Re: More Lotus Notes hate

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From: Jonathan Katz
Subject: Re: More Lotus Notes hate
Date: 15:31 on 18 Apr 2004
On Sunday, April 18, 2004, at 06:54 AM, Ann Barcomb wrote:

> Now I can't restart Notes, because it terminated in a way it didn't
> expect.  My options are to restart the computer (I'm used to this,
> whenever I have to deal with Windows, so I would grumble but do it),
> _OR_ log out and log in again.  Why, if that's all that is required to
> fix this alleged problem, can't Notes run the damn start-up/cleanup
> stuff itself?  Is it going to gain something by me having to type in
> 5 passwords all over again (1 login, 1 Notes, 3 htaccess restricted
> websites)?

There is actually a way around this, but it can be another source of 
hate. Notes has a few ancillary processes which you can kill from task 
manager, and not have to login/logout again. It's a PITA, but it saves 
some time. After killing Notes not-so-gracefully hunt in task manager 
for an 'nthpdr.exe' or something similar (it changes with different 
versions of notes.) Once that's killed you can restart notes.

Lotus Notes needs to die a horrible death, but even IBM won't put it 
out of its misery.

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