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ProcessTamer / Re: Config always says Tray prog isn't running.

« on: April 09, 2007, 12:08 PM »

Even though this topic is fairly old, I ran into the same problem as described here, but for the life of me I could not get Performance Monitor to start, and also had not used any of the tweaker programs...

daft me had forgotten I'd done this manually, so, if a tweaker tool don't do it for you, and you are confortable with RegEdit, navigate to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Perflib
and in all likelyhood you wil find an item named "Disable Performance Counters" in the right hand pane, set it to 0 and everything should be right as rain the next time you boot.

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DesktopCoral / Transparency, a way to refresh

« on: May 19, 2005, 04:49 PM »

Hi

Eh, suggestion for next version, if not already tackled, a way to refresh the snapshot DC takes to make it look transparent, if taskbar is changed from autohide to always show or vice versa, there's a very visible tear between DC and the rest of the desktop as a result of background shifting.

edit:. oops, just noticed it gone again... Does it refresh automagically time to time?

JarC

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DesktopCoral / Re: It doesnt retain position and transparancy between sessions

« on: May 15, 2005, 03:13 PM »

Hi Mouser,

  inifile ! that is the problem...it can't find it when it gets started, at least not the way I launch my startup items... and btw. forget that bit about the winAPI call, only realized after hitting post that this would probably force any window out of the designated area...

Ok, here's what happens, coz I got a shitload of stuff loading at startup, I switched to a different method of launching startup items. I just have one item in my startup folder and thats a vbs script that launches everything in the background, thus giving me immediate access to my desktop, which would otherwise be unresponsive for about a minute or 2 untill they are all started. The problem however with launching programs from a script, is that the working directory isn't set...and thats the culprit in this case. On launch DesktopCoral can't find any ini file, but DOES save it in its own folder...

so the solution is to just put the startup shortcut in the startup folder instead of having a launcher manage it. Thx! Its been a long time since I encountered that problem, luckily none of the other stuf I have in my startupmanager suffers from this, so its no big problem...

btw...about programs still being able to cover the 'corral' if they aren't started maximized.  The odd thing is that if I resize the 'corral', it will force any window 'out of the way' if that window would endup covering part of the 'corraled' area...


thanx
JarC

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DesktopCoral / It doesnt retain position and transparancy between sessions

« on: May 15, 2005, 02:05 PM »

Hi,

New user here, found this yesterday hunting for a solution to keep my ObjectBar from being covered by windows or vice versa. Only got one problem. Desktop Coral refuses to retain its set position, size and transparancy, I need to set it to the desired size/location/transparancy each time I log in...

any ideas to overcome this?

edit: another problem is that if a program isn't started maximized, it is still possible for that program to cover the 'corral' when it is launched, similar to the problem of having the taskbar visible at the top of the screen and programs often opening with the caption covered by the taskbar, although this is strictly a Windows problem, it would be nice if the Desktop Coral would force any window overlaping it to resize so it nolonger covers the 'corral'. (If memory serves me right, there should be a winAPI that sets the dimensions of the actually available desktop area....? ) 

JarC