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Well, your question prompted me to do a version check on my PortableRoboform. It found a new version and installed it for me. No problems here.

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Well, I said "I'll believe it when I see it" and now I'm seeing it! Congrats Mouser.

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I'll believe it when I see it.  :-\

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Powerpro is mostly portable as is. Just copy it over to your usb drive. You will not be able to have shell integration or tray support but most other functions work fine.

Copy my script above into a text file and name it "startup.powerpro". Then from the Scheduler tab of Powerpro Config, have it run that script at startup. My script points to a copy of subst.exe that I renamed to substt.exe because I'm not allowed to run subst.exe on my work computer. Renaming the file fools the restrictions. You probably can just point to the local copy that is already installed in all Windows machines.

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Yeah, there really isn't any way to assign them automatically on other computers.

There is if you use Powerpro. I use the following startup script:

local DrvLtr = select(pprofolder, 3) ; selects the drive letter that Powepro is running from
local string = "T: " ++ DrvLtr ; build string to send to the subst command line
local ed = DrvLtr ++ ?"powerpro\substt.exe" ; renamed subst.exe to fool restrictions on work computer
do(ed, string) ; Assigns USB drive to T:

If you had any other utility running that reported back the drive letter you could use subst.exe from a batch file.

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Living Room / Re: ¿A kid genius or a ambitious father?
« on: October 08, 2007, 02:44 PM »
Shoot, I could paint like that also! I think my kids could too. (I guess I don't know how to "appreciate" modern art.)

By the way, have you ever heard of those experiments where they do something like put ordinary preschool fingerpaint prints up in a fancy museum and all the critics think they are genius works of art? That cracks me up.

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Best Dialog Extender / Re: Enhanced File Dialog
« on: October 08, 2007, 10:52 AM »
As I mentioned above, I use Powerpro to manage my favorite folders. But, if anybody is looking for a very simple method there is another route to take.

Create a folder and then place shortcuts to all your favorite locations in that folder. Now you can use TweakUI to place that folder in your Common Dialogs. Now you can have an unlimited number of favorite locations that are only 2 mouse clicks away. If you refer back to my screenshot above, that is what the "shortcuts" folder is on my common dialogs. So, you can see, I use both methods.

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Best Dialog Extender / Re: Enhanced File Dialog
« on: October 07, 2007, 01:56 PM »
I wonder is there anything else does the same job -
I'd love some thing like that (a la Darwins screenshot post #2)
I'd pay for it even :)
If you want an enlarged dialog box and favorite folders then you can do both using Powerpro. This is mine:
http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b387/edbro9/untitled.jpg

The favorite folders on the left is attached to all file dialog boxes.

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How big of a note? If not too big then simply RightClick - New Text File and then create your note as part of the file name.

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b387/edbro9/Note.jpg


You might have to click on the icon to see the full text. You can even be creative and use a blank icon.

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I thought about trying the beta but isn't the beta only the freeware version? I have the pro version so I can sycn with my USB drive. I don't want to get into a situation where I'm actually losing features by trying the beta.

How do they handle upgrades once it gets out of beta? I bought through Handango. Do they send everyone a new download link? (I guess I should be asking this over on their forums  :-[)

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Check this new search engine out. It looks on several sites for covers up to 1425x1425.
http://www.albumartwork.org/

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?
« on: October 03, 2007, 10:12 AM »
Tinjaw, I take it that you haven't tried Dash???

Nope. Link please.
http://www.trydash.com/home/

Big Donation Coder discussion here:
https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=9268.0

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General Software Discussion / Re: PowerPro bar question
« on: October 03, 2007, 09:39 AM »
Check the "Bar size from sum of buttons"

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?
« on: October 03, 2007, 09:12 AM »
Tinjaw, I take it that you haven't tried Dash??? My favorite of the bunch right now.

I did try Executor last night but it looks like it doesn't search for programs. You have to manually set an alias for each program. That might not be the case because I didn't try it for too long before deleting it.

My must have in a launcher is for it to index and launch my Firefox bookmarks. Both FARR and Dash do that nicely.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Directory Opus 9 - How to..?
« on: October 01, 2007, 06:32 PM »
What Darwin said is correct but I'm curious as to why you come here for DirOpus questions. They have a very good and very active help forum on their site.

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I just thought your mamma named you "/Stefano". There is a punk rocker named Slash.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?
« on: September 27, 2007, 03:29 PM »
For someone who loves to fiddle with configuring things though, the payback is well worth it. I think I read at the site that the author was stopping further development of it.

http://powerpro.webeddie.com/
Yes, that's what he has said but, he is still very active in their forums and I've seen quite a few updates since he "quit". Powerpro is my all-time favorite utility. Yes, there is a bit of a learning curve if you want to extract the full capability. But, using PP, I've been able to get rid of a bunch of other utilities such as a clipboard extender, window manager, virtual desktop manager, macro util, launch bar, sticky note app, and more. Powerpro is doing all this and it's currently using only 1,216K of memory.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Acronis True Image OR maybe not ???
« on: September 24, 2007, 02:49 PM »
I rely on Drive Snapshot for automated backup, the destination being a dedicated partition on each HDD.  When it's full, I either remove some differential backups or I transfer them to an external dedicated HDD.  When it's full, I then burn DVD.
What's the use of backing up to a partition on the same HD? If the hd goes, both partitions are going with it. At least you should backup to a dedicated partition on the hd other than the source.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Magix (Xara) rant...
« on: September 22, 2007, 08:28 PM »
Costs $55...
Unless you act now, Back to school special is only $35.

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Living Room / Re: Computer problems...
« on: September 21, 2007, 02:36 PM »
Have you checked task manager when they are overheating? Are there any new programs/processes? Anything misbehaving programs using 100% of CPU?

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?
« on: September 21, 2007, 11:59 AM »
Dirhael and edbro - thank you/curse you for introducing me to Dash Command! I can't believe how light this is on resources. I'm used to both FARR and DirectAccess (and ActiveWords and AppRocket) sucking up in excess of 30MB of RAM/VM - Dash is currently using only 5MB RAM and 18MB VM. Impressive.
It looks like some pretty neat things are coming up for Dash.
- Fuzzy logic matching
- macro like pasting of text
- language translation
- More...

http://www.trydash.c...ecent=1377#post-1377

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There are a few types of applications that no developer should even consider building:
  • File rename
  • Backup
  • MP3 tag editor
  • Multimedia format converter

Does the world really need any more of these? Aren't the ones that we have sufficient?  :o
What about simple notepad replacements? I think we are up to around 9 million of those with most not having anything special to set them apart. I'm not talking about robust editors like Notepad++ or PSPad.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How do you launch stuff?
« on: September 20, 2007, 10:03 AM »
The other irritant is that ever since I installed Skylight, Dash Command has been broken (the two events may not be related). I've uninstalled both, rebooted and reinstalled Dash... and gone through several uninstall/reboot/reinstall cycles. Nothing helps  >:( I get the following error message every time I try to start it now:

Exception ENotifyIconError in module DashCommand.exe at 000B0B2E.
Failed to set version of notify icon.

I click OK and that is that... Right, off to post in the users forum (though if I was smart I'd stay away - I really don't need another launcher...).

EDIT: Looks like edbro had a very similar problem a couple of months ago...
Are you using version 0.94.2? The notify icon problem has been fixed.

I mostly use FARR now but I do fire up Dash every now and then to check for updates.

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One of the best IMO. Really worth it!
Worth the free price???

I saw it but I wondered how this is any better than a regular renamer? I use BulkRenamer.

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