I don't mind the reg-hack so much, it's the loss of the popup menu that depresses me. I really learned a great deal about the web from that collection of sites, and I loved the way I could customize it when I found a site I liked to enter info into it.
I'm sure there is a way to get it to work with SP2, it will just take time. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Robertson Sent: Sunday, September 05, 2004 4:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [DQSD-Users] DQSD and Windows XP SP2 Kim - I hadn't appreciated the DQSD architecture issues, especially with it already being hosted by the taskbar process. I've got to say that it amazes me that there's not any clear way of addresing the issue. Personally, I might go back to XP SP1 - SP2 has crippled my digital radio and nobody's come up with a workaround for that yet (heck... we were already having to force Win2k USB drivers into XP, and SP2 has just blown it away completely). However, that doesn't address the bigger issue - DQSD is a fantastic utility, and it would be terrible for it to be made useless on all new machines, or at least for it to require them to have registry hacks and for annoying pop-ups to appear every time a favourite search is called. DQSD is the kind of application I want my dad to use (and I think that he qualifies as an "average home user"), but unless it comes with a nice installer that requires absolutely no thought, doesn't do anything that might cause concern (i.e. doesn't reduce the security on his mahine) and works absolutely seamlessly (i.e. doesn't give pop-up security warnings), that's never going to happen. And if he doesn't use it then there are millions of others who similarly won't use it for exactly the same reasons. I might have a hunt around to see if I can find any useful people to talk to - searching around for info on this previously, I found a couple of blogs from MS developers working on SP2, and it might be worth at least contacting them to see if they might be able to help or give any pointers etc. James ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe visit: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dqsd-users [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8601