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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: March 31, 2024, 09:59 AM »

I guess it should be fine, and if even if for whatever reason I couldn't make it work, well as long as it's an option I suppose I could just not enable it

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: March 31, 2024, 07:40 AM »

I'm not completely sure what that entails when it comes to running such commands as:

explorer.exe \\target_name_here\C$

since the target's name is usually between the prefix and suffix.

Does that mean the prefix would stop, in this example, at "explorer.exe" and we'd have to insert the target name within the suffix, between "\\" and "\C$", while also making sure that the target's name doesn't get added between "explorer.exe" and " \\" somehow?
If so, then I'm not even sure that the whole prefix and suffix thing makes that much sense any more.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: March 30, 2024, 02:23 AM »

Yes I've mentioned this thing about the command line window staying open when launching a GUI driven program in message #34, it pretty much always happened for me (or at least since then), no matter which OS I used the program on.
As a workaround I've been using the "start" command to launch any GUI mode program from CRAP.

I think there must be some other way (maybe an API or something?) that you can use which doesn't rely on CMD at all. It still should be able to run batch scripts and other command line programs just like we do when using the "run" dialog.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: March 28, 2024, 08:28 PM »

Hi, I suppose it depends on how much you'd upgrade it

As long as it's 4.8.1 or lower then it wouldn't be an issue for my workplace, but if I need to install a more recent one, then I'm not completely sure.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: March 24, 2024, 06:12 AM »

I've had a night's sleep since my previous post and it seems like most of what I've been suggesting in there would probably be an overcomplicated solution when I can just regroup my game shortcuts into a single folder… feel free to disregard that then.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: March 23, 2024, 03:19 PM »

Hey there,

A few months ago I've acquired a new computer, that runs Windows 11, where it does not seem possible to create custom toolbars any more.
And so lately I've been thinking, instead of putting the shortcuts to my games on the desktop, why not use CRAP as a launcher?

In the process of recreating my game shortcuts into CRAP, I got the following idea: it would be neat if I could just drag and drop an icon onto the current layout, or maybe to the layout editor window, and that would basically parse that shortcut and create an equivalent button (using the icon, command prefix and its name as a caption).
Would that be feasible?

Another possible improvement I've been thinking of: from the "Add new button" dialog, if there is no defined "Command Prefix" yet, and the user just loaded the icon from an .exe file, perhaps we could have the program populate the prefix with that same exe file's path?

Oh and, I suppose it's some kind of bug: when browsing to an executable to get its icon, CRAP fails to recognize that an .EXE file was selected unless its extension is entirely in lower case (so it will work only with ".exe", but not ".EXE" or a mix of upper and lower case).

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Release - Spews

« on: January 31, 2024, 05:42 AM »

Hello there, it has been a while

Lately I've been doing some work from home using my personal monitors as they're both higher definition than anything my workplace can provide, and so when working, I still keep my home computer running so that I can do unrelated stuff on the side when it's a quiet day, switching my main monitor to get its display input from the work laptop, and the second (a bit lower resolution) monitor to take its input from my "home" laptop.

When I do so, since the monitors have different resolutions, I can't see the entire wallpaper. And thus here is my request : would it be possible to have Spews automatically refresh the current wallpaper when the desktop's resolution changes (provided of course that none of the excluded processes is running)?

And while I'm at it, if several monitors with different resolutions are connected and in extended desktop mode, could it also handle that by scaling the same picture appropriately to both?

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Creating a shortcut for Windows native app

« on: July 12, 2023, 02:16 PM »

Hello there.
After you started the app you want to make a shortcut to, it should be fairly easy to find the executable in the "Details" tab of your task manager, then right-click it and choose "Open file location" — it may not be the exact wording as my Windows is in french language, but should be something to that effect.

On the virtual machine I just tested it from, after installing WhatsApp from the store today, doing that on the "WhatsApp.exe" line opened the following folder: "C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\5319275A.WhatsAppDesktop_2.2327.6.0_x64__cv1g1gvanyjgm", but I suppose the path may vary from a machine to another, or maybe depending on which version of the app it is.

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N.A.N.Y. 2023 / Re: Check for empty folders

« on: January 13, 2023, 04:35 PM »

Hi there.

Why is the program itself so large?
RED seems to have a similar feature set, but doesn't weigh nearly as much.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Batch Editor for URL and LNK Properties

« on: January 23, 2022, 06:08 AM »

Seems like the site is down, hopefully it'll come back up later. In the meantime or if it doesn't, one can access a copy of the page and the download from the Web Archive https://web.archive....nloads.html#Shortcut

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« on: January 13, 2022, 05:20 AM »

Hey there, here's a nice instrumental one:

Ayasa - "the reason why"

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General Software Discussion / Re: Which Windows 10 Updates should be avoided?

« on: June 09, 2021, 04:37 PM »

Hi.

For example, version 20H2 from last October completely removes the old Win7 style control panel.

-BGM (June 09, 2021, 09:20 AM)

Actually it doesn't. It's still present in 21H1 even (just run control.exe), though some options certainly have disappeared from it compared with Windows 7.

Anyway you don't have much of a choice but to "upgrade" to newer versions after a while if you want your Windows 10 computer to stay secure, because Microsoft stops providing security updates for each Windows 10 version after either 18 or 30 months, unless you somehow get your hands on a Long Term Servicing license. See https://docs.microso...ifecycle/faq/windows

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General Software Discussion / Re: Batch Word Text Replacer

« on: January 28, 2021, 02:46 AM »

Just a note: Office 2010 is not supported anymore by Microsoft, in the same way that Windows 7 isn't supported anymore.[…]

-Shades (January 25, 2021, 08:43 PM)

Yeah, it's supposed to be end of life since october of 2020, but they still published patches for it this month (for example KB4493145). Maybe someone over there forgot about it?

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Living Room / Re: Is it possible to work on two laptops from the screen of one of these laptops?

« on: January 22, 2021, 12:46 AM »

Hi,

Assuming that both laptops are running Windows, if the one you want to access remotely has a "Pro" or "better" version of Windows, you should be able to connect to it using Remote Desktop Protocol. The remote desktop client (mstsc.exe) is available on all Windows versions, so the client doesn't need to have a Pro licence.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vasilios Freeware - really nice page of utilities, donations appreciated

« on: December 03, 2020, 07:52 AM »

I'm very wary of files hosted at software.informer.com :/

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General Software Discussion / Re: YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

« on: October 25, 2020, 03:49 AM »

Public domain, after 25 years or passing of the artist(s). Whatever comes first.

-Shades (October 24, 2020, 09:59 PM)

Maybe not, as some psychopaths might want to kill the artist just so they don't have to wait 25 years to use one of their works.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ventoy - The Last Bootable USB Software You'll Need?

« on: August 24, 2020, 11:28 AM »

Hey there,

It's a very nice idea, but did you guys have any luck testing it on real hardware? I didn't :/

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: June 25, 2020, 05:45 AM »

OK !

BTW I just noticed this: I usually keep my CRAP window at the bottom right corner of my desktop, right above the taskbar. When it's there, if I mouse over the Layout Management button, the tooltip keeps flashing. Same if I mouse over the name of my current (and only) layout.
Doesn't happen if I move the window a little away from the desktop's corner.

Running Windows 10 x64 v1909, I don't have access to another OS to test it on right now.

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N.A.N.Y. 2013 / Re: NANY 2013 Release: Customizable Remote Administration Panel (CRAP)

« on: June 24, 2020, 11:11 AM »

These are some nice improvements. Thanks! 

However, I don't quite understand this:

• Delete from the layout management menu with a certain key+click combo on the layout item of a non opened layout.

-hamradio (June 23, 2020, 01:01 PM)

Can you elaborate?

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: Amazon Pay has decided to block donationcoder payments

« on: March 05, 2020, 07:00 AM »

That sounds more french than german, though.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: SquidGirlCleaner: open source superseded update (re)mover - testers wanted!

« on: January 29, 2020, 01:47 AM »

Yeah the date is a bit in the past because I wanted to test it for a while, then got busy with other things at work and kind of forgot about it ^^'

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: SquidGirlCleaner: open source superseded update (re)mover - testers wanted!

« on: January 28, 2020, 01:42 PM »

Hi there, a new version is available.
Here is what's new:

Version 2019-12-15 :
* New features:
 - added "Analyse" mode, which neither moves nor deletes anything
 - added "Delete" mode, which straight up deletes files instead of moving them
 - the logs directory and backup directory are now distinct and can be specified as command line parameters (see the Read Me file for details)
 - added changelog, license and "read me" files

* Bug fixes:
 - running a previous version of the script could lead to some patch entries with no information appearing on the "installed Updates" page of the Programs and Features control panel, due to left over values referencing deleted patch SQUIDs in the product SQUID's Patches subkey under "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\...". This shouldn't happen any more starting with this version.
 - the Undo script should now work even when ran by right clicking it and selecting "Run as an administrator" when UAC is enabled
 - some files could be mistakenly considered to be orphan files by previous versions due to not being referenced under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\UserData\S-1-5-18 but under another key at the same level

* Other improvements and notable changes:
 - the logs now report an approximation of the total disk space used by the superseded updates and orphan files
 - the script's version number is now included in the log files it generates
 - the script now populates a complete list of which files and registry entries are considered to be unneeded before it attempts any change: thus the code lines relevant to making those changes are regrouped in a block, which made it much easier to debug (and allowed to implement Analyse and Delete modes)
 - the default folder where the logs are stored is now "%computername%.SGC" instead of "SquidGirlCleaner %computername%", and it should be within %userprofile%\desktop instead of a subfolder of where the script itself is

* Warning: if you already used the script in unattended mode before, you should know that the meaning of the values for possible exit codes have changed since the previous version. See the "Read Me" file.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: FARR - Suggested Hotkey

« on: January 22, 2020, 05:57 AM »

What does your laptop's keyboard look like? Which layout?
We can't really suggest anything without knowing which keys are or aren't available.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Paint Shop Pro 7

« on: November 29, 2019, 07:51 AM »

If that's any indication, my mom uses version 4.14 on Windows 10 x64 almost without issues: sometimes it doesn't want to start any more but then I only have to delete its settings from the registry ("HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JASC\Paint Shop Pro", might be different in newer versions as I don't remember when it was bought by Corel)

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Living Room / Re: How is this old interface called?

« on: November 04, 2019, 08:58 AM »

Hey there.

I suppose you mean these: https://en.wikipedia.../Text_user_interface ?