topbanner_forum
  *

avatar image

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?

Login with username, password and session length
  • Friday March 29, 2024, 2:59 am
  • Proudly celebrating 15+ years online.
  • Donate now to become a lifetime supporting member of the site and get a non-expiring license key for all of our programs.
  • donate

Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Topics - AStroP [ switch to compact view ]

Pages: [1]
1
Hello!

Recently I placed a couple of shortcuts (*.lnk files) on my desktop that point to UNC network paths, e.g. \\NASServer\Share\Folder.
Since that day Farr freezes frequently (but not always) for 10 or 15 seconds while searching the desktop folder when the NAS is offline at that moment.

I think similar topics have already been discussed a couple of times for example here or here:

https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=34690.0
https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=41204.0

As far as I can see the problem should be solved by the latest FARR version but I am using the latest version. Am I doing something wrong? I already tried to tweak several options but without success:

Settings > Display Options > Report Columns > Date (can slow display) [_]
Settings > Search Behavior > Do not add network drive paths to launch history [X]
Settings > Search Behavior > Resolve shortcuts when searching [_]
Settings > Search Behavior > Resolve shortcuts when adding items to result list [_]
Settings > Folder Browsing > Use generic icons for folders... [X]
Settings > Tweaks and Debugging > Speed up display by avoiding lookup of some icons [X]
Settings > Tweaks and Debugging > Test icon speed issues by not displaying any icons [_]
Settings > Tweaks and Debugging > Log slow icon lookups in troubleshooting log [X]
Lists > Heuristic Scoring > Recency Date Bonus (slows down search a little) [_]
Settings > Tweaks and Debugging > Do not attempt specific file icon lookup on specific drives [\\NASServer]

Surprisingly the troubleshooting log is empty except for the usual "::: [ Starting Find and Run Robot..." but when I use Sysinternals Process Monitor to capture farrs file operations you can clearly see that it freezes while doing "something" with those UNC network shortcuts.

I guess I'm running out of ideas.  :(

2
Find And Run Robot / %MYRECENTDOCS% not working?
« on: August 09, 2011, 08:01 PM »
Here on my PC (Win7Pro 32Bit, FARR 2.99.02) the virtual folder/variable replacement %MYRECENTDOCS% in "Options > Lists > Search Folders" doesn't seem to work. When I specify the absolute path C:\Users\<MyUsername>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent everything works ok. Does anybody have the same problem?

3
Hi!

First of all - and i must repeat myself, as i already said that for some of your other tools  :Thmbsup: - many thanx for this wonderful piece of software. One of my favorite tools at all!
Just one little thingy I miss. Would it be feasable to disable cleartype (or font smoothing in general) temporarily for the screenshot and reactivate it afterwards? On my TFT i usually work with cleartype enabled but these screenshots don't look very nice when viewed on a "normal" (or should i say old?  :))  CRT. I hope, i haven't simply missed this feature while searching through the inexplorable depths of the preferences.

Mouse, probably you already know that, but maybe i can save you a couple of minutes with these links:

http://support.micro...t.com/kb/97142/en-us
http://msdn2.microso...ibrary/ms724947.aspx
http://vbforums.com/...wthread.php?t=491091

Apparently one has to use the SystemParametersInfo API. The relevant functions seem to be SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHING, SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHING, SPI_GETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE, SPI_SETFONTSMOOTHINGTYPE.

Hope it can be done. At first glance it doesn't look too complicated, but i know, in reality usually things are different. :)

Andreas

4
Hello!

First of all, thank you for this really great piece of software! :Thmbsup: I've come across a link to FFR in the Autohotkey forum (also very useful) just a few days ago and I already do not want to work without it anymore.

Just one little problem:
I haven't yet managed to give every user on a computer (Windows XP Pro) an individual configuration. Maybe I'm overlooking something (I already searched through help and forum) but FFR always "wants" to store its configuration files in its own application directory (e.g. "C:\Program Files\FindAndRunRobot\FindAndRunRobot.ini") and I can't find a way to argue it into something else.
I'd like to store the configuration files for a user in the associated userprofile directory (e.g. "%USERPROFILE%\FindAndRunRobot\FindAndRunRobot.ini"). Is that possible?

Thanks in advance,
Andreas


PS: Sorry for my bad english!

Pages: [1]