gknot request

[niamh]

hhhmm, i'm loathe to start a new thread just for that, but i can't find a place to put it :)

i would have a little request for future gknots, if possible :)
would it be possible to have the option to minimize gknot to the taskbar, as well as in the tray? since my windows explorer crashes every 5 minutes with avi files, i end up with the gknot icon disappearing, and impossible to restore. i have to go to the task manager to end the process to recover it, and of course, all my settings and everything go AWOL. it isnt much a problem but it is annoying, i end up having to leave gknot on the screen constantly, just in case .

if that could be sorted i would be eternally grateful to len0x, the ripping gods and whoever else i'm pointed to :D
(and i know it's a windows bug, but i figured Bill wasn't going to fix that anytime soon ;))

[Doom9]

since my windows explorer crashes every 5 minutes with avi files,There seems to be an easier solution for your problem: get a stable setup. Either fix what you screwed up (this behaviour is certainly not normal) or do a complete reinstall and go easy on the tools you install afterwards (main source for problems is installing a lot of 3rd party tools that start to interfere with each other).

[stax76]

you could try to disable the task bar (the sidebar in the xp explorer window) if you don't need it

[SiXXGuNNZ]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=18050

[niamh]

thanks, i know all the threads, all the supposed fixes, and nothing works, it still crashes :) on top of it it happens to quite a few people i know, be they on XP or 2K, though it seems less damaging on 2K .... i have done registry clean ups, reformats, total uninstall and reinstall of codecs etc..etc..it works for 3 days max, and then off we go again ;) i got used to it, so did my friends...i just hoped there was a way to minimize GK elsewhere than in the tray, that's all .(last reformat 2 weeks ago, and i'm running on the bare minimum i need, so if there is a conflict, so be it, because i need everything on my pc right now). For me, it happens with XviD nearly only, another friend has ogg and XviD crashing him and so on... ah well, no bother

[stax76]

I don't understand when you disable the bar why windows should want to access the media file, even when the explorer crashes it should restart including taskbar

[niamh]

oh explorer does restart...so does the tray....minus a few icons

[Doom9]

well.. if it starts happening after a reinstall.. I'd ask myself "what tools have I installed"? Try not to install anything.. I bet it won't happen anymore. There's nobody I know having any such problems, and all the people I know that are my age have a computer and have eventually come across one or two avi files.

[stax76]

at least on XP reinstall should not be necessary, I've never reinstalled XP except for new hardware. I have good experience with enabling system recovery only on drive C and I don't install software on C or save personal data on C since the system recovery would modify that data. Of course a seperate partition or a virtual machine should be used to test new software in the first place so a system recovery would never be necessary

[niamh]

hhmm i have 2K anyway....never mind as i said it is no big deal :) thank you for your answers :).All i wanted to know is if it was possible to have GK minimized in the taskbar as well as the tray, as 99% of apps do, but it IS a minor nuisance, much more minor than finding out what does it(laziness hits), and is it the same software on all configurations ...anyway, as i said i need every app i have right now, so so be it..it's not like it stops my system, all it does is make me lose 2 or 3 icons :)