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General Software Discussion / startup/tasks manager?
« on: August 13, 2005, 07:32 PM »
I've been thinking of wintasks pro http://www.liutilities.com/products/wintaskspro/ but I'm wondering if anyone has any positive experiences with this or similar software?
I'm looking for a program that will give me useful information about what startups I have and be able to disable/re-enable them. Also what processes are currently running and what they do.
Wintasks pro is okay and provides a useful database which describes what processes you have running but it's startup manager is poor and provides no such info.
Something like sysinternals process manager and autoruns http://www.sysinternals.com/ProcessesAndThreadsUtilities.html with a database would be perfect.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Liberated Games..
« on: August 13, 2005, 07:09 PM »
underdogs has been my favorite for old games:
http://www.the-underdogs.org/

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Living Room / Re: Deluxe/Pro versions: Good or Bad?
« on: August 13, 2005, 06:49 PM »
Although my thoughts were a little bit 'tongue in cheek' I would like to add that I feel there are a lot of software companies that are not the least bit interested in providing fair value for money.
Although off-topic I would also say that the companies that are moving towards subscription based pricing models are on the top of my shit-list too.

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Living Room / Re: Deluxe/Pro versions: Good or Bad?
« on: August 13, 2005, 09:08 AM »
I'll bite!

The idea that lite/basic/pro versions are released as some form of benevolence I consider absurd.
Surely it's all market driven and based on what the target buyer can afford.
The seller knowing full well that given the choice, most want the 'pro' version (often offered overpriced). Rather than lose the sale, here's a 'basic' version which leaves out something that is useful to everyone, but is significantly cheaper:

The lite version being free, with all the useful features disabled.
The basic version being a fair price for the pro version.
The Pro version being overpriced.

(I have this battle with the price of wsw btw, though I would not apply this to fookes software notetab range).

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Living Room / Re: This "keyboard" looks so cool for customization freaks
« on: August 11, 2005, 05:48 PM »
Try as I might (not enough obviously), I cannot get used to the new keyboard layout with just two columns above the arrow keys. It just messes me up every time. It doesn't help having old style at work and narrow style at home. I've actually ditched the expensive 'narrow' and I'm using a saitek eclipse http://www.saitekusa.com/usa/prod/eclipse2.htm which has a very good feel.
My all time favorite was probably a Gateway 2000 keyboard that was programmable and had f-keys down the left side too.

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