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All Fallout series games on sale:
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/search?sort=bestselling&search=Fallout4
It looks like:
  • Fallout4, together with:
  • Fallout4 Season Pass
- comprises the complete Fallout4 (PC) set.
Seems like quite good value-for-money.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [N.A.N.Y. 2019] - Process Lister [status=done]
« on: October 24, 2018, 09:46 PM »
@KodeZwerg:
The first thing that i would come up with would be something like a slider, as maby seen on some mediaplayers, if you hover over slider (timeline in player) you jump back-/forward, or volume up/down.
Is that what you mean? I can set scaling to any percentage decimal value 0%-unlimited (idk maximum)
Well, I was thinking in terms of the variable mousewheel zoom - as per the example suggested ("try to zoom in/out using Ctrl+mousewheel on the Windows Desktop.").
Ergonomically, a slider might not be granular enough, making it "jumpy" and a PITA to use.

The other things were just me putting some ideas up - I figured they might be useful.
I actually had assumed (incorrectly, it seems) that you were probably heading in the direction of building a different kind of mousetrap to the ProcessHacker etc.
Given that that is apparently not your intention, had you considered contributing your extra column idea to the ProcessHacker project at https://processhacker.sourceforge.io/  ?

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@4wd:
I found it just stopped doing it for some reason, whether it was an update or something I installed who knows.
Ruddy heck. I'd speculate that the cause was likely to be the Registry settings had been zapped (changed/deleted) by a Windows update.
Pity. That was a nifty fix too.    :Thmbsup:
What to do? Presumably reinstall as at 4wd Reply #1 on: 2018-10-17, 22:06:42 ยป?

You'd never know if/when it had been zapped again though. Might need to do that reinstall each time prior to running the thing (or as a default part of running it) every time, just in case. Belts-and-braces.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [N.A.N.Y. 2019] - Process Lister [status=done]
« on: October 24, 2018, 05:34 AM »
@KodeZwerg:
Thankyou.
...Kind of a challenge to proof that scaling (playing with DPI/PPI) works since you mentioned that it aint good :-]  ...
Now that's rather interesting. What it seems to imply is that scaling at the OS level may be broken somehow.
Tell me:
  • Instead of stepped scaling (e.g., at doubled or quadrupled steps), are you able to make the scaling gradual and incrementally variable between lower and upper limits, through rolling the mousewheel? (Zoom in, zoom out.)
  • If you can do that, can you apply it to work on any open window in other applications? (For an interesting example, try to zoom in/out using Ctrl+mousewheel on the Windows Desktop.)

On another subject, if you can display the "new" information re Process Creation time, could you also display columns which provide:
  • (a) the current Running Time for currently running processes - i.e., the dynamic calculated result of current time minus Process Creation time?
  • (b) the total running time of historical processes (in this session) which had earlier started and now have stopped?
That could be quite useful information.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: [N.A.N.Y. 2019] - Process Lister - Requirements?
« on: October 23, 2018, 07:57 PM »
@KodeZwerg:
For me, the double-sized print is very legible - a bit too big maybe - and the quad-sized print is humungous, but there would probably be many people with severe visual impairment who could be glad to have that size and who might otherwise usually have to rely on the Windows Magnifier tool.

In terms of providing a process/task listing though, ProcessLister would seem to fall well behind a pack of some already-established and serious contenders - e.g., including:
  • Windows TaskManager,
  • SysInternals ProcessExplorer
  • Wn Jia Liu's ProcessHacker
- the latter is the one I prefer to use as it best meets my peculiar ergonomic needs as well as my user requirements for a process/task manager.

And that is the point, really - i.e., what are one's user requirements?
From training in systems analysis, I would usually tag user business requirements in a systematic manner, using the ABC prioritisation method, where:
  • A = Mandatory (Urgent and Important)
  • B = Highly desirable (Important, but NOT Urgent)
  • C = Nice-to-have (Neither Important NOR Urgent)
(Anything outside of these 3 classes is purely imaginary and not related to an operational  business need/requirement per se.)

I don't really have a defined set of "business/user requirements" for ProcessLister per se, but if I did, then it would match the user requirements that I might have and which had been met/exceeded by ProcessHacker. Though I use the thing on a daily basis and it is an invaluable tool for monitoring and managing the operation of the Windows system, it is still just a utility - a useful tool - and I do not consider it worthwhile to sit down and define/document those requirements. I have found by trialling the above tools that ProcessHacker seems to be the most useful tool for my peculiar purposes, but someone else might have different requirements/purposes, so it might not be so useful to those people - i.e., YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary).

By the way, because PIM (Personal Information Management) is a very important matter for me in my personal and work life, I have defined and documented my requirements - e.g., in evaluating CHS (Clipboard Help and Spell) I applied the above method:
@mouser - by the way, there is still this: User Requirements for CHS

It could be used to save repetition by different/new CHS users. I put quite a bit of effort into that. Have not updated it in ages as no-one seemed interested. I think I left it as public and editable.
- which has apparently caused some readers to experience such traumatic mind-expansion and neural damage that it induces a temporary state of profound sleep from which the reader awakens with a complete loss of memory of ever having seen it in the first place. (This is the way Nature helps us to recover from traumatic experiences.)

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