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There are only two different kind of people in the world. Those who love the iPod wheel control scheme and those who hate it.-Innuendo (December 01, 2009, 06:56 PM)
There are three kinds of people in the world, those who can add and those who can't
2) Instead of running the application via the normal startup option set up a scheduled task to start the program at login and give the task admin rights. See http://blogs.techrep...ow-on-windows/?p=616 for details on how to do it it Vista - the same appraoch works in Windows 7.-Carol Haynes (November 30, 2009, 06:19 AM)
Am I the only user who is NOT annoyed by UAC? Heck, even my wife uses her vista laptop and has not complained about UAC. She has even said UAC is helpful in that it can help prevent accidental deletion of a file she didn't intend to touch. UAC in Windows 7 is far from intrusive, in my opinion. Vista was overbearing at times with UAC but this was greatly improved in 7. The problem with UAC is that most application developers, even after a few years with Vista, have not realized what is throwing these UAC prompts and have not updated their applications. I have a feeling this will change with Win7, but one can only wonder why it hasn't happened sooner.
</rant>-Josh (November 29, 2009, 05:20 PM)
Just curious. Is it a multi-core PC? I'm wondering if 7 does a better job of distributing processes among the cores at startup?-MilesAhead (November 30, 2009, 01:28 PM)
through updating my 400MB OST index in about a minute and a half. BTW, I agree about the Outlook being open vs closed issue - I finally went with NOT having scheduled indexing of my OST file and did it manually whenever I could remember to do so.For me the nice thing about the startup is that you get control of your system much earlier (even if it hasn't fully finished the startup process).-Carol Haynes (November 30, 2009, 05:44 AM)
1- it's VERY slow at indexing Outlook content and maybe some other DB. This is my biggest gripe. X1 does outlook indexing 100x better.-Armando (November 28, 2009, 09:02 PM)
Thanks!Ya know, The last thing I need is yet another reason to hate Apple and their insanely (unwarranted) pious nonsense. But this is completely Over-the-Top. I will never buy anything from a company that is that pathetically stick up there ass retarded.-Stoic Joker (November 23, 2009, 06:02 PM)
Upgrade to SoftMaker Office 2010 for Windows
Upgrade version. Only for owners of older versions of TextMaker, PlanMaker, SoftMaker Office, or Ashampoo Office.
Downed two glasses of iced tea to calm down.
-Cloq (November 21, 2009, 08:07 PM)
I'm loving Windows 7, but increasingly I'm losing my "loyalty" to the 3rd party shareware that I have purchased over the years that has kept me on Windows.-Darwin (November 19, 2009, 12:59 PM)
To hop back in the thread a little bit...Darwin, I wish had a core set of apps which were OS-agnostic & were multi-platform then I wouldn't feel tied to Windows, but I'm tied to Windows because of the power of the apps...
It's probably much the same for Mac users when they discover Quicksilver. Nothing on any other platform can touch it.-Innuendo (November 21, 2009, 10:21 AM)
The thing is if you don't really need a program to be 64-bit, then compiling it that way is just an academic exercise/waste.
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None of my other software is 64 bit as there is just no (way to justify the memory usage waste) need for it.-Stoic Joker (November 21, 2009, 08:21 AM)
Well there is the rarely seen processor efficiency. In theory x64 apps should run a bit faster as they can avail of more recent processor instructions which 32bit apps usually avoid to maintain backwards compatibility with older CPUs. Exactly how that manifests in day to day applications would be debatable.-Eóin (November 21, 2009, 09:40 AM)
For a specific example, this is especially useful for those who used MusicMatch back at the height of its popularity. MusicMatch used a LOT of custom tags that no other tagging program uses. Loading up these files in mp3tag will allow you to nuke those relics from the past with impunity.-Innuendo (November 19, 2009, 05:48 PM)
My understanding is that the Ashampoo product can be updated by downloading the SoftMaker updaters, no?I am no longer certain;-Darwin (November 19, 2009, 12:33 PM)-Curt (November 19, 2009, 01:35 PM)
I might now remember that every time I noticed that SoftMaker Office had been updated, I would click the Ashampoo-licensed Softmaker Office "update" button and get the message from Ashampoo > you already have the newest <, and that this went on for years until I finally lost my patience and purchased a license for SoftMaker's SoftMaker...
Was this how it was? I think it was.-Curt (November 19, 2009, 04:29 PM)
Hold on, I'm not familiar about this, can you clarify? What is the myth? That 32-bit applications suffer in performance in 64-bit OS? Or that the difference in performance in general for 64-bit OS's is negligible relative to 32-bit? Because I was considering moving to Windows 7 64-bit and taking advantage of the additional RAM.-superboyac (November 19, 2009, 03:58 PM)
# how strong I am... I have just become a platinum member :wallbash-Curt (November 19, 2009, 01:35 PM)
I haven't seen any recent benchmarks actually showing *any* performance hit from 32 bit apps on 64 bit OS.-JavaJones (November 19, 2009, 01:02 PM)
I saw this and already bookmarked it, but that doesn't give me my classic taskbar back, does it?-Tuxman (November 19, 2009, 12:55 PM)
Quick Launch is still available, but it's hidden by default. You have to know where to look:
C:\ Users \ username \ AppData \ Roaming \ Microsoft \ Internet Explorer \ Quick Launch
"Simply create a new toolbar and point to this location. You'll have to enable 'show hidden files' to find it."