Questions about PINS

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Bob Phillips

I use the PINS freeware product
(http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/pins.html) to store all of the tons of
things I need to store.

Ideally I would like to do 2 things, which I cannot figure:

1) Use the product off of a USB key - is this possible, any registry or
stuff that stops this? The website says it is from floppy, but I have not
been able to off of a USB.

2) Have multiple instances of the product, one for family stuff, one for
financial stuff, one for computer stuff. I know it has separate categories,
but these are not working that well for me (if the UI changed, maybe, but
not as it stands). Every time I create a new instance, new folder whatever,
it retrieves the same data.

I have tried emailing the author but got no joy.

Is this possible? Or even maybe a better product out there.

TIA

Bob
 
I use the PINS freeware product
(http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/pins.html) to store all of the tons of
things I need to store.

Ideally I would like to do 2 things, which I cannot figure:

1) Use the product off of a USB key - is this possible, any registry or
stuff that stops this? The website says it is from floppy, but I have not
been able to off of a USB.

2) Have multiple instances of the product, one for family stuff, one for
financial stuff, one for computer stuff. I know it has separate categories,
but these are not working that well for me (if the UI changed, maybe, but
not as it stands). Every time I create a new instance, new folder whatever,
it retrieves the same data.

I have tried emailing the author but got no joy.

Is this possible? Or even maybe a better product out there.

TIA

Bob
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1) I don't know if there is an option in the program in Settings, but
in the PINS startup folder there should be a file named PINS.ini with
the following entry. Setting it to 0 will save all settings to
PINS.ini (in the startup folder) and setting it to 1 will save to the
registry.

[General]
SaveSettingsToRegistry=

2) I've never tried multiple setups but I imagine configuring your
PINS.ini files and starting the program from the appropriate folder
would do the trick.

HTH, Good luck.
 
Charles,

Thanks, mine is set to 1. I don't think it is in Settings, should be, that
is where I looked.

I'll change it later and give it a whirl.

Any ideas on multiple copies.

Thanks

Bob

charles said:
I use the PINS freeware product
(http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/pins.html) to store all of the tons of
things I need to store.

Ideally I would like to do 2 things, which I cannot figure:

1) Use the product off of a USB key - is this possible, any registry or
stuff that stops this? The website says it is from floppy, but I have not
been able to off of a USB.

2) Have multiple instances of the product, one for family stuff, one for
financial stuff, one for computer stuff. I know it has separate categories,
but these are not working that well for me (if the UI changed, maybe, but
not as it stands). Every time I create a new instance, new folder whatever,
it retrieves the same data.

I have tried emailing the author but got no joy.

Is this possible? Or even maybe a better product out there.

TIA

Bob
Click to expand...

1) I don't know if there is an option in the program in Settings, but
in the PINS startup folder there should be a file named PINS.ini with
the following entry. Setting it to 0 will save all settings to
PINS.ini (in the startup folder) and setting it to 1 will save to the
registry.

[General]
SaveSettingsToRegistry=

2) I've never tried multiple setups but I imagine configuring your
PINS.ini files and starting the program from the appropriate folder
would do the trick.

HTH, Good luck.
Click to expand...
 
Bob Phillips said:
Charles,

Thanks, mine is set to 1. I don't think it is in Settings, should be, that
is where I looked.

I'll change it later and give it a whirl.

Any ideas on multiple copies.
Click to expand...

ISTR there are two versions, one installable, one you just run. Perhaps
things have changed. I have two zip files of PINS 4.5; install and non
install. Just checked and it is so, with the .ini setting as described
by Charles:

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/files/PINs450.zip

Also, Mirek used to email a couple of years back. Probably the size of
his post bag determines whether or not.

Finally, YMLT take a look at Steve Gibson's password generator at
www.grc.com . The page itself is secure. He claims the passwords are
genuinely random (I'd disagree with the concept as is, but there you
go), and are thus ideal for setting up wireless encryption.

You may want that one day, even if not now.
Thanks

Bob

charles said:
I use the PINS freeware product
(http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/pins.html) to store all of the tons of
things I need to store.

Ideally I would like to do 2 things, which I cannot figure:

1) Use the product off of a USB key - is this possible, any registry or
stuff that stops this? The website says it is from floppy, but I have not
been able to off of a USB.

2) Have multiple instances of the product, one for family stuff, one for
financial stuff, one for computer stuff. I know it has separate categories,
but these are not working that well for me (if the UI changed, maybe, but
not as it stands). Every time I create a new instance, new folder whatever,
it retrieves the same data.

I have tried emailing the author but got no joy.

Is this possible? Or even maybe a better product out there.

TIA

Bob
Click to expand...

1) I don't know if there is an option in the program in Settings, but
in the PINS startup folder there should be a file named PINS.ini with
the following entry. Setting it to 0 will save all settings to
PINS.ini (in the startup folder) and setting it to 1 will save to the
registry.

[General]
SaveSettingsToRegistry=

2) I've never tried multiple setups but I imagine configuring your
PINS.ini files and starting the program from the appropriate folder
would do the trick.

HTH, Good luck.
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Thanks mate, that is all useful stuff.

Regards

Bob

Huss said:
Bob Phillips said:
Charles,

Thanks, mine is set to 1. I don't think it is in Settings, should be, that
is where I looked.

I'll change it later and give it a whirl.

Any ideas on multiple copies.
Click to expand...

ISTR there are two versions, one installable, one you just run. Perhaps
things have changed. I have two zip files of PINS 4.5; install and non
install. Just checked and it is so, with the .ini setting as described
by Charles:

http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/files/PINs450.zip

Also, Mirek used to email a couple of years back. Probably the size of
his post bag determines whether or not.

Finally, YMLT take a look at Steve Gibson's password generator at
www.grc.com . The page itself is secure. He claims the passwords are
genuinely random (I'd disagree with the concept as is, but there you
go), and are thus ideal for setting up wireless encryption.

You may want that one day, even if not now.
Thanks

Bob

charles said:
On Mon, 15 May 2006 14:49:59 +0100, "Bob Phillips"

I use the PINS freeware product
(http://www.mirekw.com/winfreeware/pins.html) to store all of the tons of
things I need to store.

Ideally I would like to do 2 things, which I cannot figure:

1) Use the product off of a USB key - is this possible, any registry or
stuff that stops this? The website says it is from floppy, but I have not
been able to off of a USB.

2) Have multiple instances of the product, one for family stuff, one for
financial stuff, one for computer stuff. I know it has separate categories,
but these are not working that well for me (if the UI changed, maybe, but
not as it stands). Every time I create a new instance, new folder whatever,
it retrieves the same data.

I have tried emailing the author but got no joy.

Is this possible? Or even maybe a better product out there.

TIA

Bob



1) I don't know if there is an option in the program in Settings, but
in the PINS startup folder there should be a file named PINS.ini with
the following entry. Setting it to 0 will save all settings to
PINS.ini (in the startup folder) and setting it to 1 will save to the
registry.

[General]
SaveSettingsToRegistry=

2) I've never tried multiple setups but I imagine configuring your
PINS.ini files and starting the program from the appropriate folder
would do the trick.

HTH, Good luck.
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