documents to MS Office
« on: October 26, 2009, 12:27 AM »
@Curt:
Yes, it apparently is intended to work in Office 2003 + 2007, though I had mistakenly thought the thing only worked in Office 2007, as above:
...it seems to have only been developed for Office 2007.

However, you may not necessarily be right when you say:
Other than that, it certainly is buggy.
- because it's working fine in my Office 2007 now, as per my post above:
So, I suspect that something was blocking the Add-In from working and CCleaner removed the blockage.

What I mean is, maybe it's the system configuration that is causing the problem, rather than a bug in the OfficeTab Add-In - though equally true I suppose is that it could be a mixture of both!

6534
General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Security Essentials
« on: October 26, 2009, 12:08 AM »
@Innuendo:
Thanks for the appreciation of effort. Yes, it was very tedious - doing what I did - but I reckon I benefited from it: as can often happen when you take the time to investigate and analyse something in detail, the result can be an increase in knowledge of the thing being studied.

@Carol Haynes:
What you say is interesting, and, if you had installed Unlocker from the version 1.8.7 installer, then I can offer no explanation as to why your copy of NOD32 did not detect it in the installer file, as per the VirusTotal report. Curious, that.

I would just like to clarify/confirm that Unlocker.exe is not the problem file. I have Unlocker running as a shell all the time too, and MSE never objects to it. MSE only detected the Trojan Yebector.gen and .A in the two separate installer files. Thanks for emboldening the bit about the change log - I had not read that. In any event, as I wrote above:
I also sent an email to the author of Unlocker with a snapshot of the MSE details screen describing the Trojan that MSE had found in the Unlocker install file.

Nice work in detailing how to decrap the installer file containing the eBay Trojan bits. I won't bother doing that, having just deleted the installer file, and I wouldn't recommend going back a version step to Unlocker v1.8.5 either, since v1.8.7 evidently has some bugfixes, according to the change log that you pasted above.

The thing here is that, as you say:
...it is just the promotional add-on they have stupidly chosen to include.
(My emphasis.)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Security Essentials
« on: October 25, 2009, 02:22 AM »
@Innuendo:
Yes, I wish Iain had uploaded the files to VirusTotal before deleting them, but I can totally understand his "get these files off my PC *NOW*!" reaction.
Anything to oblige!  :)  As it is a long weekend here in NZ and because I am very curious about such things, I took the time to search out those infected files from my backup drive and then run them through MSE and submit them to Total Response as you had suggested.

There were 5 viruses detected by MSE:
  • 1. BrowserModifier Win32-Hijacker.A in file ico_printui0008.ico ("removed" by MSE).
  • 2. TrojanDownloader-ASX-Wimad.BD in a partially donloaded Frostwire file T-3410427-connected barbie.mp3 (virus in ASF_Script_Commands)  ("removed" by MSE).
  • 3. TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.gen and TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.A in 2 separately obtained copies of file unlocker1.8.7.exe (quarantined by MSE).
  • 4. VirTool:Win32/Obfuscator.XY in file FreeskyVideotoMPEG.exe (quarantined by MSE)
  • 5. Trojan:JS/Loop in filr 1stpage2.zip (quarantined by MSE).

I was unable to locate backup copies of infected files Nos. 1 and 2, but I did have Nos. 3, 4 and 5, and I have detailed them below:

3. My copy of MSE detected TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.gen in my Archive copy of File unlocker1.8.7.exe
Virus Total report:
File unlocker1.8.7.exe was already a known file, received on 2009.10.24 22:11:12 (UTC)
Result: 4/41 (9.76%)
Microsoft 1.5202    2009.10.24    TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.gen
NOD32    4539       2009.10.24    a variant of Win32/Adware.ADON
Prevx    3.0       2009.10.25    Medium Risk Malware
VirusBuster 4.6.5.0    2009.10.24    Trojan.CL.Yabector.C

This file was downloaded from http://ccollomb.free...er/unlocker1.8.7.exe
When I downloaded a fresh copy of the same file from the same location, my copy of MSE detected TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.A
Virus Total report:
File unlocker1.8.7.exe received on 2009.10.25 06:19:07 (UTC)
Result: 5/41 (12.2%)
Ikarus   T3.1.1.72.0   2009.10.25   Trojan-Clicker.Win32.Yabector
Microsoft 1.5202   2009.10.25   TrojanClicker:Win32/Yabector.A
NOD32 4539      2009.10.24   a variant of Win32/Adware.ADON
Prevx   3.0      2009.10.25   Medium Risk Malware
Sunbelt   3.2.1858.2   2009.10.24   Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT

Firefox did not block or give any cautions for http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/
_____________________________________

4. My copy of MSE detected: VirTool:Win32/Obfuscator.XY in file FreeskyVideotoMPEG.exe
Virus Total report:
File FreeskyVideotoMPEG.exe received on 2009.10.24 22:03:46 (UTC)
Result: 2/41 (4.88%)
Kaspersky   7.0.0.125   2009.10.24   Packed.Win32.Black.d
Microsoft   1.5202      2009.10.24   VirTool:Win32/Obfuscator.XY

This file was downloaded from www.freeskyvideo.com.
When I browsed to the FreeskyVideotoMPEG link, Firefox blocked www.freeskyvideo.com and told me it is a "reported attack site".
_____________________________________
5. My copy of MSE detected: Trojan:JS/Loop in filr 1stpage2.zip
Virus Total report:
File 1stpage2.zip was already a known file, received on 2009.08.22 12:13:58 (UTC)
Result: 5/41 (12.20%)
Contained viruses:
BitDefender    7.2    2009.08.22    JS.Trojan.Winbomb.F
F-Prot    4.4.4.56    2009.08.21    File is damaged
GData    19       2009.08.22    JS.Trojan.Winbomb.F
Microsoft    1.4903    2009.08.22    Trojan:JS/Loop
Panda    10.0.0.14    2009.08.22    Generic Trojan

This file was downloaded from http://www.evrsoft.com and is for setting up a program called "1st Page 2000".
Currently, this file is advertised as being available from http://www.evrsoft.com, but neither the download function nor any mirrors seem to work for that file.
Firefox did not block or give any cautions for http://www.evrsoft.com.
_____________________________________

Hope this information helps or is of use. I think it shows that MSE seems to be doing its job quite well.

6536
Here's my experience:
In my copy of Firefox, I have:
* 54 .xpi files (Add-ons) of which 7 are disabled;
* 1 theme (Chromifox Basic);
* 21 plugins, of which 10 are disabled: including QuickTime; RealPlayer; all the M/soft ones - DRM-related, Media Player-related, DivX-related.

Using MrTech, I override some of the add-ons that Firefox says are "not suited to this version of Firefox". On a couple of occasions, that has caused Firefox to not start/load without instantly crashing, so I sort that out by deleting the offending add-on .xpi files causing the crash. (All my add-ons are backed up by the FEBE add-on, so I could always recover the old disabled add-on if I ever needed to)

I installed the M/soft update (I had to search for it to find it) that was supposed to make a "Disable" button on the Windows Presentation Foundation plugin, but it did not make the button, so I searched and removed all traces of WPF using a combination of RevoUninstaller, CCleaner and RegCleaner.

When Mozilla unilaterally blocked/removed the .NET plugins, I had no issue with that as I had already disabled them.

On another post in this foum ("Re: Windows Security Essentials" at:
https://www.donation....msg181376#msg181376

- I referred to MSE (M/soft's virus checker program) as removing "potentially harmful or unwanted programs". To my mind, "unwanted" could include Adware, M/soft Windows Genuine Advantage and all those annoying and unnecessary plugins (e.g., DRM and Windows Media Player plugins) that M/soft has been quietly forcing into Firefox without telling you, every time you run Windows Update. One of those plugins Mozilla now blocks as it introduces a security risk and destabilises Firefox performance.

I mentioned in that post that:
* I generally mistrust M/soft as they are a perfect example of a corporate psychopath (per the film "The Corporation") and I therefore use their software with well-advised caution. I try to control that software by, for example, stopping it from "phoning home" in ZoneAlarm.

* When you see how M/soft have forced those Firefox plugins on you, it speaks volumes about their motivation and shows their deliberate intention to put their needs/desires first and their often crass disregard for the needs of the customer/victim.

6537
General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Security Essentials
« on: October 18, 2009, 05:22 PM »
Thanks for the feedback on my post.
@f0dder: I went to M/soft virus Encyclopedia and looked at those "viruses" detected by MSE. None of them seemed to be false positives, though they were not too nasty-looking.
e.g. http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=TrojanClicker%3AWin32%2FYabector.gen&ThreatID=-2147338578

As @Bamse ponted out - "without user consent" would be the trigger, or "Potentially harmful or otherwise unwanted" as I think M/soft describe it.

Mind you "unwanted" could include Adware, M/soft Windows Genuine Advantage and all those annoying and unnecessary plugins (e.g., DRM and Windows Media Player plugins) that M/soft has been quietly forcing into Firefox without telling you, every time you run Windows Update. One of those plugins Mozilla now blocks as it introduces a security risk and destabilises Firefox performance.    :P

@Bamse: Thanks for the advice - I have taken it and have changed the default actions in MSE to "Quarantine" from "Recommended" and unticked the box beneath for "apply recommended actions:...".

@Innuendo: I had not known of VirusTotal before now, thankyou. I shall use that in future now that I have set MSE actions all to "Quarantine". Actually, the file containing one of the viruses (I forget which one) found by MSE was uploaded to M/soft - the program requested permission to do so first, and I gave it. I also sent an email to the author of Unlocker with a snapshot of the MSE details screen describing the Trojan that MSE had found in the Unlocker install file.

I generally mistrust M/soft as they are a perfect example of a corporate psychopath (per the film "The Corporation") and I therefore use their software with well-advised caution. I try to control that software by, for example, stopping it from "phoning home" in ZoneAlarm. When you see how M/soft have forced those Firefox plugins on you, it speaks volumes about their motivation and shows their deliberate intention to put their needs/desires first and their often crass disregard for the needs of the customer/victim.   ;D

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Security Essentials
« on: October 18, 2009, 10:03 AM »
On the 1st October 2009, I deinstalled AVG (which I had installed some time ago, on my son's advice) and installed WSE (Microsoft's Windows Security Essentials virus/spyware detection program) - just to try it out. It didn't seem too obtrusive.

The other day, I noticed that the WSE tool had been sitting on 50% CPU of my Centrino Duo for several minutes at a time, making the CPU overheat and the fan come on full. (MsMpEng.exe is the AntiMalware Service Executable.) AVG never did that.

So, yesterday I decided to de-install WSE and install AVG again or Avast 9 FREE virus checker. However, before deinstalling WSE I just checked its log.

Surprise, surprise. Seems that WSE had quietly found, identified and removed two "severe" viruses:
    * BrowserModifier Win32-Hijacker.A
    * TrojanDownloader-ASX-Wimad.BD

These were in files that had been sitting around on my hard drive for some time - and yet AVG had never found them.

So I decided against deinstalling WSE, meaning that AVG will have to wait.

Today, before I went out shopping, I started a full disk scan with WSE. It took about 5hrs to complete and it identified 3 more viruses/malwares and removed/quarantined them. This was in files that had been around for a while and which AVG had evidently missed.

I even downloaded again one infected installer file for Unlocker, just to double check. I was curious as to  whether that downloaded file had the virus in it, or whether the virus had been somehow put into it after the file had arrived at my laptop. Well, it was corrupted on download.

Looks like the "more well-known anti-virus companies" - including AVG - might be asleep on the job. Kudos to M/soft on this one.

6539
FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: FARR plugin: FARR Windows Search 0.1.0
« on: October 13, 2009, 08:02 AM »
@phitsc:
"You might be confusing the Microsoft Indexing Service with Windows Search. The FARR Windows Search plugin will let you query the Windows (Desktop) Search index, which I think is different to the Indexing Service. I have Windows Search running and to be honest I don't think it is influencing my machine's performance noticeably. I have the indexing service disabled as well by the way."
Well, it seems that maybe I was not confusing things after all, and that the Indexing Service is involved. This is how I found out:
1. I disabled GDS (Google Desktop Search), which I had been using already to search approx 1,774,000 items - including emails, chats, web history and files (the latter numbering approx 1,649,000).
2. I installed WDS (Windows Desktop Search) with no problems.  :up:
3. I installed the FARR plugin with no problems.  :up:
4. The plugin worked well - it found files and file properties really fast.  :up:
5. However, I wanted to be able to search for specific strings of text in any and all of my documents - including MS Office files, .txt, .pdf and inside .zip files.
6. When I started to configure WDS to do that, I was told that in order to do it, the Indexing Service had to be enabled (I had disabled it ages ago) on my drive. Enabling the Indexing Service was the last thing I had wanted to do  - it was a known resource hog that lowered the PC's performance.  :down:

So, regrettably, the FARR plugin and WDS have been uninstalled and GDS - which had always worked brilliantly for me - has been re-enabled.

I would thus tend to go back to and repeat my earlier comment that this FARR plugin would be great if it could be made to work with GDS - except that, after this experience and having given the matter some more thought since making that comment, I now wonder if the plugin wouldn't just duplicate the normal GDS search box functionality which pops into action readily enough when I type [Ctrl-SPACE].
In other words, what would the plugin be able to add over and above what you can already do with the GDS search functionality? (I have already tried HalfTone and found it duplicative and redundant.)

One benefit of this experience was the discovery that GDS was not to blame - as I had suspected it was - for a recurring problem I have had with my Centrino Duo CPU for some months. The problem was sporadic cascading episodes of CPU high occupancy (48% plus) by some processes (including FARR), one after another in succession, where the only resolution was to kill any process that went CPU-high (enter Process Tamer - :Thmbsup:). One of the processes that would sometimes be thus affected was the Windows Explorer shell! This problem continued to manifest itself even whilst GDS was completely disabled.

Hope this is helpful or of use to someone.

6540
General Software Discussion / Re: Add tabbed documents to MS Office
« on: October 08, 2009, 07:45 PM »
@Contro: Yes, sadly for all the pre-Office 2007 users out there, if you go and read the Google translation of the OfficeTab site (it's in Chinese, I think), then you will see that it seems to have only been developed for Office 2007.

6541
General Software Discussion / Re: Add tabbed documents to MS Office
« on: October 08, 2009, 09:17 AM »
OfficeTab now works OK for me! (and presumably it could for you too).
Though this was a really useful Add-in to MS Office, on my laptop it had only seemed to work in Excel and PowerPoint, but not for Word (where I could have put it to good use). This was despite my not insignificant efforts to try to discover and "fix" the problem.

When I started up Word today, I discovered to my pleasant surprise that OfficeTabs now works a treat in Word as well.     :beerchug:

The only thing that I had changed and that I think (no proof!) could have brought this about was that I had happened to use CCleaner (for the first time ever) - albeit with some trepidation - to clean some redundant garbage out of my system. So, I suspect that something was blocking the Add-In from working and CCleaner removed the blockage.

So, all you people (above) who tried OfficeTab and it didn't work or behave nicely in some way - well, it might not hurt to install OfficeTab, close all MS Office applications. Then, if OfficeTab does not work as it should, run CCleaner, reboot the PC, and restart the MS Office applications.

If you try this, then let us know how you get on please.

6542
General Software Discussion / Re: Good news for any InfoSelect users
« on: September 27, 2009, 09:46 AM »
Follow-up: Oops. I think it was (my) user error. I had not been a proper member of the Yahoo! InfoSelect User Group, it seems. Now I am a member for sure and have made the post again. I saw it come up on the discussion board.

Looking at some of the posts there, I suspect that one of the reasons Jim Lewis of Miclog fame has taken over as owner/mediator might be to control the slagging off (bad-mouthing) of the IS product and Miclog.  :-\

I hope it doesn't go all 1984 though.

6543
General Software Discussion / Re: Good news for any InfoSelect users
« on: September 27, 2009, 01:16 AM »
Hmm. What odd goings-on on that Yahoo! Info Select User Group!
After Sarah's prompting, I made an enquiring post about "Why is Jim Lewis now paying attention to the group" (or words to that effect), and it seems to have been deleted after I (successfully) posted it. It wasn't a negative post either - I am a strong fan of InfoSelect. Meanwhile, Jim Lewis seems to have been assigned moderator/owner status of the group.

6544
General Software Discussion / Re: Good news for any InfoSelect users
« on: September 25, 2009, 06:52 AM »
Yes, I suppose I should...so I shall!

6545
General Software Discussion / Re: Good news for any InfoSelect users
« on: September 24, 2009, 05:27 PM »
@SKesselman:
This is a follow-up to your original post, after I have taken a look through some of the discussion in the Yahoo! InfoSelect User Group. I'm a bit embarrassed to confess that I had not known of that user group before, though I have been an IS (InfoSelect) user since 1998.

What I have learned from your post is that IS was apparently developed from a DOS application called Tornado Notes, and that there is this user discussion forum which shows there seem to be many IS users out there who, like me, think it is a grand piece of software, but are unsure as to whether the new licencing fee structures for IS v9 - and presumably for v10 - makes IS really worthwhile.

Anyway, I have subscribed to the IS discussion forum (as I have done with the Donation Coder forum) in my Google reader, and will follow the forum with interest. However, I remain skeptical. Just as "two swallows do not a summer make", the IS developer's (Jim D.Lewis) recent appearance on the discussion forum after years of apparent neglect could be just a flash in the pan. Like I said above, "I wonder what triggered it?"

Enquiring minds need to know.

6546
General Software Discussion / Re: Good news for any InfoSelect users
« on: September 23, 2009, 11:33 PM »
@SKesselman:
Hi sue,
No, I do not really "use" Lotus Agenda any more, though I occasionally open it up (runs under DOS) to copy some of the data it contains. I eventually became what you might call a "power user" of Agenda. Between Lotus Agenda and Ashton-Tate's Framework IV, I had most of my PIM (Personal Information Management) needs met.

Yes, Lotus Notes was very good. No relation to Agenda though. I tried to get the New Zealand distributorship rights for Lotus Notes when Lotus planned to release it as shrink-wrapped software after it had been been kept in Lotus' control for several years whilst they developed it and that consultancy (one of the "Big 4", I forget the name) used it and effectively acted as ß tester.

There are some points around the Internet referring to Lotus Agenda. For example, check out "Agenda Rediviva" at:
http://web.mac.com/a...Agenda_Rediviva.html
- that is supposed to be an attempt to revive/rewrite it, but for the Mac platform, I think. It seems to have made no progress though. (Redolent of the Chandler project?)

I did post an "IDEA" for new Agenda-like software on the DC forum a while back, but no takers. I suspect that more modern generations would not have a clue what it is, and therefore would not want to dig down and develop it, and older one-time assembler programmers like me - who knew Agenda well, but also know our limitations - haven't started to try and develop it, even though we might like to.
I am playing with InfoQube (was SQLNotes) at present, to see what that offers.

6547
General Software Discussion / Re: Good news for any InfoSelect users
« on: September 23, 2009, 06:59 AM »
@SKesselman:
Thanks for your post on this.
My InfoSelect notes record the fact that I bought my first licence (for IS V5.00.14) on 23rd Sep. 1998.
This discussion forum forray is an interesting change from Jim Lewis (the developer). I wonder what triggered it?

(Now, if only you had given some good news about Lotus Agenda too! Over all the years since I started using it in 1990 or so, I have still been unable to find anything to adequately replace Agenda.)

6548
Living Room / Re: Hell has frozen over - 802.11n is Finalized!
« on: September 13, 2009, 09:38 AM »
Well, I have to admit that I was using the word "DRAFT" as a valid reason for procrastinating over my purchase of something  (i.e., the 802.11n gear) that I wanted emotionally, when I should really be putting the funds elsewhere...if I were to be "sensible".

6549
Living Room / Re: Hell has frozen over - 802.11n is Finalized!
« on: September 13, 2009, 08:31 AM »
Good, I've been waiting for 802.11n to be agreed/ratified by the IEEE.
Now I can go out and buy that 802.11n gear I've been covetously watching for a couple (?) of years.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Organize desktop icons and more...
« on: September 13, 2009, 08:24 AM »
I also recently started to use Fences, and would recommend it. However, the persistence of Impulse with the latest version is enough to make me de-install the whole lot.

As an interim measure, I have used Zone Alarm to block Impulse at the firewall, and I have set DC's Process Tamer to force kill the two Impulse applications that run. The Impulse system remains on the hard drive.

It's not an elegant approach, I realise, but it does save me the time and effort necessary to find out what happens to Fences if I try and expunge Impulse from the hard drive.

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