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Old Tool OTD:
Name a tool or app that you used to use regularly, but stopped using.
QuickView Plus was one of my favorites. Not sure why I stopped using it or why it came to mind.
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CHKDSK
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I still use that one.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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ACDSee. It became bloated and useless.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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I used ACDSee95 because Win95 had no built-in image viewer 
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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For viewing only, I used VuePrint. It's now available for free and it's still very good.
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It did; it came with ms-paint.
The reason those picture-viewers became so popular was "hands free slide shows".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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As far as I can recall it didn't read many format, including JPEG. I was fairly young and inexperienced at that time so I listened a lot to what others said - and they weren't experts, just tinkers.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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It was updated (before Win98 came about) to include extra file-formats, yes.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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At that time I had the 27 floppies version  I couldn't install nor Plus! nor OSR/2 due to lack of CD reader. Came the CD came Win98 came the crashes with the screensaver; reverted but to NT4. Lasted until Win98 SE, then skipped everything until XP. On the oldest PC I installed Win Me and I'm one of the only three people satisfied with it.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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(A license for) Win ME was the only version of Windows that I actually paid for.
I still regret that choice 
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Ami Pro.
Best word processor ever.
Why did I stop using it? I had to support Word For Windows documents because the clients believed the MS BS. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I once came across a spreadsheet tool that was way better than Excel. It had infinite rows and columns and you can do multi-freezed rows so that one section stayed on top until the next section was in view to replace it. I couldn't remember where I saw that though.
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Gedea and Encarta. The old times of Encyclopaedias on CD, when there was no Internet connection at all (the existing services costed about a quarter of the average monthly wage for 64kbps ISDN or 1€/minute for 56k PSTN) nor wikipedia or similar.
DURA LEX, SED LEX
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
When I was six, there were no ones and zeroes - only zeroes. And not all of them worked. -- Ravi Bhavnani
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Ha! I bought or "bought" Bartlett's. Can't remember which.
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pedit
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Thinking about it, there were loads of 'em back in the DOS days: "BRIEF - the Programmer's Editor", "XTree Gold", "Norton Utilities" (before they were sold to Symantec), "MASM", ... all damn good.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Oh YES! BRIEF was great.
I liked PC Tools, it allowed me to have multiple desktops inside Windows for WorkGroups.
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I miss BRIEF, you could have all kinds of macros (written in a c-like script).
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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VB6. Yea I know, but I used it from launch until at least 2010! Actually, I used VB from the initial release. \m/
veni bibi saltavi
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My toothbrush. I really enjoy my new dentures 
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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MS Access - it was a great tool in its day.
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sed, emacs. Oh, and that old mechanical Hollerith card punch with the 4 x 3 keypad.
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VEdit loved it.
Now Notepad ++ does what I need.
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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