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Sounds like ActiveWords will be worth trying.I used AW under 98 only briefly - before upgrading to Win2k - and have no recollection about whether this feature worked under DOS or not!-Darwin (October 16, 2006, 09:20 AM)
The trial is good for 60 days
ActiveWords runs under Win98SE but it costs $49.95... it'll correct spelling and complete abbreviations in DOS windows.-Darwin (October 15, 2006, 11:09 PM)
WinMerge has no problem, though it does take a couple minutes to do the compare, which is no surprise.-rand1038 (October 09, 2006, 03:26 PM)
Often a life saver for a programmer. Beyond Compare (version 2) and Examdiff Pro are comparable, and both are reasonably priced. CSDiff has a unique view that will let you view differences inline, which makes it worth having even if you buy any of the others. WinMerge is decent, but go with pretty much any of the others instead of it.
* Windiff - Free, comes with Windows. It's probably on your Windows CD, but you can download it here.
* Araxis Merge - The best one I've ever seen (by far), but it's not cheap.
* ExamDiff and ExamDiff Pro.
* Beyond Compare
* CSDiff, from ComponentSoftware.
* WinMerge
* Guiffy - never tried it
* Meld, for GNOME
* CompareIt from Grig Software looks excellent, though I haven't gotten a chance to try it yet
It's more a reminder/alarm type app, rather than the timer stop watch idea that i posted about.-Smarky (October 04, 2006, 05:47 AM)
It's also way to complex in terms of options.
With this you can't have a countdown on screen to see how much you have left. Also when hidden via applications that hide the program, the alarm notice doesn't popup either!
I was really looking for something I could hide and call when needed-Smarky (October 03, 2006, 05:34 PM)
* Hide|WindowClass|1=HideToTray,2=HideFromEverything
* Hide current or specified application, add to hidden stack. Optionally show in systray. 2=Do not add application to stack (stays hidden even after quitting HoeKey)
Various options are available to set alarms/programs to run every x minutes/hours/days/months/years, or the last Friday in the month, or the last day in the month. You can define intervals such as every 5 minutes, every other day, every second Tuesday of the month, or Monday and Tuesday of every fornight at a given time.. Along with the ability to define intervals, you can also set run times. For example, you could schedule a task to run every 5 minutes but only between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m
in that case, you can get an older version of Yankee Clipper-lanux128 (October 03, 2006, 08:29 PM)
i would recommend the others above Auto Dialogs.-mouser (October 03, 2006, 08:49 PM)
This is sad news . . . I'd grown quite fond of the app. My other favorite, File-Ex, hasn't been updated in a long time either. Wonder if they're calling it quits for vista as well. I hate when software I love dies.-allen (September 21, 2006, 08:53 PM)
AutoDialogs is a Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista program that was developed to provide quick access to the folders you use most often in standard Open / Save as / Browse for folder dialogs (including all Microsoft Office versions and Windows 2000/XP/2003 dialog boxes,) Windows Explorer and many other programs.
Using AutoDialogs, you can automatically insert preselected folders into your dialog boxes using a system tray menu (requires only two clicks) or a pre-assigned hot key (one keystroke.) With AutoDialogs, you no longer need dozens of mouse clicks to navigate to that desired folder!
cough cough.. chs has had it from day 1.
chs also has an option to "auto repair" clipboard chain regularly so you don't have to-mouser (October 02, 2006, 12:02 PM)
or just beam with delight 
I know for sure acetext, clipmate and clipmagic do ) for reconnecting to the clipboard -- but I don't know of any utility that does it universally-allen (October 02, 2006, 07:12 AM)
This is sad news . . . I'd grown quite fond of the app. My other favorite, File-Ex, hasn't been updated in a long time either. Wonder if they're calling it quits for vista as well. I hate when software I love dies.-allen (September 21, 2006, 08:53 PM)
Thank you for letting me know. Rather than joining the discussion
myself, you're welcome to quote any or all of this for me:
As of yet I have not had a chance to look at Vista to see how easy it
would be to support it. It may not be practical to port File-Ex to
Vista either -- the comments about FileBox eXtender aren't very
encouraging. I do plan to investigate the situation in a couple
months, hoping that I can find a way to do it (perhaps File-Ex's
architecture is different enough from FileBox eXtender that it's not a
problem for File-Ex), but at this time I cannot promise that a Vista
version will be forthcoming.
By the way, if anyone has tried to run File-Ex under Vista, I would be
interested to know the results. As yet I don't have hardware capable
of running Vista myself.
File-Ex, hasn't been updated in a long time either. Wonder if they're calling it quits for vista as well.-allen (September 21, 2006, 08:53 PM)
From the AceText help file ...-Carol Haynes (September 15, 2006, 06:58 AM)
just a clarification in case its not clear, the quickpaste feature allen describes is from Clipboard Help+Spell. You can create as many custom formatting profiles as you want and they appear in the quickpaste menu and in the formatting panel in the main window.-mouser (September 14, 2006, 06:07 AM)
F-Prot is a program I tried once because it sounded like F-Secure. It turned out to be decent.-superboyac (September 13, 2006, 10:59 AM)