Powertoy add ons

[Wickiup]

I notice that many seemingly simple functions in OneNote are being
accomplished through the use of these Powertoy add ones.

It is great that someone is furnishing the time and effort to do this.

Are there any conflicts or downsides when using these and are they
recommended straight across the board?
My concern is cluttering up a program without the anticipated result or
improvement being attained.

-*-
Jim Curts

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)]

I haven't seen any problems with the PowerToys yet but I wouldn't rule
out the possibility that one of them might someday cause a problem.

My advice: Install any PowerToys you need and use. Don't install or
uninstall and that you're not using.

I think you should be fine that way. When in doubt about a particular
PowerToy ask about it here and perhaps somebody will have had some
experience with it.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q

 

[Wickiup]

Thanks

-*-
Jim Curts

I haven't seen any problems with the PowerToys yet but I wouldn't rule out
the possibility that one of them might someday cause a problem.

My advice: Install any PowerToys you need and use. Don't install or
uninstall and that you're not using.

I think you should be fine that way. When in doubt about a particular
PowerToy ask about it here and perhaps somebody will have had some
experience with it.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q

 

[Steve Silverwood]

My approach is a little different: I try out every OneNote PowerToy I
run across to see if it's useful at all. If not, I either leave it
installed in the event that it does prove useful later on, or I
uninstall it and keep the installer handy in case I want to put it
back in later on.

One thing I learned early on to do, though, is to create restore
points in Vista and XP so that if either I or something I install
manages to completely farble up the works, I can fall back.

//Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://kb6ojs.com

 

[Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)]

I suppose you can do that, but every add-in you install potentially uses
some resources and I'd just assume not bog down OneNote or my system
with add-ins that I don't use.

I certainly agree about keeping the installer around - no need to delete
those unless you're critically low on disk space. But I wouldn't leave
them installed in OneNote if I'm not using them.

I tend to do the same thing with whole applications, by the way. Every
few months I'll take 10 minutes, go to Control Panel | Add/Remove
Programs (or the Vista equivalent) and remove any apps that I don't use
anymore, just to clean things up a bit.

--
-Ben-
Ben M. Schorr, MVP
Roland Schorr & Tower
http://www.rolandschorr.com
http://www.officeforlawyers.com
Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007:
http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q

 

[Steve Silverwood]

I suppose you can do that, but every add-in you install potentially uses
some resources and I'd just assume not bog down OneNote or my system
with add-ins that I don't use.

I certainly agree about keeping the installer around - no need to delete
those unless you're critically low on disk space. But I wouldn't leave
them installed in OneNote if I'm not using them.

I tend to do the same thing with whole applications, by the way. Every
few months I'll take 10 minutes, go to Control Panel | Add/Remove
Programs (or the Vista equivalent) and remove any apps that I don't use
anymore, just to clean things up a bit.

Good approach. I probably should do that, but as it is I do enough
tinkering and general farbling around with my system (what can I say,
I'm a never-been-in-the-closet tinkerer) that I have to:

- reload it every six to nine months pretty much from scratch (meaning
restoring an image from a more or less "virgin" installation -- Vista
plus my standard applications and the latest system updates at the
time I took the image, etc.),
- bring it current with the updates since that time,
- take a new image, and
- restore my data from backup.

A small price to pay, and I minimize that by first testing out new
applications in Virtual PC, but I don't mind.

//Steve//

Steve Silverwood, KB6OJS
Email: (e-mail address removed)
Web: http://kb6ojs.com