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kstuart · 03-26-2003, 02:45 PM

I am finding that this beta adds enough features that I decided to test IsiloX. So far so good. The only disadvantage of IsiloX as compared to Plucker Desktop at this point, is that the file sizes are 33-50% larger with Isilo. My guess is that Isilo uses DOC format compression, while Plucker uses as default ZLIB compression (and in fact when I tried Plucker using DOC compression, the file sizes were only about 10% smaller than Isilo). Perhaps DOC fomat compression is necessary in Isilo to enable the feature that allows Isilo to read DOC files? Can anyone verify this?

Anyway, I am mostly posting to provided a helpful link.

For those who are using Windows XP, if your Windows User Login does not use a password, then Scheduled Tasks won't work. But there is a fix for this on "Kelly's Korner XP Tweaks" at http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm - but be sure to backup your registry (or set a manual Restore Point) whenever using anything on that page. The relevant tweak is "67. Run Scheduled Tasks w/o PW".

I've seen this problem come up for people using Windows XP, every time that Windows Scheduled Tasks is mentioned, so I thought this might be useful...

03-26-2003, 02:45 PM	#41
kstuart Member Posts: 12 Karma: 28 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Northern California Device: Clie NR70	I am finding that this beta adds enough features that I decided to test IsiloX. So far so good. The only disadvantage of IsiloX as compared to Plucker Desktop at this point, is that the file sizes are 33-50% larger with Isilo. My guess is that Isilo uses DOC format compression, while Plucker uses as default ZLIB compression (and in fact when I tried Plucker using DOC compression, the file sizes were only about 10% smaller than Isilo). Perhaps DOC fomat compression is necessary in Isilo to enable the feature that allows Isilo to read DOC files? Can anyone verify this? Anyway, I am mostly posting to provided a helpful link. For those who are using Windows XP, if your Windows User Login does not use a password, then Scheduled Tasks won't work. But there is a fix for this on "Kelly's Korner XP Tweaks" at http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp_tweaks.htm - but be sure to backup your registry (or set a manual Restore Point) whenever using anything on that page. The relevant tweak is "67. Run Scheduled Tasks w/o PW". I've seen this problem come up for people using Windows XP, every time that Windows Scheduled Tasks is mentioned, so I thought this might be useful...