If you could have any piece of software created, what would it be?

[Doubleclutch]

And illflem... I type faster than I can speak, so I'm not really interested in doing that project... .



Morph.



GEEZ Morph, how many fingers do YOU use??? Some of us are down to half-speed if we pick our nose!



I do like the mouse turned into a gun, with a double click firing a bullet though.



Gee what a surprise, the Navy running on computer paper??? I always thought it was just red tape. Silly me.

Good luck,

Greg

 

[Morphious]

Well, I've taken one of the suggestions, and built the code to do it. The one that I did was the group name changer. It's in its infancy stages right now, but as soon as I get time to build the installation piece for it (I'm working close to 50 hours of overtime on 4 projects at work), I'll put it up on my website and then paste a link for you to download it.



I type around 80 words a minute or more (without looking at the keyboard).



Morph.

 

[wcaldwell]

Morph,



I typed that - 80wpm - on an old IBM Selectric Typewriter. A Phillips Micon word processor I was using many years ago would stop, beep at me, and say "too fast". I've yet to get my office computer to do that - but I'm trying.

 

[Morphious]

That's what I learned on, an old IBM selectric.....



Morph.

 

[ACoyle]

How about a program that will show you a list of all files on your computer sorrted by size? THis to fill the need of people that are suddenly out of hard drive space and can't figgure out where it all went. They then try deleting documents that take up no space at all.



It would neet to show full directory structure. Maybe even an option to burn them off to a CD and then delete them. Finally a retore to put back the ones that make some things stop working.





Probably could sell that

 

[TPilaske]

Re: Not on my computer

Originally posted by Royk

See image below for what I get when I right click on him.

Don't you love 'policies'... .



Tony

 

[TPCDrafting]

Royk

try one of these: (copied from excel '97)



I can't turn off the Office Assistant.



· To hide the Assistant, right-click the Assistant, and then click Hide Assistant on the shortcut menu. If the Assistant shows a tip, message, or Help topic, close it, and then hide the Assistant.

· To set the Office Assistant so it does not provide Help with wizards, click the Assistant, and then click Options. On the Options tab, clear the Help with wizards check box.

· To hide the Office Assistant only for one wizard, start the wizard, and then click Office Assistant in the wizard dialog box.



· You can remove the Office Assistant from your Office programs by running Microsoft Excel Setup. For more information about how to remove the Assistant, click .

 

[DaveN]

I'd pay about $75,000 for software that I could input events and past history, and based upon that predict when a woman's hormones are going to go ballistic so I can get the heck outta town. it would only have to work about half the time, I would still pay for it... .

 

[Morphious]

LMAO... ... actually, I'm helping with som AI software doing good guy/bad guy senarios... with bots that are trained and learn by events occuring in the session... .



Morph.

 

[Hammer]

As the prophet DaveN says... ...

"I'd pay about $75,000 for software that I could input events and past history, and based upon that predict when a woman's hormones are going to go ballistic so I can get the heck outta town. it would only have to work about half the time, I would still pay for it. "



Dave,I got to tell ya I am in complete and total agreement and will help you pay for this endeavor,,Can you just imagine how much stress relief we could get from software like this,,Now as I try to pick myself up off the floor where I fell when I started to read this,I'll bow to the great one... ... ..... Andy



P. S. -I myself didn't like that friggin PIA paperclip either so its now a stupid cat that my daughter found(oh yes its great listening to the cat meowing when you need help),now if I can just figure out how to rid myself of it too I'd be even happier,kids,doooohhhhh...

 

[Doc Tinker]

I ran across this hack for the Office Assistant. They say to delete all the values found at this section of the registry, to remove the assistant.



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Office\8. 0\Common\Assistant







My registry doesn't have the Assistant Key. I successfully removed the Assistant some other way, many months ago and I don't remember how. Take a look at your registry and see if the Key is there. If it is, write down all of the values and then remove them. If you have trouble running Office afterword, put the values back the way you found them.



Disclaimer: If you feel queezy about messing with your Registry DO NOT DO THIS



Doc

 

[WDaniels]

What I would like to see for software is something that will trace spammers, and hackers throught the internet and through all their dummey sites and then fry their machine. Just a thought!

WD

 

[TxDieselKid]

can you make a piece of software that will let me "lock" folders in windows? like the "My documents" folder, or other folders like that???



Andrew

 

[Morphious]

TDK, what your wanting is a product of the operating system, and I looked on XP professional last night and could not find a way to accomplish what you are wanting, it may be available and it may not, I just couldn't find it in the time I spent looking. If you were using linux or another unix style os, it would be simple. Or if you were using a server based windows os.



WDaniels, it wouldn't really matter if you could trace the spammers as they don't check the accounts that they send mail out of, so retaliating against thier mailbox would just label you as a spammer.



Morph.

 

[Royk]

TDK,



If what you want is a way to prevent others from accessing certain folders, there are shareware/freeware programs out there that will completely hide selected folders and I think even drives from view. The one I've used is called Magic Folders. It brings up a directory tree something like Windows Explorer where you can tag the directories you want hidden. To access them you need a password.



-Roy

 

[Doc Tinker]

In Windows 2000 Pro you can have an encrypted folder, as long as you're using the NTFS file system. Windows XP Pro might allow the same option. You will have to keep your Windows login username and password private to keep others from reading your encrypted files.





Doc

 

[TxDieselKid]

Thanks for the help guys!!!



Andrew

 

[socal_rattler]

What you are asking for is very simple if you are using Win2000 (or XP Pro). You can change the permissions on a file and/or folder so that only a certain userid can have access to it. Depending on how you set it up, anyone that logs into the PC with another userid either will not be able to access the file/folder and potentially not even be able to see it.



Naturally to do this, you need to set up multiple users (assuming it's a standalone PC) if you want other people to be able to use the PC without gaining access to the files. As mentioned earlier, you can also encypt the files assuming you are using NTFS, but in my experience managing 200+ PC's, that's not necessary if you use the permissions properly.

 

[Doc Tinker]

OK - I have a legit suggestion here.



Where I work, we have several laptop computers that are designated to be loaned out. The problem is; the borrowers tend to keep the laptops longer than they should. Is it possible to create a program that will lock up Windows after a designated period of time, so they will have to bring it back to either be unlocked before they can use it again, or to drop it off, if they are done with it.



These laptop computers are loaded with Windows 2000 Pro



Doc