From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:00:30 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1547 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Sunday 09 September 2007 Number 1547 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Lost the close minimise and maximise icons on every window : Peter Moylan 2 Re: Lost the close minimise and maximise icons on every window : Ken Laurie **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:32:40 +1000 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: Lost the close minimise and maximise icons on every window On 08/09/07 17:01, Ken Laurie wrote: > Peter > > Just ran checkini and it came back with >> Deregister class WPScheme because D:\ECS\DLL\WPSCHEME.DLL cannot be >> loaded? > > This could be the problem. Any ideas why it cannot load the dll? It's not necessarily a problem. Often obsolete software leaves a class registered even though it's no longer supported. For what it's worth, I don't have any file called WPSCHEME.DLL on my computer. (I have eCS version 1.14. I have the licence for a later version, but never seem to get around to installing it.) Most likely you have some "schemes" software where the implementation changed from one version to another. I'd be inclined just to let checkini deregister the class; it's not likely to do any harm. One problem we do have with checkini is that it was no longer developed after eCS was introduced, so it's a little out of date. (I think that either Serenity or Netlabs took over the code, but they don't seem to have done much with it.) I still run it anyway, and ignore the occasional error message. In fact I mostly use CleanINI (since it's a lot faster), but I still run CheckINI now and then to fix any residual problems. For the last week or so I have seen the swap file smaller than the CONFIG.SYS specifies, and I kept getting problems like Firefox suddenly crashing for no apparent reason. Those problems seem to have gone away since I've done two things: run Checkini, and empty the trash can. That "trash can" can have some very unfortunate side-effects, like making the disk free space too small to let INI files be saved. Yet another example of a "feature" copied from Microsoft that made my computer more crash-prone. Microsoft itself doesn't have this problem with the trash can, because it requires a bigger and bigger computer with each new release. (Although I see that Dell is now offering Windows XP as a free "upgrade" from Windows Vista, presumably because they've been getting too many complaints about Vista not being ready for beta testing.) As for the problems with Warpvision: it seems that the WMV format is not properly documented, so the Warpvision developer is having trouble keeping up with a moving target. I see that Firefox now has an extension that will block all Flash advertising. I think it's just a matter of time before people routinely block all WMV files as well. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org Please note that my e-mail address has changed yet again. Some of my older addresses still work, but it is not certain when they will be phased out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Sun, 09 Sep 2007 08:02:56 +1000 From: Ken Laurie Subject: Re: Lost the close minimise and maximise icons on every window Hi Peter I have basically stopped using warpvision basically because of the WMV problems. Not that I have a lot of them. I have just found that I mainly use KMP and MPlayer to play any video clips or movies. Together I seem to be able to play just about everything. I normally run checkini manually which tends to be a lot slower and cleanini and on the odd occasion xfix. These tend to keep my ini files down to acceptable sizes. Interesting comment about the trash can as I cannot say that I have had this problem. I have a partition that is basically just for my ecs that has very little delete activity happening on it. I have worked on the principle for many years that I should be able to easily re-build my OS partition with minimal effect on my data and applications, so I keep them separate as much as possible. regards Ken Peter Moylan wrote: > On 08/09/07 17:01, Ken Laurie wrote: >> Peter >> >> Just ran checkini and it came back with >>> Deregister class WPScheme because D:\ECS\DLL\WPSCHEME.DLL cannot be >>> loaded? >> >> This could be the problem. Any ideas why it cannot load the dll? > > It's not necessarily a problem. Often obsolete software leaves a class > registered even though it's no longer supported. For what it's worth, I > don't have any file called WPSCHEME.DLL on my computer. (I have eCS > version 1.14. I have the licence for a later version, but never seem to > get around to installing it.) Most likely you have some "schemes" > software where the implementation changed from one version to another. > I'd be inclined just to let checkini deregister the class; it's not > likely to do any harm. > > One problem we do have with checkini is that it was no longer developed > after eCS was introduced, so it's a little out of date. (I think that > either Serenity or Netlabs took over the code, but they don't seem to > have done much with it.) I still run it anyway, and ignore the > occasional error message. In fact I mostly use CleanINI (since it's a > lot faster), but I still run CheckINI now and then to fix any residual > problems. > > For the last week or so I have seen the swap file smaller than the > CONFIG.SYS specifies, and I kept getting problems like Firefox suddenly > crashing for no apparent reason. Those problems seem to have gone away > since I've done two things: run Checkini, and empty the trash can. That > "trash can" can have some very unfortunate side-effects, like making the > disk free space too small to let INI files be saved. Yet another example > of a "feature" copied from Microsoft that made my computer more > crash-prone. Microsoft itself doesn't have this problem with the trash > can, because it requires a bigger and bigger computer with each new > release. (Although I see that Dell is now offering Windows XP as a free > "upgrade" from Windows Vista, presumably because they've been getting > too many complaints about Vista not being ready for beta testing.) > > As for the problems with Warpvision: it seems that the WMV format is not > properly documented, so the Warpvision developer is having trouble > keeping up with a moving target. I see that Firefox now has an extension > that will block all Flash advertising. I think it's just a matter of > time before people routinely block all WMV files as well. > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------