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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 48hrs Adept PDF to Word Converter

« on: March 20, 2011, 09:54 AM »

Yes, thanks from me too!

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Living Room / Re: Lists of Forums with help on home contractor problems (roof, heating, etc.)

« on: March 12, 2011, 12:13 AM »

Just stumbled across this:

http://www.diychatroom.com/

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Drag&Drop to move File/Folder, but leave a Shortcut

« on: March 08, 2011, 11:55 AM »

Probably not since I'd have to select the destination through another dialog, an extra step making the exercise pointless.

This is a trivial operation, not worth writing a utility for, when I have both the source and destination windows both opened.  Then you just drag and drop the file, and then drag and drop it back to make the shortcut. Or make the shortcut before you move the file/folder.

But I'm mostly doing this (moving a file but leaving a bookmark in it's place) from my desktop (there's a reason).  And I want the shortcut placed by the desktop, in the automatic "next place" that a desktop icon would go, so I can't finish the operation by dragging the moved file back (either holding down Alt or using the RightButtonDrag dialog) since I can't easily manually place the shortcut icon.  So when I do this I open up an explorer window to the desktop so that an icon created in the explorer window is automatically placed on the desktop.

Doh!  I just realized I could resurrect the old right click menu choice, Create Shortcut, a choice I always found absolutely useless so I hid it using MMM+.  I just unhid it and now if I Create Shortcut from the desktop, the shortcut is placed automatically in the next expected location on the desktop.

I'd still really like to have a 4th choice added to the RightButtonDrag dialog (Copy File; Move File; Create Shortcut; Move File but leave Shortcut in it's place).  Or be able to hold down a modifier key while dragging and dropping the file to achieve the same result. 

But resurrecting the Create Shortcut choice is a decent workaround.

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Once again I come up with an answer (not necessarily the best one, but an answer nevertheless) right after posting my question.  This happens to me exactly 92.89% of the time (yes I've kept track  ), even if I've waited a long time to ask my question.  So it turns out the best way for me to figure something out is to ask here and then feel a bit foolish when an answer only comes to me afterward.

Does this happen to anyone else?  Is there a name for this phenomenon?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Drag&Drop to move File/Folder, but leave a Shortcut

« on: March 05, 2011, 01:02 PM »

Yes, that's the opposite.  Plus I'm looking to avoid another interface/dialog box, which would defeat the purpose - to quickly drag and drop between folders, mostly between the desktop and another folder.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Drag&Drop to move File/Folder, but leave a Shortcut

« on: March 05, 2011, 09:24 AM »

No, that makes a copy in the new location, and holding Shift will force a move and holding Alt will make a shorcut in the new location.  Same as the menu choices you get when you right-click drag the file or folder.

What I want is to move the file/folder, but replace it in the original location with a shortcut to it's new location.  I'd prefer to do it with the Right-Click-drag menu, but practically speaking it will probably be easier to implement by having a key (not Shift,Control,or Alt) held down while dragging the file/folder.

Can Autohotkey recognize a "key-modified" drag and drop?

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Post New Requests Here / Drag&Drop to move File/Folder, but leave a Shortcut

« on: March 05, 2011, 08:33 AM »

In Windows (XP) when you drag and drop using the Right mouse button, you are offered a choice to either Copy, Move, or Create a Shortcut.

What I'd like to see is a fourth choice:  Move, but leave a Shortcut in the original location (exact location if the original location is the Desktop).

This is probably difficult since this menu is part of Windows and I've never seen it modified.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Password protect folder using right-click context menu

« on: March 03, 2011, 07:36 PM »

I can see how this could be handy - quick access and the ability to have a different password with each folder.

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« on: March 03, 2011, 08:23 AM »

Turns out they still make it!

(Sorry for going off-topic, I'll stop.)

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Living Room / Re: Show us your (physical) desktop

« on: March 03, 2011, 06:57 AM »

Vitalis, jgpaiva?

When I was a kid, Vitalis was a very popular men's hair tonic (my grandfather used it).

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Living Room / Re: Reverse Phone lookup

« on: March 01, 2011, 04:59 PM »

Thanks!!!

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Living Room / Reverse Phone lookup

« on: March 01, 2011, 10:48 AM »

Used to be it was easy to find a name to go with a phone number, just Google the number.

Now it seems that the only way is through a paid service, the only hits I get when I Google the number.

Does anyone know if there are still free lookup sites out there?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: Shortcomings of DC and How to Improve

« on: February 28, 2011, 08:58 PM »

Don't you feel the resistance to constructive criticism?

-lotusrootstarch (February 28, 2011, 06:11 PM)

Resistance, no.  Response, yes.  Isn't that what you want from "constructive" criticism?

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Living Room / Re: Show us your desktop

« on: February 24, 2011, 11:19 AM »

Thanks

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Living Room / Re: Show us your desktop

« on: February 24, 2011, 09:59 AM »

Nosh, how do you write on your screen?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Program to beautify crappy exports from other applications?

« on: February 23, 2011, 10:23 AM »

If you want to print what's in a window on the screen, even if it needs to be scrolled, you could use SnagIt.  I think Mouser's Screenshot Captor might do the same thing.  This is far more selective than Prt-Screen but the printing options are still limited.  In SnagIt you can expand the shot and then either print it or print to a pdf.  It has the advantage of being simple and quick, no reformatting even if you want to.

If printing a scrollable window is more limited than what you are looking for, then never mind

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Resizing tool

« on: February 12, 2011, 12:24 PM »

I don't use WinWarden, so I may be quite mistaken (and too lazy to look it up).

But if it works the way I think, then any window you wished would have it's preferences remembered.

As far as launching them in sets, there are many ways to do that.

If you want a certain window displayed one way in one set and another way in another set, you'll have to get clever if you take this approach.

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Living Room / Re: A question for Google -- why are you so desperate to have me switch to Chrome?

« on: February 10, 2011, 04:38 PM »

Why does GOOGLE say it is spending such huge sums to advertise and promote and try to get people to switch to their Chrome browser?

-mouser (February 07, 2011, 11:10 AM)

Ok, this is what Mouser originally asked.  Does anyone actually know?  Is there an official "line"?

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Living Room / Re: A question for Google -- why are you so desperate to have me switch to Chrome?

« on: February 10, 2011, 11:12 AM »

well said Paul!

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Living Room / Re: A question for Google -- why are you so desperate to have me switch to Chrome?

« on: February 09, 2011, 02:16 PM »

So which of these three choices includes Mozilla and its various open source offspring?

-xtabber (February 09, 2011, 01:50 PM)

Neither, if Google successfully "follows the script" (see previous post).

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Living Room / Re: A question for Google -- why are you so desperate to have me switch to Chrome?

« on: February 09, 2011, 10:09 AM »

Finally, Google has learned user behaviors the hard way: once settled in and comfortable with an application, most users are loathe to switch. If you're accustomed to Google Apps and Services, you'll likely lobby your company to adopt the same for convenience. Microsoft wrote the book; Google is just following the script.

-zridling (February 09, 2011, 06:20 AM)

Bingo!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there a right-click menu tool to quickly resize images?

« on: February 06, 2011, 04:23 PM »

I've written a simple program, but it has no context menu integration with Windows Explorer.

-Renegade (February 06, 2011, 03:28 PM)

It's not hard to add a simple context menu entry for a particular file type/extension.

Use the Folder Options dialog, File Type tab, navigate to the various file types by extension (.jpg, .bmp, .png, .gif, etc) and use the Advanced tab to add a menu entry:  name of entry and file to run, usually with a "%1" parameter to pass the name of the file to the executable - keep the quotes to allow for filenames with spaces.

If you don't see an Advanced tab, but instead a Restore tab, there's an extra step and a caution.

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Living Room / Re: Darwinism + geneticism + two-wheeled vehicles = ... awesomeness.

« on: February 01, 2011, 10:17 PM »

I think the angle of the shock absorbers makes a difference.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to create a shortcut for the "wireless network connection" in Windows XP?

« on: January 24, 2011, 04:19 PM »

What you posted:

RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL NetSetup.cpl,@0,WNSW

gets me the same dialog as the "Wireless Network Connection" icon in the Network Connections folder. (Edit:  No it doesn't, my mistake). So you could use the RunDll line and then have the script select the "View Wireless Connections" button.
If you find the right parameter then you'll be able to get there right from a plain vanilla shortcut.

But the Wireless Network Connection shortcut does get me to here in one click (XP SP3) :

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to create a shortcut for the "wireless network connection" in Windows XP?

« on: January 24, 2011, 03:43 PM »

Yeah, it was too easy.  I didn't really think you didn't already know how to make that shortcut. 

I can't get to the dialog box that shows the "View Wireless Networks" button since I don't have any wireless connections enabled.  But when I want a one click solution like this and I can't find the right .cpl file and/or parameters, I'll use either an AutoHotkey or Macro Express script.  In this case, Macro Express since it's easier for me (haven't learned how to click buttons in Autohotkey): open the cpl file and then either Alt-key or mouse click commands to hit the button.  Crude but effective.   

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to create a shortcut for the "wireless network connection" in Windows XP?

« on: January 24, 2011, 01:23 PM »

Drag the connection to the desktop

-Carol Haynes (January 24, 2011, 01:20 PM)

from the Network Connections Folder