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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Software => Topic started by: Tugboat on January 18, 2020, 06:55:29 PM

Title: BeHeirarchic Nag Screen
Post by: Tugboat on January 18, 2020, 06:55:29 PM: Long time reader, periodic poster,

Years ago I downloaded and paid for BeHeirarchic, a neat little apple menu control panel that would help with file organization. I have lost the registration information and the developer (Fabien Octave) appears to be long gone. I would like to remove the nag screen that appears every time I start my Quicksilver saying that I must like BeHeirarchic therefore I should register. I would re-register if I could but in the absence of that do any of you wise souls know how to disable the nag screen?

Thank you.

Mike
Title: Re: BeHeirarchic Nag Screen
Post by: FdB on January 18, 2020, 08:48:22 PM: Hey Mike,

Well, I don’t know about wise?
But I’ll offer the broad (from the hip) scatter-gun approach.

Does a little BeHeirarchic icon, or anything even possibly / remotely related to “BH”… still march across the bottom of your screen at startup? I’d first begin looking for INITS, cdevs, etc… related to the now-errant software and disable (or trash) them from control panels, startup items / System folder, etcetera. Of course you might try selectively disabling anything that you suspect might be related, first… just to see how it goes before forever trashing?

AND if you’re running a dedicated OS 9-only machine, you might even be able to use Norton Utilities (shreiks heard loudly from all over the forum) and its’ “Find File” feature to seek out and eradicate all suspected remnants of BH. (Of course, you may wish to backup everything first (“out of an abundance of caution”).

I do wonder how deeply such a program might reach its’ tentacles into the very sinews of your machine. Hopefully not all that much.

Anyone else possibly have the old BH “secret code” written down somewhere… OR remember eradicating BeHeirarchic?

Or perhaps, Mike justs want to eliminate the Nag screen and not BeHeirarchic completely?
Title: Re: BeHeirarchic Nag Screen
Post by: IIO on January 18, 2020, 09:04:50 PM: LAIN
2A5F073A

(dont copy&paste, that wont work)
Title: Re: BeHeirarchic Nag Screen
Post by: FdB on January 18, 2020, 09:23:02 PM: Thanks IIO. Hope that solves it!

And just to show how much I think about you...
almost got you this for Christmas! ;)
(Know how much you love 'em.)
Title: Re: BeHeirarchic Nag Screen
Post by: IIO on January 18, 2020, 10:32:25 PM: wery kute

it haz teh midi?
Title: Re: BeHeirarchic Nag Screen
Post by: cyberish on January 19, 2020, 12:07:01 AM: never heard about BeHeirarchic : where can I find it? - google didn't help so far... thx
Title: Re: BeHeirarchic Nag Screen
Post by: OS923 on January 19, 2020, 01:53:01 AM: Try "BeHierarchic" (with double quotes).
Title: Re: BeHeirarchic Nag Screen
Post by: macarone on January 19, 2020, 09:38:48 AM: >never heard about BeHeirarchic : where can I find it?

It's so small, I'm attaching what I found. May save others some effort.
Title: Re: BeHeirarchic Nag Screen
Post by: cyberish on January 19, 2020, 10:36:34 AM: yeah, nice! thx guys!
Title: Re: BeHeirarchic Nag Screen
Post by: Tugboat on January 21, 2020, 11:57:31 AM: It worked! Thank you very much.
Title: Re: BeHeirarchic Nag Screen
Post by: FdB on January 22, 2020, 09:03:56 PM: Quote from: IIO on January 18, 2020, 10:32:25 PM
wery kute
it haz teh midi?

I find a thoughtful gift for you and you insist on it having MIDI?
Title: Re: BeHeirarchic Nag Screen
Post by: FdB on January 22, 2020, 09:05:04 PM: Anybody else download, install or use this?
Any reviews?
Title: Re: BeHeirarchic Nag Screen
Post by: IIO on January 23, 2020, 12:19:34 AM: i tested this around 1995 - and had to deinstall it because it was incompatible with an other extension which also does some stuff to menus.
Title: Re: BeHeirarchic Nag Screen
Post by: OS923 on January 23, 2020, 05:59:07 AM: Quote from: FdB on January 22, 2020, 09:05:04 PM
Anybody else download, install or use this? Any reviews?
I use this. It makes submenus in the Apple menu that contain icons, which looks better.