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Windows domains: So here at work they've created a new domain, with roaming profiles. Not sure why we have a new domain, but roaming profiles are cool. But this setup is fucking awesome. Each time you come back to your computer. Hell, each time you minimize the open windows, random icons have either been moved or disappeared. Then they come back, or don't. I guess the Gestapo got them. At one point, I had a Eudora icon on the desktop (no, I don't use this piece of shit, but it's handy because if your application isn't compliant with the RFCs, Eudora will show you who's boss). One day, I looked, and all of a sudden, the Eudora icon changed into a folder with sea-gulls flying out of it. WTF??? So I tried to launch it, no can do. Eudora had been toasted. The awesome power of I don't know what. I certainly fear it. So I decided, screw this, I'm getting off the domain. Ha, sucker! Naturally, when you get off the domain, your user settings go bye-bye. But not bye-bye like, all gone. Just sort of gone. Perhaps it's just an application thing, and I shouldn't complain. For example, OpenOffice used to load in the system tray, now it doesn't. Not that I care, I didn't want it there anyway. On the other hand, my VirtuaWin (a multi-desktop thing) settings had been preserved. Even though I actually physically deleted the old user account and profile from my system. Skype: The new user account has screwed me, so I have to recreate my Skype profile. But then I get smart and decide to copy the old config over from the user profile I backed up (knowing I would have issues with this whole disaster). Yeah, that worked. I can login to Skype, and it even pulls up my record of missed calls that was there before. The number of contacts I have is correct, however, the names are all NULL, and there is a question mark next to each of them!!!! Oh yah, and on this piece of shit, when choosing which login name you want to use, it gets smart and pulls up a list of matching names. But if you try to tab to the password field after selecting the user name, it tabs you back to the title of the login tab. Doesn't do that if you type out the username in full and then tab to password field. Yo, bitch! Maybe it will work if I restart the computer and do the rain dance. Later: Yah, I just logged out and logged in again and now my contacts have names. Sweet. I wonder if either I or they still have pictures? Windows quick launch (or whatever it's called): This is not a problem due to the new Windows profile. I have my task bar set to two high, so I can more easily fit more windows on there. I have four item in my quick launch, so they should fit in a 2 X 2 space, right? No. The space is 4 X 2. I'm not allowed to make it smaller. So there's a handy blank row at the bottom. Maybe I'll fill it with IE, Outlook and other useless shit. Windows Explorer search: So I go in to search for some files. As soon as I click on the search button on the toolbar, the "Configuring Office 2000 Premium" dialog pops up. Um, yeah. Of course, I can't actually configure it because the network share that it was installed from no longer exists!!! Whatever, after trying to locate where it might have moved to, I just give up, vaguely remembering from a previous earthquake that this won't prevent me from using Word. And also figuring that it doesn't matter, I'll just fully migrate to OpenOffice if it insists on being a bitch. So I click cancel to stop this madness and it tells me "Unable to find the blahblah_useless.msi, cannot continue." But then it tries to continue! And then it pops up to ask me where the install share is, looping like this forever. I pressed cancel you dumb ass! Oh that is fucking brilliant! The WinZip shell integration is gone! WinRAR didn't have any trouble with it, neither did PKZIP, but WinZip is gone. Funny, because it's enabled in the Winzip configuration. Oh, now that I've viewed the Winzip configuration, the explorer integration is back. Back to the rain dance.... Has anyone else ever used PKZIP with email integration? That is pure genius. It has settings to "automatically zip all attachments", turned on by default. Like I couldn't figure that shit out myself. And anyway, SMTP is not a file transfer protocol so hopefully I won't be emailing around large files all the time that need zipping. And there's another option that says "include instruction on how to unzip", also turned on by default. Somehow, with the proliferation of viruses that are zipped up and password protected, I don't think the user needs any help when it comes to unzipping a file. Ahhhh! Where's my WinRAR icon gone???
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