Larry Dighera <> wrote:
>
> It is thoughtful and knowledgeable members of the Usenet community
> like yourself that make Usenet the valuable resource that it has been
> for the last 25 years that I have been active.
^^^^That's the best thing I have read in this newsgroup in ages. I'd like
to see more if this sort of thing.
I am surprised at your top-posting though, being an old-timer, as that was
hardly ever seen or tolerated until the later '90s, and it is still only
very common on these Microsoft newsgroups.
> Thank you very much
> for your assistance.
You are welcome.
> Here is a little more information about this topic:
>
>
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...success-active
> -desktop-replacement-for-vista/ How-To Geek Bounty Program, where we
> sponsor software projects based on ideas suggested by the readers.
>
> Here's a message posted on the above page:
>
> Lantom
> Unfortunately, this program didn't work here on vista.
> However, I've found an, in my opinion, better solution for this:
> Serious Samurize in combination with the minibrowser plugin. You
> can find it here: http://www.samurize.com/
>
> This is easier to configure in my opinion and it's 'active': you
> can click links etc as if you're using a browser. Also, as for
> performance, it only uses (with minibrowser loaded) about 20mb ram
> and about 2% of my cpu (intel E6600).
>
>
> Serious Samurize is available here:
> http://www.samurize.com/modules/mydo...cid=1&lid=2074
>
Thanks for the information. That does look like it could be quite useful to
me, and I never used Active Desktop.
Cheers
ss.