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PURE MOTIVATION
review by
W. Macleod
Pure Motivation is a MS Windows screen-saver and quote of the
day program. It provides protection against screen burn-in while
providing you with "inspirational" sayings to start each day of
computing.
Installation presented the first problem with the program. I
wanted to install it to my D: drive, but it would only allow
installation to my C: drive. The install tells you that you can
install it to any drive, but gives the "Path not Found" error
message when an attempt to install to other than C: is made. I have
seen this in other Visual Basic applications, but was surprised and
disappointed to see it in a commercial production software.
Otherwise the install is simple and "intelligent" It makes a c ouple
of changes to the win.ini and system.ini files, but also makes a
copy of the original files and saves them to its home directory to
allow an easy uninstall. It does not overwrite any existing files
during installation.
After installation the program detects which screen-saver, if
any, you currently are using and requests permission to override and
make Pure Motivation the default. The program has its own control
panel where various settings can be adjusted. This panel can be
accessed from an icon on your desktop, or from the screen-saver
setup section of the Windows Control Panel Applet. The panel allows
you to choose between a "standard" library of quotations that comes
with the program or from a custom library that you have created
yourself. The standard library consists of 1000 quotations from
some of the great minds of yesterday and today, from Dante to Nixon.
There is an editor that allows you to modify your libraries,
deleting those quotes you do not care for and adding any you might
want. You can choose to just have the "quote of the day," similar
to the feature found on many BBSs, active or just the screen-saver
or both. The quote will come up each time you start Windows and
requires you to click on an exit box to end it. The screen-saver is
actually a quote that moves about your screen. You have the choice
of a static quote or a random quote. The quote is superimposed on a
background of varying color that can be selected to be solid or
marble-like. There is also an option called "Motivational
Vacation." This option allows you to set up so that a quote comes up
on your screen in the middle of any application running at set
intervals. You can set the Vacation to pop up at intervals of from
1 minute to ever y 6 hours. You can also set the time that it stays
displayed from 1 to 60 seconds. There is also an icon called "Quick
Quote" that allows you to bring up a quote at any time simply by
double clicking on the icon.
In operation, I found the screen-saver to be disappointing in
that the movement across my screen was somewhat jerky using either
the solid or marble background. The saver also allowed my mouse
cursor to show through as well as a couple of my icons. When I
start up my computer it is to "do something" and I found I did not
like having to wait for the quote to come up and then having to
click exit to get rid of it. These are my personal feelings for the
program, functionally it is fine, just not something that I would
use. If you are the type of person who draws inspiration from
others, this program will meet your needs quite nicely.
Requires 386 or better and MS windows 3.0 or later. A VGA or
higher resolution monitor is recommended.
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