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Post New Requests Here / User Filter for Google Search Results

« on: September 01, 2020, 05:17 PM »

I'd like to browse a non-corporate web, for websites where all content is delivered by a single domain.
Perhaps this could be coded as a Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey user script?  It would filter Google search results, to only web pages that use only one domain for their content.  I guess this would take recursive bot-based browsing of all search results, until the desired number of results would be listed.

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Post New Requests Here / toggle hidden files with keyboard or button

« on: April 05, 2019, 05:54 PM »

I have a lot of files and folders, and they are organized well, but some folders and files I rarely access because they are dated.  I don't want to move the old files, but keeping them mixed with the new files makes for clutter.  So I thought, how about having all the old files hidden?  That way I can still have them organized where they are, but not cause clutter with my present files.

So I'd like a keyboard shortcut, or a windows explorer button to toggle the showing of hidden files.

I'm still using Windows XP.  If you want to make it for a newer system, I'm sure someone will find it useful.

I sort of have this figured out.  I created a shortcut to a batch file, and placed the shortcut in "Links".  Then I turned on the "Links" toolbar in Windows Explorer.  Here's the batch file:

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@ECHO OFF
set regpath=HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced
set regvalue=Hidden
set regdata=2
reg query "%regpath%" /v "%regvalue%" | find /i "%regdata%"

IF errorlevel 1 goto :hide
    Reg add "%regpath%" /v Hidden /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
    goto :end
:hide
    Reg add "%regpath%" /v Hidden /t REG_DWORD /d 2 /ff
:end

There is still a nuisance though.  The setting updates, but explorer does not refresh.  And it needs to be a particular kind of refresh.  F5 doesn't work.  What reliably works, is the refresh in the context-menu of the blank-space of the file-list.  How to get that to happen via a batch file is beyond me.

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Coding Snacks / Shell Extension adding EXIF orientation tag support for windows explorer

« on: November 01, 2015, 01:03 AM »

Title says it all, I've looked and cannot find a:
Shell Extension adding EXIF orientation tag support for windows explorer (file explorer).

This will end nightmare for Win XP and Win 7 users, so they see photos from their cameras in the correct orientation.

It would get activated whenever thumbnail view is activated in Windows Explorer, and correct the MS nonsense by adding the functionality missing.

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General Software Discussion / Context menu option to open Windows Explorer without navigation pane

« on: June 02, 2013, 06:37 AM »

My hat is off for all you Linux users out there... bless you.  I hope more consumers jump on board.

In Windows XP, I have three options within the context menu of a Windows Explorer folder: <b>Open</b>, Open, and Explore.
<b>Open</b> opens in the current window
Open opens a new window without the navigation pane (aka folder tree)
Explore opens a new window with the navigation pane

I think it has to do with this:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell]

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000022
"ExplorerFlags"=dword:00000021

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\explore\command]
@="%SystemRoot%\\Explorer.exe /e,/idlist,%I,%L"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open]
"BrowserFlags"=dword:00000010
"ExplorerFlags"=dword:00000012

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell\open\command]
@="%SystemRoot%\\Explorer.exe /idlist,%I,%L"

How do you do this in Windows 7?

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Finished Programs / SOLVED: GUI for DISM

« on: May 30, 2013, 12:16 AM »

Looking for a GUI for DISM

Basically, I want it to look like "Turn Windows features on or off", only working off cab files in a DS (distribution share).  Also, as a bonus, would be nice to be able to use this booted from a flash drive, on a system that is offline.

There are some existing GUI's for DISM, but they don't list and explain the different packages, with checkboxes next to them (the checkboxes to add/remove the packages).  Package dependencies could show up highlighted on the list.  Hovering over a highlighted package could show which currently installed, or about to be installed package(s) require it.

I guess this isn't exactly a "coding snack", but it should be easy if the underlying foundation is already there, and you just need a GUI for it.

The original title for this was "GUI for pckmgr".  I found out pckmgr was deprecated, and replaced with DISM.  I got the idea that maybe pckmgr had the ability to work on both online and offline systems.  The "offline" part is a little confusing: it only works on WIM files (for making custom Windows installers).  DISM is the same.  The semantic difference is the "installer" versus the "installation".  They call the WIM file an "offline" system.  I think of an offline system as a windows installation that isn't running.  I am pretty sure that both pckmgr and DISM don't work on a windows installation, only on a mounted WIM file.

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Post New Requests Here / Patch to Disable ACL access-control-lists

« on: April 24, 2013, 01:09 AM »

I would love a system patch to disable Access Control Lists.  The patch would make the system ACE agnostic, both for files and the registry.  I don't mind using a patched system file, if that is what it takes.

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Post New Requests Here / Go back to 98 drag-and-drop in Win-Explorer

« on: December 22, 2011, 03:11 PM »

Drag and drop in Windows Explorer was much better in Windows 98.  In XP, it has a tendency, when dropping a file into a folder (in the left panel: folder tree), to keep a the incorrect folder highlighted even though the mouse is directly over the folder you want to drop the file into.  Is there any way to get rid of this anomaly?  Some go-back-to-98 drag and drop registry edit?

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Post New Requests Here / Save file to user-selected desktop on a multiple monitor setup

« on: February 19, 2011, 04:54 AM »

Multiple monitors...

In Windows XP, when you save a file to the desktop, an icon for the file shows on the default desktop. There is no choice of which monitor the icon should show at. If you want the icon to be on a different monitor, you have to drag and drop it to this monitor.

Would be nice if you could choose which display/monitor the file shows up on when you save to the desktop (I would prefer to always save to one in particular)

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Finished Programs / SOLVED: Navigate Save As Dialog to dropped folder from Windows Explorer

« on: December 17, 2010, 03:21 AM »

For example, you have a text editor on the left half of the screen, and windows explorer on the right half.  In the text editor, you invoke "Save As", and you see in Windows Explorer the very folder you want to save in.

I've tried dragging the folder to different areas of the Save As dialog, but it won't change the current path in the dialog.

My workaround, that requires a few more steps, is that I copy and paste the path from the Windows Explorer address bar to the "File name" field.  I would prefer to just drag the folder to the File name field.