Quote of the day freeware

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Several years ago I dl'd a program that looked exactly like the Windows
startup tips, except that it was a quote of the day program." You could edit
the input list of quotes yourself -- it was a simple text file. I can't find
my original copy and the site (I believe it was an Aussie author) seems to
have disappeared. Does anyone know of this or one similar?

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Several years ago I dl'd a program that looked exactly like the Windows
startup tips, except that it was a quote of the day program." You could edit
the input list of quotes yourself -- it was a simple text file. I can't find
my original copy and the site (I believe it was an Aussie author) seems to
have disappeared. Does anyone know of this or one similar?

M
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Could it be this?
TPMquotes
http://www.philosophersnet.com/quotations/quotes_program.htm
 
Several years ago I dl'd a program that looked exactly like the Windows
startup tips, except that it was a quote of the day program." You could edit
the input list of quotes yourself -- it was a simple text file. I can't find
my original copy and the site (I believe it was an Aussie author) seems to
have disappeared. Does anyone know of this or one similar?
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I don't have idea for the particular freeware you're seeking, but have an
inquiry. What Windows startup tips?

In w95, there was a registry key, with the startup tips, and they got
displayed...trying to remember, was it a popup message box after startup?

In w98, there is an optional panel for the explorer, for display in the
lower right area of the screen. View > Explorer Bars > Tip of the day.

In later Windows, I don't know where those might have designed a "Tip of
the Day" display.

In w98's "Tip of the Day" explorer bar, it is reading up from an html file
named "Tip.htm." So if you were interested in that, you could edit Tip.htm,
put your preferred tips in that file.
 
Several years ago I dl'd a program that looked exactly like the Windows
startup tips, except that it was a quote of the day program." You could edit
the input list of quotes yourself -- it was a simple text file. I can't find
my original copy and the site (I believe it was an Aussie author) seems to
have disappeared. Does anyone know of this or one similar?
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Incidentally, I have a prog in my archives with apparent intention to
imitate (what I vaguely remember as) the W95-style startup tips dialog.
It's named "Tip of the Day." Don't know the author.

I'm not recommending it, as it's a basically a yawner. As well: I need
to note that a2 flagged it as a trojan.

But, in case you get struck with idle curiosity, it's uploaded here:
http://www.redshift.com/~omega/2004/var/trojan/
 
Several years ago I dl'd a program that looked exactly like the Windows
startup tips, except that it was a quote of the day program." You could edit
the input list of quotes yourself -- it was a simple text file. I can't find
my original copy and the site (I believe it was an Aussie author) seems to
have disappeared. Does anyone know of this or one similar?
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Here is a program for quotes / tips, which allows different categories,
easy editing:
http://www.redshift.com/~omega/clips/var/janv-tips.png [*]
The display of the tips/quote texts, in this program, it is via that same
editor where they were entered.

Given that you do not track the original program you were after, and want
one similar, what kind of display were you after? Where would you want
quotes to appear? In a free-standing message box?


_______
[*]
| Tips 3, by Jan Verhoeven
|
| With Tips you can create tipfiles with tips. Tips can be anything:
| from programming tips to birthdays to recipies. Quick select tipfile
| and tip. Search in tips. Modify color and background. Just one place
| to store everything that can come handy.
| 23-December-1998 size:486kb
|
| http://jansfreeware.com/jftools.htm
| http://jansfreeware.com/tips3.zip
 
Several years ago I dl'd a program that looked exactly like the
Windows startup tips, except that it was a quote of the day program."
You could edit the input list of quotes yourself -- it was a simple
text file. I can't find my original copy and the site (I believe it
was an Aussie author) seems to have disappeared. Does anyone know of
this or one similar?
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Not sure about the startup tips bit, but I just posted links to two quote
screensavers in response to *ProteanThread*'s "looking for cookie jar type
program" thread. They might be close enough to what you're looking for.
 
Will try it out. What is a2 btw?
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Anti-trojan, detect malware. (Registerware, http://www.a-2.org/ )

a2 says TipOfDay.exe is infected with: Trojan.Win32.GabanBus

I feel that's likely a false positive (for instance, launching it causes no
suspect changes on my system). Same time, I haven't investigated thoroughly,
not looked up "GabanBus." So can't say anything definite with regards to the
malware flagging....
 
Will try it out.
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If you do try it out....

TO RUN IT:

Copy the tips.ini into your windir. Then for editing, make a notepad
shortcut to the windir\tips.ini file.


TO UNINSTALL IT:

The preference regkey, it's here:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ð++\Tip of the Day]

That irresponsibly funky Ð++ string, which was used for developer key,
some progs can't handle that, such as reg.exe, and maybe TUN. Even the
program's own uninstall routine (TipOfDay.exe -u) can't cope. So full
clean-up from the reg, you might do best to access with reg editor,
for manual delete of that key. Or you can use a reg file, since regedit
can handle this. So long as the ansi comes out the same from my newsreader
to your text editor, this would work:

-------uninstall.reg----------------
REGEDIT4

[-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ð++]
;
 
omega said:
TO UNINSTALL IT:

The preference regkey, it's here:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Ð++\Tip of the Day]

That irresponsibly funky Ð++ string, which was used for developer key,
some progs can't handle that, such as reg.exe, and maybe TUN. Even the
program's own uninstall routine (TipOfDay.exe -u) can't cope.
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I'd run the TipOfDay.exe -u command to test its effect.

It deleted my /entire/ HKCU branch.

I didn't catch that for a couple hours. Until noticing explorer looking very
gross, having been reset to its defaults (with extensions hidden, etc).

To get my previous copy of user.dat, from before the mass delete, I had
to reboot, and do a scanreg/restore from DOS.

I've removed the program from the upload. I'll have to pray that no-one
else ran the command. And that if anywone happened to download it, they
read this message.

TipOfDAy had never giving me problems running it. But the fact that it has
a command, and one suggested right in its tips file, which does the extreme
destruction to the registry... well, obviously that is not something I am
too joyed about possibly having passed around anywhere. :(

Btw, I happen to see this as totally unrelated to a2's "GabanBus" trojan
flag. (That which supposed to be a port scanner or something).

I see it as /very/ bad programming. Bad programming in the first place to
have created a developer key that does not stick with standard alpha-numeric
characters. I've seen that fault elsewhere too, and it causes problems.
Then of course, frightfully bad programming to have a command which results
in destruction of an entire root branch of the registry.

It's likely a bug alone, from bad programming -- and not malicious in
intent. But the end result is the same. Again, sorry, and really hope
no one else ran the command. :(
 
Several years ago I dl'd a program that looked exactly like the Windows
startup tips, except that it was a quote of the day program." You could edit
the input list of quotes yourself -- it was a simple text file. I can't find
my original copy and the site (I believe it was an Aussie author) seems to
have disappeared. Does anyone know of this or one similar?

M
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