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Lifetime Subscribers: We want to clear up any confusion regarding subscriptions for Windows Secrets Lifetime Subscribers. Your subscriptions are being honored along with your access to the newsletter archives. You will also have an opportunity to sign up for new bonuses and offers going forward.

Re: “clear up any confusion.” What confusion? There was no confusion at all. Kathleen, in your very own words back on January 14 you clearly stated Penton’s new policy, that “lifetime” meant a maximum of five years.

Let’s be honest here: this is a complete change of policy, not a little misunderstanding. As Penton’s representative, you should come out clearly and say, “We’re sorry. We made a mistake, and want to remedy that now.”

Will you be announcing this in the next edition of the newsletter? Right now, it’s buried deep in this forum which only a few people read; and also in an amendment to the January 14 newsletter– right, who’s going to read old issues?

Aside from the outrage of this, my next biggest regret is that Fred Langa gets tarred by being associated with these people. I’ve been reading his articles for at least two decades, and he is a fine, decent, honest, and extremely helpful person. It must sicken him to be part of this.

There is a lot of ranting in the forums on the new “newsletter” (read “website”) format, and I tend to agree with it all. But that’s the publisher’s prerogative, to publish in whatever format they want. It may be a stupid move, but it’s their right to be stupid.

But cancelling lifetime subscriptions–that’s a completely different matter, and deserves its own thread. That’s not just stupid. It’s unjust. It’s cheating. It’s fraud on the part of the original publisher, and theft on the part of the new publisher.

Here are questions/statements to which I’d like the responsible people to answer:

1) When the publisher(s) of WindowsSecrets offered lifetime subscriptions, did they do so knowing that they were lying, that they would be breaking their promise in the foreseeable future?

2) If Penton can’t afford to honour lifetime subscriptions, the right and just thing to do is to refund the payment. Penton should have figured that into their purchase price when they bought the company.

3) How many lifetime subscriptions are there? Are we talking a hundred, a thousand, or what?

I’m not a lifetime subscriber. I just feel outraged that some corporation would treat people so dismissively.

It has become apparent to me that this installation of Windows 10 is seriously messed up. The corrupted SendTo folder is only a symptom.
* USB Recovery: Repair doesn’t work
* I now get a “Low on memory” warning message every day or two. Task Manager shows that most programs use between 1,000 – 10,000K of memory. “System” uses 1,120,000 K of memory!

So I’m reformatting the Windows partition, and starting the whole thing from scratch. Please consider this thread closed.

Bruce – Sorry, I mis-read your post.

It certainly looks like your extended SendTo menu has been amalgamated with your right-click SendTo menu… except for these entries:
.android
.dia
.gimp-2.8
.junique
.oraclejre_usage
.VirtualBox
AppData
vw

I’m wondering whether this indicates corruption of the profile. Have you checked by logging on with another account, say a new local account?

Rick,

I think you’re on the right track. All my talk about trying to edit the SendTo menu just leads to fruitless searching. The issue is plainly that the extended SendTo menu got corrupted somehow, and is showing up in the plain SendTo menu.

1) Yes, all those odd items you listed — .android, .dia, etc. — those are all folders of those exact names in my User profile folder.

2) Yes, I created a new account (local), and the normal SendTo menu appeared.

So the issue is, how to fix this corruption? (without re-installing Windows from scratch!)
Here’s what I’m going to try:
* Try the Windows built-in Troubleshooter; see if it calls in a Fix-It tool.
* Do the Windows Repair which Fred Langa has described several times.
It will be a few days before I get around to this… I’ll report back.

Bruce

Lemmie see if I can find old utility that just might do the trick…if I find — will name it or them below.
ContextMenuEditor
ContextMenuControlFreak
— I’ll test these on some itty bitty thingies and report back.

Roland,
Thanks for your help.
I haven’t installed these. But from reading their descriptions, it sounds like they edit only the context menu; that is, what you get when you right-click on a file. They don’t go further to the specific right-click -> SendTo menu.

See if Send To Toys[/url] helps.

Joe,
Thanks for the tip.
Sadly, Send To Toys is primarily for adding things to the SendTo menu. For deleting, it offers nothing more than the basic tools I described above.

Have a look at Nir Sofer’s ShellMenuView for a way to amend your right-click context menus.

Hope this helps…

Rick,
Wow, you win the prize for being quick to answer: less than an hour after I posted!
And you suggest NirSoft, a great place for special tools. I hadn’t thought of that. Thanks for your work.

Unfortunately, neither ShellMenuView nor its relative ShellExView do the job. Both search for programs which are connected to specific file types. Example: if I have selected a .jpg file and right-click, various photo programs will offer to edit that file.
They don’t touch the SendTo menu. The SendTo menu is the same for every file type.

Try this list.
http://www.techradar.com/news/software/applications/best-free-video-editing-software-9-top-programs-you-should-download-1136264

These websites that simply give a list of every possible software, but without rating them, are almost useless. Much better is Gizmo’s TechSupportAlert.com. They have volunteer editors for dozens of categories, who take the time to test programs and make recommendations. Go here for best free video editors: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-video-editing-program.htm.

Sigh… you’re probably right.

Thanks to both for your helpful replies. Testing the CleanBoot procedure is going to take a while, when I have time. I’ll report back what I find.

OK, thanks everyone for the positive responses. That’s reassuring.
I’m marking this thread as “Solved.”
Even better: wish there was a way to change the title to something like: “New computers will need UEFI in order to run Windows 10; older systems are OK, though.” Sadly, this forum software appears to not have that function.

I believe these requirements are for new computers, not for existing computers.

Ah, that makes sense. After all, this conference was for hardware developers. I will rest a bit easier (I’m one of those with an older computer.)

Still, I’d like to confirm that by hearing from those who’ve used the Preview on a computer with BIOS instead of UEFI.

I’ve been using X1, the last free version (6.1) the company released way back in 2007. It still works flawlessly in Windows 8 / Server 2012 R2. It’s very simply the best search program out there, paid or otherwise.
I asked the company if they would consider releasing a free version again (“Just think how many users would tell their bosses they MUST get this for the company!”), but they said “No.” Oh well…

The website http://www.SyncDroid.net does a wonderful service, keeping an up-to-date list of all the programs which sync Outlook with Android. Why are there almost 40 programs available to do this? Because both the Android calendar and the regular Google calendar choke when it comes to handling recurring events, and subsequent exceptions to those series.
I just finished testing all the tools listed at SyncDroid.net which sync the Outlook calendar, and found only one worked flawlessly: CompanionLink. Sadly, it’s also one of the most expensive programs there.

What is especially grating about this is that the Palm operating system was able to match Outlook’s calendar stride for stride from the very beginning. It didn’t require an expensive app; it was built right into the OS. Google, with its huge resources and the smartest brains on the planet is unable to do that. Pity.