Archive for August 2002

How Do I Remove A Hot Key Assignment?

4th August 2002
To clear a hot key assignment reset the drop down to None and press Shift, Alt or Ctrl in the key assignment field. In newer versions of Sound Control you can also right click on the hot key label and select the Clear Hot Key from the [...]
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Why Does The On Screen Display Scroll The Winamp Song Title?

4th August 2002
You have the scroll song name option enabled in Winamp. You can disable this option from within Winamp in the Preferences - Options - Display group of settings. When using Sound Control with the On Screen Display enabled it is recommended the Scroll Song Name option in Winamp is [...]
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I Have Added A New Dial Up Networking Connectoid But It Is Not Being Listed In TICK?

4th August 2002
Dial Up Networking (DUN) connectoids are not continually refreshed when TICK requires a list of available connectoids. The side effect of this is when TICK is launched a list of the current DUN connectoids are cached. Listing the DUN connectoids is a very CPU intensive operation. Caching these details enable the Options and Log's screen to display many times faster than previous versions of TICK expecially in a Windows 2000 environment. If you exit and restart TICK the DUN list is updated and [...]
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I Use The 640×480 Display Resolution And I Cannot See The OK and Cancel Buttons.

4th August 2002
Unfortunately some of the configuration screens either only just fit or are slightly bigger than this screen resolution. In these circumstances the "Return" and "Escape" keys carry out the OK and Cancel button operations respectively. Alternatively if you have your taskbar at the bottom of the screen temporarily resizing it may display enough of the configuration screen to see the OK and Cancel buttons. Using a higher display resolution (e.g. 800x600 or above) will permanently solve this issue. [...]
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I Have Reached The Maximum Limit Of Excludes Within The Auto Notification Functionality?

4th August 2002
If you have many favourites you should categorise them in to folders (e.g. Search Sites, Companies, Technical etc.) and use the Auto Exclude feature to ignore the favourites which should not be checked. The Auto Exclude feature does not use any of your standard exclude entries. For example if you wish to automatically exclude all favourites within a folder called 'Search Sites' add "\search sites\" (without the quotes) to the Auto Exclude [...]
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How Do I Backup My Configuration?

4th August 2002
The application settings are stored in the registry at the following key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Really Effective. Use regedit to locate and highlight this key folder (or specific sub folder if you have more than one Really Effective application installed). Select Export Registry File from the Registry menu specifying an appropriate filename. Settings can now be recovered by double clicking on the generated file, by right clicking and selecting merge or by loading regedit and selecting [...]
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