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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: Fast View
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on: February 29, 2008, 10:03:23 AM
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Yes, I don't know of another program like it yet.
It uses Total Commander plugins of which you can even build your own. I've also found that if you click on the pic or doc it will be highlighted in the explorer.
As far as reading docs it seems to read the .rtf files but not some other document formats.
You can double click any item in the explorer part of fastview and it will open in it's default application.
The viewer from Textmaker -officeviewer-is much faster then opening MSWord. If it's set to being the default viewer for Word or TextMaker, Fastview can use it also.
Btw, these are all free or free for personal use so far in this thread.
I really like that Imagewalker and ForceVision too, very cool imo.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: Fast View
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on: February 29, 2008, 12:59:50 AM
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In my search for a plugin to view TextMaker documents saved as .tmd instead of a format that FastView could read. I came across this viewer from TextMaker which is a viewer for text docs for like 5 different office programs. Like Open Office, TextMaker, Word and a few couple more. Though it didn't help with FastView, it is a good viewer for docs not saved in a format that you have a program for, if it's needed. http://www.officeviewers.com/
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: Fast View
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on: February 25, 2008, 10:37:08 PM
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Please feel free to add any other fast viewers to this thread if you like. That's why I put a space in the Title -Fast View- instead of Fastview which it is called. This is a great review on Fast Stone's MaxView by jgpaiva. http://www.donationcoder....m/index.php?topic=12089.0MaxView out performs Fastview with pictures in speed. I haven't tried MaxView with any other type of file. Another thing on my list to do. Fastview may be trying to do too much. With it's Multimedia setting it does not read some documents and files correctly. Namely Ashampoo's TextMaker docs. Though it does fine with MSWord docs. Also some files come up as the code instead of the file you want to see. Still playing with it and on the lookout for others that can perform. Sometimes boredom can make for great discoveries, ha.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Fast View
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on: February 25, 2008, 10:59:02 AM
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http://f2soft.ax3.net/Yeah, it's fast but could be better in the options. Like I would like the file I'm viewing to be highlighted in the left pane. It is displayed in the title bar though. Can't seem to change the background color when viewing files. But quite a plus in the range of files that can be viewed! Text, pics, videos, web stuff...lots of things. Quickly too. I set the menu/options buttons to quit hiding, that was annoying.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: Windows Live Skydrive: Tried Anyone?
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on: February 24, 2008, 08:18:29 PM
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Thanks for clarifying that justice.
I just had noticed them there and googled the thing. So I dumped windows live everything except the writer.
I really have no need for sky drive but it's fun to play. At one time I had like 5 storage server type programs. But I just don't have a need for them. So I cancelled all but xdrive and picasso web albums and my blog. Though I do have flickr and image shack for photo sharing also.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: Windows Live Skydrive: Tried Anyone?
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on: February 24, 2008, 03:55:28 AM
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O yeah, I took off Live Messenger that day too. They were probably from it. I had looked up why I had those files and I got the answer of Live something. So I dumped all live stuff. Except the writer which is pretty cool and no signing in to msn as far as I know.
Staying with Skype and yahoo messenger-which I don't keep loaded all the time-yahoo that is. I think Skype takes less resources then yahoo.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / General Software Discussion / Re: Looking to find or build a simple specific app.
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on: February 23, 2008, 10:12:09 PM
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hmmmm..... not so sure this would be what you want. Although it can save and convert it won't open files in another program. It will convert from Word to Ashampoo's textmaker and save it in textmaker's folder but I couldn't get to auto open. It's a good program for saving to different folders and opening different folders though. I could also be missing something, like 'how to do it'.  ok 4 posts in a row-i'll stop....
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Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: slow boot on new hard drive problem
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on: February 22, 2008, 10:49:50 PM
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Thanks for looking that up techidave. It helps me too.
No jumpers is how I always do it and it works.
I haven't used pins 4-6 though.
Could be a bad pin connection. Or try a different jumper setting piece, I don't even know what it's called except a jumper or doohiky thing! A 'Jumper Shunt'..hmmm learn something here all the time
Did you try no jumpers?
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Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: slow boot on new hard drive problem
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on: February 22, 2008, 08:40:46 PM
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1. When your computer boots- does it show the hard drives first? if not, then switch the hard drive and cd connection cables at the motherboard.
2. If your hard drive cable is also connected to cd drives or anything other then hard drives, there will be a reduction in performance.
3. The Jumper setting for master w/slave is the middle jumper. Set the slave drive to slave with jumper on correct setting. can't remember which one that is though. WD would have that info.
4. Again, no slave, no jumpers. Double check with WD, in case I'm mistaken. But this is how my hard drives work on 4 machines with WD Caviar hard drives.
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Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: slow boot on new hard drive problem
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on: February 22, 2008, 06:24:12 PM
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If the jumper is set to master then it needs a slave, otherwise it doesn't need a jumper. This is the case on my western digital drives. Not sure if things are different with yours. Not sure how old mine are, but they are Caviar drives. But mine are not sata drives, are yours?
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Main Area and Open Discussion / Living Room / Re: slow boot on new hard drive problem
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on: February 22, 2008, 06:19:37 PM
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Okay here's the deal with Western Digital SATA 3.0Gb/s drives. If your Mobo does not have a SATA 3.0Gb/s connection but does have a SATA 150 then all you have to do is place a jumper on pins 5&6. Which would be column 2 if you were going from left to right.
from newegg comments on the 160 Caviar
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