You are 100% right about it!

Grtz,

Nic

As a “community reviewer”, I can also fall into that category. Right this minute, I am removing a HD from my pool so that I can work on some other add-ins. It would be much better/easier to do if I had a “spare” 1TB drive just “laying” around, but…

So, if anyone has an extra one gathering dust, I would be happy to take it off your hands!

For those add-ins which require additional SW to be installed, the Catch-22 of community programmers comes into play. Unlike commercial SW companies, community programmers do not have the resources to test on multiple OS/HW platforms. Writing proper instructions is an added burden.

Perhaps many of the users who come to WGS are knowledgeable enough to “fill in the blanks”. Many are not. And for that group that I call the “average consumer”, near impossible to figure out. If one cannot easily get something to work, the frustration factor goes up quickly, partly because support for community add-ins can vary greatly.

And please don’t take this as a negative against Client Info. This is an inherent problem with a lot of community SW.

(Re)start the service and then setup the service as described in the above article, there you fill out the administrators account and password and normally the info will show up after some seconds when you refresh the screen in the whs addin.

Although this works for me on 4 of my 5 Vista pc’s, I can’t figure out why it doesn’t work on the 5th Vista pc. I’m still searching for a solution on that one.

Greetings,

Nic

I couldn’t help but note that you said your children don’t like passwords. Neither does my daughter, but she and I came up with a simple password that she’s comfortable with, and that satisfies at least some of the security requirements of XP. If the computers are connected to any network, I highly recommend password log ins.