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No Love For Digsby

Published on June 4, 2010 in Computers, Free Windows Software and Windows Tips. 2 Comments Tags: , .

Digsby

I had an account some time ago and recently I have been going out of my way to close accounts that I no longer need nor use. So I download the Digsby client after reading that there is no way to actually close the account on the web without visiting the forum.

What a mess that was, first off the download comes from Brothersoft which in my opinion is the worst of the worst with all the crap that is hosted there. Once the download finishes I look forward to deceptive practices of installing additional toolbars that I don’t need by making the menu choices near impossible to differentiate between what I want and crap that I don’t need.

I know that many other freeware vendors do this but at least they have a common thing to look for when installing there program that may or may not suck.


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VBS Delayed Startup

Published on June 2, 2010 in Computers, Free Windows Software, Programming and Visual Basic. 0 Comments

I came across a need to have some programs start with Windows but take their time doing so. So I did what any self respecting techie would do and write a little script to start a few programs up at a delay after windows starts. The default time between items is 10 seconds and it reads the input from a file at the root of the C drive “load.txt” the items will only load if there is not space in the name so use “   ” sparingly, the items are also seperated by a , symbol as follows;

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