MyInfo Is My Choice

Posted by JDS
Apr 11, 2025 at 07:31 PM

So interesting to see that there are still active users of ConnectedText!. I loved that program, but gave up years ago because of lack of development/support

Cyganet wrote:
Windows 11 24H2 update also broke ConnectedText on two of my computers.
>It was working fine before the update, so the error is not
>hardware-related. I couldn’t find any compatibility workarounds that
>removed the error.
> >If you have ConnectedText running on Windows 11 pre-24H2 I suggest that
>you make a backup now before the update is pushed to you.
> >24H2 is full of bugs so it might be fixed in the future. Something
>similar happened with Q10. There was a time when it wouldn’t run on
>Windows, but now it does again.
> >Graham Rhind wrote:
> >>Lucas wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Graham Rhind wrote:
>>>>
>>>>ConnectedText finally gave up working on my hardware last week,
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>I realize this is a MyInfo thread, but I’m curious what happened. When
>>I
>>>saw your post, I tried installing (from Softpedia) and running
>>>ConnectedText on my current machine and didn’t have any issues.
>>
>>After a major Windows update last week CT failed to start with Access
>>Violation memory errors. I think this is a combination of a Microsoft
>>Surface machine (using solid state memory) and the Windows update - it
>>had previously thrown up some errors and I’d had to reinstall it a few
>>times. I’m aware that I could probably run CT on a different machine,
>>but I can’t afford to upgrade at the moment. In any case, I was getting
>>nervous of having anything major still in software which
>(unfortunately)
>>has been so thoroughly abandoned, so took the chance to move the final
>>project out of it.
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