Category Archives: Tools

WS-FTP Pro 2006 and IE7 : “NEVER!” ?

Tools

I have WS-FTP Pro 7.0 on both multiple computers as well as the newly released IE7.

One computer has no troubles. The other gives me this interesting error when I try to start it up:

The only solution is to click ok and then kill the app from task manager.

Luckily, I found this thread in the Ipswitch forums (which also decries a lack of support from WS-FTP) where a user (who is clearly a pit-bull and chose not to give up on finding a solution – thank you Suzy!!!) has managed to find how to fix the problem, which calls for “hiding” an outdated file.

navigate to where your WSFTP is installed e.g.
c:/program files/ipswitch/ws_ftp professional
and rename PSAPI.dll to PSAPI.dll.old and then reboot

It worked. Yay.

16 bit apps and the new Google Toolbar

Tools

Google Toolbar has a new feature called notifications.

It took me a while this morning to realize that this was the service that was preventing me from starting up a 16-bit application (FoxPro 2.6).

I had turned off all types of stuff, but when I killed the process for the GoogleNotifications in my task manager, voila, the program opened up.

Just a word to the wise….

Norton Anti-Virus 2006 and Windows XP built in VPN client

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VPN is affected by the worm protection setting of NAV 2006. There is no obvious way to allow VPN unless you can figure out what app drives it. I googled and read other forum posts for quite some time tonight – most of them complaining, no real solutions.

So turning off the worm protection in NAV is the only way I have been able to be able to continue using VPN since I updated NAV.

As it took a while to find any other info about this, I thought I would blog it to save someone else some time.

Local.Live.Com Sharing Tip: Permalink

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I had been mapping locations on local.live.com and then using the “email” button to get a link to send to people.

This created a problem because the default for the link is zoomed in all the way. Some people said they were getting zoomed in all the way with the aerial view, which generally doesn’t have any images. Not everyone finds the zooming toolbar intuitive enough.

So I poked around the site and discovered the Permalink feature. This is how to send someone not only the same marker, but the same exact view that you are looking at.

Click on Share on the upper toolbar, not on the scratch pad. It has more options and permalink is one of them.

In the “hey, you can’t know everything” category: File Name Copy Tools

Tools

Twice, I spent some time googling around for some way of having “copy file name” in my context menu in Windows. I saw a few utilities, but couldn’t find anything (along the lines of Scott Haneslman’s Ultimate Tools list) recommending any of them. So I happened to blog “wouldn’t it be nice” and out of the woodwork come a lot comments and emails with tool (and key-combo – which I have been using but somehow I prefer the ol’ right-click) recommendations. There is even a still-functioning in XP Windows 95 PowerToy.

Mike Gunderloy, googled and emailed me a suggestion. My reponse was “hey, *you* try it first, Mikey and let me know if it blows up your computer or not.” 😉

Here’s the list of recommendations that have come through my blog and Mike’s post. Some of these people are using, others have said “found this on Google for you”

Win95 PowerToy

Ninotech PathCopy

keyboard F2 (rename) ; Ctrl+C

Clipname

ClipPath

keyboard F2; Ctrl+A; Ctrl+C

Clickie

CopyFileNames

Go forth and conquer. Let me know what your faves are.