Feb
9
Every step forward seems like a step backward. I used to have a 1.0 design (which I posted about before) that was really neat, but I had to keep working on the current beta line to keep it maintained (and now it's fallen into disrepair). Then I became very busy at work and didn't even have time to answer any of my emails (about 500) for about a month. I apologize if I haven't answered your email. I will get to it, actually, starting Saturday morning. I'll answer all my emails and then begin working on Dial-a-fix again, because it needs overhauling (again – did I say "again" yet?). Every time I plop down a foundation (like that 1.0 teaser post), it comes up short and I have to start over again.
Again. Again. There, I've used it so much it's no longer a word.
Good thing Tarun is over there at the Lunarsoft.net forums helping out with Dial-a-fix support, or else everyone would be in the dark.
Oh yeah and Ninja Rope, I am still going to use ntdel as planned and The Notifier will live once again. Too bad it dies with Vista; Vista doesn't have Winlogon\Notify keys. Edit: Actually, Vista does. They're just in a different place and have a different syntax. Take a look at:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlWinlogonNotifications
Components
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4 Responses to “Where's Dial-a-fix and why haven't you answered my email?”
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This program has become dangerous and is a bit of a shambles.It should be destroyed & forgotten about.It will never work correctly on Vista so stop wasting your time with it.Its now old technology from an erea in the past. All good things must come to an end.
I'm sorry that the freeware that I write in my spare time isn't up to your standards. I will quit my job and life so that I can finish development as not to continue to disappoint you.
Since you can't wait for me to finish development, perhaps you should find a new program that isn't dangerous and shambled.
@Black Betty Father,
Where the hell do you get of posting rude comments expecially when this is a free package which you are under no obligation to use?
If you don't like it then frankly please feel free to use something else better (if you can find it – which I very much doubt) and please stop your pathetic juvenile whining.
@DJLizard,
Please keep the faith and don't let idiots such as this piss you off.
If you do have time to create a new version for us (which might happen to work on Vista) that would be cool, however the current version works well enough for me on XP et al.
Given you don't have better things to do that is ;-)
Simon
The current version already partially works in Vista (you can set it to compatibility mode for XP SP2 in administrative mode and DAF will run fine). About half of the DLL registrations have been phased out by Microsoft (yay) so you will get a lot of "this can't be registered or it's corrupt or something" messages, but basically, DAF in Vista in compatibility mode works and won't kill your machine (but only people who know what they are doing should be screwing with it in compatibility mode).
Having said that, DAF v1.0 is in development now, and is going to be quite different from original DAF. The goal is for it to work in everything from NT 4 to Vista. I might be using XML to store DAF's "rules" for registrations and RemObjects PascalScript for creating Tool modules for new DAF. There will be a single treeview pane with the complete list of main functions on it, and it will be laid out like it currently is now.