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KtxMnu - can you rate it?
Do you want rating or not? After all that is the title of this thread:
Or are you just fishing for ratings that say how great the software is?
That is not the attitude of a world-class and reliable company, no matter how small or where it's located.
| KtxMnu - can you rate it? |
Or are you just fishing for ratings that say how great the software is?
That is not the attitude of a world-class and reliable company, no matter how small or where it's located.
| Ang wrote: |
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| Do you have an issue with our company because we are not an American one but a South African company? |
OooOOOoooooh, the race card. Impressive!
LOL, we lose now.
I've been avoiding responding to this thread. I've no reason to particularly like or dislike KtxMnu. I don't use Windows, and have no need for it. I don't have much to contribute to this discussion that hasn't been said already.
But sacred scat, Angie here is dragging her company's reputation through the mud, all while projecting like this site is the one that's going to be "discredited". It's really hard to watch. :/
-Albatross
But sacred scat, Angie here is dragging her company's reputation through the mud, all while projecting like this site is the one that's going to be "discredited". It's really hard to watch. :/
-Albatross
| OooOOOoooooh, the race card. Impressive! LOL, we lose now. |
LoL. No way to win.
| So you finally agree that our solution does address a range of issues/needs that other apps currently do not |
Sure. Dirty socks address the fresh smelling air some people have. That doesn't mean it's good.
| Ironically however, we find the option you suggested to be not so useful as it appears to be doing nothing more than had you just placed a shortcut of an app you wanted to run straight on your desktop. |
Your program does nothing much more impressive. With Windows 10, all apps I'd want are already in convenient locations. Plus, something in the context menu would be something you want to be able to get to quickly when you need it, but don't use it often enough to plague the desktop with it.
| FYI, we recently approached 2 local schools and demonstrated KtxMnu to 3 computer programming classes (1 grade 11 and 2 grade 12 classes) from these schools and had a very positive experience. |
Not to sound too condescending, but I'm sure they'd of also been impressed if you showed them a house fly.
I've personally also tried doing things just to do them, not because they have some kind of huge value. I don't know why that ONE student wanted to recreate it so badly, but I doubt it was anything more than curiosity, a new toy to play with. Many people who are new to programming can also be new to computers in general.
| So if some other junior level programmer came to this site querying how to add their programs to the right click context menu in the way that only our solution currently caters for then you will rather advise them to edit their registry manually. |
No one has ever come with this request actually. But no, there's the website with the list I showed you to refer.
| This would be very dangerous advice to give a novice |
That's like saying it's dangerous to have a student get behind the wheel. God knows they might learn something.
| My developer and a few other individuals have tried this for themselves and cannot seem to get it right. Either this is not possible or is not at all straightforward and simple. |
You mean the same developers who couldn't get a program to work that took me a few seconds? The same ones that created some cheap algorithm and patted themselves on the back? Complete incompetence. I love it.
| I would even go as far as saying that you also bring dishonor to cplusplus.com as you currently appear to be speaking on its behalf. |
Why stop there? I bring dishonor to my whole family and anyone who stands next to me for longer than 10 seconds.
| If we were to provide such a front end for simply setting the ini settings in a little nicer way then would you then only agree its not ugly anymore? |
Perhaps a metaphor is in order. You see a woman, beauty radiates from her. Then she starts screaming at people left and right, begging for money, assaulting, etc.. Ugly on the inside. This is your program. The issue is that it's ugly from the outside too. Again, if you have to explain the I/O, you need to redo the I/O.
| our solution solves a wide (BackupFile + countless other such very very useful apps ...) range of issues that none of the other you listed can. |
Who has these problems? Why would it be SUCH a problem that they go through the torment of using your application?
| Furthermore our app doesn't need to be tweaked for compatibility mode before it works on a different version of windows. |
Yea, it only needs 30 minutes to figure out.
| BTW - some of those top 10 companies from your suggestion also aren't that well known yet you personally found and listed their solutions for us here. |
What's the point? Most people probably wont find or use those programs. If I searched for a program to do the crazy stuff you think people want to do, I'd likely never actually stumble onto your program.
| Do you have an issue with our company because we are not an American one but a South African company? |
Yes. There are no other factors to consider. This is all it is. Who cares about the actions one takes? It's all about ethnicity, everyone here is clearly too superior to acknowledge any of your stunning achievements. You've outdone us all, and we just can't admit it because of the color of your skin.
Reading this thread is a treat. I traveled to another state in the U.S., past few days feel like the past few weeks.
@zapshe,
we entered a time warp, where hours seem like days.
Enjoyment becomes tedium.
whee, oh joy. :\
we entered a time warp, where hours seem like days.
Enjoyment becomes tedium.
whee, oh joy. :\
@Furry Guy:
What is shocking is how a world class site like this one can allow a junior like zapshe to continue offering bad advice as if he is speaking on this sites behalf.
It is true that we would like KtxMnu to be rated here but we also brought it here to verify if this sites members could be fair in their assessment which they unfortunately half 3 pages worth of posts on this thread proves otherwise.
The only person who demonstrated decency on this was JL Borges but his message was unfortunately not heard by the rest of you continuing with your relentless unsubstantiated rants.
Notice how none of you were able to raise one valid negative point toward KtxMnu yet here we are in this dialog 3 pages later.
All that I have been doing was to refute all invalid points made - like the top 10 context menu apps ...
Notice that we did nothing disrespectful or wrong here besides challenge zapshe on his unsubstantiated bold claims, yet my previous post was reported.
Please note that I had the right to report zapshe for calling me a "f*cking liar" and Duthomhas for saying I am full of poop (ie shit) but I did not report them.
| Do you want rating or not? After all that is the title of this thread: |
| That is not the attitude of a world-class and reliable company, no matter how small or where it's located. |
What is shocking is how a world class site like this one can allow a junior like zapshe to continue offering bad advice as if he is speaking on this sites behalf.
It is true that we would like KtxMnu to be rated here but we also brought it here to verify if this sites members could be fair in their assessment which they unfortunately half 3 pages worth of posts on this thread proves otherwise.
The only person who demonstrated decency on this was JL Borges but his message was unfortunately not heard by the rest of you continuing with your relentless unsubstantiated rants.
Notice how none of you were able to raise one valid negative point toward KtxMnu yet here we are in this dialog 3 pages later.
All that I have been doing was to refute all invalid points made - like the top 10 context menu apps ...
Notice that we did nothing disrespectful or wrong here besides challenge zapshe on his unsubstantiated bold claims, yet my previous post was reported.
Please note that I had the right to report zapshe for calling me a "f*cking liar" and Duthomhas for saying I am full of poop (ie shit) but I did not report them.
@Furry Guy:
No we would welcome negative reviews as well as long as they can be substantiated.
In actual fact we welcomed the negative comment/review made against our Password Locket installer where we were told that our installer raised a flag on a particular anit malware/spyware app.
We wanted to respond to this one as we appreciated this feedback but unfortunately due to the barrage of other unsubstantiated and unwarranted negative comments made against us we became side tracked.
We then also became further side tracked by other parties who became interested in Password Locket due to it being unfairly attacked - I guess that type of thing actually causes some people to have a good look for themselves at what others are trying so hard to discredit without just cause - go figure :)
Had we not have been that side tacked we would have responded by saying thank you for letting us know about the alarm raised in the particular anti spyware/malware app and explained some of the workings of our installer app which is causing the false flags to be raised.
We would then have indicated that we would try creating a more standard installer like msi which should remove the alarm completely.
Unfortunately we got side tracked and did not get to address this earlier which would have indicated that we are not fishing for good reviews only.
We accept bad reviews if it is justified.
Unfortunately not everyone's reviews can be taken serious.
If you notice zapshe commented on how ugly KtxMnu looked when it has not front end.
How can such a person comment be taken serious.
| Or are you just fishing for ratings that say how great the software is? |
No we would welcome negative reviews as well as long as they can be substantiated.
In actual fact we welcomed the negative comment/review made against our Password Locket installer where we were told that our installer raised a flag on a particular anit malware/spyware app.
We wanted to respond to this one as we appreciated this feedback but unfortunately due to the barrage of other unsubstantiated and unwarranted negative comments made against us we became side tracked.
We then also became further side tracked by other parties who became interested in Password Locket due to it being unfairly attacked - I guess that type of thing actually causes some people to have a good look for themselves at what others are trying so hard to discredit without just cause - go figure :)
Had we not have been that side tacked we would have responded by saying thank you for letting us know about the alarm raised in the particular anti spyware/malware app and explained some of the workings of our installer app which is causing the false flags to be raised.
We would then have indicated that we would try creating a more standard installer like msi which should remove the alarm completely.
Unfortunately we got side tracked and did not get to address this earlier which would have indicated that we are not fishing for good reviews only.
We accept bad reviews if it is justified.
Unfortunately not everyone's reviews can be taken serious.
If you notice zapshe commented on how ugly KtxMnu looked when it has not front end.
How can such a person comment be taken serious.
@Duthomhas:
When zapshe promoted the top 10 context menu tools which are all from American based companies and continued to disregard my solution despite my one actually solving the issue defined then I inferred it was due to him being patriotic and not racist as you wrongfully assumed here.
Being patriotic is not a bad thing except when it is followed blindly to the detriment of shooting one's self in the foot.
I too am patriotic but if my country built a rocket/spaceship that was proven faulty then I would not board it regardless of how patriotic I am.
It is sad that you mistakenly assumed the worst of me (and my company thereby further trying to wrongfully villainize me) by deeming my comment about countries to infer racism as opposed to patriotism.- get your mind out of the gutter!
| OooOOOoooooh, the race card. Impressive! |
When zapshe promoted the top 10 context menu tools which are all from American based companies and continued to disregard my solution despite my one actually solving the issue defined then I inferred it was due to him being patriotic and not racist as you wrongfully assumed here.
Being patriotic is not a bad thing except when it is followed blindly to the detriment of shooting one's self in the foot.
I too am patriotic but if my country built a rocket/spaceship that was proven faulty then I would not board it regardless of how patriotic I am.
It is sad that you mistakenly assumed the worst of me (and my company thereby further trying to wrongfully villainize me) by deeming my comment about countries to infer racism as opposed to patriotism.- get your mind out of the gutter!
@Albatros:
Thank you for sharing this. We find your comment fair but unfortunately cannot say the same for zapshe.
He is a windows user and despite being shown that his suggestions was inadequate for a specific range of needs continued to disrespect our solution and continued making a bold claim that he would rather edit the registry manually to cater for our KtxMnu's functionality.
When we finally called him on his bold claim and requested that he show us the steps to this registry edit mechanism we note that he is unable to do so.
At this point Duthomhas and zapshe conveniently decide to interpret my statement concerning countries as being racist instead of inferring toward patriotism.
@Albatros:
The only factor that could have been held against me and my company was if I was racist with my previous comment but since that has been explained, the only factors remaining are those which should cast my company in a positive light.
The final real result of this thread is that all of zapshe's claims were proven false or inadequate.
His last unrelenting claim that despite realizing our apps potential claimed that he will still rather manually edit the registry in order to achieve what we can do.
We decided to call him on his last claim and if you noticed he was unable to back his claim up with actual action - I'd say this qualifies as a severe blow for his image on this site.
Instead of zapshe continuing to talk rubbish on this thread he should answer what was asked which is Show us how to edit the registry, such that you can add the BackupFile app with it associated icon/bitmap to the windows right click context menu.
| I've no reason to particularly like or dislike KtxMnu. I don't use Windows, |
Thank you for sharing this. We find your comment fair but unfortunately cannot say the same for zapshe.
He is a windows user and despite being shown that his suggestions was inadequate for a specific range of needs continued to disrespect our solution and continued making a bold claim that he would rather edit the registry manually to cater for our KtxMnu's functionality.
When we finally called him on his bold claim and requested that he show us the steps to this registry edit mechanism we note that he is unable to do so.
At this point Duthomhas and zapshe conveniently decide to interpret my statement concerning countries as being racist instead of inferring toward patriotism.
@Albatros:
| But sacred scat, Angie here is dragging her company's reputation through the mud, all while projecting like this site is the one that's going to be "discredited" |
The only factor that could have been held against me and my company was if I was racist with my previous comment but since that has been explained, the only factors remaining are those which should cast my company in a positive light.
The final real result of this thread is that all of zapshe's claims were proven false or inadequate.
His last unrelenting claim that despite realizing our apps potential claimed that he will still rather manually edit the registry in order to achieve what we can do.
We decided to call him on his last claim and if you noticed he was unable to back his claim up with actual action - I'd say this qualifies as a severe blow for his image on this site.
Instead of zapshe continuing to talk rubbish on this thread he should answer what was asked which is Show us how to edit the registry, such that you can add the BackupFile app with it associated icon/bitmap to the windows right click context menu.
@zapshe:
Nice try, but you did not loose because of my statement that was incorrectly perceived by Duthomhas as being racist.
You lost due to your top 10 solutions failing to live up to your claims as well as you failed to show us the registry edit you so boldly claimed you would rather promote instead of our solution.
Just to be 100% clear what I asked you to deliver on what you claimed was: Show us how to manually update the registry such that an app like BackupFile with its associated icon can be added to the right click context menu
Unfortunately for you, this last claim you made that you are unable to back with action puts the final nail in your coffin.
RIP while I enjoy my victory!!!
The rest of what you said is like 50 lines of worthless rant that has already been refuted.
You have alot to say but seem to have forgotten to answer what was asked of you, which is to back your big claim about editing the registry manually. Just in case you did forget: Show us how to manually update the registry such that an app like BackupFile with it associated icon can be added to the right click context menu
Notice that you have now been asked multiple times to answer what you so boldly claimed you can do.
If you continue to fail to provide the answer/proof then you expose yourself as a fool.
You look very silly when you claim to have abilities that you don't, because when you are called out on them and are unable to put action to words, then you unfortunately end up looking the fool as you do right now.
| OooOOOoooooh, the race card. Impressive! LOL, we lose now. |
Nice try, but you did not loose because of my statement that was incorrectly perceived by Duthomhas as being racist.
You lost due to your top 10 solutions failing to live up to your claims as well as you failed to show us the registry edit you so boldly claimed you would rather promote instead of our solution.
Just to be 100% clear what I asked you to deliver on what you claimed was: Show us how to manually update the registry such that an app like BackupFile with its associated icon can be added to the right click context menu
Unfortunately for you, this last claim you made that you are unable to back with action puts the final nail in your coffin.
RIP while I enjoy my victory!!!
The rest of what you said is like 50 lines of worthless rant that has already been refuted.
You have alot to say but seem to have forgotten to answer what was asked of you, which is to back your big claim about editing the registry manually. Just in case you did forget: Show us how to manually update the registry such that an app like BackupFile with it associated icon can be added to the right click context menu
Notice that you have now been asked multiple times to answer what you so boldly claimed you can do.
If you continue to fail to provide the answer/proof then you expose yourself as a fool.
You look very silly when you claim to have abilities that you don't, because when you are called out on them and are unable to put action to words, then you unfortunately end up looking the fool as you do right now.
| What is shocking is how a world class site like this one can allow a junior like zapshe to continue offering bad advice as if he is speaking on this sites behalf. |
*Sigh* Most of what we're talking about now isn't even that coding related. My knowledge and advice is spot on (I'm obviously bias) and am a Lenovo affiliate because of it. When I say something, I know what I'm talking about, do you?
| The only person who demonstrated decency on this was JL Borges |
He clearly told you that your program needs considerable work. Sure, you and your company may become respectable and do great things one day. Just not until you fix the issues - which you're not willing to. You took constructive criticism and threw it out the window, now you get insults and rude criticism :)
It's to the point where I literally linked you a website like stackoverflow to the sub-category of cryptography where they said exactly what I and everyone else here said.
But no, you think we're wrong because of personal emotions rather than logical deductions.
| Notice how none of you were able to raise one valid negative point toward KtxMnu yet here we are in this dialog 3 pages later. |
I'm certain many don't like that I'm continuing this, but I'm the only reason we're 3 pages in. Also, there are MANY points against you, incompetence, arrogance-based-on-emotion, and hard-headedness just to name a few. They come from the fact that you couldn't figure out a simple program, can't figure out how to edit the registry, and can't possibly fathom the FACT that making your own algorithm is a bad idea and that your programs so far need I/O tweaking to be a usable option by 99% of people.
| All that I have been doing was to refute all invalid points made - like the top 10 context menu apps |
No point I've made is invalid. The 10 context menu applications where from a quick Google search to show you that yours isn't special. You tried to attack it saying it doesn't work, and I shoved it in your face that it did. You show the lack of competence and intelligence in yourself and the rest of your team.
| Please note that I had the right to report zapshe for calling me a "f*cking liar" and Duthomhas for saying I am full of poop (ie shit) but I did not report them. |
You'd report people for saying the truth? Lol
| No we would welcome negative reviews as well as long as they can be substantiated. |
Look at this story as a metaphor:
A woman walks her dog one day while she's eating chocolate. She gives the dog some since he begs and continues to do so at least once a week. Someone sees you and says, "You shouldn't give your dog chocolate, it's not good for them. You should train the dog to avoid chocolate!" You say, "Never hurt him before! I don't care about your advice!" Of course, your claim is based on the fact that you haven't seen this person's warning have any consequences. However, one day, you come back to a dead dog who went into your stash of dark chocolate and ate it all.
I've shown you the sources, everyone here has given you the basic breakdown, and you refuse to accept where your company screwed up. Again, a MASTER cryptographer said ANYONE CAN MAKE AN ENCRYPTION ALGORITHM THAT THEY THEMSELVES CAN'T BREAK, it means NOTHING in terms of how good it actually is. No one here as far as I know works as a cryptographer, so even if we can't break it (which I believe even I probably could), that would mean nothing in terms of if someone who knows what their doing wants to break it.
| Had we not have been that side tacked we would have responded by saying thank you for letting us know about the alarm raised |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nYNo7B3esY
| If you notice zapshe commented on how ugly KtxMnu looked when it has not front end. How can such a person comment be taken serious. |
Are you looking for sweet talk or facts? If it's ugly, it's ugly. I'm not gonna sit here and tell you, "You see Ang, the application was simply delightful, but I think it could be improved upon just a tad." I shoved the facts in your face and your too sheltered in your own BS to accept it.
| When zapshe promoted the top 10 context menu tools which are all from American based companies and continued to disregard my solution despite my one actually solving the issue defined then I inferred it was due to him being patriotic and not racist as you wrongfully assumed here. |
I told you I found the site in a few seconds, I'm far from patriotic. Also, you know full well you meant racism and not patriotism.
| I too am patriotic but if my country built a rocket/spaceship that was proven faulty then I would not board it regardless of how patriotic I am. |
But if your company makes a faulty program you'd shove it in customer's faces because your prideful and blind.
| continued making a bold claim that he would rather edit the registry manually to cater for our KtxMnu's functionality. |
I've done it before to change certain Window's features as needed. Honestly, figuring out the registry was a far simpler task than going through the stupidity of your program.
| You lost due to your top 10 solutions failing to live up to your claims |
You're actually as dumb as a creationist. It worked exactly as it was supposed to, and you only tried ONE of the 10 programs.
| Show us how to manually update the registry such that an app like BackupFile with its associated icon can be added to the right click context menu |
No. The program you tried does this, there's no need. It's very possible and I can do it, but even if I showed you exactly how and you were able to do it, you'd simply say, "And you think this is easier than using my program!?" Which my answer to that would be "yes".
| RIP while I enjoy my victory!!! |
LOL. Yep, as dumb as they come. It's like saying, "If you look past all the idiotic claims and stupidity I've done, forget all the shattering points you've made that I ignored, and then look at this cheap point I made that can easily be addressed, I win!"
| The rest of what you said is like 50 lines of worthless rant that has already been refuted. |
It's easy to ignore facts by saying, "I don't need to think about it, it's already been refuted." Not realizing that it wasn't refuted and that your incompetent brain deserves to be dissected in a lab while you're alive and without any numb-juice.
| Notice that you have now been asked multiple times to answer what you so boldly claimed you can do. |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjTp5o65cQU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nX7Iy6JJZg
But I know you'll still say something like, "But my program does *insert vague description that no one would actually use but can still be done via registry*"
| If you continue to fail to provide the answer/proof then you expose yourself as a fool. |
That's rich coming from you.
| You look very silly when you claim to have abilities that you don't, because when you are called out on them and are unable to put action to words, then you unfortunately end up looking the fool as you do right now. |
I need to find words more powerful than stupid/dumb/retarded in order to convey what I think about you; prove me wrong by taking this IQ test and telling me how much you score.
http://www.myiqtested.com/
By no means an end all be all, but it should give me a general idea of where you stand. Screenshot preferably.
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Just let it go. There's nothing to be gained by continuing this. You can't get blood from stones, no matter how hard you squeeze; you also can't get sense from stupid.
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Angie, was it really that hard to spell my alias correctly? it's a horrible look for a company representative to repeatedly argue with critics about their experiences, and an even worse look to claim they're being especially critical because of some tribalistic biases. It doesn't matter whether you're right or not. People will look on you and your company poorly because of this. It makes it seem like your product can't stand on it's own, and that if someone has a problem, your company may not be professional about it.
Now, I don't condone zapshe's tone. However, I generally agree with them that it's not hard to use the registry editor to add stuff to Windows's context menus. As for proving it, they don't have to, because I'm going to do it for them (with some help from the human hive mind).
A quick web search for "adding an app to the context menu with registry with icon", will happily give you instructions like these:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/27090678
There are a lot of sites that offer similar advice, like lifehacker or howtogeek. Usually they split the "add an entry to the context menu" and "add an icon to a context menu entry" into two separate articles. Here are examples from the first page of my search results:
https://www.howtogeek.com/107965/how-to-add-any-application-shortcut-to-windows-explorers-context-menu/
https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/add-icon-to-right-click-menu-windows-7/
It's hardly idiotproof, but it doesn't seem so hard, does it?
-Albatross
Hey. Y'all wanna know something funny (and pretty obvious in retrospect)? I'm fairly sure that the ShanKoDevs are running severely obsolete software. Lemme explain.
Fun fact, the above solutions don't work on XP or earlier. You'd need to create a plugin and tell Windows to use it, which is exactly what the ShanKoDevs did. Trying to use the registry for this would get you nowhere on those OSes.
Earlier, Ang claimed that the people at ShanKoDev tried to edit the registry to add stuff to their context menus, and got nowhere. If ShanKoDevs couldn't figure out how to follow the easy-to-find instructions for how to add stuff to the context menu via the registry, then either they're supremely incompetent, or they're using OSes that will never receive another official security update, which most developers will no longer be writing software for, and which most people have upgraded from by now, even in developing nations.
EDIT: Evidence @ most people upgrading: http://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/south-africa/#monthly-201808-201907-bar If the site doesn't work for you, you may need to temporarily relax your browser's anti-tracking policies (I needed to).
Now, I don't condone zapshe's tone. However, I generally agree with them that it's not hard to use the registry editor to add stuff to Windows's context menus. As for proving it, they don't have to, because I'm going to do it for them (with some help from the human hive mind).
A quick web search for "adding an app to the context menu with registry with icon", will happily give you instructions like these:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/27090678
There are a lot of sites that offer similar advice, like lifehacker or howtogeek. Usually they split the "add an entry to the context menu" and "add an icon to a context menu entry" into two separate articles. Here are examples from the first page of my search results:
https://www.howtogeek.com/107965/how-to-add-any-application-shortcut-to-windows-explorers-context-menu/
https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/add-icon-to-right-click-menu-windows-7/
It's hardly idiotproof, but it doesn't seem so hard, does it?
-Albatross
Hey. Y'all wanna know something funny (and pretty obvious in retrospect)? I'm fairly sure that the ShanKoDevs are running severely obsolete software. Lemme explain.
Fun fact, the above solutions don't work on XP or earlier. You'd need to create a plugin and tell Windows to use it, which is exactly what the ShanKoDevs did. Trying to use the registry for this would get you nowhere on those OSes.
Earlier, Ang claimed that the people at ShanKoDev tried to edit the registry to add stuff to their context menus, and got nowhere. If ShanKoDevs couldn't figure out how to follow the easy-to-find instructions for how to add stuff to the context menu via the registry, then either they're supremely incompetent, or they're using OSes that will never receive another official security update, which most developers will no longer be writing software for, and which most people have upgraded from by now, even in developing nations.
EDIT: Evidence @ most people upgrading: http://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desktop/south-africa/#monthly-201808-201907-bar If the site doesn't work for you, you may need to temporarily relax your browser's anti-tracking policies (I needed to).
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I suspect they're just highly incompetent. Ang mentioned using a Windows 7 64-bit Virtual Machine for testing.
And you're of course right Helios, I probably wont reply next time.
And you're of course right Helios, I probably wont reply next time.
So they were able to set up a virtual machine to test an unknown piece of software (a good practice, wouldn't you say?) but not follow a step-by-step process to edit the registry? I don't think they're supremely incompetent, although whoever's responsible for their IT needs a very stern talking-to.
-Albatross
-Albatross
@Abatross:
Please forgive me for this, I made a stupid mistake and meant no disrespect by it.
@Abatross:
Thank you for your fair review and descent response.
The solution in the link you provided works well as a solution for Win 7 and higher but as you put it does not work for older OSes like Win XP for example.
Obviously this does not represent an issue for developers and most computer users however when dealing with certain types of industry, we as a development company encounter users like administrators and operators who work on computers having older OSes like Win XP.
For this reason we found it better to offer our solution which worked across all OSes as this allowed us to provide our users with a more standardized one as opposed to a different one for different OSes.
Our apps increased level of context awareness is also appreciated by its users/administrators as this ability provides added insulation against mistakes (ie. while a utility like BackupFile is benign, one like ShredFile could be critical if accidentally applied to the wrong file).
I agree that this app currently only speaks to the needs of a select few but would hope that I have managed to communicate our reason as to why we still use/promote it for speeding up the running of ad-hoc processes (especially when a number of these ad-hos processes are to be run on older OSes like those sitting on plant floors ...).
Your feedback is valued by me and my team and will appreciate further such input and interaction in the future
Thank you once again for your fairness in this regard especially given that you are not a windows user but presumably a linux one.
One of our releases still pending has a new component/feature developed for both linux and windows which you may find interesting and hopefully get your feedback thereon.
| Angie, was it really that hard to spell my alias correctly? |
Please forgive me for this, I made a stupid mistake and meant no disrespect by it.
@Abatross:
| It's hardly idiotproof, but it doesn't seem so hard, does it? ... Fun fact, the above solutions don't work on XP or earlier. You'd need to create a plugin and tell Windows to use it, which is exactly what the ShanKoDevs did. Trying to use the registry for this would get you nowhere on those OSes. |
Thank you for your fair review and descent response.
The solution in the link you provided works well as a solution for Win 7 and higher but as you put it does not work for older OSes like Win XP for example.
Obviously this does not represent an issue for developers and most computer users however when dealing with certain types of industry, we as a development company encounter users like administrators and operators who work on computers having older OSes like Win XP.
For this reason we found it better to offer our solution which worked across all OSes as this allowed us to provide our users with a more standardized one as opposed to a different one for different OSes.
Our apps increased level of context awareness is also appreciated by its users/administrators as this ability provides added insulation against mistakes (ie. while a utility like BackupFile is benign, one like ShredFile could be critical if accidentally applied to the wrong file).
I agree that this app currently only speaks to the needs of a select few but would hope that I have managed to communicate our reason as to why we still use/promote it for speeding up the running of ad-hoc processes (especially when a number of these ad-hos processes are to be run on older OSes like those sitting on plant floors ...).
Your feedback is valued by me and my team and will appreciate further such input and interaction in the future
Thank you once again for your fairness in this regard especially given that you are not a windows user but presumably a linux one.
One of our releases still pending has a new component/feature developed for both linux and windows which you may find interesting and hopefully get your feedback thereon.
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