Yes it does... in /WINDOWS or /WINNT/TEMP. I know it belongs to it because when I close it normally it disappears.

What's it called?

~DFxxxx.tmp where xxxx is a hex number. The UD agent for the Cancer thingy also creates one.

Kayak,

That sounds like it's something the .Net framework creates, and unfortunately we have no control over that.

J.

I don't think it's .Net because when you download UD agent it doesn't install .Net nor do you have to do it manually. Also, UD closes the temp file on Windows shutdown whereas Bullie doesn't.

I think it may be more to do with listening to the Windows Shutdown message and tidying up properly as you would on normal exit. After all it does remove the file on normal exit so that path must be doing something different.

It's not a huge problem but it does fill up the temp files folder with dozens of files over time.

Hello,

The latest release of Desktop NewsAlert (Code name: Desktop Latex-Bullie) is available from the link above.

This fixes a number of issues with the previous versions including:
No longer limited to loading 5 stories at a time
Added an option to automatically start at boot
You can right click on the icon and be taken to the 'edit watchlist' page.

Please download and try this release.

J.

Hello,

There's a newer release of Desktop NewsAlert (Code-name: Desktop Bullie-Bondage) for you to try.

Please go to the news alert page to download the latest version.

This one fixes the bug whereby if you refresh the stocklist, you re-retreive all the day's news.

If you have any problems with it, please post below.

J.

what about option of opening a fresh window on clicking the news?

Yes, that is essential. When you have 12 windows open you don't want to guess which one has been used. Much less to find that a streaming window has been wrecked.

Also, implementing posts 17 and 20 would really set you apart from the competition :-) At the momemt I have to have a whole streaming news window from the other place open because it's filtering just RNS, now that can't be right :-)

faole,

Unfortunately that doesn't appear to be possible with the .Net framework (we've been looking at that since you last requested it)

Do you have an example of a .Net application that has that? If so, we may be able to reverse engineer it to find out how it was done.

Thanks,
J.

Kayak,

I've been looking at posts 17-20, they infact compliment other ideas that I've received and as soon as the new bulletinboards are ready, I'll be seeing if that feature can be added.

J.

Sounds great. Compliments all round. :-)

Still not getting any sound in Windows 2000...

Kayak,

Do you know that Windows 2000 is now EOL (as of last night)?

Microsoft are no longer supporting it, providing patches for it or releasing any more updates for any of the software for it.

It's probably a good idea to upgrade to a proper OS now ;)

J.

Hmmmm, plenty of corporate clients still using it, I wonder how long before the decision is reversed...

Kayak,

It's 5 years old, you can't expect them to support it forever.

What reasons do you have for not upgrading? (unless you like not being able to find drivers for lots of hardware, and nothing 'just working' on the machine)

It's stable, it works, if it ain't broke, no messing around with activation.

Windows XP is basically Windows 2000 with a different presentation. The drivers are the same and everything just works... apart from your software but then your software also poos temp files everywhere ;-)

It's the .Net framework that's creating the temp files, not the application.

Not much we can do about that :(

I'd be very surprised if it was .Net, see post 55