D4 Time

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Ranrad

Don't know what complicated heading I'm supposed to use for this, so
if I upset anybody I apologise.
Don't know how many of you use D4 time time syncroniser from thinking
man software, but it's been updated for it's 8th Birthday.

http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/
 
Don't know what complicated heading I'm supposed to use for this, so if I
upset anybody I apologise.
Don't know how many of you use D4 time time syncroniser from thinking man
software, but it's been updated for it's 8th Birthday.

http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/
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Excellent, thanks Ranrad. :)
Supposed to work in XP now, will give it a run shortly.
 
In alt.comp.freeware, on 23 Feb 2004, Ranrad announced:
Don't know what complicated heading I'm supposed to use for
this, so if I upset anybody I apologise.
Don't know how many of you use D4 time time syncroniser
from thinking man software, but it's been updated for it's
8th Birthday.

http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/
Click to expand...

Definately didn't upset anyone, well, not me at least :) Thanks
for the heads up!

I noticed when I got to the download page however, that there are
two options - the program itself at 220k, or the program with the
windows installer installer at 3.6MB. I downloaded the 220k one
- why on earth would I want to download 3.6MB for a 200k program?
It of course didn't work because I don't have the latest version
of the windows installer installer, whatever useless rubbish that
is :(

I emailled the author, so hopefully he will fix this situation
soon as I am looking forward to the new version :)

Just thought I'd pass that on too.

Regards

OgO
 
OgO said:
In alt.comp.freeware, on 23 Feb 2004, Ranrad announced: [snip]


I noticed when I got to the download page however, that there are
two options - the program itself at 220k, or the program with the
windows installer installer at 3.6MB. I downloaded the 220k one
- why on earth would I want to download 3.6MB for a 200k program?
It of course didn't work because I don't have the latest version
of the windows installer installer, whatever useless rubbish that
is :(
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The second option (3.6MB) file includes the "latest windows installer". D/l
this and D4 installs without any probs.
 
OgO said:
In alt.comp.freeware, on 23 Feb 2004, Ranrad announced:


Definately didn't upset anyone, well, not me at least :) Thanks
for the heads up!

I noticed when I got to the download page however, that there are
two options - the program itself at 220k, or the program with the
windows installer installer at 3.6MB. I downloaded the 220k one
- why on earth would I want to download 3.6MB for a 200k program?
It of course didn't work because I don't have the latest version
of the windows installer installer, whatever useless rubbish that
is :(

I emailled the author, so hopefully he will fix this situation
soon as I am looking forward to the new version :)

Just thought I'd pass that on too.

Regards

OgO
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If he does, fine. I always used Atomtime95 executable because D4
installed.

Mike Sa
 
OgO said:
In alt.comp.freeware, on 23 Feb 2004, Ranrad announced:


I noticed when I got to the download page however, that there are
two options - the program itself at 220k, or the program with the
windows installer installer at 3.6MB. I downloaded the 220k one
- why on earth would I want to download 3.6MB for a 200k program?
It of course didn't work because I don't have the latest version
of the windows installer installer, whatever useless rubbish that
is :(
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It looks to me that there is an error in the 220k distribution. You can
work around it, though. Use your unzipper to extract d4time50.exe contents
to a folder. You will then have three files:

\D4Time50.msi
\Setup.Exe
\Setup.Ini

The setup.exe has the error. It complains that it cannot find instmsiA.exe.
InstmsiA.exe is the microsoft distributable for MSI (windows installer).
The setup the author used for the small download was evidently mixed up
with the big huge one, that installs MSI.

It's most likely you already have MSI. Look for msi.dll in your sysdir
(current ver is 2x, but this prog might only want ver 1x). In this case,
that you already have msi, you can launch that D4Time50.msi file directly
(delete the setup files), and run the install.

Additional note. I monitor those installs which use MSI, then immediately
discard everything that they have written, registry and disk. All freeware
programs have worked fine this way. The MSI is just a nasty step, before I
can get to use the program, release it from its wrapper. The only program
I have used that actually demands its MSI entries for running is MS Office
products (from ver2000, on). Might be a couple of other large commercial
apps who demand it, too. Yet with all the freeware programs, MSI just means
an enormous amount of crud, which I delete right away.

To have uninstall ability later, when not retaining the MSI installer
litterings, then monitor the program the first time you run it with
something like Total Uninstall (pricelessware.org).
I emailled the author, so hopefully he will fix this situation
soon as I am looking forward to the new version :)
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Better than fixing his setup.exe would be for him to not use MSI in the
first place.
 
Ranrad said:
Don't know what complicated heading I'm supposed to use for this, so
if I upset anybody I apologise.
Don't know how many of you use D4 time time syncroniser from thinking
man software, but it's been updated for it's 8th Birthday.

http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/
Click to expand...

.... and it's no more free for commercial use ... only for non-commercial ...
 
Ranrad said:
Don't know what complicated heading I'm supposed to use for this, so
if I upset anybody I apologise.
Don't know how many of you use D4 time time syncroniser from thinking
man software, but it's been updated for it's 8th Birthday.

http://www.thinkman.com/dimension4/
Click to expand...

but if you're using win2000/XP you can use system net time /sntp ...,
right?
 
bambam said:
Excellent, thanks Ranrad. :)
Supposed to work in XP now, will give it a run shortly.
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I've been using it under XP for a couple of years now. Never had a
problem with it. Just make sure to shit down the windows time service.
 
I've been using it under XP for a couple of years now.
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I was sure this was one of the programs that didn´t work with XP, oh well
it does now.
Never had a
problem with it. Just make sure to shit down the windows time service.
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I did this but it made a mess on my monitor. ;o)
 
I was sure this was one of the programs that didn´t work with XP, oh well
it does now.
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I've been using it from Win98 to WinME, but it didn't work for me on
XP until this new release
 
bambam said:
I installed this version, no problems at all.
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The OP had said to be emailing the author about the problem. So from your
report, sounds to be now fixed. Btw, I presume it still uses MSI?
 
omega said:
The OP had said to be emailing the author about the problem. So from your
report, sounds to be now fixed. Btw, I presume it still uses MSI?
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Karen, I d/l the small exe the other day, it still called for the MSI. I
won't bother with it anymore when Atomtime95 and Neutron work fine, and
they are clearly executables.

Mike Sa
 
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