Hello MFPA, On Wednesday, October 01, 2014 you wrote:
M> Hi M> On Wednesday 1 October 2014 at 6:11:35 PM, in M> <mid:1631746822.20141001121...@charter.net>, Jack S. LaRosa wrote: >> 1) Sometimes there's as much as a 10 second delay between clicking >> on a message and having it appear in the message view pane. >> Sometimes when this happens the "Title Bar" at the top (a new >> cosmetic?) will show that TB is "not responding". Even then the >> message will eventually appear with no action taken on my part. >> Clicking other messages will display them instantly and even >> clicking back on the delayed message will have it appear >> immediately. No delay this time. There doesn't seem to be any >> pattern to this, it appears to be completely random. M> When TB! becomes unresponsive, is there a process running that is M> tying up your processor? Or is your anti-virus choking things up M> by "deep-scanning", which Avast does for me from time to time? Possibly. Since this a brand new computer I don't really know what AV ASUS might have running on it. I'll check that. M> And I have always had the Title Bar on TB! windowa as well as most M> others. My v5.2 has a "Title Bar" composed only of the "flying bat" and the words "The Bat!" at the far left. The far right has simply the Minimize, Maximize and X. >> 2) The key block I saved from her original installation of 5.2 is >> not being accepted by v5.8.8. Curiously, when I click on >> HELP/ENTER REGISTRATION CODE the first 56 characters of the 185 >> character code appears in the box where I would enter the whole key >> block. M> That is odd. The box is blank for me, except when I have just M> pasted in a code. >> This happened the very first time I went to enter the code block. >> I did have the entire 185 characters on the clipboard at the time >> but never invoked the CTRL-V to paste it in. Deleting those 56 >> characters and pasting the entire 185 characters into the box and >> clicking OK yields an error message telling me that code's no good. M> Maybe you could get help with that by emailing <off...@ritlabs.com> or M> by submitting a ticket at <https://www.ritlabs.com/en/support/>. M> I just searched my computer, and randomly seem to have a copy of M> "thebat_pro_5-2-2.msi" that Windows tells me is about 16MB. No M> guarantees its any good, but I could send it to you if you want. Maybe M> that would accept your registration key. I would forever be in your debt if you could send that to me. It's certainly worth a try. Failing that I'll contact RIT Labs. >> Lastly (and this is not related to TB!) apparently >> there's a problem with ASUS laptops and Win 8 in that >> the touchpad can't be disabled. If anyone has any info >> on this I'd love to hear it. M> A search engine suggested this thread M> <https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-desktop/how-do-i-disable-the-touch-pad-on-my-asus-laptop/ffb346bb-3ef6-4a4d-864f-47406c1a1d4c>, M> which seems to include some possible solutions. I will look at this as soon as the new machine finishes downloading & installing 8.1. Thanks M. -- Best Regards, Jack LaRosa :usflag: Central Alabama Using The Bat! ver: 5.2. Running Windows 7 Pro ver 6 build 7601 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 6.1.8 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
