To give you an idea of how ridiculous false positives can be, I once wrote a single line program consisting of one hotkey that simply EXITED THE PROGRAM.  Nothing else.  Even that didn't come up clean in the virus scans.  As you might imagine, it was about that point that I stopped caring.

-skwire (April 12, 2022, 12:01 AM)

It occurs to me that the entire approach to "software safety checking" or whatever is entirely misguided.  Instead of "scanning" a program and guessing that it might have some code that looks similar to another program that someone said had some bad code, it may be a a better approach for some "authoritative" site to actually run it on a virtual machine to see what functions it hijacks.  If it only grabs keyboard and it is a hotkey program then perhaps nobody should panic.  But if it hijacks everything in sight then maybe it should be noted on the site.  I don't see how a quick scan that generates some kind of CRC result can tell you if the intent of the application is malicious.  It is just a quick and leaky prophylactic being sold to the public as far as I can tell.   :Thmbsup:

I forgot startup delay was one of the WinPatrol features.  It likely prompted me years ago to write DelayedCuts.

You have to manually add shortcuts using DelayedCuts.exe.  When you save the list it creates a shortcut to DelayedLoad.exe in the user's Startup folder.  It can be useful if some programs are dependent on others being already running etc..  By default it scrolls up a window by the tray showing which program is currently loading.  You can click the close 'x' on this window to skip that program.

The reason DelayedCuts insists you drag shortcuts on to add to the list is this guarantees the opportunity to specify the behavior of the program to be launched since you can specify most startup behavior in the shortcut options.

It is free to use at your own risk.  I use it every day on a Windows 10 Laptop so hopefully that indicates it is not obsolete on the newer Windows versions (yet.)   8)

Note that sometimes I find public library WiFi blocks my page.  I am not sure why.  But you should have no trouble downloading via your own ISP or similar network.

myTuner

I cannot seem to find wired earbuds that will work with over the air FM Radio apps.  The wire in the earphone jack is never tight enough to be dependable as antenna.  Besides, with myTuner I can listen to internet radio streams for stations I liked when I lived in Boston.

I haven't tried it while walking around yet.  But I did not see any comments complaining about dropped connectios so I hope for the best.   8)