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Posted by Daly de Gagne
Mar 25, 2007 at 07:55 PM
Jan sent me a nice note on the UltraRecall forum, to which I replied. My bitchiness is in no way aimed at Jan who, as usual, has been very positive and constructive. For the record, here’s what Jan wrote, and my response. Tomorrow, I think it’ll be time to reconsider my PIM options. In the meantime, I’m going to try and catch up on the work that is falling behind today.
Daly
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Jan/Daly posts from UltraRecall forum:
[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by janrif [/i]
[B]Daly, I understand your frustration(s) as I have shared some of the same. I posed the same comment re: depending on launchy to kyle (one of the K’s in Kinook) during the beta trials.
However, I decided—as I posted—to use URp’s IE6 browser as my default browser (on my w2k machine) & it works for me, both for links & content. For secure pages, I use net snippets until I have time to research for an alternative.
Importing my favorites & bookmarks into URp is painless & tabbing is available within URp so that’s not an issue either. [/B][/QUOTE]
Jan, thanks for the post.
Until yesterday, everything was working perfectly.
Today it is not.
Even with IE 6 it is not.
If this issue isn’t resolved I will dump UR once and for all.
I can still use MyInfo for text, Surfulater for web clipping, and give up the luxury of having a program in which I can do both when it is more convenient to do so. Surfulater does let me do some note-making, and it has logical links.
Or I can use MDE InfoHandler, and with a rather complex series of links to web files I save from the browser end up with an all in one solution. Plus the most customizable keyword options on the market
Or I can try IDEA from Sycon, and just group files together in a logical way, while allowing each program to do what it is best suited for.
Or, in a better world, ADM wouldn’t have disappeared from the marketplace.
What I cannot understand is why something that worked one day isn’t working the next, even after reinstalls.
And then I start to read carefully the other messages on http://www.outlinersoftware.com and this forum (UR’s), and realize I may have just been lucky having it all work in the first place.
I am mightily pissed. I may be a CRIMPer at heart, but I don’t have time for this sort of stuff. I am on tight deadlines this week plus getting hospital calls.
Daly
Posted by Cassius
Mar 26, 2007 at 03:53 AM
I can’t recall if Win2000 has a system restore function. If it does, you should use it before installing and before uninstalling a program. In Win XP it does a pretty good job of restoring the system. I used GoBack to get back to Firefox 2.0.0.2. GoBack has saved my arse many times. I sure hope it runs in Vista.
With respect to UR, the uninstall probably left things in the registry which may be causing the problem. As I learned with WORD 2000, registry entries take precedence over everything. For example, when changing computers, I saved my WORD 2000 customized toolbars in a template. When I opened a new WORD document with the template, the customized toolbars appeared…for about one second. Then, the registry wiped them out, replacing them with the defaults.
Windows Maxim: After one has tried everything that logically should have helped solve the problem, but didn’t, it’s time to try something that couldn’t possibly help. (I’ve “fixed” my Toshiba at least twice this way.)
-c
Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Mar 26, 2007 at 07:36 AM
Daly,
It is very important to state that Launchy is *not* a Kinook product:
http://gemal.dk/mozilla/launchy.html
The issues you describe are related do your system in general. I suggest that you run a registry cleaner which might help to solve your issue:
http://www.eusing.com/free_registry_cleaner/registry_cleaner.htm
Very important: Save all critical data *before* you make a reg clean.
Loosing time with computer problems is *very* annoying. But as strange as it sounds: Most often are the issues related to application A not caused by A but by a completely other application, driver, registry entry etc. I know that form my earlier work as a user supporter. I understand that you are (or have been) in a rant.
Write to Kinook (support@kinook.com) and describe your issues. They are very responsive and try to help.
I hope you can get the issues fixed asap.
Dominik
Posted by Kenneth Rhee
Mar 26, 2007 at 09:22 AM
Daly,
I understand your frustration, and sympathize. Having said that, I think the problem you might be experiencing could be your system specific. I for one had no problem with UR, Firefox, Launchy, or IE7 since installing UR 3 beta a few months ago.
Running Windows XP Pro Sp2, Firefox 2.0x, Launchy 4.2, IE 7.x and UR3.02
Posted by Jan Rifkinson
Mar 26, 2007 at 01:09 PM
Dom, do you user v1 or beta 1.5 of the registry cleaner. Thanks for the tip as well.
And Daly, my last comment to you is that I *really* think you are barking up the wrong tree.
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Jan Rifkinson
Ridgefield, CT USA