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I too try text editors and file managers. But I don't keep many. The text editor may have a feature that is handy only occasionally. If it's not too bulky then it may be worth keeping. Most of the time the File Managers don't last long unless they are portable and take very little space. Too many new hotkeys, buttons and other stuff to remember. I tend to go back to FreeCommander just to save the frustration.

What I find too is that technology moves on. I have no need to encode from (S)VCD anymore.  The system imaging program that worked great on XP doesn't work so well on Vista and later etc..

Also freeware makes great strides. I don't renew paid programs when I find free utilities that work better for me.  One example is Easus ToDo Backup Free.  It works better than any paid program of its sort I've tried so far.

Office Suites tend to be removed after a short trial. I just don't need to do presentations at corporate meetings. They seem to want to throw all that and the kitchen sink in just to get a word processor that can do stuff with word files people insist on posting instead of something portable. 

I would ask here

From things I'm hearing here and there I don't think W7 64 bit is as solid as Vista64. I did a custom install of 32 bit W7 over Vista 32 bit. It worked out fine. I tried the same thing only with W7 64 bit on top of Vista64. I had to restore from my saved image to put Vista64 back on. The system would boot. But it was too flaky to use like that.

For Linux if you want to jump in the deep end, go Perl.  Perl Regular Expressions. Those substitution statements were what made me rip my hair out.  Ruby you can use them and the overall syntax of the language is a little less arcane. But Perl likely has the larger installed base of programs on Linux.

I found this little RegEx Tester freebie on SourceForge:
http://regextester.sourceforge.net

Not sure how good it is. But it should be helpful for some not very RegEx skilled like myself. Easy to use. From what I can see it saves no settings. Just copy the exe to a directory in the Path.

This is the best resource I've found for all things bootable. But you may have to look around and ask around. There's bound to be any kind of boot from USB you can imagine there or you can find links there.

From what I've seen, multi-boot sticks use iso images for the OS and load av tools as a rescue boot disk.  What you want sounds to me like you need to image a HD that has a multi-boot setup, then "restore" the image to a USB stick. I'm not sure which imaging software will do it.  But some techs on other boards told my they use an external USB HD enclosure with a live OS on the drive, for toolkit. I'd say it's probably possible at least for a single OS. Multi-boot may be more difficult. Also I'm not sure how the licensing goes for something like that.

I would look around on Macrium forums.

[RegJump]

RegJump is what I use (along with a simple AHK clipboard script).

I tried using RegJump but nothing happens when I run it. I suppose I am missing something...Can you provide the steps to get this working along with AHK scripts?

The registry key to jump to should be passed on the command line.
C:>regjump hkey_local_machine\yadda\yadda

I made Selector as a general purpose way to launch a program or batch file with the selected or clipboard text as the command tail.  If I have RegJump in the list of programs, I select the registry key, hit the Selector hotkey, then choose RegJump from the list and hit the Go button. Items may be added to the list by simply dragging batch files, exe files, or their shortcuts onto the list.

You may download from this page

Of course you can set up a macro with any utility that can pass the selected text onto a program as command tail. FARR is one example.  But Selector is specialized to pass command arguments, paste selected text into an editor, open editor with selected text as a tmp file, etc..

[SrtStrip 1.3.4.0]

SrtStrip 1.3.4.0 Now displays dialog with count of files stripped on completion.

Eastern Age Reckoning

I don't know if I agree with the Lunar New Year aspect. But 1 year of age at birth seems more reasonable than 0 since the gestation period is 9 months.  Maybe on the first anniversary of one's birth a person should be considered 1.75??

Also your method has the detrimental effect of requiring a husband to get his wife an anniversary gift on his wedding day.

Instead of kissing the bride he gives her a gift certificate to Bloomies.  

And at my age, some of the prosthetic stuff is starting to look really attractive!  (Sixty-ninth birthday today, so I'm now officially sixty-eight (68)(and, fortunately, still counting)

Sounds like you are counting down. Do you have some kind of Benjamin Button thing going on? 

Thank you.

Thanks for the info.

[r]

  And then there are all the science "facts" that they taught us in school years ago that are now science "fiction"....

Maybe more like science friction ... it just slows things down  .

That reminds me. It's time to take a brake.

I would try installing Chromium, not google chrome. It's compatible chrome.exe and all the folder locations are the same. The extensions work the same. But it does not have some of the intrusive stuff google chrome has, like trying to install toolbars.

You could try this one

I don't know if there's such a thing as a chrome "removal tool" like Nero and Norton have. Might be worth a search if installing Chromium in place of it doesn't work.

This simple script seems to do it.  The filename is hard wired though

Script

Check out Link Alert, looks similar but different icons.

https://addons.mozilla.or...firefox/addon/link-alert/

I like this. Nice and simple. I can customize icons too.  Very cool.

edit: Hmm, can't seem to figure out how to show my icon substituted for the default.
They never include help for the UI in these things. Fumble and error.

edit2: ok, got it.

edit3: seems to work smoother with the defaults.  As might be expected.  But with large icon setting there's no squinting. (I know you guys under 30 don't know what I'm talking about. You'll get there eventually.) 

Thanks for the reply. It is strange. I found one table top radio with RDR-1 model name. None of the features listed record to memory or HD off the air. But the reviewer said the record function makes it. Maybe he meant would make it if it had it? I don't understand.  Seems like some MP3 players with FM radio can record to the memory, but hand held the reception is likely to go in and out.

edit: plus I'm not sure if the MP3 kind have the rewind buffer feature like a DVR has. That's what I'm looking for. The radio show recorded often can be downloaded later.
end edit:

Ideally I'd like to get a digital tuner with keypad so you punch in the number. Not seek to next strong signal.  My Kenwood FM receiver has direct frequency input. But it's wicked obsolete.  Only plays the old standard audio CDs.

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A cursor indicator. Hovering over hyperlinks will show a different cursor based on the targets file extension.

(see attachment in previous post)

So?
Enable the status bar and watch the hover text. Done.

I have to admit. I thought it was a cool idea. Until I tried it and saw the icons. Would be a lot cooler if the icons looked cool.  But it was easier for me to read the status bar text than to squint and see that little zipper that meant it was a zip file. 

thanks miles, glad you like it.  i'll update the help file.

I just updated to the latest version. It still says to check option in the General Tab to copy selected text on startup. I had to find my post in this thread to find out how to do it again.

The Option is in Hotkeys, Pause/Break

Edit: I used the zip file. Perhaps it was updated in the installer. I don't know.

Thanks for the suggestion. I have it working now. Only took 7 hours to do a 15 minute job. 
Also I turned on forwarding for awhile. Just to make sure I don't lose emails until I see everything is stable.

I really don't like web mail. Might be great for traveling salesmen or support people who are on the road. But to me it seems flaky.  Just awhile ago I backed up in Thunderbird by moving stuff from a folder where I save mails to Inbox.  Thuderbird downloaded them all fine.  But even though you select all the items in Hotmail with the blue link to really really select everything, when you move to another folder, they don't always get moved.  But by then I already had them backed up so I deleted.

That one page at a time web access just bites in my estimation.

I think I found the issue.  I use miles__ahead@hotmail.com

I have another account with no underscores in the name.  Set up and worked first time.  Looks like I'm screwed unless I can figure out how to get around that problem.


Edit: that wasn't it.  Somehow my password got killed. I was getting in via the browser because of the cookie. Boy I really love Captcha'. Only took me 1/2 to get it to accept it.  What fun they've made of the web now!

I tried thunderbird 2 3 16 17 with and without WebMail AddOn. It won't accept password.  All I can think is the POP3 is not enabled on my account.

Wait, what is the problem? I just added Hotmail account to Thunderbird and exported all e-mails.

Won't let me log on. What settings did you use?  What version of Thunderbird?  Are you using an AddOn?

They only do POP3. It's hard for me to believe that a technology company that puts a menu for cloud storage on your email page whether you want it or not, doesn't have a command in the menu to copy a folder over.  Geez! It would take like 1 millisecond to go over the backbone.

Guess I'll have to go through the messages and forward the important ones 1 at a time. I'd be done by now if I did that at the start.

I take it you don't have Outlook?

Nope. I use Thunderbird.  I read all these articles how I can stick these addons and proxies on TB to use it. None of them work. I can't believe I've wasted 4 hours on this already. There should be a way to just zip up the whole folder and download it.