Same here; we don't use the Windows IME much; instead, we use a program called Key. It's like a self-contained word procesor. You type the pinyin (sans tone, unless you really want to), then at either word break or sentence break depending on your settings, it converts everything to characters, based on a database of most common usage. If the wrong character is added, you just select it and open the homonym finder, then select the proper character. It also includes a searchable dictionary, recordings of all the syllables that play with the tool-tip definition and pinyin you get when hovering over a character, and a radical finder, where you construct a character by the radicals you remember (if you don't remember the pinyin, for instance). I also believe it has plugins for Korean and Japanese...
You DID read the legal brief and/or the many, MANY posts on just about every major gaming blog concerning StarForce, right? Even if it doesn't permanently damage your optical drives, cause extreme system slowdown, or make it impossible to burn a CD/DVD (all of which have been reported to happen), it grants system-level access to user-level applications - introducing yet another security hole into Windows, one within a payload much more likely to be used by many users.
Also, the company itself acts far superior to their customers, discounts and/or deletes anything on their site claiming StarForce damage, relies on a heavily biased contest result to prove their point ("Hey, come fly out to Moscow and prove to us on our own PC that we've set up for you that StarForce causes damage!!! Wait, no one came? YOU ALL R LIARZ OMGWTFLOL!!!"), and threatens with legal action many others who post about their difficulties.
Thus, they lose on all counts...
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Same here; we don't use the Windows IME much; instead, we use a program called Key. It's like a self-contained word procesor. You type the pinyin (sans tone, unless you really want to), then at either word break or sentence break depending on your settings, it converts everything to characters, based on a database of most common usage. If the wrong character is added, you just select it and open the homonym finder, then select the proper character. It also includes a searchable dictionary, recordings of all the syllables that play with the tool-tip definition and pinyin you get when hovering over a character, and a radical finder, where you construct a character by the radicals you remember (if you don't remember the pinyin, for instance). I also believe it has plugins for Korean and Japanese ...
You DID read the legal brief and/or the many, MANY posts on just about every major gaming blog concerning StarForce, right? Even if it doesn't permanently damage your optical drives, cause extreme system slowdown, or make it impossible to burn a CD/DVD (all of which have been reported to happen), it grants system-level access to user-level applications - introducing yet another security hole into Windows, one within a payload much more likely to be used by many users. Also, the company itself acts far superior to their customers, discounts and/or deletes anything on their site claiming StarForce damage, relies on a heavily biased contest result to prove their point ("Hey, come fly out to Moscow and prove to us on our own PC that we've set up for you that StarForce causes damage!!! Wait, no one came? YOU ALL R LIARZ OMGWTFLOL!!!"), and threatens with legal action many others who post about their difficulties. Thus, they lose on all counts ...