PrintScreen directly to file?

It's because they are quite often egotistical megalomaniacs. Believe me - managing a large team of programmers is like herding cats.

My useless info message is far more important than anything else and the entire machine must freeze stone dead until you acknowledge it. (and I am only partly joking here - I have seen it happen!)

It isn't that uncommon even today to get a hidden "helpful" info message that locks up a web browser more or less completely.

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Having worked a lot with my son, getting him to write me useful executables... I think the main problem is that programmers of software are not USERS of software.

I have to harass him continuously about such annoyances.

So he gets even by hiding in his documentation comments like, "This routine inserted because Jim Thompson is too lazy to click 'OK' " ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Not quite. Win7 pro 64bit is much better for big problems and you get an XP virtual machine sub licence. You might also want to harvest the license keys from any XP machines you own for future use before scrapping old hardware. Waste not want not and XP is quite good.

I'd suggest getting a Win7 copy while you still can as an investment.

Win8 is worth avoiding until they sort it out for desktop use.

Certainly there is a lot of scientific instrumentation that will not run on anything more recent and will have to be totally isolated from corporate LANs when MS finally do stop doing security updates for it.

I think MS is probably determined to kill XP this time round if only to spite all the users that have been spitting on the grave of Win8.

The release of Win8 and associated hype has catalysed some recalcitrant corporates to finally upgrade to Win7 while they still can!

Even numbered 'Doze versions are best avoided Vista was never much cop.

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Martin Brown

Well, the folks that did this screen print software must be very good programmers.

The worst so far was Mnenhy, the routine that supposedly makes these dreaded links to Usent posts functional (but didn't work). Even after uninstalling I found it had royally screwed up Thunderbird. Since then I can no longer print emails without a big fat source header. The display is also messed up, big time.

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Would not surprise me one bit. Except maybe (to some extent) Win7 MS appears to have screwed up all OS'es after XP. I will absolutely positively not buy a machine with Win8 on there.

They should stop chasing Apple and become innovative again.

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&View &Headers &Normal

Ought to cure that. Thanks though - saves me trying that. I still haven't found a decent regex parser for Thunderbird. It is the only thing I *really* miss from good old Turnpike.

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They (and Apple) are running scared of Android. I bought a toy Android

7" tablet to give my parents as an oversized Skype smartphone. It was only £55 and actually worked a heck of a lot better than I expected.

So good in fact that it was up to the task! I had only bought it as a sacrificial toy to figure out if the idea was likely to be workable expecting to have to pay real money for something that would work...

There are some real lemons out there but some gems as well.

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great. It

Innovative? Didn't that stop with WinNT ?? Nothing since but pizzazz that gets in the way of productivity. As you say, Gates is trying to emulate Apple... appeal to the Twitter crowd :-( ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Tried it but didn't work 100%. Something got messed up but I'll have to install a new version some day anyhow, and since TB isn't truly upgradeable it must be a clean slate install.

Yup. Mnenhy is IMHO definitely not worth it.

It also can't handle most Outlook stuff and that dreaded winmail.dat. There are some helper apps for it but none really worked. So I always need an extra invitation for web meetings :-)

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gone.

Their best previous was maybe 98SE. But 7 seems to be OK, just the same i am loading their XP work alike UI on my W7 machines. The UI is not nearly as good as XP, especially when XP is twisted hard to "classic".

?-)

All my computers have XP set to classic. I really don't like all this softy-softy bonbon color GUI they had initially.

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You could also take a look at Autohotkey or Autoit and configure them to do any serious of actions you like. It may involve some script programming,

any serious of actions you like. It may involve some script programming,

any *series* of actions.

autocorrect + sloppiness

Ashampoo Snap 6 works without too much fuss and saves as BMP (bitmap!), JPG, PNG or PDF. It comes with a 10 day trial that can be extended to 40 days

Thanks, David, but I already installed Jim's suggestion and used it during a session on Wednesday. Worked nicely.

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I'd have said "boudoir color".

Software generally has migrated towards the girlie for years.

YECCH!!

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over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled." 
                                       (Richard Feynman)

Hey, I mostly like the colors and color combinations that the guys and girls at Apple and Adobe come up with as defaults. Kind of like letting the better half pick out outfits- I can see it looks better but don't have the patience to figure out why.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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Last time I went to Men's Wearhouse and let "N" choose what I needed, it cost me $3K :-( ...Jim Thompson

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I love to cook with wine.     Sometimes I even put it in the food.

I'm sure it looked nice, but the real test is when you set the clothes next to a stack of 150 $20 bills and see which one attracts you more.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

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