Re: [NF]Help desk and language skills

2022-01-08 Thread Man-wai Chang
The problem is out-sourcing and down-sizing, the lowest price won, which meant lower language skills and less smart. That help desk person might be following a stupid A.I. the stupid way as well. :) "Global village" meant you need to deal with people whose mother tongue was not English, as well as

AW: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

2022-01-08 Thread Jürgen Wondzinski
Maybe you should just run VFP9.EXE /REGSERVER with Admin privileges. After that, start VFPCLEAN.APP from within VFP9, to restore all other Registry settings. wOOdy -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: ProFox Im Auftrag von paul.newton.h...@gmail.com Gesendet: Freitag, 7. Januar 2022 23:43 A

Re: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

2022-01-08 Thread Alan Bourke
Paul For me double-clicking a PJX in Windows also opens VFP9 with the project file open and ready. When I examine the .pjx entry using FileTypesMan (https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/file_types_manager.html) the registry key is: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Visual.FoxPro.Project\shell\open\command and the v

RE: Problem trying to run a Powershell script as an Explorer shell command (Fox related)

2022-01-08 Thread paul.newton.hudl
Thanks Alan, wOOdy and Michael I am going to try wOOdy's suggestion first and see where that takes me. Can anybody confirm what happens (and what the relevant registry entries are) when double-clicking on an SCX, an FRX and a VCX (not all at the same time )? Many thanks, again Paul -Origin

Re: [NF]Help desk and language skills

2022-01-08 Thread Ed Leafe
On Jan 8, 2022, at 06:17, Man-wai Chang wrote: > > The problem is out-sourcing and down-sizing, the lowest price won, > which meant lower language skills and less smart. That help desk > person might be following a stupid A.I. the stupid way as well. :) > > "Global village" meant you need to dea

RE: [NF]Help desk and language skills

2022-01-08 Thread Darren
- There's an easy answer: speak to them in their native tongue. Not so sure about that - My native tongue is English and there are plenty of Scottish (to name but one country) whose native tongue is English and for the life of me I often struggle to understand them. But I take the point !!!