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re: Why don't I get a Caps Lock warning balloon any more?
>> some notifications are useful (such as the password caps lock one) Really what would be useful would be have a non masked text box with a checkbox on the right to enable/disable the masking....
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re: Why doesn't the Version tab show up for very large files?
@John If you want functionality over simplicity why are you using a GUI instead of the much more versatile and powerful commandline? Sigcheck should do all that stuff just fine. See, problem solved.
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re: Why don't I get a Caps Lock warning balloon any more?
I will have to disagree @SimonRev, Have you tried watching someone's fingers as they type a password? With training it can be done, but casually watching their fingers won't give you their password...
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re: Why don't I get a Caps Lock warning balloon any more?
Windows does need a universal search for different settings. The whole show a dialog with a check box to disable, paradigm breaks down when someone wants to reenable the functionality and have no idea...
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I worked on a product at microsoft once that actually used the rogue "disable balloons" feature during setup, because we were highly focused on making the setup process smooth, and it involved...
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By the way, I think the user's disconnect here is that they didn't think the "stop annoying me with balloons I'm not interested in" checkbox was connected to the "helpfully remind me that my capslock...
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re: Why don't I get a Caps Lock warning balloon any more?
Why do people dislike balloon notifications? I find them the most non-intrusive type of notification. You don't even have to close them, you can configure their fade out time and they don't even play a...
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People hated Balloon Help in Mac OS, and the Office Assistant too. Well, some people liked them and some people were annoyed by the distraction. The obvious solution to the Caps Lock problem is to use...
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There's just something about them that seems almost designed to irritate. Maybe it's the number of times I've dismissed them only to have another one immediately pop up in its place. Maybe it's the...
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re: Why doesn't the Version tab show up for very large files?
I'm surprised that LOAD_LIBRARY_AS_DATAFILE would still go ahead and load all the code segments, seeing as the handle is only useful for Find/LoadResource.
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re: Why doesn't the Version tab show up for very large files?
The same problems must have existed with >16MB files in windows 3.1. Ouch. [You mean 16-bit Windows? 16-bit Windows didn't have memory-mapped files! -Raymond]
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re: Why doesn't the Version tab show up for very large files?
I mean map all the code, not load, of course.
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re: Why don't I get a Caps Lock warning balloon any more?
> I worked on a product at microsoft once that actually used the rogue "disable balloons" feature during setup, Now that's a good use of a global solution to solve a local problem.
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re: Why doesn't the Version tab show up for very large files?
@voo: Because the GUI was sufficiently functional until it was changed. Functionality and simplicity do not have to be mutually exclusive.
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re: Why don't I get a Caps Lock warning balloon any more?
Thank heaven for that rogue feature. That dev should get a medal. "Progress toward making the balloons *less* annoying." Exactly. They could never be completely non-annoying.
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@jader3rd: AFAIK since Vista search in Start will go through settings too. Or you can use search in Godmode...
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The discussion reminds me of the hilarious Daily-WTF Calculator Contest Entry "Universal Calculator". It helpfully showed balloons like "The operands have been multiplied!"...
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re: Why doesn't the Version tab show up for very large files?
[You mean 16-bit Windows? 16-bit Windows didn't have memory-mapped files! -Raymond] I think it also can't run that big of executable.
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[You mean 16-bit Windows? 16-bit Windows didn't have memory-mapped files! -Raymond] Are you saying that perfectly working code was replaced by new code which couldn't load large files? [News flash:...
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re: Why don't I get a Caps Lock warning balloon any more?
Back to Raymond's point, I had a customer just this week where our software was going really slow when saving their scanned images. I looked at the screen, saw they were using the B&W profile in...
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