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Living Room / Re: How to do funky text?
« on: September 22, 2018, 02:41 AM »;D The caption on options name it right "f**k it up"So it does. Very droll.-KodeZwerg (September 21, 2018, 11:38 PM)
@Renegade: Is that what you were after?
;D The caption on options name it right "f**k it up"So it does. Very droll.-KodeZwerg (September 21, 2018, 11:38 PM)
maybe try ^(+(b))Ahh. The penny just dropped.-mouser (September 21, 2018, 09:48 PM)
Sendkeys DocumentationI think I now better understand why you embedded TPushKeys functionality in LBC.
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Special strings that you can use in a {sendkeys} clip, from the TPushKeys help file:
Function key definitions are enclosed within braces, keys from F1 to F24 are represented by:
{F1}...{F24}
State Modifiers
Shift Key +
Ctrl Key ^
Left Alt Key %
Right Alt Key (Alt Gr) !
Prefix any key definition with the appropriate modifier to affect the key press immediately following it e.g. +ab will result in the key strokes Ab being directed to the application.
To extend the modifier to affect a group of characters enclose them in parentheses e.g !(ab) will result in AB being simulated. Parentheses may be nested so that !(+(ao)) will give ÁÓ.
Note: State Modifiers need not be used with standard keys as they can be entered directly. See example
IMPORTANT: When you want to trigger normal letter keys in combination with Ctrl Alt Shift, you *MUST* use lowercase versions of the letters, or a SHIFT key will be simulated.
To simulate the press and release of a modifier key then the key symbol must be the only character in the Keys string. See example ...
...(there's more).
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This new functionality is provided by the TPushKeys component by Alan Warriner which encapsulates, and extends, Christopher Latta's PushKeys code ([email protected], www.alan-warriner.co.uk)
CCleaner Disregarding Settings and Forcing Update to Latest 5.46 Version
CCleaner Disregarding Settings and Forcing Update to Latest 5.46 Version
By Lawrence Abrams
September 17, 2018 01:36 PM
10 Comments
Image: CCleaner melting
Reports are coming in that Piriform is forcing CCleaner to update to the latest 5.46 version even when users had configured the program to not perform automatic updates. To make matters worse, once the users were upgraded to the latest version, their privacy settings were reverted to default, which is to allow anonymous usage data to be sent to Avast/Piriform.
This was first reported on September 6th at Piriform's forum, where users stated that their installed versions of CCleaner were being updated to 5.4.6 even after disabling automatic updates. This was later confirmed in a post to our forums.
Post at BleepingComputer.com
In that same Piriform topic, an employee replied and stated that "Since the release of v5.46 we have updated some users to this version to meet legal requirements and give users more autonomy and transparency over their privacy settings."
Post to Piriform Forum from employee
As a test, I downloaded and installed the Slim version of CCleaner 5.37 that we host at BleepingComputer.com.
During the setup procedure, I configured the program to not automatically check for new updates. Even with that setting disabled, CCupdate.exe was automatically executed by the installer and CCleaner was updated to version 5.46 before I could even start the program. This is illustrated in the video below.
... This is obviously a concern that CCleaner is ignoring user's preferences and forcing the update of a new version. BleepingComputer has contacted Piriform/Avast for comment, but have not received answers to our questions at the time of this publication.
How to disable CCleaner automatic updates
As CCleaner is ignoring a users preferences and forcing updates to be installed, if you want to disable updates you need to delete an executable called CCUpdate.exe that is installed along with CCleaner.
When CCleaner is installed, it will install a file at C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCupdate.exe that is used to install updates to CCleaner. This program is then configured to automatically run every day by a Scheduled Task called CCleaner Update.
CCleaner Update Scheduled Task
To prevent this program from running you should delete the scheduled task. To be even safer, you can delete the actual C:\Program Files\CCleaner\CCupdate.exe executable.
Once the task and executable have been deleted, CCleaner will no longer update without you actually installing a new version.
Thx to Ivan for sharing the news tip.