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General Software Discussion / Operations on an HTML file or folder apply to similarly named folder or HTML fil

« on: August 04, 2014, 05:11 PM »

Operations on an HTML file or folder apply to similarly named folder or HTML file.
This feature disappeared in Win8, maybe Win7 too, has anyone discovered a workaround or maybe a third party utility?
I like to save web pages in html with the includes saved in a separate folder. I seemed to be chasing one or the other all over a 1tb drive all the time.
 

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Living Room / Script Add-On actions??

« on: August 04, 2014, 11:17 AM »

I just downloaded a page from How-to-Geek using that lazyload  user script.
The page seems to load faster without lazyload but lazyload is supposed to speed up loading with an image heavy page??
Could someone that writes script give me a short clue as to how it works? Not technical......... does the script change anything in the page itself, add code, remove code, block code??? I'm baffled about what it do and how?
 
TIA 

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Living Room / MS-DOS manuals

« on: July 31, 2014, 03:36 PM »

I'm not sure where to put this nor who might be interested but Amazon still has some old DOS manuals.
http://www.amazon.co...+Guide+and+Reference

I have the original manual for MS-DOS 5 and it contains lots of answers!
It's about an inch thick with 668 pages. An invaluable  treasure for commandline-junkies.

I have another, about the same size, The Waite Group's, Tricks of the MS-DOS Masters. I didn't check Amazon for this one but the prices for the Microsoft manuals make them affordable, and if you play on the command line, desirable.
 

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Living Room / Seagate starts shipping 8TB hard drives, with 10TB and HAMR on the horizon

« on: July 28, 2014, 11:53 AM »

http://www.extremete...hamr-on-the-horizon?

At last.....
Wait up people! Don't jump and order an 8tb drive as soon as Newegg lists it on the front page.
I read someplace on the internet that (and if it's on the internet it must be true) most of our current machines using BIOS and MBR will not boot to a drive over 2tb.

Going to have to get familiar with GPT and UEFI on 64 bit machines before you put your memnoirs on a drive large enough to hold them.

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Living Room / Godmode

« on: July 27, 2014, 07:30 PM »

Does everyone have a copy of Godmode?
it's almost as good as a start menu.............

Click create folder.

Name your sparkly, new folder this, "GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}" and press enter.

Blink as the folder changes form to look like the <a href="http:/

Open the folder and bask in all your godly, control panel-y power.</p>

Use everything between the quotes but NOT the quotes for the folder name.
 

I have it working in Win8.1.1, Win7Pro 64, Win7Pro 32 and I think it worked in XP

All the same numbers.
Evidently somebody was thinking........... how unusual??
You can put the folder on your desktop, on your root drive, or both.
Straight to the control panel, neat and sanitary!
Works anywhere and nothing is installed. These are just shortcuts to various applets in control panel.

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Living Room / Kidney stones and Beer!

« on: July 26, 2014, 02:54 PM »

I subscribe to health newsletters.

One has a report that kidney stones can get as big as ping pong balls!!!

I had a friend that passed some kidney stones.

He was NOT a happy camper.

Today I bring big tidings and great joy!!!!!!

"On the other hand, people who reported drinking beer and wine frequently had a 41 percent and 33 percent lower risk of developing stones respectively than people who did not consume the alcoholic beverages."

http://www.cbsnews.c...k-but-beer-may-help/

(don't thank me, please, .... it was nothing...

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Living Room / Lifetime Access To Over 5,000 Adobe Authorized Training Videos

« on: July 26, 2014, 12:22 PM »

Did everybody see this at Makeuseof?

If I didn't know everything already I think I'd take a real close look at this deal.
..... except I don't seem to be able to learn much from a video?
Follow along with my finger and read out loud seems to work better for me.
YMMV
 


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Living Room / Windows 8.1 Update 2 Rumored To Appear on August 12

« on: July 25, 2014, 08:36 PM »

Windows 8.1 Update 2 Rumored To Appear on August 12
http://redmondmag.co...-update-2-rumor.aspx

The latest "confirmation" of that rumor purportedly comes from a Russian-language PC Portal Web site. An article on that site is said to describe an "August Update" that's planned for "release as a standalone update on 8/12/2014 and will include new features and functionality." Various media reports on Monday showed a screenshot with that language. For instance, this Neowin article shows the screenshot.

How does Russia get the word before we do?
 

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General Software Discussion / Windows product key and key recovery

« on: July 24, 2014, 11:58 PM »

For anyone working with Windows and it's inevitable updates I would recommend that you keep a copy of Nir Soft's  "Produkey"
at hand. It saved me from buying a new copy of Win8.0 when the Windows Store update to Win8.1 trashed my install of Win8.0 because of a mix-up of product keys, replacement keys and semantics about "original" keys.
Produkey searched the trashed, unbootable, O\S when I slaved it to a Win7 install and returned with the actual keys that were used to activate the system. With those numbers I was able to reinstall Win8.0, including the Windows Media Center, download the upgrade ISO for Win8.1 and get up and running, without incident.
Produkey is included in Windows System Control Center, WSCC, which is a frontend for Nirsoft Utils, Sysinternal Utils, and Windows Utils.
Total of almost 300 essential utilities.
It's freeware!
It was discussed here months ago but I think it come up in the world since that discussion. For one thing it now supports 64 bit systems.
Just search DC for wscc or Google will find it for you with just those four letters. It updates often. With so many utilities something is always being updated so punch the buttons for All Items and keep it current. It will get you out of trouble!
If not today, soon!
 

P.S.
It will recover passwords too and password recovery utilities usually return as a virus in your AV program. You may have to whitelist them so they will be ignored on a virus scan.

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Living Room / Printer's Ink

« on: July 24, 2014, 10:25 AM »

I've been thinking about printing out the internet. I hate buying refills for my printer and I'm wondering if anyone has had any success in refilling their cartridges using one of those kits that are being advertised?
I'd be interested in hearing how it worked, where you got it, and if even stupid, little (huh??), old, me could do it without ruining something??
I've got an old dot-matrix printer that would probably be cheaper to use but if I'm going to print out the internet I'd like all the pretty pictures included.
TIA

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General Software Discussion / Windows Registry

« on: July 23, 2014, 05:20 PM »

Anyone bored? Looking for something to do?
Follow Gizmo?
http://www.techsuppo...y.htm#comment-117497
ReMah at Gizmo is working on a registry article that I think is way overdue.
It's a work in progress at the moment but I'd save the page and take a look.
I commented there about an idea I had over 20 years ago using an audible countdown for the boot process.
I still think it would be a handy tool but don't know if it's even viable??
With the size of a registry any more it may not even fit on the barn door if you were to diagram it. An app to give you an audible countdown may be bigger than Windows itself?
I dunno. Stuff like that is above my pay grade! and I've got to stop dreaming up stuff for other people to do!
bad habits are hard to break....
 

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Living Room / Hardware source

« on: July 22, 2014, 10:59 AM »

Here's a link to a hardware source that I have used in the past.
Most of it would be of interest to ITs rather than a home user. Equipment racks, cables, etc.
Some items would be of interest to home users........ I bought some six foot patch cables for 25 cents apiece a while back.
They put out a weekly newsletter and you have to watch that and plan ahead to really save!
I've used Monoprice.com for many years but it wouldn't hurt to compare the two before spending big bucks. (In a World-Wide Consortium "bucks" may not be appropriate so maybe money is the word?)
Take a look....... I'm sure they will beat Best Buy's $50 Monster Cable.

https://go.madmimi.c...5cc37?pa=24022448906

That's a scary looking URL but it takes you there...... I checked in IE, Chrome and FF

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General Software Discussion / Email notification when a reply to my post is posted

« on: July 21, 2014, 05:24 PM »

I was informed yesterday that this is a World-Wide Consortium, and I'm assuming, operating on an international basis. As such, I imagine that there is probably a Vice-President-In-Charge of the check boxes where you indicate whether or not you would like to be notified if someone replies to your post. I always check the box indicating that I would indeed like to be notified.
To date, I have never received any such notice. Is there something I should do other than check the box to be notified?
Maybe talk to the VPIC???
Any help here would be appreciated as I'm quite new here and have no idea where to go from here.
TIA

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General Software Discussion / Lazyload

« on: July 19, 2014, 03:27 PM »

Anyone familiar with "lazyload"?
How-to-Geek uses something called lazyload in their html code.
Images on the page aren't loaded until you scroll down to them on the page.
I open a page, determine from the title that I want to save it to disk, click Save and wind up with a page with a dozen placeholders and a dozen missing images!
Trying to follow a tutorial with a series of screenshots and the pretty pictures missing is a PITA.
Any way to defeat lazyload?
 

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General Software Discussion / Readability and Reading List

« on: July 14, 2014, 03:48 PM »

Is anyone familiar with the browser add-on Read Now and Read Later from Readability.com or MS's own Reading Lists, which does basically the same thing?

"Readability

https://www.readability.com/

Readability is a web and mobile app that zaps online clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view."

I found Readability a while back and thought my problems were solved......
not true!
Only partially........
My memory is bad and getting worse so rather than save something to Favorites I save the web page. As you all know, web pages are getting larger and larger and only about 5% of the page is data you want to save.
Readability has come up with a partial solution and from what I can gather they have stopped further development.
Using Read Now add-on you come up with a page stripped of all the clutter and left with the "meat of the matter" for your perusal. Nice!!
Now my problem enters the picture...........
when I save the converted page I get a copy of the original page and not the stripped down page (I'm smelling java!)
I contacted Readability.com and the man on the phone suggested I try saving as EPUB or something. duh!
Currently, as a workaround, I've been viewing the source of a page, copying the source, dropping it into Notepad2, and saving it as the original title.htm.
I get what I want with this method but it is time consuming and I'm frustrated that so seemingly a simply problem is so damned complex.
With the "Cloud" in the mix and 90-95% of their storage space consumed by superfluous clutter I don't understand why this is still a problem.
I'm a two-fingered-hunt and peck typist who hasn't even written a .bat file in the last 20 years so I'm worthless as part of the solution!
Anyone know anything about this that would solve the problem?

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General Software Discussion / Refactoring

« on: January 08, 2012, 07:08 PM »

http://lostechies.co...f-refactoring-ebook/

Is this info of any use to anyone?

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General Software Discussion / Rapid Environment Editor

« on: January 08, 2012, 10:32 AM »

http://www.snapfiles...com/get/rapidee.html

Rapid Environment Editor by Oleg Danilov

edit system environment variables
 Rapid Environment Editor is a system environment variables editor that provides advanced users with quick access to all registered system and user variables variables. It offers a tree view with direct editing that enables you to easily edit or delete variable paths, add new directory paths without typing, convert paths from long to (8.3) short, change variable types, re-arrange the path order, and more. Other features include automatic error highlighting and an integrated backup option.

New toy!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Windows 7

« on: March 13, 2010, 05:54 PM »

I ran across vender that is operating similar to Serial Sellers (Sales?) in that they are buying large quantities in bulk and selling individual applications.
I hesitate to recommend them at the moment but I have a CD for Win7 in the mail. I've been running the RC and it's rebooting every two hours........ until that CD gets here
The reason I called: I'm wondering how many people are interested in buying Win7 (any version) or any other software?
I told the guy on the phone that I placed the order with that if everything was legit and worked out OK that I might have some more customers for them. This would seem like a good time to do a little wheeling and dealing to maybe get a lower price or at least get free shipping. They are charging $10 US for the CD with free shipping, otherwise it's a download?? (BIG download)
My CD should arrive here early next week and I can poke it into this machine immediately so I can get more answers.
Post your name and what you want so I can cut and paste to develop a list, unless there's a better way to come up with a list?
I don't know if they will ship outside US but I can find out exactly what software they will have available and their prices.
I'll get back here early next week after I get Win7 installed.

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General Software Discussion / New tools?

« on: October 18, 2008, 07:12 PM »

I ran across some tools while out slumming earlier.
Anybody know what they're for?

http://www.brixoft.net/default.asp

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General Software Discussion / Super FDisk (iso)

« on: September 09, 2008, 12:08 PM »

Remember Fdisk?

Here's it's replacement and it works like a champ!

http://downloads.zdn...5026&tag=nl.e550

I burned the iso to CD and tried it on XPPro. It booted up without a problem and provides everything you'd want to know about your drives.

I stuck the CD in an old machine with Win2K. Again it booted up fine and even displays the parameters for the hidden partition containing the BIOS/CMOS/whatever?

Well worth the dime for the CD and beats messing with Fdisk!

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General Software Discussion / Polar Help Desk

« on: August 10, 2008, 12:27 PM »

Anyone looking for trouble?
I found some!
Polar Help Desk freeware..........
http://www.polarsoft...l.asp?intProdID=1929
There's a freeware version there which I have downloaded and installed on XPPro64 and XPPro32. I have IIS installed on both machines and the setup for Polar declares a successful install.
I can't get it to work on either machine!
Up front........ I have absolutely no need for a help desk. I ran across the software by accident and was curious to know if it could be adapted to categorize and index tips and tweaks.
If anyone is interested in playing with it I would be happy as hell to learn how to make it work.
It may be worthless for what I was trying to do but gravity wasn't a high value item either until somebody figured out how it worked!

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General Software Discussion / Reference Material

« on: May 01, 2008, 09:27 AM »

Is this of any value to anyone?
http://www.sofotex.c...download_L82515.html
 

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General Software Discussion / Unallocated drive space

« on: April 29, 2008, 01:50 PM »

Got a new problem and wondering if there is a solution?
About a month ago I bought an old computer w/monitor that had Win2K installed. The price being about the same as two loaves of bread I grabbed it!
Cracked the password, put in a new vid card and it's up and running.
Now I decide to replace the 8GB HDD.......... yeah, right!
There is a hidden partition or unallocated space that I can't image, copy or clone.
I tried TrueImage 7, then TrueImage 11, then XXClone, and finally Seagates Diskwizard software. I can't get a bootable image, or copy, onto a new Seagate drive with any of those.
Being a Yard Sale bargain there was no CD included so to save that copy of Win2K I've got to figure out how to copy those boot files from that unallocated space. I'm assuming it's raw disk space and wondering if that information can be recovered???
It works fine the way it is and I have no real need for a copy of Win2K but that's not the way that boys think.
If I could get the OS imaged I might put it on a newer machine? or not! The process of copying something from a raw drive is what intrigues me.
By the way, the monitor included in the deal is a Radius Intellicolor Display/20e and has the best picture of any monitor in the house. An old multisync from about 2001 weighing in at about a hundred pounds. Damn, it is one heavy old monstor.
TIA for any enlightenment.

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General Software Discussion / GAOTD & Virus

« on: April 07, 2008, 04:55 PM »

Beware the downloads......... I just saw on another forum they're spreading a virus.

That site is also suspect. It's on some remote offshore island that I neverheard of????

Update:
I don't think this is a virus. It's a nasty playmate!

""Outpost Antivirus Pro.
 

Onto two computers:

 

Outlook would not even start; Firefox locked up; Internet Exploder locked
up; every program on my systems except Forte Agent locked up until I
uninstalled the *W#(@#$&$(*& Outpost Antivirus Program.  When I rebooted and
got Outlook to run, I was informed that the Outpost AV addin had caused the
problems and "did not play well with others." "

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General Software Discussion / Shell Tools.... Moonsoftware

« on: April 04, 2008, 11:01 PM »

http://www.moonsoftw...e.com/shelltools.asp
Shell Tools is out. Moonsoftware has included a handful of their old utilities, including FileNote, in Shell Tools. Unfortunately they still didn't include the 64bit extensions so we didn't gain much except for the bundling. I'm going to load it up on the 32bit machines though.......... I love new toys!
I've used their utilities over the years and enjoyed them. When I discovered that FileNote wouldn't work on this 64bit version of XPPro I almost cried. Nod jumped in and saved me then others added improvements so we survived.
BigJim set out to discuss our plight with the guys at Moonsoftware when FileNote came up and he was advised that they were going to fix it. If there is anyone here with a little authority I'd suggest a little chit-chat with BigJim about getting results. I've heard of cases where when the desired results weren't obtained the "Big" disappeared.
YMMV