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Living Room / Re: I am so sick of google's search result urls with tracking info

« on: July 20, 2011, 08:22 PM »

Ben,

Does Scroogle just pass on your search terms and then return whatever Google returns? I guess the really important question (to me) is: Will my searches through Scroogle still be subject to Google's asinine restructuring/respelling of my search terms?  (Which I obviously hate with much passion!) I have a feeling that it does since it appears that it just passes info to and from Google, eliminating only the tracking aspect of it.

Thank you.

Jim

-J-Mac (July 20, 2011, 09:20 AM)

Hi Jim... I'm not sure if this will apply to in-depth searches; and I avoid google, so I'm not too familiar with the restructuring/respelling. But here is what
resulted when I intentionally misspelled "receive" as "recieve" (which I am always doing anyway). The first screenshot is what I entered. The second screenshot
shows the search term in black bold type at the upper left. I think the search terms you input through Scroogle are unmolested. 

-Ben

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Living Room / Re: I am so sick of google's search result urls with tracking info

« on: July 20, 2011, 06:23 AM »

Have you ever tried Scroogle? http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html

 I've been using it for a coupla years now; and I like it so much that I donated...
But the donation doesn't necessarily go to the operators of Scroogle. You can pick your amount and favorite charity!

I forgot to mention that it is explained at the top-level domain: http://www.scroogle.org/

-Ben

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Script to set a system restore point; win7

« on: July 14, 2010, 07:32 PM »

Thank you! Works perfectly. I'm a single parent with teenagers.
System restore points are a necessity.

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Finished Programs / SOLVED: Script to set a system restore point; win7

« on: July 14, 2010, 03:41 PM »

This is my first visit here... what a groovy place!

I got two vb scripts that set a system restore point in win7 (from a place called "lifehacker")

The first one sets the restore point with a label that is supplied from a message box:

If WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 Then
   Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
   objShell.ShellExecute "wscript.exe", Chr(34) & WScript.ScriptFullName & Chr(34) & " Run", , "runas", 1
Else
   GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\default:Systemrestore").CreateRestorePoint InputBox("Enter a descriptive name for the restore point:","Create Restore Point - With Description"), 0, 100
End If

The second one sets the restore point with a preset label, in this case, "manual restore point":

If WScript.Arguments.Count = 0 Then
   Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
   objShell.ShellExecute "wscript.exe", Chr(34) & WScript.ScriptFullName & Chr(34) & " Run", , "runas", 1
Else
   GetObject("winmgmts:\\.\root\default:Systemrestore").CreateRestorePoint "Manual Restore Point", 0, 100
End If

Is there a way to combine these two so that if I "cancel" the message box on the first one...
without typing a label; it will simply run the other one to create the restore point with the preset label?

Thanks if you can help.. Ben