> PowerPro isn't an application, it's a tool. Applications are > for end users, utilities are for power users, and tools are > for people who do some coding and/or scripting. PP can be a > utility for people like me, who are willing to spend some > time futzing around with arcane settings on a trial-and-error > basis, and implement some of the tidbits that show up here on > the list. But TweakUI, it ain't (and MS didn't want end users > messing with even those limited tweaks).
Alan put it very well a while back...powerpro is a lego set to assemble anything we want, for any kind of functionality that anyone could ever want. It's the ultimate tool to customize our computing environment (windows). Starting with customizations that the pproconf GUI provides, and then expanding it to whatever our imagination can create with it's scripting functionality and other tools. For a non-power user? Definitely not the right tool...but all it's functionality in such a small package, a power user can create configurations for others, that are then useful for those that just want a tool for a couple uses. And for those willing//wanting to learn powerpro...we are always here at the yahoo group to help out :) > For a tool, though, PP is pretty transparent (it ain't > Eclipse, either). The options and their interactions can be > daunting, I agree. Nevertheless, PP is my only must-have > utility because it's a very powerful tool that non-coders can > use to accomplish the same things that you'd need a million > little one-function utilities to do. > > I don't understand the inner workings of PP, and I've never > written a script. > But I won't use a computer without it. Definitely wouldn't use a computer without it. I tried (with sincere intentions of not installing non-business software on the computer) when I went to work at another company. Went 2 days before I couldn't take not being able to make my life easier with the things I had to do. As of right now (1.5 years later), I have it installed and configured on 9 of 18 computers, with plans on universal deployment using scripting to import config chunks based on cl imports on a user-by-user basis (based on domain authentication and location configuration). And when someone that has been using my configurations goes to a computer without powerpro auto-launching on it???? They complain and I have to get it working on the new computer :) A very happy powerpro user, been using it for almost a decade with no end in sight :) David Troesch | Atlanta, GA | ICQ# 2333123 DRM - Hear another point of view. http://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt Funstuff: Quantum Physics: If you ate pasta and antipasti, would you still be hungry? - George Carlin Attention: PowerPro's Web site has moved: http://www.ppro.org Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/power-pro/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
