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General Software Discussion / Re: The mysterious case of disappearing scroll wheel functionality...

« Last post by Darwin on October 22, 2010, 08:54 AM »

Hi all - I didn't do a good job explaining my situation  

Until yesterday morning, scrolling worked natiively (that is, WITHOUT Wizmouse) everywhere on my system. Then at some point scrolling became corrupted when viewing html content. I tried all sorts of fixes and came up short. Finally, I installed Wizmouse and functionality returned, but I couldn't for the life of me figure out why I now needed to run Wizmouse to enjoy functionality that comes built-in... EDIT: sorry Curt, I mis-read your post before writing the above.

However, Cranialscopical pointed me in the right direction. For the second time in the past year I find that I've hoisted myself on my own petard: it was a bloody beta (Actual Windows Manager 6.3 beta 2). The gory details are here   What's particularly embarrassing is that I didn't try running IE 8 64-bit (thought of it but never got around to doing so) and I managed to overlook entirely the fact that AWM 6.3 beta 2 introduces the ability "to scroll the contents of inactive windows without the need to activate them". Doh! This new feature is enabled by default.

BTW, I find it very odd that Wizmouse was able to override AWM, rather than leading to even more corruption!

Thank you, Chris  

EDIT: Identified the culprit so that others might avoid my pain/embarrassment!

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General Software Discussion / Re: The mysterious case of disappearing scroll wheel functionality...

« Last post by Darwin on October 22, 2010, 01:01 AM »

Hi 4wd - thank you for the reply! I just exited Wizmouse and immediately lost all scrolling capability in IE 8 (at least, scrolling with the mouse wheel, that is). As soon as I restarted Wizmouse, scrolling returned...

BTW, Wizmouse is here.

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General Software Discussion / The mysterious case of disappearing scroll wheel functionality... RESOLVED

« Last post by Darwin on October 21, 2010, 10:57 PM »

This morning I awoke to a new reality - my scroll wheel mouse R-E-F-U-S-E-D to scroll in, as I eventually determined, any html window (ie any web browser, e-mail message formatted in html, etc.). It worked like a charm in all other applications that I tried it in. I tried three other mice, same result (Wacom Bamboo mouse, a Kennsington mobile mouse, and two Microsoft optical units, one wireless the other USB). Very consistent behaviour. I then spent hours disabling IE 8 and rebooting, re-enabling IE 8, messing endlessly with the Mouse applet in Control Panel, removing drivers for my main mouse (MS Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 v.2) and rebooting, uninstalling and re-installing MS Intellipoint 8, etc, etc, etc,...

Absolutely no f&@!#>]{ joy! The best I would get is a couple of seconds of normal operation and then all scrolling would disappear again OR the scroll wheel would either jump to the start of the page or the end.

Finally, about 30 minutes ago I installed Wizmouse and everything worked immediately. WTF?

I'm running Win 7 64-bit but live in a 32-bit browser. I did try both Firefox and Opera before determining that the problem is related to html pages.

Any thoughts? I'm happy enough with Wizmouse, but I'd rather not be running a separate process just to get scrolling in my browser!

EDIT: added "RESOLVED" to the title...

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by Darwin on October 21, 2010, 08:50 AM »

On the run from the long arm of the claw?

-Darwin (October 21, 2010, 08:39 AM)

You're a clawtion!

-cranioscopical (October 21, 2010, 08:43 AM)

That's yet to be proved conclawsively.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Opera to support extensions in V11

« Last post by Darwin on October 21, 2010, 08:40 AM »

Thanks, Lashiec - I've been checking everyday, this is good to know 

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by Darwin on October 21, 2010, 08:39 AM »

On the run from the long arm of the claw?

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Living Room / Re: OK - lets get to know each other... who are you, what do you do, where from?

« Last post by Darwin on October 21, 2010, 12:32 AM »

ha! they are ganging up on you now chris!

-mouser (October 20, 2010, 05:41 PM)

CleverCat, Shades and now you — that's a three-piece suite.
I need an escape claws!

-cranioscopical (October 20, 2010, 07:38 PM)

Don't give into your clawstrophobia.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Easeus PM PRO giveaway

« Last post by Darwin on October 20, 2010, 11:58 AM »

PS thanks for the heads up, Curt 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Easeus PM PRO giveaway

« Last post by Darwin on October 20, 2010, 11:58 AM »

Just to answer a likely question: all you need to do is run the installer and a fully functional version of the software is installed - there are no license keys to request and there's no activation to be done before the end of the week, so you can download the file and archive it until you need it, if you wish. It looks pretty complete, but I have no use for it at the moment so I'm uninstalling it again!

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by Darwin on October 20, 2010, 11:53 AM »

Heh, heh, I finished the Hunger Games trilogy this weekend ("Hunger Games", "Catching Fire", "Mockinjay") and just finished "The Lost Hero". I'm almost done "Chorus Skating" as well... I got so caught up in the Hunger Games that I read them all first...

What to read next (other than The Criminal Event, though I've already read it cover to cover a couple of times)?

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Living Room / Re: Postcard to our past selves.

« Last post by Darwin on October 19, 2010, 12:48 PM »

Heh, heh - Edvard, EVERYTHING your wrote resonates with me (or should that be past-me?) 

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Darwin on October 19, 2010, 11:08 AM »

By any chance the "Allow files in this folder to have contents indexed in addition to file properties" option is unchecked (disabled) for your Documents folder, Darwin?

-mwang (October 19, 2010, 08:49 AM)

Yes, it is. However, I haven't changed that setting in ages (that I can recall).

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Darwin on October 18, 2010, 09:34 PM »

Following from my previous two posts... I *did* reset WS 4.0 by disabling it, rebooting, reenabling it, and then reindexing last night. It is certainly within the realm of possibility that it took this long for indexing to complete (rather than changing the setting that I referred to earlier)...

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Living Room / Re: Postcard to our past selves.

« Last post by Darwin on October 18, 2010, 09:22 PM »

Marry the redhead, not the brunette...

-kyrathaba (October 18, 2010, 08:54 PM)

Ouch! I trust your wife doesn't read this? Or is this a case of you married the brunette the first time and the redhead the second?

For myself, I'd quote Shakespeare: "To thine own self be true". That would cover high school, anyway...

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Darwin on October 18, 2010, 08:35 PM »

That doesn't seem right. Turning that option on tells WDS to conduct full-text search for non-indexed files. If a document's content is found only when the option is on, IOW, it's not indexed.

-mwang (October 18, 2010, 07:34 PM)

I agree - as I said, counter-intuitive, but it worked...

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Darwin on October 18, 2010, 07:19 PM »

Heh, heh - I traced the problem (and fixed it!) to a cleared radio button:



I had to enable the highlighted option and all is well... It's a bit counter-intuitive because a search now shows up ALL of my documents and they have clearly been indexed.

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Darwin on October 18, 2010, 01:40 PM »

That's a significant difference !  

-Armando (October 18, 2010, 12:36 PM)

Yup  

On the downside, NOTHING I do will induce WS 4.0 to index my Documents. I've created a dummy docx document containing the single word "Grunties" and saved it on my desktop. WS 4.0. had it indexed and searchable within a minute (my user profile, including the desktop, are on a secondary partition). I moved it to my Documents folder on the same partition and it is gone, as far as WS is concerned the Documents folder simply does not exist. I'm losing my mind...

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to uninstall MS Office plugins

« Last post by Darwin on October 17, 2010, 12:49 PM »

Ah yes, I'd fogotten about those locations... Hopefully, kalos won't have to go beyond options 1 or 2 from my post (I used to HATE having to mess around manually removing add-ins). The third option above often requires a fourth step, editing the registry...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone familiar with Oops!Backup?

« Last post by Darwin on October 17, 2010, 11:35 AM »

Grrr...   The thing I hate most about GetSatisfaction is trying to find something specific. Frig, finally found it by searching for "recycle bin". Here's the link:

http://getsatisfacti...ms_recovery_problems

Reading it now...

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to uninstall MS Office plugins

« Last post by Darwin on October 17, 2010, 11:19 AM »

Hi Kalos,

It's been a while since I had Office 2003 installed... However, there are two routes to uninstalling/disabling add-ins. I'd try them in this order:

1. Disable the add-in from within the parent program (like Acrobat). You'll need to make sure that NO Office programs are running, including Outlook. You MAY have to re-run the parent program's installer and either customize the installation or repair the installation. This is how I used to have to deal with Scansoft/Nuance's PDF Converter Pro plug-ins, for example.
2. If the above doesn't work, if I recall correctly, you need to go into each Office 2003 program and click on Tools and then look for an "add-ins" entry in the menu. You might have to go to Advanced Options (can't remember - I do remember that each program is slightly different, or at least Outlook is different) and then look for add-in entries. The add-ins themselves are COM add-ins and/or something like EXCEL add-in, POWERPOINT add-in, etc. They changed all this radically with Office 2007 and I've been using 2007/2010 for almost three years...

A third option, if you know the name of the add-in, is to search for them in the Office program directory. They're usually stored in folders, something like: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\ADDINS\" but there are other places as well, for example: "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\STARTUP" and "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office11\XLSTART". Finally, some add-ins get installed into their own Program Files folders, so keep an eye out there, too. E.g. Acrobat add-in files *might* be in a folder nested in the Adobe folder (C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobt...).

*I'd be VERY careful going the third option route above because you can wind up with references to deleted add-ins that remain in the Office application*

Hope this helps...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone familiar with Oops!Backup?

« Last post by Darwin on October 17, 2010, 10:53 AM »

I just read your "thread" at the Oops "forum". (Quote marks are because their so-called forum is actually on Get Satisfaction, which IMO is not the best format for a user/support forum. Personal non-preference, I guess!    )

-J-Mac (October 16, 2010, 11:05 PM)

Jim, you are not alone! I'm heading over there to read the thread now...

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Darwin on October 16, 2010, 01:54 PM »

Well... that didn't work, but I really don't care that much (see above).

On a different note, my CPU temps were consistently in the 70-80 degree range with X1 installed, even if neither X1 nor anything else was active. I'm now seeing temps in the 30-60 degree range, depending on the load (currently my corse are at 26 C and 32 C reseptively). I'm thrilled 

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Living Room / Re: What books are you reading?

« Last post by Darwin on October 16, 2010, 10:41 AM »

Well... concurrently I am reading:

The Lost Hero - Rick Riordan
Chorus Skating - Alan Dean Foste
The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins

I love my ebook Reader 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for planning wood bookcases/cabinets/tables etc?

« Last post by Darwin on October 16, 2010, 09:16 AM »

Wow! Mouser - you're inspiring! My entire house needs to be done - paint, mouldings, flooring - it's been over four years and I haven't done a thing. Looking at your beautiful cabinetry and shelving makes me want to get on with it 

Anyway, that was a round-about way of saying AWESOME!

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Darwin on October 15, 2010, 03:48 PM »

Thanks for the Archivarius advice.

What you could try for WDS 4 is simply... Rename the current index, and let WDS create another one... I'm pretty sure that would woork.

-Armando (October 15, 2010, 02:47 PM)

Thanks for the suggestion - I may give it a try. I'm realising that this isn't really that big an issue for me - I rarely, if ever, search for files by content anyway...