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Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: RandyT on March 20, 2007, 05:35:08 pm ---A new version of the software came out while you were away....things picked up quite a bit in that department, plus no more manual startup configurations.  You can still do it manually if you really want, but it's all "one-click" stuff on the main menu now  :cheers:

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Hi Randy,

I knew you were working on the new software, but I didn't know it was out yet.  I'll check it out!!!

However, I really wasn't criticizing your old software as much as making a point about my comparison pages.  I have tested your previous software and programming time was between 15-20 seconds under XP, IMS.  I have heard reports that the I-PAC software was somewhere in the 1-5 second range.  I can test your new version out, but I'm still relying on second-hand reports for the I-PAC speed (but I have neither the time, nor the incentive (beyond idle curiosity) to verify the I-PAC data.

Anyway, thanks for the updated software and for all your support of the BYOAC community.
Tiger-Heli:
Tested out the new Keywiz software.  Question:  Is there still a “stealth” version of it like there was previously.  (I don’t think I’ll use it, but the pack-rat in me would like to have it just in case.)

Anyway, in the interest of brevity.  I did a fairly quick test of this.  First I tried to do a baseline, but I had moved my KeyWiz folder from my C:\ partition to the G:\partition and it no longer worked.  (Shows how often I re-program the KeyWiz . . . ).  I re-installed the version .99 software and it only would install to C:\keywiz, copied over my previous .kwz files and it worked fine.  Using a digital watch, load times (WinXP SP2) were 16 seconds (2 tests) from when the software popped up to when it closed (give or take 1 second either way between when I looked from the screen to my watch, etc.)

The new version allowed me to install it to G:\keywiz (or any other directory) like I wanted, looks a lot more polished, and load times were 8 seconds under the same conditions as above.  Literally half the time and the software has nice shortcuts to the virtual EEPROM and load at startup features, although for my usage I won’t need these, but it’s a nice touch.

Thanks for all the hard work, Randy!!!
RandyT:

--- Quote from: Tiger-Heli on March 26, 2007, 09:03:04 am ---Tested out the new Keywiz software.  Question:  Is there still a “stealth” version of it like there was previously.  (I don’t think I’ll use it, but the pack-rat in me would like to have it just in case.)

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No, but the stealth feature is now part of the regular program.  Just click on the Stealth option and the next time you boot, you will only see a very subdued progress indicator in the windows taskbar (if you have it set to be visible.)

FWIW, 98SE speeds have increased by the same amount and are now in the ~3 second range ;)

RandyT
Tiger-Heli:

--- Quote from: RandyT on March 26, 2007, 10:32:22 am ---No, but the stealth feature is now part of the regular program.  Just click on the Stealth option and the next time you boot, you will only see a very subdued progress indicator in the windows taskbar (if you have it set to be visible.)

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Cool, I'll check that out!!!
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