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General Software Discussion / Re: Idea: File note

« on: January 28, 2008, 12:56 PM »

Thanks Armando and Nod,

I've just now sent filenoter.exe to Avast and hopefully they can shed some light on the problem.
I'm getting more confused by the minute. I burned a copy of filenoter.zip to CD shortly after I downloaded it from DC. If I'm using the right tool and doing it correctly the hash supplied in the zip and the one generated here don't match? I don't understand that?

Other AV scanners blow right by filenoter.exe without issue.

During the course of this little escapade filenoter, filenotes by GiorgosK , Universal Viewer and maybe other items have been removed from my context menu. They all show in the registry but won't display in the context menu. The AV scan in the context menu stopped working. I just installed Clam AV which installed a context menu entry. That won't work either?

I've obviously got some corruption that has screwed up my context menu. Removing and reinstalling these items hasn't made any difference. I'm facing a Repair install of XPPro64.......... ARRGGGGGGGGG!!!

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Idea: File note

« on: January 27, 2008, 08:05 PM »

I haven't tried to ignore it. I would like to identify the problem.
Avast identifies Win32:Agent-QYH [trj] in each exe file. Google has nothing on that trojan nor does TrendMicro Housecall. Housecall doesn't scan for it??
I burned filenoter.zip to CD on 8 Dec and opening that archive I get the wailing again so what ever is in that file has been there since day one and Avast now sees a trojan in there. Is Avast ahead of the pack in identifying a new trojan before the other apps have included it? Avast auto-updates several times a day so that's a posibility.
A little time will tell, I hope!

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Idea: File note

« on: January 27, 2008, 04:24 PM »

Folks,

I'm having a bad time here!
Avast insists that filenoter.exe and filenote.exe, two different apps, two different authors, on two different machines, are carrying a trojan. I have redownloaded, extracted to new folder and the siren still wails.
Is anyone else having a problem? I wondering if a recent update for Avast may have something to do with it?
Seems weird......... both of these little context menu apps were working fine since back in December but a couple of days ago started throwing fits!

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: NTFSearch

« on: January 23, 2008, 07:35 PM »

No. I ran across it playing with a new pen drive and a download of portable applications. Using an indexer or search app never entered my mind prior to this but I was curious about the speed so gave it a shot. It takes longer to get the index open than it does for it to search out the requested file.
I'm fascinated by the speed! I've got about a quarter of a million files on this machine and IYF finds any of them instantly. Haven't been able to fool it even once!
I may reverse the sort order and try again to fool it. I doubt it though....... it's really paying attention. I wonder if it plays Three Card Monty?

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: NTFSearch

« on: January 23, 2008, 02:01 PM »

http://www.indexyourfiles.com/

I've been playing with this for the last couple of days. Once the indexes are complete it's faster than a speeding bullet. Very impressive and freeware from Portable apps!

 

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: File Extension Seeker

« on: January 21, 2008, 11:02 AM »

http://www.primalscr...Free_Tools/index.asp

I posted this link previously as a source of some free scripting tools. There is also a couple more freebies available there, one being File Types Editor which might be helpful in your project. What opens what type of file information.

There is also a free help file for Powershell that might interest some?

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: PEEK

« on: January 18, 2008, 03:15 PM »

This just popped up at PCWorld .........
http://www.pcworld.c...,141105/article.html
Universal Viewer listed in the freeware here just basicly the same thing that Peek does and Universal Viewer works fine in this 64 bit OS.
The viewer also installs in the Context Menu so a right click will give you a look into most any file.
Problem solved   

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Developer's Corner / Scripting tools for free.

« on: January 09, 2008, 12:45 PM »

Just ran across this link!

http://primalscript....free_tools/index.asp

 

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General Software Discussion / Heap memory view

« on: January 07, 2008, 09:43 AM »

http://www.sofotex.c...download_L76228.html

Does anyone understand or need this?

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Janino another new toy?

« on: January 06, 2008, 09:41 PM »

http://downloads.zdn...ad.aspx?docid=335392

PS: what's the "&promo=100500" part of your link?

-f0dder (January 06, 2008, 08:16 PM)

I have no idea! It was listed on the page above which came from a list of recent blogs on ZDNet on an RSS feed from ZDNet.
The title of the page...
<title>thinBasic (5), from thinBasic - Free Downloads on ZDNet | Shareware, Trialware, Evaluation Software</title>
There are five downloads listed on the bottom of that page and all show "promo" in the link.
I'm clueless!

The list of feeds is here...
http://downloads.zdnet.com/rsslist.aspx

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General Software Discussion / Janino another new toy?

« on: January 06, 2008, 04:24 PM »

http://downloads.zdn...372&promo=100500

Overview: Janino is not intended to be a development tool, but an embedded compiler for run-time compilation purposes, such as expression evaluators or "server pages" engines like JSP. The major design goal was to keep the compiler small and simple, while partially sacrificing completeness. Nobody likes the idea of carrying around huge libraries for simple applications. See Parser for the list of implemented and missing language features.This software is a useful compiler which reads a Java expression, block, or source file, and generates Java byte code that is loaded and executed directly. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.

(Is this item miscategorized? Does it need more tags? Let us know.)

Format: Software | Size: 1,665KB | Date: Jan 2008 | Version: 2.5.12 | System Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista | License: Free

 

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General Software Discussion / thinBasic

« on: January 06, 2008, 04:09 PM »

http://downloads.zdn...ad.aspx?docid=335392

New toy....... at least I never heard of it before!

Overview: thinBasic is a Basic like language interpreter. Its target is to have a scripts text file to be interpreted and executed immediately by a simple double click or by an automated scheduled tasks. More than 500 predefined keywords. All main program flow: If/Then/Else/ElseIf/End If, For/Next, Do [While/Until]/Loop [While/Until], While/Wend, Select/End Select, user defined functions, arrays, and modules. Version 1.5 is a 3 new modules: VBRegExp module, Exe module, and LAN module.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows XP Pro x64 (64-bit) Edition - Favorite Software Compatibility Thread

« on: January 03, 2008, 08:52 PM »

Strange!
The 64 bit version was released yesterday and you're applying comments made in May 2007?
That doesn't compute!
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows XP Pro x64 (64-bit) Edition - Favorite Software Compatibility Thread

« on: January 03, 2008, 08:31 PM »

IE7Pro has been released in a 64 bit version.

http://www.ie7pro.com/download.php

Download: IE7Pro 32bit version
MD5:91ec6f0cb8949ce77c88e9e9d2d4a270
IE7Pro 64bit version (Only for 64Bit IE!)
MD5:e165c6f992524d1474625822644e474b

Just found it............ haven't tried it yet!

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows XP Pro x64 (64-bit) Edition - Favorite Software Compatibility Thread

« on: December 30, 2007, 09:24 PM »

http://tinyurl.com/2bzsqs
64 Bit compatibility list.
I just posted this but got a msg I was typing when another post came in????
It may show up twice?
 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image

« on: December 28, 2007, 09:02 PM »

Just found more on Nero 7, what it includes, what it don't, what it costs and it's post paid from this outfit.

http://tinyurl.com/2xwaa7

 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image

« on: December 28, 2007, 07:59 PM »

Yup, we're on the same track here!

As I posted previously I installed v7 and installed all of it.
Add/Remove uninstalls ALL of it!

I went into Windows Explorer/Program files (x86)/Nero........... Added a number to the folder name for each function I didn't want, effectively hiding the functions from SmartStart.
SmartStart opened as usual WITHOUT showing the functions I renamed. I burned a Test.iso in Image Recorder which opens fine and looks perfectly normal in IZarc Archiver.
I intend to play with this setup for several days and if no ill effects surface I will then delete those folders that I renamed.
If they don't load and aren't missed deletion may work as well as an uninstall, which I don't have. I have renamed twelve folders, added 1 through 12 to folder names. I think they can go???
YMMV

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image

« on: December 28, 2007, 07:28 PM »

I'm not Carol but this is what I found.

From the manual:

"1.3  Versions of Nero Burning ROM
Two different versions of Nero Burning ROM are available: 
Nero Burning ROM Retail and Nero Burning ROM Essentials.
The full Nero Burning ROM Retail version provides full functionality. 
Nero Burning ROM Essentials differs from the full version in the following ways: 
ƒ No crossfade for audio tracks (see Audio Track Properties window)
ƒ No virus scanner (see Updating the virus scanner)
ƒ No simultaneous burning with multiple recorders (see Burn tab for example.)
ƒ No plug-ins" 

Pay full retail and you get crossfade, virus scan, etc,
As far as I can tell the actual burning process is exactly the same.
YMMV
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: PEEK

« on: December 28, 2007, 12:23 AM »

Hopefully, yes.
It's a handy little app to identify an unknown file. Many times in the past a file without an extension when opened with Peek will be identified as a gif or bmp file.

 

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General Software Discussion / PEEK

« on: December 28, 2007, 12:03 AM »

Another oldie but goodie that won't work in XPPro64. It installs in the registry but I get no entry in the Context Menu.

http://www.nettally....eeware/fileutil.html

12-09-96 PEEK Version 1.1 for Windows95 and WindowsNT 4.0 Contextmenu Extension providing simple text extraction for any file. PEEK is a Shell contextmenu extension which allows you to extract only the text portion of files.

I started to post a copy of PEEK.INF that I copied out of Notepad but it seemed rather large.
If anyone is interested I can post it and there is also a peek.dll and a readme. The zip is available from the above link as peek11.zip.

There are many other oldies there too. COA32 is on the list and 10 years ago that was a "must have" app.
Peek is one that NOD could probably fix easily but he patched up Filenoter, left to check on snow for Christmas, and hasn't been heard from since. Have there been any avalanches in Sweden lately. Or maybe he tangles with some of that Swedish Holiday Cheer and hasn't recovered yet?
They make some stuff over there that looks like rain, tastes like carbolic acid, and hits like lightning. Damn, but is it ever good!!
 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image

« on: December 27, 2007, 06:02 PM »

Just checked the Nero folder. Nero 7 installs 470mb and much of it irrelavent, immaterial, redundant, unnecessary and beside the damned point!
The only thing showing in add/remove is Nero. The only uninstall I can find is UNNERO.exe?

A reinstall seems essential if space becomes a problem.

NOTE: Nero's proprietary format for saving compilations is .ng 
The compilation is a simple .iso file and you can change the .ng extension to .iso and open the .iso in IZarc or any of the other apps used to handle .iso

NOTE 2: I like IZarc far better than Winzip and IZarc is freeware.

YMMV 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Nero 6

« on: December 27, 2007, 04:31 PM »

If you're interested in Nero you might want to take a look at the latest posts in Acronis True Image thread.
Nero 7 may just be the deal of the season.   

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image

« on: December 27, 2007, 04:26 PM »

I'm back!
The 332mb download is the Nero 7 Demo/Trial.
I tried to open the downloaded file with IZarc (SFX ???--- nope) so punched the .exe. I missed any options presented about what I wanted to install so it proceeded to uninstall Nero 6 (an option) and install all of Nero 7.
As a demo it fully installed, including a serial number. The demo expires in about ten days but you're presented with an opportunity to insert the serial number from your CD, which I did, it offered to check for updates, which I approved, none were available, so now I'm up and running with everything included in the Nero 7 package.
Nero Burning Rom is probably all I'll ever use but I can play with the rest of the features it offers.

That Nero 7 cd that's floating around for cheap contains a serial number that works here so unless it's so buggy it's unusable it appears to be one helluva deal.
I'll report any bugs I find to the forum.

BigJim, you might suggest this to your friend with the photo problems. It might be the cheapest and easiest solution to the problem, especially if you and I forego any commissions that may be due.   

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image

« on: December 27, 2007, 01:51 PM »

Yup! You nailed it!
The CD I bought for $5 ??? is Nero 7 Essentials and is part of a bundle. It contains Suite 1 and Photoshow, an acre of cab files and a serial number.
Guess I could go shopping for bargains while that 332mb download comes in.........
Not sure I have much to gain except smarts but at my current hourly rate the price seems about right.
Again, stay tuned 
That CD, Nero 7 Essentials may be worth the pittance they're charging for it if you don't mind the 332mb download to get the balance of the suite.
I'll be baack!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Acronis True Image

« on: December 27, 2007, 01:19 PM »

Your comments about v7 piqued my curiosity so I took another look at Nero 7 at Nero.com.
I didn't have v7 installed long enough to update it but here are the numbers from the site.......

More Details
Version7.10.1.2
Release Date2007-10-10
File Size332 MB (348462592 bytes)
MD5 checksumc1dd1dd32180e7608c05aabcbe582d1a

I'm wondering if I should reinstall v7 and apply the update? 

Maybe combining parts of v6 and v7 would give me a better product?
I'll check if I didn't trash the CD for v7! Stay tuned