Hi everybody Well, this application certainly offers a lot of enhancement to the Windows GUI. I've used this product on and off for the last 20 plus years and I've seen it evolve from a very rudimentary command prompt substitution into what it is now, a power-packed user interface in its own right, with literally hundreds of commands and sub-commands included. It really really does make me wonder how I ever lived without it! However, I did not pay it all that much attention from the very early part of 2005 when I went over to the bright side, ;-). I found myself using Windows less and less and, when we finally took the plunge and moved all of our servers over as well, I thought my Windows days were over for ever! Indeed, the old Sony laptop which I bought in 2001 finally popped its proverbial clogs just after I finally moved away and when I stripped the machines of their hard drives, graphics cards and sound cards, then I took a 28-pound sledge hammer to the remainders of the machine s, squashing them to a pulp and leaving them outside for the scrap man, I really thought that was it.
However, out of necessity, I started fiddling around with virtual machines a few years ago. You can probably still find the demo of Fusion which I did on ACB Radio Main Menu somewhere. Indeed, I was told by somebody inside of Apple that my "excellent demonstration and proof of accessibility" probably played a big part in the up-swing in sales and interest amongst the visually impaired community. Not me talking folks, as I said, those remarks were made by a friend of mine high up in Apple's management. Anyway, I'm getting off the point. What I'm trying to get across here is that Take Command from JP Software, <http://www.jpsoft.com> is one of the most useful Windows tools I have ever used. I'm now back into Windows, having recently been bought a NetBook, (which is a bit of a disaster story to be honest), and also a beautiful Samsung NoteBook with a 107 key keyboard. The 6 additional keys are multimedia and WiFi control keys. But hey, again, I am getting off the topic of discussion. Take Command 14 was released a couple of years ago, and wow! Has that product evolved. No more need to use that horrible file indexing system which Microsoft threw at us all as of the release of Windows XP SP3, Vista and 7. Now, you can do searches from within the Take Command interface, and you can do lots of lovely things with batch files and custom scripting. I'm going to sit down and develop a batch file to clear out all of the junk that is left behind as a matter of course when you install and remove applications, by Windows Update, etc.. Not to mention the horrendously large caches which Windows Internet Explore r leaves behind itself. I still cannot get Outlook 2010 to play ball, but again that's another matter. Take Command, what an amazing product that is. I don't see where they can take this product from here, but I'm sure they will come up with something nice for the next major upgrade. I will follow this up with a review I think, when I get the Windows-Access blog up and running. Gordon <--- Gordon Smith ---> This message was written using 100 Percent recycled electrons. [email protected] Follow us on Twitter: @maciosaccess <---> ======================================= To post to this group, please send your message to: [email protected] The Windows-Access E-Mail forum is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free To modify your subscription options, please visit your personalise subscriber options page, located at http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/windows-access You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Windows-Access forum at either of the following websites: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/windows-access/index.html Or: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> you may also subscribe to this list via RSS. The feed is at: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml> --------------------------------------- [email protected]
