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Living Room / Re: Hidden Netflix Marathon Gems to Watch Online

« on: August 06, 2012, 08:31 PM »

I think the new Sherlock series is excellent, but I'm with 40hz:  Jeremy Brett's Holmes is unparalleled!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Activate/deactive a windows service with a script

« on: August 05, 2012, 01:53 PM »

I have two batch files to turn on and off 2 services:

[Select]

ServicesStart.bat:

@echo off
sc config wuauserv start= auto
sc config BITS start= auto
sc start wuauserv
sc start BITS


ServicesStop.bat

@echo off
sc config wuauserv start= disabled
sc config BITS start= disabled
sc stop wuauserv
sc stop BITS

Both have worked fine (Windows XP SP3) for years.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Open the corresponding folder of the found files

« on: July 31, 2012, 07:10 PM »

How are you finding the file?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Request. Add feature to the free program

« on: July 25, 2012, 09:34 AM »

I've assigned things to the middle button using AutoHotkey.  It can be a little flakey so I only kept the things that worked.

Might be worth a try so you could keep AltDrag and assign either Alt-Left or Alt-Middle to MiddleButtonDown.  Can't see how you could assign both to MiddleButtonDown, and Alt-Middle might be flakey.  Assigning  Alt-Left ButtonDown to MiddleButtonDown would be worth a try if that's the key combo you want to fire when you MiddleClickDrag.

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Living Room / Re: 'Dark Knight Rises' shooting: Three heroes died in Aurora

« on: July 23, 2012, 08:29 PM »

...in my estimation makes these young men heroes.

-wraith808 (July 23, 2012, 11:04 AM)

Yes, heroes.  Exactly the right word.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: About the Basement (Soap Box) Section

« on: July 21, 2012, 10:23 AM »

Excellent idea. 

This is why Mouser makes the big bucks. 

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Living Room / Re: What will be your next computer?

« on: July 19, 2012, 09:11 AM »

I have skipped vista and win7 but I think my new PC will be a win8.

-mouser (July 13, 2012, 05:22 PM)

I'm still running XP on a laptop that stays connected to a 24" monitor and external keyboard/mouse (I used to move the laptop between 2 offices, each w/ the same monitor/kbd/mouse).

Sometimes it's nice to use my wife's iPad if I'm not in my office (it's never worth moving the laptop), but it would make no sense at all to get another iPad.

Like Mouser, I'm thinking of jumping from XP to Windows 8 (I'm a slow os adopter, moved from OS/2 to XP in 2003).  I'm also going to have to bite the bullet and upgrade Word & Excel 2002, so I might as well think of a big jump there too.

So I'm thinking of getting a Surface tablet, using it as a tablet on the porch and plugging it into my current office setup to learn Windows 8 and Office 201n. 

Someone offered to buy me an iPad, but I declined since it would have been a waste of money.  But I imagine the offer would extend to a Surface Pro.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Request. Add feature to the free program

« on: July 17, 2012, 02:20 PM »

then try skwire's script

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Request. Add feature to the free program

« on: July 17, 2012, 01:35 PM »

Move Inactive Window by Skrommel

https://www.donation...mel/#MoveInactiveWin

Hold down the Alt key and LeftClick drag any non-focused window without giving that window focus.  That's the original purpose of the script, but Alt-drag works on the active window also.

You could check out the code to change or add other hotkey combinations.

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: iPad 3 and me

« on: July 15, 2012, 09:18 PM »

Excellent thread!!!!  My wife got an iPad2 a few months ago.  I fooled with it for a few days, very very cool.  For what it is.

The biggest problem with the ipad for use real computer users is that our brains don't cooperate with the device.  Unlike most i-fans, we know way too much about computers to be comfortable on the i-devices.  As soon as you start thinking about files and folders in your mind, you will immediately sense the frustrations.  All those "why can't i..." "how do I..." questions come up and the simple answer is "you can't".

Spot on!!!

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Comparison of the contents of 2 xls files to isolate missing records

« on: July 15, 2012, 08:31 PM »

What 4wd said, you could do this with VBA.

Ask over in the Excel forum at VBAExpress:

http://www.vbaexpress.com/forum/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for software to manage and merge various MS word documents

« on: July 12, 2012, 11:51 AM »

You can use Word for this, not sure it's the best approach.

Use bookmarks.  Bookmark your chapters, perhaps giving them dates/version numbers in the name (Ch4.2012-07-12, Ch4.3ver2, etc)

Then have one summary doc that is simply a list of links to the latest/desired chapters.  Edit the links when they require updating.  You can either print from that, or copy the content to an updated separate file.  What you can't do is edit the chapters from the file with the links.

You'd still have to keep track of which files contained the current/desired chapters.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for creating a new entry in the main contextual menu

« on: June 26, 2012, 01:32 PM »

how to create the entry in the main contextual menu for creating an empty txt file

-Contro (June 26, 2012, 12:03 PM)

ah, wait.  Do you want to add something to a Folder/Directory context menu that will create a new .txt file and perhaps open it in Notepad++?  Those menus are in the File Type tab under 'Folder' and 'File Folder'.  Be very very careful, but the same technique applies.  For the action to open a new file in Notepad++ you'd put in the same commands you'd use on a command line.  As for simply creating a file, that's probably not too difficult.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for creating a new entry in the main contextual menu

« on: June 26, 2012, 01:22 PM »

I'm still not sure what action you want to have happen when you click on your new context menu choice.

Be careful.  Probably worth backing up your registry (set a restore point at least) before doing this.  The context menu stuff is all saved in the registry.

Click on the 'TXT   Notepadd++Document' line in the window, then click the 'Advanced' button. If you highlight any of the 'Actions' and then click 'Edit', you will see how they are set up.  You can add one by clicking 'New' and filling in the blanks.  Here is where you'd have to define the action you are looking for, and to help with that you'd have to be clear about what you wanted.

It's possible all you want to do is modify the action taken when you select 'Edit' or 'Open' from your context menu.  In that case, simply edit the existing dialogs.

Be careful.  Backup first.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for creating a new entry in the main contextual menu

« on: June 26, 2012, 12:28 PM »

Is it only a .txt file's context menu that you want to add something to?

If you don't need to automate this to do it often, in XP you can manually add an entry to a .txt file's main context menu thru the Folder Options, File Types tab

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General Software Discussion / Re: any aid to increase functionality and abilities of conditional format in EXCEL?

« on: May 25, 2012, 03:51 PM »

ASAP Utilites

http://www.asap-utilities.com/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: I need a Word 2000 Compiled Editing Macro.

« on: May 13, 2012, 06:28 PM »

... compiled macro ...

-kittyhawk63 (May 10, 2012, 10:35 AM)

What do you mean by "compiled"? 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: I need a Word 2000 Compiled Editing Macro.

« on: May 13, 2012, 06:24 PM »

VBA is the way to program in Microsoft Office.

As to whether or not that is sane, it probably depends on your frame of reference.

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General Software Discussion / Re: web dir in excel

« on: May 09, 2012, 10:37 PM »

If you really are stuck with doing this in Excel, I'm pretty sure everything you need done can be done with VBA.  But it would be crazy to learn VBA just to do this.

You could try asking over at VBAExpress in the Excel forum.
 
http://www.vbaexpres...orumdisplay.php?f=17

There are many helpful people there, usually helping people with their code as opposed to writing snacks for people.  But it can't hurt to ask.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: CSV/Excel Parsing & Formatting Utility

« on: April 24, 2012, 12:18 PM »

Ath, sounds like you are well along with this, particularly if you already understand and can accomodate how he wants his data to appear in his .xls file.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: CSV/Excel Parsing & Formatting Utility

« on: April 24, 2012, 12:07 PM »

So all you want to add to your .xls file are the rows in the .csv file that include "Missing d" or "Missing D" ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: add network printer

« on: April 17, 2012, 08:35 PM »

Yeah, I'd like to know how to do this too.  Tried a few times, struck out.

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to remove middl-click hotkey from Explorer?

« on: April 11, 2012, 01:21 PM »

something like:

#IfWinActive, ahk_class ExploreWClass
MButton::
return

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General Software Discussion / Re: how to remove middl-click hotkey from Explorer?

« on: April 11, 2012, 10:27 AM »

If you can't figure out where this assignment came from, you could always re-assign ("over"assign?) the middle click action to nothing when triggered in an explorer window.  Should be easily done in AutoHotkey.  Treating the symptom and not the cause, but how desperate are you?

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General Software Discussion / Re: xls to png

« on: April 08, 2012, 08:16 PM »

I realized that I had never seen (never needed) any "save selection" choices in Excel and Excel-specific VBA.  I started fooling with it and realized it was going to be more than a few lines.

So I googled "excel save selection as image" and got all sorts of interesting stuff, but more involved than I thought.  I'll use code I don't completely understand if I understand the purpose, input, and output of the chunks I don't get.  And if the code works right off, or with a little modification of the parts I do understand.

What you could also do is have Excel copy the selection as a bitmap to the clipboard, and then have the last line of the vba code call something else (an Autohotkey script, a batch file, etc).  This could all be run with just one click.