New graphics program ... wonderful!

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My Name said:
And I thought E-Sword was bad.
Dood, thanx for the post, and sparing me!
My condolences.
It reffirms the way I feel.
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Ey, and thank you to all of you who Felt my Pain. :0
 
It is a ....Visual Basic 5 program. :(

OCX terror-storm. Eleven OCX's it shoved into the system directory! Plus a
few more of those in its directory, that accounted for the majority of the
=>1600+ registry entries<= the install added.

Even just a few OCX's for an app and you get a ton of stuff snaked through
the classes root key, with their clsid, interface, typelib entries... very
messy and ugly IMO. And this prog has more damned ocx's than I've had to
witness in a long time.

The install also did this thing similar to what I unfortunately do see
routinely, but dislike each time. Changed a whole bunch of registry entries
to mark everything down from vb6 to vb5. In this case, though, particularly
high number: more than 80 keys it changed down.

That large set of changes must have been why TUN crashed every time I tried
to use it to uninstall this thing. (Finally I just reverted to the copy of
the registry I'd saved before running the install.)

And this is without even going into all the extra files and regentries
that MSI always tries to add. The OCX hell especially, and changing all the
vb file reg values, then adding MSI to the offense, I give this app a D- at
best as far as character, lack of respect for people's computers.

Graphics features? Who knows. I did run it twice. Crashed my machine. Very
quick - my resources monitor wasn't able to warn me in time. So I tried
running it after a fresh reboot, where my startup values are in the high
90s. Just launching it then, without even a file loaded, that shot me
down to 34/34/46. Woah! Ok, I only have 192mb RAM & use w98, but what's
this thing take? I mean, what if one has a few big image edits going on?

I'll leave this prog for the rest of you. I'm going to go interact with a
few dignified, gentle Borland programs to console me after the ordeal.
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What an abortion! Thanks for the review, good job. You probably
saved many of us from digging out from under a nightmare. When TU
can't save you, you know it's bad.

BoB
For the duration of Swen, my address is inoperative.
 
Yes, tried this stuff some time ago. It wouldn't do anything except crash.
Complete POS, IMHO.
 
Dang! I installed it before I finished reading all the posts!
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Regards, TW

kilocycles***@***yahoo.com
 
Top posting for emphasis:
One of the group regulars (Sharky? John Corliss? Susan?) should run a
"Public Service Announcement" post for a few days warning about this
program. It crashed my Win2k machine after I removed it, and I never
even ran it.

I agree with you it looks great at first inspection.
Stu
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e-mail modified, take the ** out to reply!

Regards, TW

kilocycles***@***yahoo.com
 
TW said:
Top posting for emphasis:
One of the group regulars (Sharky? John Corliss? Susan?) should run a
"Public Service Announcement" post for a few days warning about this
program. It crashed my Win2k machine after I removed it, and I never
even ran it.
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It crashed your machine after it was removed?
 
One of the group regulars (Sharky? John Corliss? Susan?) should run a
"Public Service Announcement" post for a few days warning about this
program.
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Why? What is wrong with doing so yourself? Credibility issues?

It crashed my Win2k machine after I removed it, and I never
even ran it.
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It crashed your machine AFTER YOU HAD REMOVED IT? It must be a truly
amazing program. There is something wrong with this picture - maybe you
only THOUGHT you had removed it - or are you telling porkies?
 
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 22:04:17 +0000 (UTC), Nicolaas Hawkins
| It crashed your machine AFTER YOU HAD REMOVED IT?

TW could be mistaken. But on the other hand, if as according to
Karen's review, it puts a ton of stuff in the Registry or didn't
completely uninstall, I can see how it might easily affect other
programs after it had been "removed".





- return address is altered slightly to reduce spam.
 
Top posting for emphasis:
One of the group regulars (Sharky? John Corliss? Susan?) should run a
"Public Service Announcement" post for a few days warning about this
program. It crashed my Win2k machine after I removed it, and I never
even ran it.
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It crashed your machine after it was removed?[/QUOTE]

I once uninstalled a mouse driver, and the next reboot ended with a
cfgmgr error - "please restart windows". I had to enter safe mode and
remove several references to the mouse driver in the registry; after
that the machine ran smoothly as before.

Yes, orphaned registry remains are bad.


Gabriele Neukam

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