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How Secure Are The Details Being Stored Within The Password Database?

4th August 2002
The Password Database uses a very basic encryption algorithm. If other people have access to your machine it is recommend you do not use this [...]
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Some Of The Hot Keys Or Standard Keyboards Keys Do Not Seem To Be Working Correctly?

4th August 2002
If you have set-up a rogue hot key for example CTRL+ALT+SHIFT and Q to increase the volume of the main mixer but the CTRL+ALT+SHIFT dropdown has been accidentally set to NONE meaning the Q key will operate the increase volume can cause issues. This case would be easy to notice as whenever you pressed the Q key the volume would increase other hot keys are not as easy to track down. To solve this problem follow the steps below. Please note that uninstalling and reinstalling the application will [...]
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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 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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TICK v1.11 BETA – A Freeware Windows Dial Up Enhancer Has Been Released

4th June 2002
TICK v1.11 BETA probably the ultimate freeware dial up enhancer for Windows featuring logging, on screen display, tools and more has now been released. Changes in this version include: Refer to v1.15 Download: This version is no longer available. Look in Current Downloads for the most recent release. Notes: This is a members only BETA [...]
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Sound Control v2.15 – An Alternative Freeware Windows Sound Mixer And Volume Control Applet Has Been Released

13th April 2002
Sound Control v2.15 the freeware replacement Windows Sound Mixer and Volume Control applet supporting hot keys, on screen display, Winamp and more has now been released. Changes in this version include: A newer BETA release of Sound Control is now available. It has better newer Operating System support together with many other enhancements, fixes and updates. A link to v2.48 BETA can be found in the Related Posts section below. If you are using Windows Vista/7 you need to follow [...]
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TICK v1.10 – A Freeware Windows Dial Up Enhancer Has Been Released

13th April 2002
TICK v1.10 probably the ultimate freeware dial up enhancer for Windows featuring logging, on screen display, tools and more has now been released. Changes in this version include: This release is recommended for users with Windows NT4/95/98/ME. For newer Operating Systems see TICK v1.17.  It has been reported that v1.17 works on older operating systems (except Windows 95) with no major issues so unless you are using Windows 95 you may want to give TICK v1.17 a try [...]
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Sound Control v2.10 – An Alternative Freeware Windows Sound Mixer And Volume Control Applet Has Been Released

23rd December 2001
Sound Control v2.10 the freeware replacement Windows Sound Mixer and Volume Control applet supporting hot keys, on screen display, Winamp and more has now been released. Changes in this version include: Added - Windows XP compatibility Added - Vertical padding option which is applied when corners OSD is used Added - Winamp Open File hot key Added - Winamp Shuffle hot key Added - Winamp Fade to Mute hot key Added - Winamp Preferences hot key Fixed - Translation options now fully [...]
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