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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: program to prevent specified programs from being closed without confirm

« on: December 28, 2006, 05:02 PM »

Thanks for letting me know.  I'll check it out.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: program to prevent specified programs from being closed without confir

« on: December 28, 2006, 02:43 PM »

Thanks for your help.  I don't think NoClose is what I'm needing since when I have a lot of windows open (they can be all different sizes and be in different locations depending on the tasks I am working on) I usually use the method of right clicking them on the taskbar and clicking close there.  GoneIn60s seems cool but would the app closing still interrupt the task the window was doing, for instance if the window was recording streaming audio?  If so, I really can't use that one.  Anyway, it's not that important, I just thought I'd ask.  I'm in much more need of the program auto-close after program idle time in the other thread.
Thanks again for the suggestions.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: program to prevent specified programs from being closed without confirm

« on: December 28, 2006, 10:24 AM »

I run some scheduled tasks that run for several hours a day (interactively).  They don't require any input during their run time, but I like to check their status every so often .  But the problem is that I have to be careful to not close them out when I'm closing other things .  Especially when I'm going along the task bar and right clicking and closing a lot of windows.  Would it be possible for someone write something that protected specified programs from being closed, or at least displayed a confirm dialog first?  Would there be a way (using command line since I'm using TaskScheduler to launch bat files for my apps) to specify which instance of a program for the protection program to monitor?
Thanks.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Folder Cleaner

« on: December 28, 2006, 09:43 AM »

I was looking for something like this and found this thread.  I'm looking for something I can just set a rule on a folder to delete files older than x days.  Maybe it could run as a scheduled task every night to make the coding easier.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: utility to close a program after the program has been idle for x minut

« on: December 27, 2006, 08:18 PM »

Looking good Skrommel !!
Before you get too far can I throw out a few thoughts for design?  (I don't need all of these features, but maybe someone else might be able to use them) 
Maybe have a list of specified apps for it to monitor while all others are ignored
Maybe be able to choose whether to display the "Really close?" dialog for each app
Maybe have a "Snooze" option on the "Really close?" dialog
Maybe have options to also close the programs on hibernate, stand-by, and screen-saver
Also, with the aim of flexibility, maybe give the option of (instead of killing a process or closing a program) setting it to run a program or batch file
My  ...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: utility to close a program after the program has been idle for x minut

« on: December 27, 2006, 05:31 PM »

Just a thought

Your problem is having a program still running that can no longer access the drive, because the drive has disconnected due to lack of activity.

It would not be to hard to have a AHK script send a tiny write/delete to the encrypted drive every 'x' minutes whenever Outlook/Onenote is open (IfWinExists)
Keeping the encrypted drive active until you close Outlook/Onenote

is this a option ?

..dB..
doublebogey

-doublebogey (December 27, 2006, 01:49 PM)

Well, that is a good idea  , but I want the drive to close to protect my data, so I'd rather the drive close itself for security.
But thank you...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: utility to close a program after the program has been idle for x minutes

« on: December 27, 2006, 08:49 AM »

Well this has been dropping down the list, so does that mean that it isn't possible with AHK?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: utility to close a program after the program has been idle for x minut

« on: December 22, 2006, 02:23 PM »

I imagine something like "check if PROGRAM's window is active" (If WinActive, check out http://www.autohotke...om/docs/commands.htm) - if it hasn't been active for x minutes -> close PROGRAM.

-brotherS (December 22, 2006, 04:39 AM)

Would this work if the Outlook window was the only window open?  If not, then I guess I'm needing something that monitors the activity (or lack of it) happening with the program or maybe there is a creative way to get the same effect.

Just let me straighten out some stuff: The time that it'd wait before closing the programs would be the same for all of them, right?

-jgpaiva (December 22, 2006, 09:16 AM)

Yes, that would work for me since any i/o to the "drive" resets the "drive's" idle timer.  For example, if Outlook and OneNote were both open but I was only doing anything in Outlook, that would be enough to keep the "drive" open and therefore OneNote is safe from the "drive" closing too.

Also, would you like it to close the program's windows or to terminate the processes?

-jgpaiva (December 22, 2006, 09:16 AM)

A nice gentle "close" would be best I guess, if that's an option.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: pgm to show what prgms communicating with what internet IP addresses

« on: December 22, 2006, 12:10 AM »

It would be great to have a program that would show info about the connections my PC makes with those mysterious shadowy recesses of the internet. 
I think of this especially when my network traffic upload/download indicator in the systray starts moving and I hear the hard drive start crunching (and most especially for those times when I know I didn't initiate anything )

A utility that showed things like:
-what connections exist
-Addresses the connections connected to
-ports being used (as clue to exact purpose of connection)
-local program(s) doing the chatting
-Any possibly useful info about the data sent/received
-Also a history, maybe a log, that could be looked over and searched after the fact, too
-Anything else that might be relevent that I'm forgetting right now

Just one more thing:  as many will notice by the way my request was worded , I'm not much of a networking/TCP/IP expert, so easily understandable displays of the information would help people like me.

Thanks and Merry Christmas.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: DONE: utility to close a program after the program has been idle for x minutes

« on: December 21, 2006, 10:57 PM »

Thanks for your reply.  Yes it works with outlook.exe and onenote.exe,  but I've found after testing it and reading about the A_TimeIdlePhysical command in the help file that it's not exactly what I'm looking for.  I am looking for a utility that monitors the idle time of only specific programs (instead of the whole system) and that would then close those programs after x minutes of program idle time.  I can see that this script you wrote is useful for many purposes, but it's not really what I am needing.  I'm looking for a solution to close Outlook and OneNote before Truecrypt's "auto-close on x minutes with no read/writes" feature closes the "drive" where their data is located because this "drive" closing causes problems as I mentioned above.  I don't know if you're familiar with the Truecrypt feature I'm refering to, so if you need me to elaborate a little, I can.  Is there anything that can be done with Autohotkey that could help with my situation?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: utility to close a program after the program has been idle for x minut

« on: December 20, 2006, 11:27 PM »

OP here.  I was looking through the finished programs in this forum after I posted the above request (should've been more thorough to begin with  ...sorry ) and found this:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=2377.0
This might be what I've been looking for.  I'll look at it and see if it will work for my situation.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: utility to close a program after the program has been idle for x minutes

« on: December 20, 2006, 11:08 PM »

I keep my email .pst file and my MS OneNote data inside an encrypted "drive" that closes itself after 15 minutes of no read/write activity to the "drive".  I have always wanted a utility that I could set up to close out Outlook and/or OneNote 1 minute before the encrypted "drive" closes.  This way I could avoid the programs becoming non-responsive and/or the PC blue screening when I try to reopen the drive.
This kind of utility could be useful for anyone who might want a program to close by itself for other reasons, like password protected files (Word, Excel, etc) or other password protected apps. 
It might also be useful if it could close programs due to screen saver activation, hibernation, or stand-by.
I hope this sounds interesting to you guys, I think it could be useful.
Thanks in advance...