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[ICEMAN63100]

You omitted a small detail about CLTA TitleWizard: it's only for CALIFORNIA! :(

[LindaA]

Steve, thank you, and your buddy, Bryan V., for cluing me in to DateInTray. It's a nifty little utility. I've kinda missed having a date in my systray since I learned some time ago that Date Manager, which I used to use, is spyware and I stopped using it. DateInTray is very similar to Date Manager, but it isn't spyware. Thanks again!

[Name]

In the category of taskbar clocks and calendars, my favorite for longer than I can remember is Tclockex by Dale Nurden. His little FREE program is very user-friendly, loads automatically, can put date, time and CPU usage in the taskbar in any size or color or font, provides the scrollable month view, and allows great customization. Works well, causes no problems in any version of Windows!

mmcgown

[eturnium]

Tried the Dead Cell Zones website. Here's what I found:
My mother is looking for a cell phone solution for her location, and has had problems with cell phone providers in the past.
I entered her address:

90638.
The site reports "Address not found", I removed portions of the address until all I had was the zip code.
I selected all for the choose carrier option, and I received a orange line around an irregular area, with a triangle in the center.
So what does this tell me?
Is the area inside the orange line an area of poor coverage?
If so, why is there a second area inside the orange line?
When I switched the choose carrier option to each of the 4 carriers, the area defined on the map was the same for each.
Was the line just for one of the carriers? Either Verizon or T-Mobile? Can't tell the difference between the color dots for sure. I'm guessing the color match is for T-mobile. But if so, how come each of the carriers selected produces an orange line?

[eslaback]

Try TClock instead of QuickMonth Calendar. It has all the features of QuickMonth plus a lot more.

[martin77084]

If you're using Vista (and why wouldn't you be), just click on the time in the task bar and the calendar, as well as an analog clock pops up, with the option to reset the system time and date.
martinl77084

[LindaA]

Steve, you say that with DateInTray you have to double-click on the DIT icon to get the calendar to pop up? That's strange. I need to click on it only once to get the pop-up calendar.

As for having to reload DIT every time you reboot, for me, that's nothing. I have to do that with my Taskbar Shuffle utility, too. No biggie. Besides, when I'm not using my computer, I usually put it into Hibernate mode, I don't shut it down completely, and if you do that, you won't need to reload DIT.

[LindaA]

Why wouldn't I be using Vista, Martin? Because from what I've seen of it, and for my purposes, Vista is nothing but one big gimmick, and I'm no fan of gimmicks. All I want to do with a computer is word processing, e-mailing, and surfing the 'Net, and for that, all I need is good ol' XP. As far as I'm concerned, the only reason Microsoft even came out with Vista in the first place was to make another gazillion dollars, obviously choosing to ignore the old saying, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," and XP wasn't/isn't "broke."

Personally, the ONLY reason I can see for switching to Vista is if you have kids (which I don't), because I've heard from many sources that Vista's parental controls are superior to XP's.

[moorrbrt1]

I tried the "Quick Month Calender" and find it works well for me. Find it very handy, thanks.

[martin77084]

Well, LindaA, it sounds like your computer needs are rather modest, and XP is therefore probably even more than you need. I was refering to those who make broader uses of their computers, and could benefit from the Vista capabilities and features (I don't mean the glitz).

Some of my computers are also still running XP, and will for some time, but my personal desk computer is Vista, which I have gotten used to, and I wouldn't go back.

I certainly agree that being content with what one has is a very good reason to keep what one has.

Best regards.

martin77084

[cleanwake]

Dear Steve, I'm the father of a now deceased fan of your's (Ira) What I would like to know is if there is a piece of freeware that will give me a full screen monthly calendar that will allow me to fill in my daily activities just like I do for my yearly pocket calendar?

[dcxdan]

And again I got TRICKED into using that silly CLTA TitleWizard. How about putting useful stuff that the rest of us people can use.