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RE: Make WLM simple to use by old persons
hello Well, floating contacts with display picture exist, at least one of this, and I found it there: http://software.techrepublic.com.com/download.aspx ?docid=219497. It looks pretty nice. One more thing I am looking for in my search for helping old ... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 11-01-2007 at 09:09 AM |
RE: Make WLM simple to use by old persons
hello Chris4 and thank you for your answer. I started Mess Patch but was told that Messenger was not installed properly; yarkk. On the same track, looking into Msg+, I found what is named, translated form French, the floating contacts. I discovered t... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 10-31-2007 at 08:53 PM |
Make WLM simple to use by old persons
hello I love WLM, along with many. At the opposite, at 89 of age, my mother does not quite have the ability to use it. I am looking out for something like this: offer her few icons, wearing her children's pictures, to easily start a conversati... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 10-30-2007 at 09:04 PM |
RE: One WLM too many
Thank you for your answers first. Well, I unclicked "Automatically run Windows Live Messenger......" into the WLM I want to quit starting. I will see at the next boot wether it actually works according to our expectations. Count on me to report if ... | francoisch | WLM Plus! Help | 10-01-2007 at 05:00 PM |
One WLM too many
hello I am running WLM 8.1 along with Msg Plus. My problem: at boot time, 2 WLM's start automatically as I would like to have now only one doing so. I certainly installed this some time in the past but don't remember how I did this. Would anyone ha... | francoisch | WLM Plus! Help | 10-01-2007 at 08:17 AM |
RE: Is Msn for everyone?
hello everyone and thank you for your interesting answers. I have to go for few days, so I will be quiet, but I will work on these upon return. Yes, I could go with any solution which would be very visible, like a large popup, a toast, ... My prefere... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 09-27-2007 at 12:10 PM |
Is Msn for everyone?
hello Among young persons, everyone notices whenever someone else offers to start a Msn conversation: blinking, sounds, popup... Among old persons, almost no one wound notice any of the very tiny signs Msn sends. I am still strugling to find a workin... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 09-27-2007 at 10:41 AM |
RE: Msg+ for disabled persons
hello I still need to get my counterpart's window open whenever I trigger a new conversation, as I mentionned it at start. Could anyone give me a clue to debug the script which was posted here some days ago? my own skills on this subject are close t... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 09-17-2007 at 07:26 PM |
RE: Msg+ for disabled persons
hello I did reinstall the script into my mother's PC, checked wether there could be some nasty added character or so, none are there. The result remains: - on my side, the conversation is indeed open: I see / hear what her webcam captures - on my mo... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 09-11-2007 at 08:20 AM |
RE: Msg+ for disabled persons
hello I can't reinstall the script at the time since my mother is away for a while. I will let you know the end result as soon as possible. Francois | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 09-06-2007 at 10:17 AM |
RE: Msg+ for disabled persons
hello I would appreciate if anyone around had the beginning of a clue like what the one Patchou suggests. Otherwise, my only way will be to reinstall the script, just to see if someting changes, although I believe thie initial install went well and t... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 08-30-2007 at 09:13 AM |
RE: Msg+ for disabled persons
hello I still have a glitch. In my tests environment, my laptop PC calls up in WiFi my tower PC, where the "window opener" script is installed, and the whole thing works: the conversation window opens on my tower. In my real environment, my tower P... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 08-26-2007 at 10:22 AM |
RE: Msg+ for disabled persons
hello friends I want to thank you all, for the code, for installing it, for your kind help. Yes, it works, I just tested it. This is great since I will be able to trigger a video conversation with my mother now; others in similar situations will also... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 08-25-2007 at 12:46 PM |
RE: Msg+ for disabled persons
hello Matty and thank you for your answer. Well, I am pretty interested into getting this to work. Thus I copied your code into a something.plsc file. Then, in Messenger Plus Live, I went into Importing it. The answer I received form Messenger Plus L... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 08-24-2007 at 07:29 PM |
Msg+ for disabled persons
hello I have been advocating for some time about some additional new feature in Msg+ which would allow an old person to play the game as much as a 15 year old one. My precise matter is: - when I go and try to launch a conversation, video or not, with... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 08-24-2007 at 04:05 PM |
RE: WLM for old persons
hello I am back after a while, still pretty interested into this old person access subject. I am not confident with the idea that we just have to wait until the current old persons will disappear and hope that the next generation will be "skilled".... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 06-13-2007 at 08:06 PM |
RE: WLM for old persons
hello Thank you first for your answers and comments. As a summary, I would round up this subject by saying that there is just no good working solution to help old persons to use WLM. That's bad, especially since there are more and more old persons o... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 05-22-2007 at 03:25 PM |
RE: WLM for old persons
hello MattyRid and thank you for your answer. Well, you know, I looked into the Hopper add-on, one of its functions being to trigger 4-5 pop-ups instead of one into the right bottom corner you mentionned. Even this didn't work. Reason why I am looki... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 04-30-2007 at 05:03 PM |
WLM for old persons
Hello For a regular user, when one receives an offer to exchange via WLM, either by text or video, the following happens : - the down below button blinks - a sound goes off But, when an old person is in this very same situation, sitting in front of h... | francoisch | WLM Plus! General | 04-30-2007 at 09:29 AM |
PH toast?
hello I am sorry to ask what a PH toast is, also what the difference is with a regular toast. May I also ask how long, in seconds, a toast stays popped up? Anyway, thank you in advance for your help. Francois | francoisch | Plug-Ins | 02-05-2007 at 09:36 PM |
RE: Automaticlly open counterpart conversation window
hello folks I seem to be starting to understand that: - I can send toasts whenever I want, thanks to Hopper - I can't modify anything in toasts shape, sounding, size, ... Right? OK, I will go and look more into Hopper to undertsand how I can send to... | francoisch | WLM Plus! Help | 01-22-2007 at 08:46 PM |
RE: Automaticlly open counterpart conversation window
hello FineWolf I actually need to reinforce these popups into which way I could find: make them larger, make them sound harder, make them stay as opposed to vanishing 2 seconds after poping up, ... What Hopper can do for me along theses tracks? Thank... | francoisch | WLM Plus! Help | 01-22-2007 at 08:18 AM |
RE: Automaticlly open counterpart conversation window
Folks, thank you for your kind answers. I finally put my hands on Hopper and installed it. I found my way to the Hopper Configuration panel and then I got stuck there. I am still trying to figure out how I may get Hopper to trigger what is named Toas... | francoisch | WLM Plus! Help | 01-21-2007 at 08:59 PM |
RE: Automaticlly open counterpart conversation window
Oxy, thank you for your answer. I will go and proceed with the installation. Francois[hr]Whoops, there is a catch in installing. Double clicking on the HopperLive.plsc file, I get the question "Which program to use to open this file?". Looking into... | francoisch | WLM Plus! Help | 01-19-2007 at 08:13 AM |
RE: Automaticlly open counterpart conversation window
Thank you for you answers. Let me first clear up what my actual need is: grab my 88 year old mother's attention; in this particular case, I will have no trouble installing a plug-in on her PC. I will go and look into Hopperlive right away. Thanks ag... | francoisch | WLM Plus! Help | 01-14-2007 at 06:17 PM |