Group: microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
From: Leonard Grey
Date: Friday, March 07, 2008 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: TweakUI for XP Produces Registry Error

I can tell you that my toys get great support at home...wait, are we
talking about the same thing?

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Leonard Grey
Errare humanum est

Swifty wrote:
> VanguardLH wrote:
>> Not entirely correct. TweakUI (and other powertoys) are written by
>> Microsoft programmers. Microsoft wrote them, Microsoft makes them
>> available, but Microsoft does not SUPPORT them.
>
> And in most cases, being someone's personal toy project, they are
> frequently better supported than the company's official products. I
> can't speak for the current example though. I know that *my* unsupported
> toys get considerably better support. I aim to fix bugs within 30
> minutes of notification, and notification is typically real-time (via
> SMS messages). This is sometimes a hard deadline to honour, like when I
> was halfway home from work on my bicycle. My best time (until that day)
> was 1 hour and 10 minutes for the complete journey, but I did the second
> half of the journey in 20 minutes, giving me five minutes to fix the
> bug. I made it with a minute to spare.
>